When any public road, street or highway shall extend along the beach or shore of any body of tidewater, and such road, street, or highway, or any part thereof shall be exposed or subject to, or in danger of, damage by water driven against the shore by storms, the boards of supervisors shall have the power, and it is hereby made their duty, to erect and maintain all necessary seawalls, breakwaters, bulkheads, shore stabilization structures, causeways, bridges, breakwaters, or other necessary structures or improvements connecting the beach or shore of any such bodies of water with islands or other land areas located offshore or connecting therewith, pumped-in sand or earth fills, sloping beaches, topping, road surfacing, road protection pavements, aprons, or other necessary devices to protect and preserve such roads, streets, and highways, or to increase the strength or stability of any existing road protection structures by hard surface aprons or other road protection devices or structures, and for that purpose and for the purpose of constructing or improving such highway, may issue the bonds of the county therefor.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries
§ 65-33-1. Certain counties may erect sea walls and issue bonds
§ 65-33-5. Preliminary steps to sea wall program
§ 65-33-7. Details of revenue bond issue
§ 65-33-9. Mortgage indenture for additional bonds
§ 65-33-11. Causeway or bridge to island
§ 65-33-13. Payment of bonds and maintenance costs
§ 65-33-15. Supplemental powers
§ 65-33-17. Federal aid; bonds authorized to match
§ 65-33-19. Federal aid; notice; election
§ 65-33-21. Federal aid; terms of bonds; payment; debt limit not applicable
§ 65-33-23. Boards of supervisors may exercise right of eminent domain
§ 65-33-25. Machinery and engineer
§ 65-33-27. Road protection commission
§ 65-33-29. Organization and tenure of protection commission
§ 65-33-31. Damages for land taken
§ 65-33-33. Review by circuit court on appeal
§ 65-33-35. Preliminary expenses to be paid out of general fund
§ 65-33-37. Pro rata share of expenses
§ 65-33-39. County may borrow money to pay bonds
§ 65-33-41. Special tax may be levied
§ 65-33-43. Privilege tax on automobile driver may be levied and collected
§ 65-33-45. Motor vehicle license taxes used
§ 65-33-47. Sea wall tax authorized
§ 65-33-49. Extension, construction, and repair
§ 65-33-51. Authority for certain counties to borrow money and to receive federal aid
§ 65-33-55. Additional counties authorized to borrow money and receive federal aid
§ 65-33-57. New bonds authorized to cancel sinking fund obligations
§ 65-33-59. Terms of new bonds
§ 65-33-61. Refunding bonded indebtedness
§ 65-33-63. Refunding bonds; interest; form; maturity
§ 65-33-65. Sinking fund for refunding bonds
§ 65-33-67. Tax levy to finance refunding bonds