Whenever it may be necessary to protect any highway hereunder, the board of supervisors by an order on its minutes shall so declare and shall certify the same to the governor of the state, who shall thereupon appoint five suitable freeholders of the county to constitute, and be known as, the road protection commission of such county, and who shall decide and recommend the kind and character of protection necessary, to be approved by the board of supervisors. When such commission shall have been appointed and shall have organized, said commission shall select and employ a suitable engineer, to be approved by the board of supervisors, to make a survey, plans, specifications, and estimates of costs of construction under the direction of the said road protection commission, to be approved by the board of supervisors. When so approved, the board of supervisors may proceed to issue bonds of the county therefor, and the road protection commission shall thereupon advertise for bids and let a contract or contracts therefor. Such contracts shall be submitted to and approved by the board of supervisors, all contracts under this section to be executed by the board of supervisors. The road protection commission and the board of supervisors are authorized and empowered to do all things and to make all expenditures necessary to carry out the purposes hereof.
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