All moneys received from the issuance of bonds shall be used solely to defray the cost of acquiring or improving an electric plant, except that such proceeds may in the discretion of the supervisory body also be used for the payment of the interest on the bonds during the first two (2) years following the date of such bonds. The cost of the electric plant shall include all costs of acquisition, or improvement, including all preliminary expenses described in Section 77-5-423, the cost of acquiring all property, franchises, easements, and rights in the judgment of the supervisory body necessary or convenient therefor, engineering and legal expenses, expenses for estimates of cost and revenues, expenses for plans, specifications and surveys, other expenses incident or necessary to determining the feasibility or practicability of the enterprise, administrative expense, and such other expense as may be incurred in the financing herein authorized, the acquisition or improvement of the electric plant, the placing of such plant in operation, including the creation of a cash working fund, and the performance of the things herein required or permitted in connection therewith.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 77 - Public Utilities and Carriers
Article 9 - Local Governmental Power Development Under Laws of 1936
§ 77-5-405. Powers of municipalities
§ 77-5-407. Issuance of bonds; election resolution and election procedure
§ 77-5-409. Effect of election
§ 77-5-415. Securing payment of bonds
§ 77-5-417. Rights and remedies of bondholders
§ 77-5-419. Additional rights and remedies of bondholders may be conferred by resolution
§ 77-5-421. Debt limitations are inapplicable
§ 77-5-423. Payment of preliminary expenses
§ 77-5-425. Board of public utilities; appointment and terms of members
§ 77-5-431. Electric plant fund
§ 77-5-433. Disposition of moneys received from the issuance of bonds
§ 77-5-435. Disposition of revenues
§ 77-5-437. Payment for services rendered to municipalities and departments and works thereof
§ 77-5-439. Records and reports of the board of public utilities
§ 77-5-441. Exercise of power of eminent domain by municipality
§ 77-5-443. Use of certain rights of way; payment of indebtedness
§ 77-5-445. Election for disposition of electric plant
§ 77-5-447. Construction of article; article supplemental and additional to existing law