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Chapter 1 - Transportation Department
Article 1 - In General
§ 65-1-1. Definitions - When used in this chapter and for the purposes of...
§ 65-1-3. Mississippi Transportation Commission - There shall be a State Highway Commission which shall consist...
§ 65-1-5. Organization and meetings - When the transportation commissioners enter upon the duties of their...
§ 65-1-7. Compensation of the commissioners - The three (3) commissioners chosen as herein provided, and their...
§ 65-1-9. Executive Director of Department of Transportation - The commission shall appoint an executive director of the Mississippi...
§ 65-1-10. Powers and duties of Executive Director - Under the authority of the Mississippi Transportation Commission, and in...
§ 65-1-11. Chief Engineer and other employees - The executive director, subject to the approval of the commission,...
§ 65-1-15. Secretary of the commission - The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall employ a secretary whose salary...
§ 65-1-17. Rental of office space in buildings not owned by the state - In the event the department needs additional office space which...
§ 65-1-20. Office of Intermodal Planning - The Office of Intermodal Planning in the Mississippi Department of...
§ 65-1-23. Testing laboratory, machine shops, etc. - The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered, in...
§ 65-1-25. Contract for maintenance of connections on highways near state boundaries - The Mississippi Transportation Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to...
§ 65-1-27. Contract for maintenance of connections between interstate and state system highways and county roads or streets - The Mississippi Transportation Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to...
§ 65-1-29. Contract with the United States in flood control, drainage, and National Aeronautics and Space Agency projects - The authority granted the State Highway Commission under provisions of...
§ 65-1-31. Certain roads located on levees as temporary state highways - Whereas, the public convenience requires that certain roads located on...
§ 65-1-33. Publicly owned ferries - The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized to take over,...
§ 65-1-35. Roads leading to reactivated air bases - The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and directed to...
§ 65-1-37. Driveways of certain institutions - The Mississippi Transportation Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to...
§ 65-1-39. Maintenance of roads on Australia Island - The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to...
§ 65-1-41. Roads serving industrial sites and port areas - The Mississippi Department of Economic Development is hereby authorized and...
§ 65-1-43. Costs and feasibility surveys for toll highways and bridges to offshore islands - When it is deemed feasible and advisable to promote the...
§ 65-1-44. Instruction course for weight and tax enforcement personnel - Agents and employees of the Mississippi Department of Transportation who...
§ 65-1-45. Weight limitation on highways and bridges - The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to...
§ 65-1-46. Appeals Board; appeal of penalty for excess weight; judicial review - Application shall be made by petition in writing, within thirty...
§ 65-1-47. Control of highways; eminent domain - The State Highway Commission shall have complete authority to issue...
§ 65-1-49. Easements for highway purposes - The conveyance or assignment of easements for highway purposes may...
§ 65-1-51. Land adjacent to highway rights of way; wetlands - The Mississippi Transportation Commission may acquire by gift, purchase or...
§ 65-1-55. Noxious weeds and plants prohibited in rights of way - No seed can be bought or planted by the Mississippi...
§ 65-1-57. Secondary highways - It shall be the duty of the Highway Commission to...
§ 65-1-61. Paving - It shall be the duty of the Transportation Commission to...
§ 65-1-63. Paving to connect county seat with paved road - The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and directed to...
§ 65-1-65. Maintenance - It shall be the duty of the State Highway Commission...
§ 65-1-67. Edges of certain highways to be trimmed in color and manner conforming to uniform national standards - The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed...
§ 65-1-69. Crossings - Whenever any railroad and state highway or part thereof shall...
§ 65-1-70. Construction of protective devices at railroad crossings - The Mississippi State Highway Department is authorized to construct protective...
§ 65-1-70.5. Imputation of liability as to protective devices at railroad crossings - The provisions of Section 65-1-70 shall not impute any liability...
§ 65-1-71. Detours - The director is hereby authorized to close highways for construction...
§ 65-1-73. Repair of city streets used as detours for United States highways - The Mississippi State Highway Commission is authorized, in its discretion,...
§ 65-1-75. Municipalities - The municipality shall not allow any encroachments, signs or billboards...
§ 65-1-77. Agreements for highway and street projects forming part of overall plan encompassed by Title 23, United States Code - The State Highway Commission and the counties and municipalities of...
§ 65-1-79. Agreements for purpose of securing federal aid funds available under Title 23, United States Code - The State Highway Commission is authorized to enter into agreements...
§ 65-1-83. Traffic census and other surveys, inspections or studies - The State Highway Commission shall continue through the State Highway...
§ 65-1-86. Duty of Attorney General with respect to illegal contracts or criminal acts - The Attorney General shall, with or without a request by...
§ 65-1-87. Purchases of war surplus equipment, supplies and materials - The Mississippi State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered...
§ 65-1-89. Contract arbitration provisions - Every formal contract made by or on behalf of the...
§ 65-1-91. Arbitration proceedings and effect - Upon demand for arbitration by any party to a contract...
§ 65-1-93 through 65-1-109. Superseded - Superseded by Chapter 39 of Title 43, Mississippi Code of...
§ 65-1-110. Mississippi Department of Transportation Equipment Purchase Fund established - There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special...
§ 65-1-111. Highway funds; bond and interest funds - All monies from any source provided by law shall be...
§ 65-1-112. Funds to be expended on basis of state need - No funds provided to the state highway fund shall be...
§ 65-1-113. Audit and budget - The books and accounts of the Mississippi Department of Transportation...
§ 65-1-115. System of accounting - The Department of Finance and Administration, in cooperation with the...
§ 65-1-117. County and federal funds for road construction - The board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized...
§ 65-1-121. Inventory and report of property - A full, complete, and detailed inventory of all property, other...
§ 65-1-125. Sale of used road building materials - The State Highway Department is hereby authorized, in its discretion,...
§ 65-1-127. Participation in Federal Highway Administration Fellowship Program in Highway Safety - The Mississippi State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to...
§ 65-1-129. Security officers; definitions - For purposes of Sections 65-1-129 through 65-1-137, unless the context...
§ 65-1-133. Security officers; arrest and detention - A person arrested by a security officer appointed and commissioned...
§ 65-1-135. Security officers; termination of authority - The powers and authority of any security officer may be...
§ 65-1-137. Security officers considered independent contractors - All security officers of any security firm or business with...
§ 65-1-141. Annual submission of three-year plan for maintenance, construction and relocation of highway system; determination of priorities for expenditure of funds - Additionally, the Highway Commission shall take into consideration conditions potentially...
§ 65-1-143. Construction to commence at points having greatest traffic congestion - When the specific location of a road has been established...
§ 65-1-145. Method of expenditure of funds - Before a route location is submitted to the Federal Highway...
§ 65-1-147. Reversion of links removed from state highway system to counties and political subdivisions - Any link or part of the legislatively designated state highway...
§ 65-1-149. Annual reports of transportation commission; commissioner's reports; administrative budget; post audit of funds expended and programs projected - The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall file a detailed annual report...
§ 65-1-151. Additional bonds required of commissioners and director - Bond shall be given to the state of Mississippi by...
§ 65-1-155. Transfer of funds to Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management - The State Highway Commission, acting through the Director of the...
§ 65-1-157. Expenditure of transferred funds by Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management - The funds transferred herein to a special fund account to...
§ 65-1-159. Implementation of fund transferral by director - The Director of the State Highway Department shall make requisition...
§ 65-1-161. Authorization for Office of General Services to convey right-of-way across certain lands - The Governor's Office of General Services, acting through the Bureau...
§ 65-1-163. Disposition of proceeds of sale authorized by Section 65-1-161 - When the property described in Section 65-1-161 is conveyed to...
§ 65-1-165. Contract for development of comprehensive statewide litter prevention program - The State Highway Department is hereby authorized to execute a...
§ 65-1-167. Statewide litter prevention fund - There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special...
§ 65-1-169. Removal or termination of obstructions, encroachments and unauthorized uses of property acquired for highway purposes - The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized to maintain property...
§ 65-1-171. Construction of bridge across Pearl River at City of Jackson connecting counties of Rankin and Hinds - Pursuant to federal appropriations for transportation system improvements, the Mississippi...
§ 65-1-173. Employment of inspectors to enforce and investigate violations of railroad laws and related mandates - For the purpose of enforcing and investigating all violations of...
§ 65-1-177. Department of Transportation, in consultation with Southern High-Speed Rail Commission and the Mississippi Development Authority, to promote passenger rail service and make recommendations regarding passenger rail infrastructure - Working in consultation with the Southern High-Speed Rail Commission created...
Article 3 - Eminent Domain and Condemnation Proceedings
§ 65-1-301. Definitions - For the purposes of this article the following terms shall...
§ 65-1-311. Time for filing an answer to complaint - Any person named in and served with a complaint and...
§ 65-1-313. Motion to hear and determine issues raised in pleadings - After the filing of the plat, the judge, upon motion...
§ 65-1-319. Measure of damages - The following shall be the measure of damages to be...
§ 65-1-321. Interest on just compensation award - To the amount awarded as just compensation by the jury...
§ 65-1-323. Time and place of hearing - An order of the court shall fix the time and...
§ 65-1-327. Conformance to other civil actions - In all cases of procedure under this article, whenever the...
§ 65-1-329. Final judgments; form - Final judgments entered in actions instituted under the provisions of...
§ 65-1-331. Just compensation; adverse or conflicting claimants - If there are adverse and conflicting claimants to the deposit...
§ 65-1-333. Written agreement in lieu of complaint or declaration of taking - The provisions of this article shall not prevent the transportation...
§ 65-1-335. Authority of department to enter land to make surveys or other examinations - The Transportation Department, without having filed a complaint and a...
§ 65-1-337. Reimbursement of real property taxes - A property owner whose property is totally taken in fee...
§ 65-1-339. Transportation Department entitled to recover amount of deposit exceeding that of final judgment - If the amount of the final judgment is less than...
§ 65-1-341. Payment of court costs; right of appeal - The Transportation Department shall pay all court costs taxed by...
§ 65-1-343. Prepayment of court costs - The circuit clerks and chancery clerks shall not require the...
§ 65-1-345. Relationship to other laws - The provisions of this article shall not be considered as...
§ 65-1-347. Due process - Nothing in this article shall be construed so as to...
Article 5 - Enforcement Agreements With Contiguous States
§ 65-1-501. Legislative intent - It is the intent of the Legislature to promote and...
§ 65-1-503. Authority to negotiate and enter into interstate agreements - The Mississippi Transportation Commission may negotiate and enter into interstate...
§ 65-1-505. Contents of agreements; collection and distribution of monies - The interstate agreement may authorize employees of either state to...
§ 65-1-507. Enforcement employees; appointments; positions in other states or departments - The Mississippi Transportation Commission may appoint employees of the contiguous...
§ 65-1-509. Employees of contiguous states as employees of Mississippi; compensation and benefits; civil and criminal liability - Any employee of a contiguous state which enters into an...
§ 65-1-511. Employees of this state accepting employment with contiguous states; status; compensation - Employees of this state who accept appointments from a contiguous...
§ 65-1-513. Rules and regulations; authority to enact - The Mississippi Transportation Commission may enact all rules and regulations...
Article 7 - Multi-Modal Transportation Improvement
§ 65-1-701. Definitions - As used in this article: "Airport" means a publicly owned...
§ 65-1-703. Multi-Modal Transportation Improvement Fund - There is established in the State Treasury a special fund...
Chapter 2 - State Transportation Arbitration Board
§ 65-2-1. State Transportation Arbitration Board created - It is hereby declared to be the public policy of...
§ 65-2-3. Composition of board; terms; compensation - The board shall be composed of three (3) members, one...
§ 65-2-5. Calling board into session; jurisdiction - The board shall elect a chairman and may adopt rules...
§ 65-2-7. Conduct of hearings - Attendance of all three (3) members shall be necessary to...
§ 65-2-9. Record or transcript - A full and complete record or transcript of the proceedings...
§ 65-2-11. Hiring of personnel to record hearings - The board shall have the authority to hire personnel for...
§ 65-2-13. Board decisions - It shall be the duty of the board to make...
§ 65-2-17. Appeal to Supreme Court - Either party may appeal to the Supreme Court from the...
Chapter 3 - State Highway System
General Provisions; Additions to and Deletions from State Highway System, 1954-1971
§ 65-3-1. Collection of tolls on state highway forbidden; exception - Subject only to the provisions hereinafter contained, it shall be...
§ 65-3-3. State highways designated - The following highways are designated as state highways and shall...
§ 65-3-8. No citation for violation of revised allowable weight limits for bridges until twenty-four hours after posting of sign indicating revised limits - When the Mississippi Department of Transportation designates a bridge as...
§ 65-3-34. Additional lanes along Mississippi Highway 552 in Jefferson and Claiborne Counties - The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall construct and reconstruct to...
§ 65-3-35. Certain highways designated as scenic route - The following links of highways located in the State of...
§ 65-3-36. Additional designation of highways as scenic route - Mississippi Highway 7 beginning at point of intersection with Interstate...
Special Designations of Portions of Highway System and Bridges
§ 65-3-38. Designation of scenic route in Sardis Lake area - Mississippi Highway 315 beginning at a point of intersection with...
§ 65-3-41. "Frank Louis Hawkins Memorial Highway" designated - That portion of Mississippi Highway 430, being situated between the...
§ 65-3-47. Designation of scenic route in Enid Lake area - The access road beginning at a point of intersection with...
§ 65-3-49. Designation of scenic route in Arkabutla Lake area - The public road beginning at Interstate Highway 55 adjacent to...
§ 65-3-51. "Donnie Gene Kelley Memorial Bridge" designated - The State Highway Commission is hereby directed to designate the...
§ 65-3-64. Designation of scenic route; Mississippi Highway 5 between U.S. Highway 78 and 72 - That portion of Mississippi Highway 5 between United States Highway...
§ 65-3-71.8. "John Sharp Williams Memorial Bridge" designated - Upon completion of construction of the new bridge over the...
§ 65-3-71.10. Hurricane evacuation routes designated - The State Highway Commission is hereby directed to have the...
§ 65-3-71.18. "Hernando de Soto Commemorative Bridge" designated - From and after June 18, 1991, the Mississippi River Bridge...
§ 65-3-71.20. Portion of Mississippi Highway 35 designated as scenic highway - Mississippi Highway 35 beginning at the corporate limits of the...
§ 65-3-71.24. Mississippi Highways 63 and 57 designated wildflower routes - Mississippi Highways 63 and 57 are designated as wildflower routes,...
§ 65-3-71.127. "John Stewart Watson Memorial Highway" designated - That Mississippi State Highway No. 17, running from Pickens in...
§ 65-3-71.265. "Highway Patrolman Tommy E. Kendall Memorial Highway" designated - Additionally, the Mississippi Department of Transportation is hereby directed to...
Additions to and Deletions from State System after 1971
§ 65-3-97. Four-Lane Highway Program - The report shall be deemed submitted when ten (10) copies...
§ 65-3-99. Localities to retain jurisdiction for construction and maintenance purposes over local highways, roads or streets added by legislation to state highway system until brought up to construction standards required by the Transportation Commis... - Whenever, by legislation, any highway, street or road under the...
§ 65-3-133. Additions to and deletions from State Highway System; Laws, 1999, ch. 531 - SECTION 1. Southern District - Lawrence and Marion Counties: An...
§ 65-3-135. Deletion from state highway system; Laws, 2000, ch. 562 - The following highway is deleted from the state highway system,...
§ 65-3-137. Additions to and deletions from State Highway System; Chapter 574, Laws of 2000, as amended by Chapter 539, Laws of 2012 - SECTION 1. Central District - Rankin County: Mississippi 468 -...
§ 65-3-139. Deletion from State Highway System: Northern District - Tippah County; Laws, 2002, ch. 582 - The following highway is deleted from the state highway system,...
§ 65-3-140. Deletion from State Highway System: Central District - Yazoo County - Laws, 2003, ch. 427 - The following highway is deleted from the state highway system,...
§ 65-3-140.1. Deletion from State Highway System: Central District - Copiah County - Laws 2005, ch. 304 - The following highway is deleted from the state highway system,...
§ 65-3-141. Addition to State Highway System: Northern District - Union County - Laws, 2002, ch. 582 - The following segment of highway is designated as a state...
§ 65-3-143.1. Add segments in Southern District - Simpson County - to State Highway System - Southern District - Simpson County: Mississippi Highway 469 beginning at...
§ 65-3-143.2. Add segments in Northern District - Coahoma County - to State Highway System - Northern District - Coahoma County: That segment of highway beginning...
§ 65-3-143.3. Add segment in Northern District - DeSoto County - to State Highway System - Northern District - DeSoto County: That segment of road beginning...
§ 65-3-143.4. Add segment in Northern District - Carroll County - to State Highway System - Northern District - Carroll County: Old Mississippi Highway 430 from...
§ 65-3-143.5. Add segment in Central District - Kemper County - to State Highway System - Central District - Kemper County: That portion of Old Highway...
§ 65-3-143.6. Add segment in Central District - Bolivar and Sunflower Counties - to State Highway System - Central District - Bolivar and Sunflower Counties: A roadway segment...
§ 65-3-143.7. Add segment in Southern District - Jefferson Davis County - to the State Highway System - Southern District - Jefferson Davis County: That portion of Mississippi...
§ 65-3-143.8. Add segment in Central District - Rankin County - to State Highway System - Central District - Rankin County: A three-mile section of Old...
§ 65-3-143.9. Add segment in Northern District - Union County - to State Highway System - The following segment of highway is designated as a state...
§ 65-3-143.10. Add segment in Southern District - Marion County - to State Highway System - Southern District - Marion County: An extension of Mississippi Highway...
§ 65-3-143.11. Add segment in Northern District - Lowndes County - to State Highway System - Northern District - Lowndes County: Airport Road beginning at its...
§ 65-3-143.12. Deletion from State Highway System: Northern District - Itawamba County - Laws, 2007, ch. 577 - The following highway is deleted from the state highway system,...
§ 65-3-143.13. Deletion from State Highway System: Northern District - Tunica County - Laws, 2007, ch. 577 - The following segment of highway is deleted from the state...
§ 65-3-143.14. Deletion from State Highway System: Northern District - Marshall County - Laws, 2008, ch. 374 - The following highway is deleted from the state highway system,...
§ 65-3-143.15. Deletion from State Highway System: Northern District - Alcorn County - Laws, 2009, ch. 353 - The following segment of highway is deleted from the state...
§ 65-3-143.16. Add segment in Northern District - Pontotoc County - to State Highway System - Northern District - Pontotoc County: Old Mississippi 6 beginning on...
§ 65-3-143.17. Deletion from State Highway System: Central District - Madison County - Laws, 2013, ch. 427 - The following segment of highway is deleted from the state...
§ 65-3-143.18. Add segment in Central District - Madison County - to State Highway System - Central District - Madison County:That segment of newly constructed highway...
Construction of State Highway System
§ 65-3-201. Construction of Northern District - Monroe County - The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall construct to department design...
§ 65-3-203. Construction of Northern District - Prentiss County - Northern District - Prentiss County: Relocation of Mississippi Highway 30...
§ 65-3-205. Construction of Northern District - Pontotoc, Lee, Monroe, and Itawamba Counties - Northern District - Pontotoc, Lee and Monroe Counties: Mississippi Highway...
§ 65-3-207. Construction of Central District - Bolivar and Sunflower Counties - The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall construct and reconstruct to...
Interstate Compact to Promote Four Lanes for US Highway 82
§ 65-3-301. U.S. Highway 82 Four Lane Construction Compact; legislative approval; text of Compact - The Governor, on behalf of this state, is hereby authorized...
§ 65-3-303. Grant of powers detailed in Compact - There is hereby granted to the Governor and to the...
§ 65-3-305. U.S. Highway 82 Four Lane Construction Authority; appointment; residency requirements; term of office - The three (3) citizens of the State of Mississippi who...
§ 65-3-307. Consent and approval of U.S. Congress; effect of absence of consent - The authority shall have the power to apply to the...
Chapter 4 - Economic Development Highway Act
§ 65-4-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 65-4-3. Purpose - It is the purpose of this chapter to promote, attract...
§ 65-4-5. Definitions - However, if the initial investments that a private company made...
§ 65-4-7. Application for assistance to construct or improve highways to encourage economic development - Any political subdivision desiring the assistance of the state in...
§ 65-4-9. Review and approval of application - Upon receipt of an application by a political subdivision as...
§ 65-4-11. Report and recommendations of Department of Transportation with respect to proposed highway construction or improvement project - Before approving any application under this chapter the board shall...
§ 65-4-13. Notice of approval of application; approval prohibited where cost of project exceeds available funds - If, after reviewing the application of the political subdivision and...
§ 65-4-17. Standards for construction or improvement of highways and highway segments; entity responsible for maintaining highways constructed or improved - Any highways or highway segments authorized to be constructed or...
§ 65-4-21. Payment into fund; warrant - On each transfer date the Director of the State Highway...
§ 65-4-23. Conflict of interests - No member of the Legislature, elected official or appointed official,...
§ 65-4-25. Resolution to issue general obligation bonds for Economic Development Highway Fund - The Mississippi Development Authority, acting through its executive director, is...
§ 65-4-27. Payment of principal and interest on bonds - For the payment of the principal of and interest on...
§ 65-4-29. Terms of bonds; option to redeem; issuance and sale - Such bonds as are authorized to be issued under Sections...
§ 65-4-31. Interest rates - No bond issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 shall bear...
§ 65-4-33. Notice of sale - If the bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 are...
§ 65-4-35. Execution of bonds and interest coupons - All bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 shall be...
§ 65-4-39. Authority to request and issue warrants to pay principal and interest when due - The State Treasurer is hereby authorized, without further process of...
§ 65-4-41. Bonds to be legal investments - Bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 shall be legal...
§ 65-4-43. Taxation - All bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 and the...
§ 65-4-45. Relationship with other laws - Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, without reference to any other statute,...
Chapter 5 - Controlled Access Facilities
§ 65-5-1. Declaration of policy - The legislature hereby finds, determines, and declares that this chapter...
§ 65-5-3. Definitions - For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and...
§ 65-5-5. Authority to establish - The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, towns, and...
§ 65-5-7. Design - The highway authorities of the state, county, city, town, and...
§ 65-5-9. Acquisition of property and property rights - For the purposes of this chapter, the highway authorities of...
§ 65-5-11. Preference of condemnation cases - Court proceedings necessary to acquire property or property rights for...
§ 65-5-13. Grade-crossing eliminations - The highway authority of the state, county, city, town, or...
§ 65-5-15. Authority of local units to consent - The highway authorities of the state, city, county, town, or...
§ 65-5-17. Local service roads - In connection with the development of any controlled-access facility, the...
§ 65-5-19. Penalties for unlawful use - It is unlawful for any person (1) to drive a...
§ 65-5-21. Automotive service stations prohibited within right of way - No automotive service station or other commercial enterprise for serving...
§ 65-5-23. Legislative intent - It is the intent of the legislature that this chapter...
Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way
Article 1 - Public Roads and Streets
General Provisions
§ 65-7-3. Standard for working roads - All public roads shall be kept open and worked to...
§ 65-7-4.1. Legislative intent - The Legislature of the State of Mississippi finds and determines...
§ 65-7-5. Order of board of supervisors necessary to change road - It shall not be lawful for any person to turn,...
§ 65-7-7. Road not to be obstructed - If any person shall fell any bush or tree and...
§ 65-7-9. Dangerous trees to be removed from road - The board of supervisors of any county shall have the...
§ 65-7-11. Hedges on roadside to be trimmed - When hedges are planted along any public road, the owner...
§ 65-7-13. Public highways to be marked - For all counties where this has not already been done,...
§ 65-7-15. Board of supervisors to erect signs - The board of supervisors of the several counties of the...
§ 65-7-17. Color and construction of sign or guide boards - All such sign or guide boards throughout the entire state...
§ 65-7-19. Mandamus available to erect signs - In case the boards of supervisors of the several counties...
§ 65-7-21. Signs not to be damaged - The board of supervisors of the several counties and the...
§ 65-7-25. Signal boards for highway "danger zones." - The boards of supervisors of the several counties of this...
§ 65-7-27. Specifications for signal boards - Said signal or signboards shall be made of some suitable...
§ 65-7-29. Double boards for dangerous places - At such intervals on said road as may be deemed...
§ 65-7-31. Payment of signal board expenses - The expense of preparing and erecting said signal or signboard...
§ 65-7-33. Vehicles to sound warnings in danger zone - All wheeled vehicles traveling over or upon said roads so...
§ 65-7-35. Penalty for violating danger zone laws - Any person guilty of a violation of Sections 65-7-25 through...
§ 65-7-37. Regulation of use of certain roads - Whenever in the discretion of the board of supervisors of...
§ 65-7-39. Traveling on public roads - All drivers of carriages or other vehicles, whether of burden...
§ 65-7-41. Rate of travel over bridges - It shall not be lawful for any person to drive...
§ 65-7-43. Prevent damage and protect public roads - The board of supervisors of any county pursuant to the...
§ 65-7-45. Maximum loads of vehicles - The board of supervisors of any county in this state...
§ 65-7-47. Penalty for violating load and tire regulations - Any person going upon any public road or bridge in...
§ 65-7-49. Posting notices - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-7-49. Posting notices - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-7-53. Use of roads while under construction - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-7-53. Use of roads while under construction - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-7-55. Penalty for forbidden use of roads - Any person who uses such road while the same is...
§ 65-7-57. Petition to have roads laid out or changed - When any person shall desire to have a public road...
§ 65-7-59. Report of committee - The report of the committee may be set aside by...
§ 65-7-61. Damages for taking land - When any owner of land or other person shall claim...
§ 65-7-63. Water to be drained from roads - The board of supervisors shall have power, whenever necessary, to...
§ 65-7-65. Damages paid from county treasury - The damages assessed and allowed by the board shall be...
§ 65-7-67. Review by circuit court - All proceedings of the board of supervisors in laying out,...
§ 65-7-69. Roads on rights of way of drainage districts - The board of supervisors may construct public roads along the...
§ 65-7-71. Payment for right of way so taken - Where the board of supervisors of any county uses the...
§ 65-7-73. Roads into experiment stations - In any county in the State of Mississippi in which...
§ 65-7-74. Roads, driveways and parking areas on public school property - The board of supervisors of any county is hereby authorized,...
§ 65-7-75. Line roads - Whenever it is necessary to lay out a public highway...
§ 65-7-77. Counties may work roads in adjoining counties - Before exercising any rights or authority granted in this subsection,...
§ 65-7-79. Counties may join with municipalities in keeping up roads - The board of supervisors of any county in which a...
§ 65-7-81. State highways within or without municipalities - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-7-81. State highways within or without municipalities - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-7-83. Assumption by counties of concurrent jurisdiction over municipal streets for maintenance purposes - The board of supervisors of any county may, by consent...
§ 65-7-85. Construction and maintenance by county of streets within municipalities - The several counties of the state, acting by and through...
§ 65-7-87. Certain counties may construct village streets - The board of supervisors of any county of the state...
§ 65-7-89. Eminent domain, generally - When the board of supervisors shall be unable to agree...
§ 65-7-91. Supervisors may establish stations for work - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-7-91. Supervisors may establish stations for work - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-7-92. Authorization to borrow money and issue notes to finance establishment of work stations - In order to acquire or improve real property for the...
§ 65-7-93. Counties authorized to match federal funds - The board of supervisors of any county in this state...
§ 65-7-95. Methods of construction and maintenance - The methods of constructing, reconstructing and maintaining the public roads...
§ 65-7-97. Installment buying prohibited - The boards of supervisors are hereby prohibited from purchasing any...
§ 65-7-99. Acquisition of gravel beds and sale of excess supply - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-7-99. Acquisition of gravel beds and sale of excess supply - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-7-101. Timber and gravel for bridges and causeways - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-7-101. Timber and gravel for bridges and causeways - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-7-105. Plans and specifications - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-7-105. Plans and specifications - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-7-107. Contracts in vacation - Where any contract is made, as provided herein, by any...
§ 65-7-109. Roads built with oyster shells - All road authorities and contractors in counties, parts of counties,...
§ 65-7-111. Penalty for violating provision for shell surfacing - A failure to comply with the terms of Section 65-7-109...
§ 65-7-113. Working roads with convicts - The boards of supervisors may provide for the working of...
§ 65-7-115. Supervisors to have general supervision; board may provide for transportation needs of its members - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-7-115. Supervisors to have general supervision; board may provide for transportation needs of its members - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-7-117. Members of board to inspect roads; preparation of four-year construction and major maintenance plan - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-7-117. Members of board to inspect roads; preparation of four-year construction and major maintenance plan - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-7-119. Liability for neglect of duty - The circuit judge shall at each term of the court...
§ 65-7-123. Requirement on certain county roads for temporary center line safety stripes while undergoing reconstruction or maintenance - Any segment of a county-maintained, hard-surfaced highway normally marked by...
Identification and Designation of Streets, Roads, Highways and Dwelling Places
§ 65-7-141. Purpose - It is the purpose of Sections 65-7-141 through 65-7-147 to...
§ 65-7-145. Dwelling houses; assignment of street and number address - Every dwelling house, whether or not located on a public...
Mississippi Highway Patrol Fallen Officer's Memorial Highway Act
§ 65-7-151. Short title - Sections 65-7-151 and 65-7-153 shall be known and may be...
Mississippi Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient's Memorial Highway Act
§ 65-7-171. Short title - Sections 65-7-171 and 65-7-173 shall be known and may be...
§ 65-7-173. Placement and maintenance of signs designating memorial highways named after recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor to include the words "Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient." - On any segment of any public street, road, highway or...
Article 3 - Private Way
§ 65-7-201. Private way established - When any person shall desire to have a private road...
Chapter 9 - State Aid Roads in Counties
§ 65-9-1. Definition and characteristics of state aid roads - The board of supervisors of each county, now having full...
§ 65-9-5. Office of State Aid Road Construction - There is hereby created within the Mississippi Department of Transportation...
§ 65-9-7. Division may own and operate automobiles - The Division of State Aid Road Construction of the Mississippi...
§ 65-9-9. State Aid Engineer and employees - The State Aid Engineer shall be appointed by the Governor...
§ 65-9-11. Duties of State Aid Engineer - It shall be the duty of the State Aid Engineer...
§ 65-9-13. Right of county to state aid - Any county shall be entitled to receive state aid and...
§ 65-9-15. County engineer - Nothing herein shall prevent any county from employing, by agreement...
§ 65-9-17. State aid funds - It is the intent of this provision to utilize to...
§ 65-9-19. Contracts - Contracts for the construction of state aid road projects shall...
§ 65-9-21. Painting of center line safety stripes - The board of supervisors is further authorized and empowered to...
§ 65-9-23. Accounting controls and safeguards - Such accounting controls and safeguards, including those already provided in...
§ 65-9-25. Maintenance of state aid roads - It shall be the duty of the several boards of...
§ 65-9-27. Forfeiture of state aid - Whenever any county is ineligible for state aid under the...
§ 65-9-31. Qualifications of contractors - All work done under the provisions of Sections 19-9-51 through...
§ 65-9-33. Authorization to administer certain bridge replacement project in Lowndes County - In addition to any authority granted to the Division of...
§ 65-9-35. Utilization of available federal and state funds to reconstruct certain portions of Mississippi Highway 407 in Attala County, Mississippi, authorized - In addition to any authority granted to the Division of...
Chapter 11 - County Highway Aid
County Highway Aid Law of 1946
§ 65-11-1. Title - Sections 65-11-1 through 65-11-37 shall be known as the "County...
§ 65-11-3. Definitions for County Highway Aid Law - When used in Sections 65-11-1 through 65-11-37, unless the context...
§ 65-11-5. Purpose of County Highway Aid Law - It being recognized that county highways generally have deteriorated to...
§ 65-11-7. County federal aid highway system - There is hereby created a system of county federal aid...
§ 65-11-9. Apportionment of federal funds - The State Highway Commission shall determine what proportion of the...
§ 65-11-11. Allocation of funds to counties - The amount of federal funds made available to the State...
§ 65-11-13. Order of projects - The projects upon such county federal aid highway system shall...
§ 65-11-15. Counties notified of amounts available - The State Highway Commission shall notify the board of supervisors...
§ 65-11-17. Contracts and agreements - The board of supervisors of the several counties and the...
§ 65-11-19. Proposed projects submitted by Highway Commission - After the selection and determination of the projects in the...
§ 65-11-21. Surveys, plans, specifications, engineering - The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and directed to...
§ 65-11-23. Letting of contracts for county federal aid highway system - All contracts for the construction of projects under the terms...
§ 65-11-25. Counties authorized to expend additional funds - If the amount apportioned to any county from federal aid...
§ 65-11-27. Refusal or failure of county to comply with law - If the board of supervisors of any county notify the...
§ 65-11-29. Moneys may be expended on state highways - Any county may, by resolution of its board of supervisors,...
§ 65-11-31. Agreements among counties - Any county, acting through its board of supervisors, may enter...
§ 65-11-33. Counties to furnish rights of way - All rights of way for any county highway to be...
§ 65-11-35. State Highway Fund - All moneys that shall be appropriated for the purposes of...
§ 65-11-37. Construction not governed by group priority - All highways constructed under the provisions of Sections 65-11-1 through...
Rural Road and Bridge Construction Program
§ 65-11-39. Definitions for rural road and bridge construction program - When used in Sections 65-11-39 through 65-11-59, unless the context...
§ 65-11-41. Purpose of rural road and bridge construction program - It being recognized that county roads and bridges of the...
§ 65-11-43. Apportionment of funds between counties - The funds hereinafter appropriated for the purpose of Sections 65-11-39...
§ 65-11-45. Amounts available - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-11-45. Amounts available - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-11-47. Selection of roads and bridges - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-11-47. Selection of roads and bridges - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-11-49. Engineer to supervise construction - The board of supervisors of counties who do not have...
§ 65-11-51. Letting of contracts for rural road and bridge construction - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-11-51. Letting of contracts for rural road and bridge construction - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-11-53. Authority to expend any available funds - The boards of supervisors of the several counties are hereby...
§ 65-11-55. Funds may be used for state highways - Any county may, by resolution of its board of supervisors,...
§ 65-11-57. Rules and regulations - The board of supervisors is hereby authorized and empowered to...
§ 65-11-59. Limitation on expenditures - The board of supervisors shall not expend any of said...
Farm-to-Market Projects
§ 65-11-61. Repair of roadbed, surfacing, and bridges damaged by floods - The purpose of this section is to authorize the Highway...
Chapter 13 - Highway and Street Revenue Bond Authority
§ 65-13-1. Title - This chapter shall be known as the "Highway and Street...
§ 65-13-3. Purpose - The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the...
§ 65-13-5. Legislative determination - It is hereby declared, as a matter of legislative determination,...
§ 65-13-7. Definitions - Whenever used in this chapter, unless a different meaning clearly...
§ 65-13-9. Certain governmental bodies empowered to create or join authority - Any county which embraces more than five miles of the...
§ 65-13-11. Petition for creation of authority - A petition for the creation of a highway and street...
§ 65-13-13. Notice of public hearing on petition - Upon the filing of a petition with the board of...
§ 65-13-15. Finding of public convenience and necessity - If the board of supervisors at the hearing provided in...
§ 65-13-17. Publication of resolution declaring intent to create authority - A certified copy of the resolution so adopted shall be...
§ 65-13-19. Protest petition and election - If ten percent (10%) of the qualified electors residing in...
§ 65-13-21. Costs - All costs incident to the publication of the aforesaid notices...
§ 65-13-23. Appeals to circuit court - Any party having an interest in the subject matter and...
§ 65-13-25. Board of trustees - All powers of the highway and street revenue bond authority...
§ 65-13-27. Oath of trustees - Each member of the board of trustees shall take and...
§ 65-13-29. Compensation of trustees - The trustees shall each receive not more than Twenty Dollars...
§ 65-13-31. Powers of the authority - The highway and street revenue bond authority, through its trustees,...
§ 65-13-33. Authority to issue bonds - The highway and street revenue bond authority, through its board...
§ 65-13-35. Security for bonds - All such bonds issued by the authority shall be secured...
§ 65-13-37. General provisions for bonds - The bonds of the authority shall not be included in...
§ 65-13-39. Validation of bonds - All bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be validated...
§ 65-13-41. Bonds as legal investments for public funds - All bonds issued by the authority shall be and are...
§ 65-13-43. Levy of assessments in lieu of tolls - The board of trustees may, in lieu of charging and...
§ 65-13-45. Authority may act jointly with other governmental bodies - The authority, through its board of trustees, shall have authority...
§ 65-13-47. Bond interest tax exempt - The accomplishment of the purposes stated in this chapter being...
§ 65-13-49. Construction contracts - All construction contracts by the authority where the amount of...
§ 65-13-51. Designation of depository - The board of trustees shall designate one or more banks...
§ 65-13-53. Cessation of tolls or assessments - When the particular bonds issued for the projects to be...
§ 65-13-55. Authority's procedures to conform to constitutions - Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to violate any...
Chapter 15 - County Funds for Roads and Bridges
§ 65-15-1. Funds for roads and bridges - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-15-1. Funds for roads and bridges - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-15-3. Tax for construction and maintenance of highways - The board shall levy annually a tax upon the taxable...
§ 65-15-5. Validity of assessment - No failure to strictly comply with the provisions of this...
§ 65-15-7. Tax for bridges and culverts - The board of supervisors of any county may, in its...
§ 65-15-9. Gasoline tax in payment of road bond issues - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-15-9. Gasoline tax in payment of road bond issues - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-15-11. Board of supervisors not required to set aside gasoline tax where sufficient amount on hand to pay bonds - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-15-11. Board of supervisors not required to set aside gasoline tax where sufficient amount on hand to pay bonds - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-15-13. Use of gasoline tax not to affect other financing - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-15-13. Use of gasoline tax not to affect other financing - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-15-15. Tax for payment of bonds and interest - The board shall levy annually, when other taxes are levied,...
§ 65-15-17. Special fund paid into general fund - In counties which have heretofore created special or general road...
§ 65-15-19. Balance in sinking fund after payment of bonds - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-15-19. Balance in sinking fund after payment of bonds - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-15-21. Refund to municipalities - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-15-21. Refund to municipalities - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-15-23. Payment of municipal refund - Where a levy is made for road purposes as provided...
§ 65-15-25. Authority to transfer surplus tolls to county road and bridge fund - In any county where tolls collected for the use of...
Chapter 17 - County Road Officials
Article 1 - County Road Commissioner
§ 65-17-3. Compensation in certain counties - In any counties lying in two levee districts through which...
§ 65-17-5. Duties of commissioner - It shall be the duty of such commissioner to supervise...
§ 65-17-7. Commissioner to report to supervisors - Such highway commissioner shall, from time to time as required...
§ 65-17-9. Authority to transfer surplus county road department equipment to another department of county government without reimbursement to road and bridge fund - Upon a determination by the board of supervisors that (a)...
Article 3 - County Road Accountant
§ 65-17-101. Supervisors may elect road accountant - The board of supervisors may elect a road accountant, whose...
§ 65-17-103. Estimates and reports - The road accountant shall attend all meetings of the board...
§ 65-17-105. Accountant to be purchasing agent - The road accountant shall be the purchasing agent of the...
§ 65-17-107. Accountant to submit trial balance - The road accountant shall keep a complete set of books,...
Article 5 - County Engineer
§ 65-17-201. Authority to employ engineer - [With regard to any county which is exempt from the...
§ 65-17-201. Authority to employ engineer - [With regard to any county which is required to operate...
§ 65-17-203. Duties of engineers - The duties of the county engineer shall be to prepare...
§ 65-17-205. Salary of engineer - The compensation of the county engineer shall be determined by...
§ 65-17-207. Control of engineer - The employment and work of such engineer shall be under...
Chapter 18 - Local System Road Program
§ 65-18-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 65-18-3. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the term "local system...
§ 65-18-7. Program administered by State Aid Engineer; powers and duties of State Aid Engineer - The Local System Road Program shall be administered by the...
§ 65-18-13. Rights-of-way - All rights-of-way and adjustments for utilities necessary for Local System...
§ 65-18-15. Contracts to be advertised for bidding - Contracts for the construction of local system road projects must...
§ 65-18-17. Maintenance, repair and reconstruction of local system roads - It shall be the duty of the several boards of...
Chapter 19 - Separate Road Districts
§ 65-19-3. Publication of notice - Whenever the proceeding has been initiated or proposed by either...
§ 65-19-5. Amount of bonds to be preliminarily estimated - If the board of supervisors of its own motion initiates...
§ 65-19-7. Hearing of objections - At the time and place named in said notice, or...
§ 65-19-9. Extension of road beyond the limits of district - If the qualified electors petitioning for the creation and organization...
§ 65-19-11. Consolidations and additions - In like manner and under like conditions as mentioned in...
§ 65-19-13. District may be abolished - In like manner and under like conditions, the board of...
§ 65-19-15. Previous obligations - When a separate district has been established or abolished under...
§ 65-19-17. Aggrieved parties may appeal - Any party aggrieved by the order of the board of...
§ 65-19-19. Elections - The elections hereinbefore mentioned shall be held and conducted according...
§ 65-19-21. Supervisors to provide for election - In any election held under the provisions of this chapter...
§ 65-19-23. Result of election - Such election shall be held so far as practicable in...
§ 65-19-25. General provisions for bonds - The bonds issued under authority hereof shall mature not later...
§ 65-19-27. District road commissioners - It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors...
§ 65-19-29. Duties of commissioners - It shall be the duty of such commissioners, subject to...
§ 65-19-31. Rejection of bids - Where contracts are let upon competitive bids, if the commissioners...
§ 65-19-33. Special tax levied - The public highway or highways so surveyed and adopted by...
§ 65-19-35. Separate assessment of district - The tax assessor, when ordered so to do by the...
§ 65-19-37. Convict labor - Each separate road district shall receive a fair portion of...
§ 65-19-39. Disbursement of road fund - The county auditor shall have prepared proper warrants for the...
§ 65-19-41. Payment of contractors - The payment to the contractors for the construction of the...
§ 65-19-43. Acceptance and final settlement - The roads hereinbefore provided shall have been completed for a...
§ 65-19-45. Final settlement with engineer - The board of supervisors shall retain fifteen percent (15%) of...
§ 65-19-47. Surplus funds loaned - The commissioners are hereby authorized to loan out any surplus...
§ 65-19-49. May borrow money - The road commissioners of a separate road district, by and...
§ 65-19-51. General supervision - The road commissioners shall have general direction and supervision over...
§ 65-19-53. Roads and bridges constructed and maintained - When the funds arising from the road district bonds shall...
§ 65-19-55. Commissioners may turn over completed roads to county - When the funds raised in any separate road district by...
§ 65-19-57. Transfer of roads not to affect obligations of district - Such transfer shall in no way release any such road...
§ 65-19-59. Public roads worked in separate districts - All the public roads of any separate road district, or...
§ 65-19-61. Board of supervisors; powers and control - The board of supervisors of the county in which a...
§ 65-19-63. Emergency repair of roads and bridges - The said commissioners maintaining the roads may, in case of...
§ 65-19-65. Roads connecting districts - The boards of supervisors of the several counties upon request...
§ 65-19-67. Supervisors to build all bridges and culverts - It shall be the duty of the boards of supervisors...
§ 65-19-69. Supervisors may acquire rights of way - The board of supervisors are authorized to acquire rights of...
§ 65-19-71. Road superintendent - There may be selected by the road commissioners, subject to...
§ 65-19-73. Duties of road superintendent - The road superintendent shall have the custody, care, and control...
§ 65-19-75. Reports to be filed - The reports of the road commissioners and the road superintendent...
§ 65-19-77. Purchases by road superintendent - The road superintendent shall have the power to purchase nails,...
§ 65-19-79. Provisions of general road laws to govern - All the provisions of law in respect to roads and...
§ 65-19-81. Public highways extending into municipalities - Where any public highway being constructed, improved, or maintained by...
§ 65-19-83. Benefit district roads - Whenever the owners of not less than one-half of the...
§ 65-19-85. Assessment of benefit district lands - The board, in assessing the benefits derived by any land...
§ 65-19-87. Collection of benefit district taxes - The board shall provide for the collection of taxes from...
Chapter 21 - Bridges; General Provisions
§ 65-21-1. Width of bridges and culverts - All culverts hereafter built, rebuilt, or placed in any public...
§ 65-21-5. Illumination of bridges - The several counties of this state bordering on the tide...
§ 65-21-7. Toll bridges and ferries - The boards of supervisors may, when the same cannot otherwise...
§ 65-21-9. Bond of toll bridge and ferry keepers - The board of supervisors shall require the keeper of every...
§ 65-21-11. Board of supervisors may purchase privately owned bridges - The boards of supervisors of the respective counties are hereby...
§ 65-21-13. Damages for taking private bridges - In event the board of supervisors and the owners of...
§ 65-21-15. Purchase of toll bridge for free operation - The board of supervisors of one or more counties, acting...
§ 65-21-17. Bonds to maintain toll-free bridge - For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Section...
§ 65-21-19. Bridges connecting districts - When a bridge over any stream or other water will...
§ 65-21-21. Bond issue for bridges connecting districts - Should the result of such election show that it has...
§ 65-21-23. Bridges over rivers at county boundaries - When a bridge shall be necessary over a stream or...
§ 65-21-25. Bridges at intersection of river flowing from one county to another - A bridge built at the intersection of a river flowing...
§ 65-21-27. Bridges within municipalities - In case any public highway of any county in the...
§ 65-21-29. Supervisors to finance municipal bridges - For the purpose of the construction and operation of the...
§ 65-21-31. Written directive from Department of Transportation to close bridge under jurisdiction of political subdivision or municipality to prevent loss of federal transportation funding to state; retention of jurisdiction by political subdivision... - When any governing board of a political subdivision of the...
Chapter 23 - Bridges; Boundary and Other Waters
Article 1 - Toll Bridges
§ 65-23-1. Authority to construct and operate - Any municipality, state highway commission, or county, severally or acting...
§ 65-23-3. Toll bridge revenue bonds - In order to secure funds or a part of the...
§ 65-23-5. Enforcement of payment of bonds - The holders of any bond or interest coupon issued under...
§ 65-23-7. Power additional to other laws - The powers conferred by this article shall be in addition...
§ 65-23-9. How municipality, etc., may come under article - Any municipality or county or political subdivision desiring to come...
§ 65-23-11. State Highway Commission may aid - The Mississippi State Highway Commission may, when in its opinion...
§ 65-23-13. Purchase of land - The public agencies herein named, either jointly or severally, may...
§ 65-23-15. Collection of tolls - Nothing in this article shall authorize or permit the collection...
§ 65-23-17. Political authority of adjoining state - Any municipality, county, parish, highway commission, or other political authority...
§ 65-23-19. Federal aid - Any municipality or public authority hereinabove set forth, either jointly...
§ 65-23-21. Article liberally construed - This article, being necessary for and to secure the public...
Article 5 - Interstate Bridge Districts
§ 65-23-201. Creation of interstate bridge districts on petition - When fifty or more owners of real property within a...
§ 65-23-203. Hearing on petitions of property owners - If, upon the hearing provided in Section 65-23-201, petitions are...
§ 65-23-205. Appointment of commissioners - When the chancery court has established a bridge district as...
§ 65-23-207. Compensation of commissioners - The commissioners hereinabove provided shall receive the sum of Ten...
§ 65-23-209. Employees - The board of commissioners shall have the power to employ...