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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...