Title 55, Parks and Recreation

The Natchez Trace highway, parkway and scenic public parks to be constructed within the State of Mississippi is hereby made a part of the state highway system, and full jurisdiction over the same is hereby conferred upon the State Highway Commission for the purpose of assisting t…

In order to carry out the purposes and provisions of Section 55-13-17, the State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered, in its discretion, to expend a sum of money not to exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) to be used in the making of preliminary sur…

The Mississippi Transportation Commission is authorized to acquire by purchase or eminent domain the right-of-way and scenic easements it considers appropriate to complete the terminus of the Natchez Trace Parkway in Natchez, Mississippi, and to transfer such right-of-way to the …

The Highway Commission is hereby authorized to call upon the attorney general, or any district attorney in his district, or any county attorney in his county, to assist in the preparation and trial of any condemnation suit for right-of-way for the Natchez Trace, and it is further…

Whenever it is found necessary to obtain by purchase or condemnation any right-of-way for the Natchez Trace highway, parkway or scenic public park, and there is upon such land a growth of standing, merchantable timber, the highway commission and the counties acquiring such land a…

Whenever any local road is found to cross the Natchez Trace Highway at a point which is not a parkway entrance, as defined by the national park service of the U. S. Department of the Interior, the board of supervisors of the county in which such road lies is hereby authorized to …

(a) In order to carry out the purposes of Sections 55-13-15 through 55-13-29, all of the provisions, rights and powers granted the Highway Commission, and the several counties by any general condemnation law of the State of Mississippi, are hereby conferred upon the Highway Commi…

The provisions of Sections 55-13-15 through 55-13-29 are to be construed together with all other laws of Mississippi with reference to the Natchez Trace and the condemning of land, and said provisions are to be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes of said sections and t…

Whereas the United States government is about to undertake the construction of the Natchez Trace, which will be a highway in the State of Mississippi, and have in conjunction therewith a parkway, which highway will extend through the State of Mississippi for approximately three h…

The land commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, is hereby authorized to sell and convey all of the oil, gas and other minerals heretofore reserved by the State of Mississippi in its respective conveyances to the United States of America of those certain properties acqui…

(a) No advertisement or advertising structure shall be erected, constructed, installed, maintained or operated within one thousand (1,000) feet of the outside boundary of the Natchez Trace Parkway outside the limits of any municipality except as follows:(a) Signs, displays or dev…

(1) It shall be unlawful to construct or erect a building, advertising structure or other structure, of more than three (3) stories or thirty-five (35) feet in height, whichever is lesser, within one thousand (1,000) feet of the outside boundary of the Natchez Trace Parkway. Such…

The Mississippi Highway Commission shall have authority to make and promulgate rules and regulations necessary for carrying out the provisions of Sections 55-13-33 through 55-13-45.

(1) Any advertisement or advertising structure in existence on July 1, 1988, and which does not conform to the requirements of Sections 55-13-33 through 55-13-45 may be maintained for the life of such advertisement or advertising structure, provided that the State Highway Departm…

Any advertising erected or established after July 1, 1988, in violation of the provisions of Sections 55-13-33 through 55-13-45, shall be unlawful and shall constitute a nuisance. The State Highway Department shall give thirty (30) days’ notice by certified mail to the owner of t…

Any person, firm, corporation or association placing or erecting any advertisements or advertising structures or any junkyard along the Natchez Trace Parkway in violation of Sections 55-13-33 through 55-13-45 or any rule or regulations promulgated pursuant thereto shall be guilty…

The Mississippi State Highway Department is hereby directed to conduct investigations, including but not limited to necessary consultations with the National Park Service, to study the feasibility of the use of uniform informational signs along the parkways or parks which relate …

Such right-of-way and parkway shall be of such size and dimension as may be required by the United States government or its subsidiaries in charge of any such parkway road, not exceeding, however, one hundred (100) acres on the average to the mile of such roadway in the State of …

The Mississippi State Highway Department, in the acquisition of the lands hereinabove described, shall have full power and authority to condemn such lands for said right-of-way, parkway and scenic easement purposes as is otherwise provided under the laws of the State of Mississip…

The state highway commission, for the purpose of acquiring lands as set forth in Sections 55-13-3 through 55-13-11, may pay one-half the cost of said lands so acquired by purchase or condemnation only in event the county in which the land is purchased or condemned first contribut…