Title 19, Counties and County Officers

(1) In accordance with the provisions of Section 19-3-41, providing that additional powers may be conferred upon the board of supervisors of any county, the board of supervisors of any county are hereby empowered to promulgate, adopt and enforce ordinances which are necessary and…

(1) To determine whether property or a parcel of land located within a county is in such a state of uncleanliness as to be a menace to the public health, safety and welfare of the community, the board of supervisors of any county is authorized and empowered to conduct a hearing o…

This act [Chapter 624, Laws of 1994] shall be known as the “Local Government Solid Waste Collection and Disposal Assistance Act of 1994” and is in response to concerns expressed by the Mississippi Municipal Association, the Mississippi Association of Supervisors and local governm…

(1) Each county and municipality shall make a good faith effort to estimate the cost of garbage and rubbish collection and disposal services. These costs may be met, in amounts necessary to defray the cost of the system, by any combination of generator fees, ad valorem tax revenu…

The board of supervisors of any county may, in their discretion, pay to the owner compensation not exceeding the value of any farcied or glandered stock killed heretofore by the sheriff under the provisions of law.

Any person in any county in this state shall be entitled to recover from such county reasonable compensation for any livestock owned by such person that may be killed or permanently injured in the process of dipping or as a result of such dipping for the eradication of the cattle…

(1) The boards of supervisors of any county in the State are hereby authorized to directly allocate Local Fiscal Recovery Funds made available under the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to rural water associations, water supply districts, regional utility districts or reg…

(1) The board of supervisors of any county is authorized to use the road equipment and employees of the county to bury livestock which died as a result of an epidemic, whenever any licensed veterinarian shall certify to the board or any member thereof that there is an epidemic, c…

(1) Any contiguous area situated within any county of the state, and not being situated within the corporate boundaries of any existing municipality, and having no adequate water system, sewer system, garbage and waste collection and disposal system, or fire protection facilities…

(1) A petition for the incorporation of a district may be submitted to the board of supervisors of a county, signed by not less than twenty-five (25) owners of real property residing within the boundaries of the proposed district. The petition shall include: (a) a statement of th…

Upon the filing of such petition, or upon the adoption of a resolution declaring the intent of the board of supervisors to incorporate such district, it shall then be the duty of the board of supervisors of such county to fix a time and place for a public hearing upon the questio…

A certified copy of the resolution so adopted shall be published in a newspaper having a general circulation within such proposed district once a week for at least three (3) consecutive weeks prior to the date specified in such resolution as the date upon which such board intends…

If no petition requiring an election be filed or if three-fifths (⅗) of those voting in said election provided in Section 19-5-157 vote in favor of the creation of such district, the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution creating the district as described in the resolutio…

All costs incident to the publication of the notices and all other costs incident to the public hearing and election provided in Sections 19-5-153 through 19-5-157 may be paid by the board of supervisors, in its discretion, or shall be borne by the parties filing the petition, de…

Any party having an interest in the subject matter and aggrieved or prejudiced by the findings and adjudication of the board of supervisors may appeal to the circuit court of the county in the manner provided by law for appeals from orders of the board of supervisors. However, if…

(1) A district embracing lands in more than one county may be created under the provision of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 by the following procedure if the portion of such district located in each county includes twenty percent (20%) or more of all of the lands to be embrac…

(1) Beginning on the date of the adoption of the resolution creating any district, the district shall be a public corporation in perpetuity under its corporate name and shall, in that name, be a body politic and corporate with power of perpetual succession. (2) If the creation of…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the powers of each district shall be vested in and exercised by a board of commissioners consisting of five (5) members to be appointed by the board of supervisors. Upon their initial appointment, one (1) of the commissioners shal…

The board of commissioners shall organize by electing one of its members as chairman and another as vice-chairman. It shall be the duty of the chairman to preside at all meetings of the board and to act as the chief executive officer of the board and of the district. The vice-cha…

After December 31, 1992, the board of supervisors of any county in the state shall provide for the collection and disposal of garbage and the disposal of rubbish, and for that purpose is required to establish, operate and maintain a garbage and/or rubbish disposal system or syste…

(1) Every resident citizen of the county in which is located in any district created under Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207, of good reputation, being the owner of land or the conductor of a business situated within the district and being over twenty-five (25) years of age and …

The board of commissioners shall have the power to make regulations to secure the general health of those residing in the district; to prevent, remove and abate nuisances; to regulate or prohibit the construction of privy-vaults and cesspools, and to regulate or suppress those al…

Districts created under the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall have the powers enumerated in the resolution of the board of supervisors creating such districts but shall be limited to the conducting and operating of a water supply system, a sewer system, a gar…

(1) Any district created under Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207, acting by and through the board of commissioners of such district as its governing authority, shall have the following, among other, powers:(a) To sue and be sued;(b) To acquire by purchase, gift, devise and lease…

The board of supervisors of such county may, upon petition by the board of commissioners of the district, exercise the power of eminent domain on behalf of the district wherever and whenever public necessity and convenience so requires.

(1) To defray the cost of establishing, operating and maintaining the system provided for in Section 19-5-17, the board of supervisors may develop a system for the billing and/or the collection of any fees or charges imposed on each person furnished garbage and/or rubbish collect…

(1) Any such district shall have the power to provide funds for the purpose of constructing, acquiring, reconstructing, improving, bettering or extending the facilities of such district or for the purpose of buying, leasing, or otherwise acquiring the assets and facilities of any…

(1) The board of commissioners of any district created pursuant to Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 may issue bonds of such district by resolution spread upon the minutes of such board. Bonds may be issued from time to time without an election being held upon the question of th…

The bonds issued under Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall be sold upon sealed bids in the manner provided for in Section 31-19-25, Mississippi Code of 1972, in conformity with the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207; however, bonds may be sold to the United Sta…

There is hereby created a statutory lien to the nature of a mortgage lien upon any system or systems acquired or constructed in accordance with Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207, including all extensions and improvements thereof or combinations thereof subsequently made, which l…

(1) (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section for levies for fire protection purposes and subsection (3) of this section for certain districts providing water service, the board of supervisors of the county in which any such district exists may, according…

(1) Any county which locates, develops, owns or operates a municipal solid waste management facility within the county, or any county within which is located or developed a municipal solid waste management facility that is part of a local nonhazardous solid waste management plan …

(a) Funds for debt service for special improvement pollution abatement bonds, special improvement water bonds, or special improvement water and sewer bonds issued in lieu of or in conjunction with revenue bonds and/or tax-supported bonds shall be provided by charges upon the prop…

No holder or holders of any bonds issued pursuant to Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall ever have the right to compel the levy of any tax to pay said bonds or the interest thereon except where the board of supervisors of the county has made a levy of a special tax and conse…

Except as provided in Section 19-5-177(1)(e), the board of commissioners of the district issuing bonds pursuant to Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall prescribe and collect reasonable rates, fees, tolls or charges for the services, facilities and commodities of its system or…

The property and revenue of such district shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation. Bonds issued pursuant to Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all state, county and municipal taxation, except inheritance, transfe…

All construction contracts by the district where the amount of the contract shall exceed Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) shall, and construction contracts of less than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00) may, be made upon at least three (3) weeks’ public notice. Such notice shall…

Any area adjacent to any district created pursuant to Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 and situated within the same county as the district, and not being situated within the corporate boundaries of any existing municipality, may be annexed to and become a part of such district …

The board of commissioners of any district created pursuant to the provisions of Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207 shall have the authority to enter into cooperative agreements with the state or federal government, or both; to obtain financial assistance in the form of loans or …

When any board of supervisors creates a district within three (3) miles of the corporate boundaries of any existing municipality, the municipality is empowered to require such district to construct and maintain all facilities, whether purchased or constructed, to standards commen…

Sections 19-5-151 through 19-5-207, without reference to any other statute, shall be deemed to be full and complete authority for the creation of such districts and for the issuance of such bonds. No proceedings shall be required for the creation of such districts or for the issu…

Within ninety (90) days after the close of each fiscal year, the board of commissioners shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the county a sworn statement showing the financial condition of the district, the earnings for the fiscal year just ended, a statement of…

(1) (a) Except as provided in paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (g) of this subsection, the board of supervisors, to defray the cost of establishing and operating the system provided for in Section 19-5-17, may levy an ad valorem tax not to exceed four (4) mills on all taxable propert…

Any contiguous area situated within any county of the state, and not being situated within the corporate boundaries of any existing municipality, may become incorporated as a fire protection grading district solely for the purpose of grading by the Mississippi Rating Bureau for f…

(1) A petition for the incorporation of such a district may be submitted to the board of supervisors of the county, signed by not less than twenty-five (25) owners of real property residing within the boundaries of the proposed district. Such petition shall include: (a) a stateme…

Upon the filing of such petition, or upon the adoption of a resolution declaring the intent of the board of supervisors to incorporate such district, it shall then be the duty of the board of supervisors of such county to fix a time and place for a public hearing upon the questio…