Title 69, Agriculture, Horticulture, and Animals

The State Bond Commission may sell the bonds referred to in Section 69-5-15 in such manner and for such price as it may determine to be for the best interest of the State of Mississippi, but no such sale shall be made at a price less than par plus accrued interest to date of deli…

The proceeds of bonds sold pursuant to Section 69-5-17 shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of a special fund known as the State Fair Fund, and shall be used solely for payment of the cost of the project or combined projects, and shall be disbursed upon order of th…

Revenue bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 69-5-15 and 69-5-19 shall not be deemed to constitute a debt of the State of Mississippi or a pledge of the full faith and credit of the state, but such bonds shall be payable solely from the special revenues provided therefor…

All bonds issued under the provisions of Sections 69-5-15 and 69-5-19 shall constitute negotiable instruments within the meaning of the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of Mississippi.

Revenue bonds may be issued without any other proceedings or the happening of any other conditions or things than those proceedings, conditions, and things which are specified or required by Sections 69-5-13 through 69-5-25. The bonds authorized under the authority of said sectio…

The Department of Agriculture and Commerce shall have the power and authority, in its discretion, to borrow money from any bank or banks in an amount not in excess of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00), to be used for the repair, renovation or maintenance of buildings loc…

The Department of Agriculture and Commerce may by regulation establish policies for the issuance of free passes. These policies shall not prohibit officials of the fair or designated authority from entering said places for inspection purposes; shall not apply to press reporters d…

(1) The Department of Agriculture and Commerce shall set up rules and regulations consistent with the law governing the distribution of state monies for premiums or awards. It will be the duty of the department, at least twice each year, to approve premium lists or awards, and gi…

(1) The Department of Agriculture and Commerce is authorized to hire and designate area law enforcement officers on a contractual basis to provide security and to enforce all laws of the State of Mississippi on the Mississippi State Fairgrounds Complex. All officers must have att…

The Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce shall appoint, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate, a director within the department who shall oversee all operations at the State Fairgrounds Complex and its adjoining properties and who shall give full and detailed report…

Headquarters of the Mississippi State Fair operations shall be in connection with the office of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce.

The building under the jurisdiction of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, that is located in Jackson, Mississippi, and used primarily as an arena for rodeo and livestock expositions and related events, shall be named the Kirk Fordice Equine Center. The Department of Agri…

Nothing in Sections 69-5-1 through 69-5-9 shall be construed to mean a change in the location or limit the number of district or divert any appropriation made by the Legislature to the various livestock shows in Mississippi now set up and designated by law.

In order to encourage and promote the raising of livestock and dairy stock in the state, there is hereby created a body politic and corporate to be hereafter known as “Mississippi Livestock Show” which said body politic and corporate shall be under the management and control of t…

(a) For the purposes of this article, the State of Mississippi is hereby divided into five (5) livestock show districts, as follows:(a) The Northwest District, which shall embrace the Counties of Coahoma, DeSoto, Grenada, Lafayette, Marshall, Panola, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, …

(1) There shall be held at the place named in each district a livestock show once each year at a time to be fixed by the directors, and under the supervision and rules and regulations promulgated by said directors at which the owners of livestock within the district where the liv…

Dairy shows shall be held, in addition to the livestock shows, each fall at Pontotoc in Pontotoc County, at Newton in Newton County, Tylertown in Walthall County, and at Purvis in Lamar County, and each summer at the Neshoba County Fair in Neshoba County, and any person in the st…

A roundup show shall be held, in addition to the livestock and dairy shows, once each year at a time and place to be fixed by the directors mentioned in Section 69-5-101, and under the supervision and rules and regulations promulgated by said directors. At such roundup show the o…

The directors mentioned in Section 69-5-101 are hereby authorized to accept and hold for the use of the Mississippi Livestock Show or the dairy shows or the roundup show any appropriation, donation, or other fund donated to or to be awarded as prizes or awards under regulations p…

The board of supervisors of any county in Mississippi is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to appropriate money out of the general fund of the county, not to exceed the sum of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) annually, to aid in the payment of premiums and awards made and giv…

In any livestock facility constructed, renovated or expanded with funds from the grant program authorized under Section 18, Chapter 530, Laws of 1995, the members of the Future Farmers of America, the 4-H Club, the Junior Livestock Association, the Mississippi Cattlemen’s Associa…

In order to encourage and promote the raising of livestock in the State of Mississippi there is hereby created a body politic and corporate to be hereinafter known as “Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association,” which said body politic and corporate shall be under the manageme…

The board of supervisors of any of the counties composing the Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association, as provided by Section 69-5-115, is authorized and empowered within its discretion to appropriate not exceeding fifteen hundred dollars per annum out of the general funds o…

The board of supervisors of all counties in this state, composing the Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association as provided in Section 69-5-115 is authorized and empowered, in its discretion to levy annually a special tax of not exceeding one-fourth of a mill on the dollar, on…

(1) For the purpose of promoting, fostering and encouraging the upgrading and improving of livestock, any county with an assessed valuation of Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000.00) or more, and designated as a place for the holding of a livestock show, by the provisions of Sec…