Title 65, Highways, Bridges and Ferries

On each transfer date the Director of the State Highway Department shall make requisition upon the State Fiscal Management Board and thereupon the State Fiscal Management Board shall issue its warrant to the State Treasurer, who shall immediately pay the same into the appropriate…

No member of the Legislature, elected official or appointed official, or any partner or associate of any member of the Legislature, elected official or appointed official, or member of their family, shall derive any income or thing of value from the restructuring of any investmen…

The Mississippi Development Authority, acting through its executive director, is authorized, at one time or from time to time, to declare by resolution the necessity for issuance of negotiable general obligation bonds of the State of Mississippi to provide funds for the Economic …

For the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, the full faith, credit, and taxing power of the State of Mississippi are hereby irrevocably pledged. If the funds appropriated by the Legislature be insufficient to pay th…

Such bonds as are authorized to be issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 may be executed and delivered by the state at any time and from time to time, may be in such form and denominations and of such terms and maturities, may be in fully registered form or in bearer form…

It is the purpose of this chapter to promote, attract and secure industrial and other significant development in the state through the construction and improvement of highways in areas of the state which demonstrate actual and immediate potential for the creation or expansion of …

No bond issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 shall bear more than one (1) rate of interest; each bond shall bear interest from its date to its stated maturity date at the interest rate specified on the bonds; and all bonds of the same maturity shall bear the same rate of…

If the bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 are to be sold on sealed bids at public sale, notice of the sale shall be published at least two (2) times, the first of which shall be made not less than ten (10) days prior to the date of sale, and shall be so published…

All bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 shall be executed on behalf of the state by the manual or facsimile signature of the Chairman of the State Bond Commission and shall be countersigned by the manual or facsimile signature of the Secretary of the State Bond Co…

(1) Upon the issuance and sale of bonds under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, the State Bond Commission shall transfer the proceeds of any such sale or sales to the Economic Development Highway Fund. The proceeds of such bonds shall be disbursed solely upon the order of the Exe…

The State Treasurer is hereby authorized, without further process of law, to certify to the Fiscal Management Board the necessity for warrants, and the board is hereby authorized and directed to issue such warrants payable out of any funds authorized by Sections 65-4-25 through 6…

Bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 shall be legal investments for commercial banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations and insurance companies organized under the laws of this state.

All bonds issued under Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45 and the income therefrom shall be exempt from all taxation within the State of Mississippi, except gift, transfer and inheritance taxes.

Sections 65-4-25 through 65-4-45, without reference to any other statute, shall be deemed to be full and complete authority for the issuance of such bonds, and shall be construed as an additional and alternative method therefor, and none of the present restrictions, requirements,…

(1) The following words when used in this chapter shall have the meanings herein ascribed unless the context otherwise clearly requires:(a) “Board” means the Mississippi Development Authority;(b) “Department” means the Mississippi Department of Transportation;(c) “High economic b…

(a) Any political subdivision desiring the assistance of the state in order to construct or improve any highways or highway segments, the primary purpose of such construction or improvement being to encourage a private company to engage in a high economic benefit project within t…

(a) Upon receipt of an application by a political subdivision as provided under Section 65-4-7, Mississippi Code of 1972, the board shall review the application and may approve the application if it determines:(a) The highways or highway segments for which the political subdivisi…

The legislature hereby finds, determines, and declares that this chapter is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety, and for the promotion of the general welfare.

Court proceedings necessary to acquire property or property rights for purposes of this chapter shall take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest in all courts, to the end that the provisions of controlled-access facilities may be expedited.

The highway authority of the state, county, city, town, or village may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish an existing street or highway as included within a controlled-access facility. The state or an…

The highway authorities of the state, city, county, town, or village are authorized to enter into agreements with each other, or with the federal government, respecting the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use, regulation, or vacation of controlled-ac…

In connection with the development of any controlled-access facility, the state, county, city, town, or village highway authorities are authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets or to designate as…

It is unlawful for any person (1) to drive a vehicle over, upon, or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or dividing line on controlled-access facilities; (2) to make a left turn or a semicircular or U-turn except through an opening provided for that pur…

No automotive service station or other commercial enterprise for serving motor vehicle users shall be constructed or located within the right of way of, or on publicly-owned or publicly-leased land acquired or used for or in connection with, a limited access facility or a control…

It is the intent of the legislature that this chapter provide additional and supplemental means of designating, establishing, altering, improving, and maintaining controlled-access facilities, and it is not intended to repeal nor in any way change any other provision of statute a…

(a) For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phrases as used herein, unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall have the following meanings:(a) “Controlled-access facility”–A highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and …

The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, towns, and villages, acting alone or in cooperation with each other or with any federal, state, or local agency or any other state having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highways, are hereby a…

The highway authorities of the state, county, city, town, and village are authorized to so design any controlled-access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended. In this connection such highway auth…

For the purposes of this chapter, the highway authorities of the state, county, city, town, or village may acquire private or public property and property rights for controlled-access facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view, and light, by gift, devise,…

(1) The board of supervisors of each county shall have full jurisdiction over all matters relating to the public roads of the county, including the establishment, laying out, opening, abandonment, altering, changing, working and maintaining of such roads, except as otherwise prov…

[With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:] The overseer, road commissioner, or contractor of the road on which any bridge or roadway is to be erected or repaired shall have authority to take from the land…

[With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:] Before any road, or any part thereof, or any bridge shall be let out to contract where the amount of the contract will exceed One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars (…

Where any contract is made, as provided herein, by any member of the board of supervisors in vacation without competitive bids, and the amount of such contract exceeds the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), it shall be the duty of the member of the board of supervisors making …

All road authorities and contractors in counties, parts of counties, and municipalities in this state who construct, build, or repair public roads and streets with oyster shells shall, within ten days after the foundation is laid for such road, put a surface of crushed shells or …

When hedges are planted along any public road, the owner of the land shall trim the hedges on the side next to the road and keep them trimmed, so that travelers will not be inconvenienced thereby. If the hedges intrude upon any road, the overseer shall give written notice to the …

A failure to comply with the terms of Section 65-7-109 shall constitute a misdemeanor, and any person convicted in a court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) or be imprisoned in jail not to exceed ten days, or both.

The boards of supervisors may provide for the working of public roads with the convicts sentenced to the county jails, or committed for failure to pay the fine and costs imposed upon them; and if they do so, they may make the necessary contracts for that purpose, or employ suitab…

[With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:] The supervisor of each district in each county is to have and is required to exercise general supervision over the public highways of his district.

[With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:] Each member of the board of supervisors shall inspect every road, bridge and ferry in each district at least annually, at times to be fixed by the board, and sha…

The circuit judge shall at each term of the court especially charge the grand jury to inquire into the condition of the roads of any county. Any contractor or overseer or supervisor who neglects his duty shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to indictment and, upon convi…

(1) The board of supervisors of any county may, upon its own motion or upon the petition of any interested resident of the county, by resolution spread upon its minutes, declare any section of the county road system abandoned upon its finding that one or more of the following cir…

Any segment of a county-maintained, hard-surfaced highway normally marked by center line safety stripes which is overlayed with hot mix asphalt while undergoing reconstruction or maintenance shall be marked with temporary center line safety stripes if permanent center line safety…

(1) The management entity of the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area, upon direction of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area and in conjunction with the Mississippi Department of Transportation, is authorized to erect appropriate signs and m…

For all counties where this has not already been done, the state highway department or the state highway engineer shall prepare and file with the clerk of the board of supervisors of the said several counties of the state, plans and specifications for highway sign or guide boards…

It is the purpose of Sections 65-7-141 through 65-7-147 to provide that the State Highway Department and local governing authorities shall identify all streets, roads, highways and dwelling places not otherwise designated by name or number and to assign to said streets, roads, hi…

(1) All streets and roads of any municipality or county, and all other roads, highways or streets of this state that are not otherwise officially named or numbered shall be assigned a number and said roads, highways or streets shall henceforth be, for official purposes, known and…