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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 21 - Municipalities » Chapter 37 - Streets, Parks and Other Public Property

§ 21-37-1. Municipal buildings

The governing authorities of every municipality may construct, erect, purchase and equip a suitable, convenient, and creditable city, town or village hall, necessary schools, fire and police stations, and all necessary buildings for the offices and court of the municipality, for the meetings of the governing authorities, and for such other purposes, including public meetings […]

§ 21-37-11. Lights and lamp posts

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to provide for the lighting of streets, parks and public grounds, and the erection of lamps and lamp posts.

§ 21-37-13. Municipal piers, pavilions, and bath houses

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to own, operate, and regulate, for public recreation and pleasure purposes, on any tidewaters or navigable streams within or on the border of the municipal limits, piers, pavilions, bath houses, and other like appropriate structures, either by the use of streets or public landings […]

§ 21-37-15. Harbors, wharves, and docks

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to construct all needful improvements in the harbor; to control, guide, or deflect the current of a river; to repair and regulate public wharves and docks; to charge and collect levee rates and wharfage on firewood, lumber, timber, logs, shingles, staves, posts, laths, and other articles […]

§ 21-37-17. Curb markets

The governing authorities shall have the power to establish and maintain, and to provide for the governing and regulation of curb markets. When such municipality owns such curb market, it shall have the power to fix the rental value thereof, and the stalls and booths therein. However, no municipality shall prohibit the producer of meats […]

§ 21-37-19. Public library

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to maintain one or more libraries for public use, and to regulate the use thereof.

§ 21-37-23. Parking facilities for motor vehicles; establishment and operation authorized

The governing authorities of any municipality shall have the power and authority, in their discretion, to establish and construct municipal parking facilities for motor vehicles belonging to members of the general public, and to rent, lease, purchase, or otherwise acquire the necessary lands and property for the establishment or construction of such facilities, in any […]

§ 21-37-27. Parking facilities for motor vehicles; funding

For the purpose of securing funds to carry out Section 21-37-23, the governing authorities of such municipality are hereby authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to issue bonds or negotiable notes for the purpose of acquiring land and property for a municipal parking facility, and also for owning, erecting, building, establishing, operating and maintaining such […]

§ 21-37-29. Parking meters

The governing authorities of any municipality in this state are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase, lease or otherwise acquire, and to install and maintain parking meters for the regulation of the parking of vehicles on the municipal streets. When such parking meters are installed and operated by any municipality, the governing authorities thereof shall […]

§ 21-37-3. Streets, sidewalks, sewers and parks

Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, the governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to exercise full jurisdiction in the matter of streets, sidewalks, sewers, and parks; to open and lay out and construct the same; and to repair, maintain, pave, sprinkle, adorn, and light the same. Section 63-3-208, shall […]

§ 21-37-31. Advertising signs on parking meters

The governing authorities of any municipality, excepting those in counties bordering on the Gulf of Mexico with a population of more than 80,000, are hereby authorized and empowered to permit the placing of advertising signs upon parking meters or parking meter posts and to contract with any individual or company for the rental or lease […]

§ 21-37-35. Park commission; funding

The governing authorities of any municipality having a park commission shall appropriate and pay to such park commissioners annually such funds as may be necessary, in the opinion of such governing authorities, to properly operate and maintain said parks, playgrounds and swimming pools. All funds in the hands of the park commission shall be placed […]

§ 21-37-37. Park commissioner; powers and duties of commissioners

The park commissioners shall elect one (1) of their numbers to serve as treasurer of the park commission, and he shall give bond in such amount as the governing authorities of the municipality shall require. Such bond shall be payable to the municipality. The park commissioners shall have the authority to make such bylaws for […]

§ 21-37-39. Park commission; disposition of revenues

The park commission of any such municipality shall devote all moneys derived by appropriation from the municipal governing authorities, by gift, by revenue, or from any other source, for the payment of all maintenance and operating expenses, the purchase of parks and playground equipment, the repair and replacement thereof, and for the extension of recreational […]

§ 21-37-4. Governing authorities of municipalities to maintain roads, driveways, parking lots and grounds of public schools located within municipal corporate boundaries

The governing authorities of any municipality, in their discretion, may grade, gravel, shell, overlay, repair and maintain gravel, shell, asphalt or concrete roads, driveways and parking lots and grounds of public schools located within the corporate boundaries of the municipality. Before engaging in such work, the governing authorities shall spread upon their minutes, the written […]

§ 21-37-41. Park commission; construction of certain laws

Sections 21-37-33 through 21-37-39 shall be liberally construed to promote the efficient maintenance and operation of such parks, playgrounds, and swimming pools to the end that it may result in the improvement of the general health, entertainment and happiness of the citizens of such municipalities. Such sections shall not be compulsory on any municipality, but […]