The Legislature recognizes the need for a craft center in Mississippi to enable Mississippi craft persons to demonstrate their skills and display their creations to Mississippians and tourists from other states. The Legislature further recognizes that a craft center would be of great economic and cultural importance to Mississippi.
A facility to house the Mississippi Craft Center may be located within the corporate limits of Ridgeland, Mississippi. Consideration for the purchase of the property described in subsection (1) of this section necessary for the construction of the facility to house the Mississippi Craft Center shall not exceed the average of the fair market price […]
The MississippiCraft Center established under authority of Section 39-21-3, Mississippi Code of 1972, located within Ridgeland, Madison County, Mississippi,and under the jurisdiction of the Department of Finance and Administrationand leased to The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, Inc., shallbe renamed the “William Lowe (Bill) Waller, Sr. Craft Center.” The Departmentof Finance and Administration shall prepare or […]
The Department of Finance and Administration shall proceed with the purchase of necessary property, and constructing, furnishing and equipping a facility to house the Mississippi Craft Center as soon as practicable.
Upon completion of the construction, furnishing and equipping of the facility to house the Mississippi Craft Center as provided for in this chapter, the Department of Finance and Administration shall enter into a lease, sublease or operating agreement for a period not exceeding twenty (20) years, with The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, Inc. whereunder The […]
