The Harrison County Parkway Commission is hereby created to be composed of six (6) commissioners. Five (5) of the commissioners shall be appointed by the Governor in the following manner: each of the municipalities of Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach and Pass Christian, acting through a majority of the governing authorities of each, shall recommend the […]
The commission shall have authority to advertise for bids for the purchase of any materials or things and for letting contracts for furnishing any labor and material for carrying out plans that may be approved for the beautification and landscaping of any part of said parkway. No purchase or contract which is to be paid […]
The title to any property and all leases, easements or other property rights acquired under the provisions of this chapter shall be taken in the name of or for the use and benefit of Harrison County for public purposes. All such rights in land acquired by such conveyances, leases, easements, or other instruments, shall be […]
The commission and the county and municipalities cooperating under this chapter shall have authority to adopt such regulations and ordinances they deem proper and necessary to carry out its provisions and to regulate the use of such parkway.
The board of supervisors of Harrison County and the municipalities of Biloxi, Gulfport, Long Beach and Pass Christian, through their governing authorities, are hereby authorized to cooperate in carrying out the provisions of this chapter and to appropriate and expend funds for that purpose out of any general fund or general improvement funds. They may […]
In making expenditures and donations authorized by this chapter, it shall not be necessary for the board of supervisors or the governing authorities of any municipality to comply with the provisions of Sections 19-11-1 through 19-11-27, or 21-35-1 through 21-35-33, Mississippi Code of 1972, requiring counties and municipalities to prepare budgets.
Any improvements placed on any leased land or other land in which the public ownership is less than a fee title shall remain public property and upon expiration of the public right may be removed.
Said commissioners, when so appointed, shall take the oath of office prescribed in Section 268 of the Constitution and shall meet at the county courthouse of Harrison County, at a date to be fixed by the Governor, to organize and select an active chairman and a secretary. The active chairman shall preside over all meetings, […]
The commission shall meet at the county courthouse, or at any other place designated in the notice of meeting, at any time upon call of the chairman or secretary by written notice mailed at least 48 hours before the time fixed for meeting, or without notice upon the attendance of all of the members, except […]
The commission shall have and is hereby vested with full authority and jurisdiction to create a public parkway of the area, or any part thereof, in Harrison County, Mississippi, extending from Point Cadet on the east to Third Street in Henderson’s Point addition on the west, lying between the presently existing and used public highway […]
The commission shall have authority, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, to employ a competent landscape engineer to prepare plans for the beautification and landscaping of the area described in Section 55-11-7, and for any part thereof, and to approve and adopt plans for the beautification and landscaping of such areas that […]
