§ 57-1-64. Selling advertising and tourism promotional information through various marketing outlets; Mississippi Development Authority Tourism Advertising Fund created
The Mississippi Development Authority is authorized to sell advertising and other tourism promotional information through the Mississippi Development Authority Internet website and other marketing outlets, and to enter into agreements with tourism associations and similar entities for the purpose of making and facilitating sales through the use of such entities. Revenues received from such sales […]
§ 57-1-64. 1 Mississippi Tourism Association Marketing Advisory Board created; composition
There is hereby created a Mississippi Tourism Association Marketing Advisory Board to assist the Mississippi Development Authority in the planning of initiatives for advertising and promoting tourism in Mississippi. The advisory board shall be composed of the following members: The Executive Director of the Mississippi Tourism Association; and The members of the Mississippi Tourism Association […]
§ 57-1-65. General powers and duties with respect to marketing
The Mississippi Department of Economic Development shall have the following general powers and duties with respect to marketing: To promote and stimulate the development of new markets for Mississippi products and goods. To encourage the establishment of industrial operations to process agricultural and forestry raw products to an end-product stage, ready for sale to the […]
§ 57-1-66. Production, licensing, etc., of promotional publications, materials, etc.; disposition of proceeds from licensing or sale
The Department of Economic and Community Development is authorized to produce publications, booklets, brochures, directories, materials and merchandise for the purposes of promoting and marketing Mississippi and assisting businesses through the provision of information in printed form or on computer disk, and to license or sell such items for a fee; however, no public entity […]
§ 57-1-67. Planning and development district offices and directors
The Mississippi Department of Economic Development, pursuant to contractual agreements with individual planning and development districts, may assign field office staff of the department to a planning and development district office. Planning and development district directors may be consulted by the department as any annual work programs for field office staff so assigned are prepared. […]
§ 57-1-68. Program of grants to finance and promote local economic development
The Department of Economic and Community Development, in its discretion, may establish a program of grants to be matched by economic development entities in the state to finance and promote local economic development. Monies committed to the program of grants shall not lapse into the State General Fund at the end of a fiscal year.
§ 57-1-69. Cooperation with Mississippi Miss Hospitality, Inc., Miss Mississippi Pageant, Inc., and Mrs. Mississippi-America Pageant, Inc
The Department of Economic and Community Development is authorized to cooperate with Mississippi Miss Hospitality, Inc., in the production of the Mississippi Miss Hospitality Pageant and with Miss Mississippi Pageant, Inc., in the production of the Miss Mississippi Pageant, and with Mrs. Mississippi-America Pageant, Inc., in the production of the Mrs. Mississippi Pageant, and in […]
§ 57-1-70. Miss Mississippi, Miss Hospitality and Mrs. Mississippi as official nongovernmental representatives of state
The person selected as Miss Mississippi in the annual pageant sponsored by Miss Mississippi Pageant, Inc., and the person selected as Miss Hospitality in the annual Mississippi Miss Hospitality Pageant, and the person selected as Mrs. Mississippi in the annual Mrs. Mississippi Pageant, shall be the official nongovernmental representatives of the State of Mississippi, and […]
§ 57-1-61. Transfer of functions of travel and tourism department of agricultural and industrial board
The staff and resources of the travel and tourism department of the agricultural and industrial board shall be, and are hereby transferred to the department of economic development.
§ 57-1-63. Transfer of powers and duties of state agencies relating to promotion and advertising of tourism
It is the intent of the Legislature that all powers and duties of any state agency relating to the promotion and advertising of tourism which are not provided for by statute shall be transferred to and vested in the department.