The Mississippi Transportation Commission may require its contractors to provide for law enforcement safety operations in work zones that the commission determines are on high-volume roadways or on high risk projects by including such provision in a contract between the commission and the contractor or as part of a bid requirement. A contractor may provide […]
The Highway Commission shall annually have the Highway Department prepare a three-year plan for the maintenance, construction, reconstruction and relocation of the State Highway System. The plan shall include: For each interstate, primary, secondary and other highway or road system under the jurisdiction of the Highway Commission, a list and detailed description of those highways, […]
When the specific location of a road has been established under the criteria contained in Section 65-1-141, construction on said roads shall commence at the point on each segment having the greatest traffic congestion.
The expenditure of funds now or hereafter available for the construction and reconstruction of primary and secondary roads by the Mississippi Transportation Commission, after having determined the priority in accordance with the requirements of Section 65-1-141 hereof, shall be as follows: Four-lane roads shall be constructed using the existing two-lane roads as part of such […]
Any link or part of the legislatively designated state highway system on July 1, 1981, that is removed from that system by appropriate statute shall revert for all purposes to the jurisdiction of the county and political subdivision in which it lies, and the link so removed may, in the discretion of the board of […]
The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall file a detailed annual report with the Governor, Department of Finance and Administration, Secretary of the Senate, Clerk of the House of Representatives, and each member of the Senate and the House of Representatives requesting one, by January 15 of each year showing by county the construction and maintenance work […]
The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall employ a secretary whose salary shall be fixed by the commission and shall require the secretary to keep the proper minute books, order books and other proper books. The secretary shall be the custodian of all books, records or other papers of the department. All of such books, records and […]
Bond shall be given to the state of Mississippi by each commissioner and the director, each in an additional sum of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), which is in addition to the bonds required in Sections 65-1-3 and 65-1-9, Mississippi Code of 1972; and said bond shall in all instances be and is for the same […]
From and after July 1, 1981, no appropriation shall be made to the Mississippi State Highway Department until the highway department supplies the legislature with a detailed program of the work to be accomplished during the fiscal year for which such appropriation will be made. Whenever a determination is made that one or more of […]
The State Highway Commission, acting through the Director of the State Highway Department, is hereby authorized and directed to transfer the sum of Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000.00) out of any money in the special fund accounts within the State Treasury to the credit of the State Highway Department into a special fund account to the […]
The funds transferred herein to a special fund account to the credit of the Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management shall be expended only as authorized by an act of the Legislature.
The Director of the State Highway Department shall make requisition upon the State Auditor of Public Accounts, or its successor, and thereupon the Auditor of Public Accounts, or its successor, shall issue his warrant to the State Treasurer, who shall immediately pay same into the special fund account to the credit of the Bureau of […]
The Governor’s Office of General Services, acting through the Bureau of Building, Grounds and Real Property Management, is authorized, in its discretion, to convey to the Mississippi State Highway Department, on behalf of the Mississippi School for the Deaf, the Mississippi School for the Blind and the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum, a right-of-way row […]
When the property described in Section 65-1-161 is conveyed to the Mississippi Highway Department as authorized, the proceeds from this conveyance of parcels 1, 2, 3 and 4, shall be deposited to the credit of the Mississippi School for the Deaf and the Mississippi School for the Blind, in a special account created in the […]
The State Highway Department is hereby authorized to execute a contract with Keep Mississippi Beautiful, Inc., to develop and implement a comprehensive statewide program of litter prevention. The contract shall contain provisions to require that Keep Mississippi Beautiful, Inc., will: Encourage and assist local communities to become certified Keep America Beautiful systems. Serve as a […]
There is hereby created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the Statewide Litter Prevention Fund. Monies may be expended out of such fund, pursuant to appropriation by the Legislature, to implement the statewide litter prevention program established under the provisions of Section 65-1-165. Disbursements from such fund shall be made […]
The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized to maintain property acquired for highway purposes free and clear of any obstruction, encroachment or any other use not authorized by the commission. Before removing or terminating any obstruction, encroachment or other unauthorized use, the State Highway Commission shall give notice by registered mail to the offending party […]
In the event the department needs additional office space which cannot be provided either in state office buildings, or other state-owned buildings, the commission is hereby authorized to rent, on an annual or month-to-month basis on such terms as it may determine to be proper, such office space as may be necessary.
Pursuant to federal appropriations for transportation system improvements, the Mississippi Department of Transportation is hereby authorized and empowered to construct a road and bridge along the following route: Begin at or near North State Street in the City of Jackson’s central business district and extend in an easterly direction across the Pearl River to Mississippi […]
For the purpose of enforcing and investigating all violations of the railroad laws, and the rules, regulations and general orders of the Mississippi Transportation Commission promulgated thereunder, the commission is hereby authorized to employ five (5) inspectors and one (1) railway safety coordinator. The salaries of the inspectors and the safety coordinator shall be fixed […]
