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Home » US Law » 2020 Mississippi Code » Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries » Chapter 15 - County Funds for Roads and Bridges

§ 65-15-1. Funds for roads and bridges

[With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:] The board of supervisors may raise funds for working, constructing, reconstructing, and maintaining public roads or for building bridges by an ad valorem tax on all assessed taxable property in the county or supervisors district […]

§ 65-15-13. Use of gasoline tax not to affect other financing

[With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:] No existing law providing methods for the construction or maintenance of any public highway, bridges, or culverts of the county or special or separate road district shall be affected by Section 65-15-9; and it does […]

§ 65-15-17. Special fund paid into general fund

In counties which have heretofore created special or general road funds under then existing laws, the boards of supervisors may use such funds as if originally collected hereunder. In case the board of supervisors shall, in availing themselves of this provision, relieve from the operation of the contract system any part of a county entitled […]

§ 65-15-19. Balance in sinking fund after payment of bonds

[With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:] Where bonds have been issued by any road district, separate road district or special road district, and said bonds and interest thereon have been paid and there remains in the sinking fund or maintenance fund […]

§ 65-15-21. Refund to municipalities

[With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:] One-half (1/2) of all ad valorem taxes collected by or for a county or a separate or special road district on property within a municipality (the streets of which are worked at the expense of […]

§ 65-15-23. Payment of municipal refund

Where a levy is made for road purposes as provided in Section 65-15-21, the tax assessor of the county shall set up a column on the assessment rolls of said county or district, which shall show the exact amount of the assessed valuation of the property within the corporate limits of a municipality which maintains […]

§ 65-15-25. Authority to transfer surplus tolls to county road and bridge fund

In any county where tolls collected for the use of a bridge or bridges are allocated to the payment of the bonds issued for the construction of said bridge, interest, sinking fund, and the expense of operating and maintaining said bridge or bridges, if the tolls so collected are more than sufficient to meet the […]

§ 65-15-3. Tax for construction and maintenance of highways

The board shall levy annually a tax upon the taxable property of such county to be used for road and bridge purposes; and the tax collector shall collect such taxes at the time and in the manner state, county, and other taxes are collected. All laws for the enforcement of the collection of other taxes […]

§ 65-15-5. Validity of assessment

No failure to strictly comply with the provisions of this chapter, such as the invalidity of any contract or other like irregularity, shall in any manner affect the validity of the assessment of the ad valorem tax hereby provided, but the validity of such assessments shall be tested by the same rules of law that […]

§ 65-15-7. Tax for bridges and culverts

The board of supervisors of any county may, in its discretion, levy annually an ad valorem tax on all taxable property of the county, to be used for constructing and maintaining all bridges and culverts on the public roads throughout the county.

§ 65-15-9. Gasoline tax in payment of road bond issues

[With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:] The board of supervisors of any county in the state in which there are county road bonds, district road bonds, sea wall bonds, or road protection bonds outstanding, which were issued for the purpose of […]