Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-109-1, all rivers, creeks and bayous in this state, twenty-five (25) miles in length, that have sufficient depth and width of water for thirty (30) consecutive days in the year for floating a steamboat with carrying capacity of two hundred (200) bales of cotton are hereby declared to be […]
If any person rafting or floating timber or logs in a stream shall permit damage by such logs or timber to be done a bridge built at public expense, he shall be liable therefor; and the damages may be recovered by suit against him, and the timber or logs causing the damage may be seized […]
Those portions of all natural flowing streams in this state having a mean annual flow of not less than one hundred (100) cubic feet per second, as determined and designated on appropriate maps by the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, shall be public waterways of the state on which the citizens of this state and […]
Any person may enter and remove any and all obstructions to the navigation thereof which may be in or across or over any navigable stream.
If any person shall have timber, logs, or lumber in any navigable stream and shall allow the same to accumulate or form in blocks or jams so as to obstruct navigation or to hinder or delay any other person in the driving or running of logs, timber, or lumber, such other person may cause the […]
The person so having a lien on logs, timber, or lumber may, after giving the owner five days’ notice thereof and of the sum due, sell the property at public auction for cash, upon advertising the sale by posting notices of the time, place, and terms for twenty days in three public places of the […]
