MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2006 Regular Session

To: Education

By: Representative Fleming

House Bill 108

AN ACT TO PROHIBIT LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS FROM ENTERING INTO SIXTEENTH SECTION LAND LEASES WITH PERSONS INTENDING TO ESTABLISH AN ADULT SEX ENTERTAINMENT BUSINESS ON THE SIXTEENTH SECTION OR LIEU LAND; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  (1)  Beginning on July 1, 2006, the board of education may not enter into a new lease on any sixteenth section land or lieu land with any person, corporation or organization that plans to establish an adult sex entertainment business such as an adult video store, an adult novelty store, an adult bookstore or a strip club with nudity or partial nudity on the sixteenth section or lieu land.

     (2)  This section does not prohibit the continued operation of any such business located on sixteenth section land or lieu land on July 1, 2006, for the duration of the lease existing on July 1, 2006, and for any subsequent re-lease of that land to the holder of the lease existing on July 1, 2006.

     SECTION 2.  Section 1 of this act shall be codified as a separate code section in Chapter 3, Title 29, Mississippi Code of 1972.

     SECTION 3.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2006.