MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

1997 Regular Session

To: Highways and Transportation

By: Senator(s) White (5th)

AN ACT TO DESIGNATE A CERTAIN ADDITIONAL SECTION OF HIGHWAY IN TISHOMINGO COUNTY AS A PART OF THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM AND TO PLACE IT UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE STATE TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES. 

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

SECTION 1. (1) The mileage of highway designated in this section is in addition to the total mileage limitation of eight thousand six hundred (8,600) miles that is set out in Section 65-3-3.

(2) The following highway is designated as a state highway and is placed under the jurisdiction of the State Transportation Commission for construction and maintenance as hereinafter provided; and such highway, together with the highways designated in Sections 65-3-3 and 65-3-5, and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system, are declared to be the State Highway System of Mississippi:

That portion of County Road Number 957 (Rock Crusher Road) that connects State Highway 25 with the Alabama state line, a distance of approximately six and five-tenths (6.5) miles.

(3) The State Transportation Commission is authorized to maintain, construct, take over and assume jurisdiction of the above-designated highway in the same manner and upon the same terms and conditions as set out in Sections 65-1-75, 65-3-3, 65-9-1 and 65-9-3.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 1997.