HB0793_S_Amend

SECTION 1. (1) The following segments of highway are designated as state highways and placed under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission for construction and maintenance; and such highways, together with the highways designated in Section 65-3-3 and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi:

Southern District - Simpson County:

Mississippi Highway 469 beginning at Harrisville near the old school building, Section 34, Township 2 North, Range 2 East, 7.2 miles north of its intersection with Mississippi Highway 28 at Union, thence .46 miles through Harrisville and ending at the beginning of state maintenance of Mississippi Highway 469 in Section 27, Township 2 North, Range 2 East.

Southern District - Simpson County:

Mississippi Highway 540 beginning at its intersection with Mississippi Highway 541 and extending easterly for a distance of 1077.75 feet.

(2) The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall take over and assume responsibility for construction and maintenance of the highway segments described under subsection (1) of this section whenever such highway segments have been brought up to commission standards.

SECTION 2. (1) The following highway is designated as a state highway and placed under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission; and such highway, together with the highways designated in Section 65-3-3, and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system, are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi:

Northern District - Coahoma County:

That segment of highway beginning Six-tenths (.6) of a mile east of the termination of state maintenance of Mississippi Highway 316 and extending northwesterly to its intersection with U.S. Highway 49 and U.S. Highway 61, and that segment of highway extending westerly from its intersection with U.S. Highway 49 and U.S. Highway 61 to its intersection with the eastern city limits of Friars Point, Mississippi.

(2) The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall take over and assume responsibility for construction and maintenance of the segment of highway described under subsection (1) of this section whenever the commission certifies that such segment of highway has been brought up to commission standards and all utilities, signs, structures and other encroachments on such highway and right-of-way, are removed or relocated.

SECTION 3. (1) The following highway is designated as a state highway and placed under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission; and such highway, together with the highways designated in Section 65-3-3, and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system, are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi:

Northern District - DeSoto County:

That segment of road beginning at the intersection of Mississippi 301 and Mississippi 304 and extending southerly to Arkabutla Dam.

SECTION 4. (1) The following highway is designated as a state highway and placed under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission; and such highway, together with the highways designated in Section 65-3-3, and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system, are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi:

Northern District - Carroll County:

Old Mississippi Highway 430 from the Leflore/Carroll

County line southeasterly to its intersection with Mississippi Highway 17, a distance of approximately thirteen (13) miles.

SECTION 5. (1) The following highway is designated as a state highway and placed under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission; and such highway, together with the highways designated in Section 65-3-3, and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system, are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi:

Central District - Kemper County:

That portion of Old Highway 463 from Mississippi

Highway 16 northerly to Mississippi Highway 397.

SECTION 6. (1) The following highway is designated as a state highway and placed under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission; and such highway, together with the highways designated in Section 65-3-3, and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system, are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi:

Central District - Bolivar and Sunflower Counties:

A roadway segment beginning at or near Shelby and

extending easterly to at or near Parchman.

SECTION 7. (1) The following segment of highway is designated as a state highway and placed under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission for construction and maintenance; and such highway, together with the highways designated in Section 65-3-3, and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system, are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi:

Southern District - Jefferson Davis County:

That portion of Mississippi 42 within the corporate limits of the Town of Prentiss beginning at the end of state maintenance on Mississippi 42 at its intersection with an old abandoned railway and proceeding in a northeasterly direction along Columbia Avenue (Mississippi 42) for approximately seven hundred (700) feet to the intersection of Columbia Avenue (Mississippi 42) and Third Street.

SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2002.