MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2007 Regular Session

To: Transportation

By: Representative Formby

House Bill 178

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SHALL CONSTRUCT TO FOUR LANES OF TRAFFIC A CERTAIN SEGMENT OF MISSISSIPPI HIGHWAY 43 IN PEARL RIVER COUNTY; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

     SECTION 1.  The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall construct to department design standards, may perform such reconstruction as may be required to existing highways and may acquire by gift, purchase or eminent domain proceedings such property as may be necessary to provide a four-lane divided highway with turn lanes on and along the following location:

     Southern District-Pearl River County:

Mississippi 43 beginning east of Picayune where the  

four-lane ends and extending easterly approximately

four thousand (4,000) feet.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2007.