MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2013 Regular Session

To: Agriculture

By: Representative Pigott

House Bill 64

(As Sent to Governor)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 69-5-107, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO RELOCATE THE STATE FALL DAIRY SHOW HELD IN COLUMBIA, MARION COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, TO PURVIS, LAMAR COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

     SECTION 1.  Section 69-5-107, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     69-5-107.  Dairy shows shall be held, in addition to the livestock shows, each fall at Verona in Lee County, at Newton in Newton County, Tylertown in Walthall County, and at * * * Columbia in Marion CountyPurvis in Lamar County, and each summer at the Neshoba County Fair in Neshoba County, and any person in the state is entitled to participate in any of the dairy shows.  The dairy shows shall be supervised and handled in the same manner as provided for livestock shows in Section 69-5-105, and each of the five (5) dairy shows herein provided for shall receive such part of the monies appropriated for the Mississippi Livestock Show as shall be specified in the act making such appropriation.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

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