MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2023 Regular Session

To: Agriculture

By: Representative Creekmore IV

House Bill 232

(As Passed the House)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 69-5-107, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO CANCEL THE DAIRY SHOW HELD AT VERONA IN LEE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, AND RELOCATE THE SHOW TO PONTOTOC IN PONTOTOC 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 Pontotoc in Pontotoc County, at Newton in Newton County, Tylertown in Walthall County, and at Purvis 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 July 1, 2023.