MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2023 Regular Session
To: Transportation; Appropriations
By: Representative Clarke
AN ACT TO DESIGNATE A SEGMENT OF INTERSTATE 55 SOUTH IN JACKSON, HINDS COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, AS THE "REPRESENTATIVE ALYCE GRIFFIN CLARKE WAY" IN HONOR OF MISSISSIPPI HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE ALYCE CLARKE; TO AMEND SECTION 65-3-38.1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REMOVE THE PROHIBITION ON THE DESIGNATION HIGHWAYS, ROADS, STREETS OR BRIDGES ON THE DESIGNATED STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM BE NAMED AFTER ELECTED OFFICIALS WHILE SUCH INDIVIDUAL REMAINS IN OFFICE OR TEN YEARS FROM HIS OR HER LAST DATE OF ELECTIVE SERVICE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. (1) The segment of Interstate 55 South located in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, beginning at the County Line Road in Jackson, Mississippi, and extending approximately six (6) miles southerly to Fortification Street in Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, is designated and shall be known as the "Representative Alyce Griffin Clarke Way."
(2) The Mississippi Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs along and approaching the segment of highway described in subsection (1) of this section.
SECTION 2. Section 65-3-38.1, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
65-3-38.1. * * *
( * * *1) No legislation shall be enacted by
the Legislature naming any highway, road, street or bridge on the designated
state highway system after any person unless the governing body of each county
and municipality where the highway, road, street or bridge is located duly adopts
a resolution requesting the Legislature to enact such legislation and files a
certified copy of such resolution with the Chairman of the Senate or House
Committee to which such legislation is referred.
( * * *2) The provisions of this section shall
not apply to Sections 65-7-151 and 65-7-153.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2023.