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11-47-115
Section 11-47-115 Regulation of operation of street railroad company over tracks of another.
Any street railroad company operating its railroad by steam, electric, or other power shall
have the right and may be required by the council or other governing body of any town or city
of this state to operate its cars over the tracks of any other street railroad company in
whole or in part in said city or town under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed
by ordinance, upon the payment by the company so using the tracks of another of just compensation
for the use thereof, and the council or other governing body of said city or town shall pass
such ordinances as may be necessary to carry this provision into effect. (Code 1907, §1267;
Code 1923, §2015; Code 1940, T. 37, §490.)...
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11-49-3
Section 11-49-3 Railroads and public utilities using streets to be required to keep streets
in repair, etc. Street and other railroad companies shall be required to keep their tracks
in repair, using such rails as may be prescribed, and shall maintain and keep in repair the
streets between their rails and for 18 inches on each side in such manner as the council or
other governing body may prescribe. Any public utility using the streets of the city or town
shall at all times, in a manner prescribed by the council or other governing body, render
the use of such streets safe to vehicles and to persons, and all tracks on such street shall,
when required by the council or other governing body, be placed at any fixed grade and changed,
free of expense to the municipality, when found necessary. (Code 1907, §1269; Code 1923,
§2017; Code 1940, T. 37, §648.)...
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37-11A-1
Section 37-11A-1 Execution and text of compact. The Governor, on behalf of this state, shall
execute a compact, in substantially the following form, with the State of Mississippi, and
the Legislature approves and ratifies the compact in the form substantially as follows: Northeast
Mississippi - Northwest Alabama Railroad Authority Compact. The contracting states solemnly
agree: Article I. The purpose of this compact is to promote and develop trade, commerce, industry,
and employment opportunities for the public good and welfare in northeast Mississippi and
northwest Alabama through the establishment of a joint interstate authority to acquire certain
railroad properties and facilities which the operator thereof has notified the Interstate
Commerce Commission of an intention to abandon and which are located in any of Franklin, Marion,
or Winston Counties, Alabama or in Alcorn or Tishomingo Counties, Mississippi. Article II.
This compact shall become effective immediately as to the State...
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45-13-120
Section 45-13-120 Compensation; election; oath and bond; office space, equipment; chief clerk;
powers and duties; issuance of licenses; disposition of funds. (a)(1) Effective October 1,
1991, there is hereby created the office of commissioner of licenses. The salary of the commissioner
of licenses shall be in the amount of thirty-six thousand dollars ($36,000) annually. The
annual salary shall be payable in equal biweekly installments from the general funds of the
county, as all other county employees are paid. (2) The office of commissioner of licenses
shall be established upon the occurrence of a vacancy before October 1, 1991, in either the
office of tax assessor or tax collector, then, in that event, the officer remaining after
the office of revenue commissioner is established, shall be the license commissioner for the
remainder of the unexpired term for which he or she was elected as either tax assessor or
as tax collector, as the case may be, and the license commissioner shall be...
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11-81-51
Section 11-81-51 Purposes for which bonds may be issued. All municipalities shall have full
and continuing power and authority within the limits of the Constitution now in effect or
that may be hereafter provided to issue and sell bonds (when such issue is authorized by an
election as provided in this article if such election is required by the Constitution, but
without an election if an election is not so required) for the following named purposes: (1)
For the purpose of constructing, reconstructing, enlarging or extending public buildings,
sewers, streets, alleys, bridges and public schoolhouses and buildings and of constructing
or acquiring by purchase or otherwise water, electric light, electric power and gas plants
and systems or any two or more such plants or systems combined, including transmission and
distribution systems, and of constructing enlargements and extensions to any such plants or
systems; (2) For the purchase of real estate necessary for any improvement authorized...
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4-3-47
Section 4-3-47 Powers of authority generally. The authority shall have the following powers,
together with all powers incidental thereto or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate
form: (1) To have succession by its corporate name for the duration of time (which may be
in perpetuity) specified in its certificate of incorporation; (2) To sue and be sued in its
own name in civil actions, excepting actions in tort against the authority; (3) To adopt and
make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt and alter bylaws
for the regulation and conduct of its affairs and business; (5) To acquire, receive, take
and hold, whether by purchase, option to purchase, gift, lease, devise or otherwise, property
of every description, whether real, personal or mixed, whether in one or more counties and
whether within or without the corporate limits of any authorizing subdivision, and to manage
said property and to develop any property and to sell, exchange, lease or...
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11-49-100
Section 11-49-100 Adoption of ordinance for vacation of street and erection of public building,
etc., thereon - Authorized generally. Whenever in the judgment of the council or other governing
body of any town or city it is to the interest of the public convenience that a portion of
any street in the limits of such city or town be vacated and discontinued as a highway and
that such vacated portion should be used for the erection and maintenance in whole or in part
thereon of any state, county, or municipal public building or railroad station or depot or
street railroad station or depot, such city or town council or other governing body may, by
ordinance duly adopted, vacate such portions of such street and discontinue its use as a public
highway and permit the erection and maintenance in whole or in part thereon of a state, county,
or municipal public building or railroad station or depot or street railroad station or depot.
(Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923, §2238; Code 1940, T....
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11-49-105
Section 11-49-105 Property rights in vacated portion of street. The fee of such vacated portion
of a street shall remain in the city or town, but the council or other governing body may
grant the right to maintain thereon a state, county, or municipal public building or a railroad
station or depot or street railroad station or depot so long and only so long as the same
shall be used for the purpose for which it was vacated. (Acts 1909, No. 67, p. 102; Code 1923,
§2241; Code 1940, T. 37, §666.)...
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37-2-84
Section 37-2-84 Abandonment and discontinuance of grade crossings. (a) The Department of Transportation
is given authority and power to abandon and discontinue any portion of a state highway, or
street on a state highway route with the approval of the city council or governing body of
any municipality, crossing the tracks or right-of-way of any railroad or street railway within
the state, and to close the grade crossing, whenever in the judgment of the department the
grade crossing has ceased to be necessary for the public as a part of any state highway, because
of relocation of the highway, or because of the construction of an underpass or overpass,
or other provision made for the elimination of the grade crossing. Whenever the department
orders the abandonment of a portion of the highway or street and the closing of a grade crossing,
it shall enter its order providing therefor in the department minutes. Notice in writing of
the abandonment and discontinuance of the portion of the...
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40-21-7
Section 40-21-7 Reports of railroad companies. On or before March 1 of each year, the president,
secretary, or auditor of any railroad company whose track or roadbed or any part thereof is
in this state or, if such railroad is in the hands of a receiver or trustee, such receiver
or trustee shall, under oath, make to the Department of Revenue a return in writing of the
total length of such railroad, including the right-of-way, roadbed, side tracks and main tracks
in this state, specifying the total length in this state and in each county, city or incorporated
town, school district, or other tax district in this state in which a special school tax or
other tax is levied; and also of the number of locomotive engines or other units of motive
power, and passenger, freight, construction, and other cars of such company for the entire
system and the number of each allocated to this state, stating the method used in so allocating,
and the location and a description of all other property owned...
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