11-50-311
Section 11-50-311 Application for authority to incorporate; adoption of resolution by municipal
governing body authorizing incorporation. Whenever any number of natural persons, not less
than three, shall file with the governing body of any municipality of this state an application
in writing for authority to incorporate a public corporation for the purpose of operating
a water system, a sewer system, a gas system, and an electric system or any one or more of
such systems, and if it shall be made to appear to such governing body that each of said persons
is a duly qualified elector of and owner of property in said municipality and if the governing
body of said municipality shall adopt a resolution, which shall be duly entered upon the minutes
of such governing body, wherein it shall be declared that it is wise, expedient, and necessary
that such a corporation be formed and that the persons filing said application shall be authorized
to proceed to form such corporation, then said...
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45-5-141.20
Section 45-5-141.20 Powers and duties; annual dues; board of trustees; referendum election.
(a) This section shall apply only in Blount County. (b) A district for the delivery of fire
and emergency medical services may be formed in any unincorporated area of the county pursuant
to this section subject to the approval of a majority of the qualified electors who vote at
a referendum election for that purpose in the proposed district and for the approval of the
mandatory annual dues of the district. (c) In order to call for a referendum election for
the formation of a district, a petition signed by not less than 20 percent of the registered
voters who reside in the proposed district shall be presented to the county commission and
the Judge of Probate of Blount County. The petition shall contain an accurate legal description
of the proposed area and shall state the name of the proposed district. The petition for the
establishment of a district shall be accompanied by a request for the...
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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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9-8-23
Section 9-8-23 Creation and incorporation of districts; increase or decrease in boundaries;
reorganization; change of name. (a) Any 25 owners of land lying within the limits of the territory
proposed to be organized into a district may file a petition with the State Soil and Water
Conservation Committee asking that a soil and water conservation district be organized to
function in the territory described in the petition. Such petition shall set forth: (1) The
proposed name of said district; (2) That there is need in the interest of the public health,
safety and welfare for a soil and water conservation district to function in the territory
described in the petition; (3) A description of the territory proposed to be organized as
a district, which description shall not be required to be given by metes and bounds or by
legal subdivisions but shall be deemed sufficient if generally accurate; and (4) A request
that the State Soil and Water Conservation Committee duly define the boundaries...
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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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22-22-9
Section 22-22-9 Powers and duties; enforcement of orders; permits; civil penalties for violations.
(a) It shall be the duty of the commission to control pollution in the waters of the state,
and it shall specifically have the following powers: (1) To study and investigate all problems
concerned with the improvement and conservation of the waters of the state; (2) To conduct,
independently and in cooperation with others, studies, investigation and research and to prepare,
or in cooperation with others prepare, a program or programs, any or all of which shall pertain
to the purity and conservation of the waters of the state or to the treatment and disposal
of pollutants or other wastes, which studies, investigations, research and program or programs
shall be intended to result in the reduction of pollution of the waters of the state according
to the conditions and particular circumstances existing in the various communities throughout
the state; and (3) To propose remedial measures...
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45-29-140.17
Section 45-29-140.17 Auditing. The Fayette County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority
shall be audited similar to and in accordance with any audit required to be performed upon
the Fayette County Commission and the operations of the County of Fayette. (Act 89-188, p.
169, §18.)...
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45-29-243.05
Section 45-29-243.05 Disposition of funds. (a) The proceeds from the tax hereby levied, less
the actual costs of collection not to exceed 10 per centum, shall be paid by the State Department
of Revenue to the Fayette County Commission to be deposited in two separate accounts to the
credit of either the Fayette County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority or the
Fayette County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association as follows: (1) Sixty percent to the
Fayette County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority. (2) Forty percent to the
Fayette County Fire and Rescue Squad Association with five percent of this directed to public
licensed ambulance services if such services are authorized and created by such association.
(b) The Fayette County Fire and Rescue Association shall have authority to promulgate rules
and regulations having the force and effect of law for the distribution of the funds under
subdivision (2). (c) Distribution shall be made by the Fayette County...
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45-30-245.35
Section 45-30-245.35 Disposition of funds. (a) The proceeds from the tax hereby levied, less
the actual costs of collection not to exceed 10 per centum, shall be paid by the State Department
of Revenue to the Franklin County Commission to be deposited in two separate accounts to the
credit of either the Franklin County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority or the
Franklin County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association as follows: (1) Sixty percent to the
Franklin County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority. (2) Forty percent to the
Franklin County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association, to be divided as follows: a. Twenty-five
percent to the Franklin County Firefighters Association. b. Ten percent to rescue squad associations.
c. Five percent to public licensed ambulance services if such services are authorized and
created by such association. (b) The Franklin County Fire and Rescue Association shall have
authority to promulgate rules and regulations having the...
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45-47-245.05
Section 45-47-245.05 Disposition of funds. (a) The proceeds from the tax hereby levied, less
the actual costs of collection not to exceed 10 per centum, shall be paid by the State Department
of Revenue to the Marion County Commission to be deposited in two separate accounts to the
credit of either the Marion County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority or the
Marion County Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association as follows: (1) Sixty percent to the Marion
County Water Coordinating and Fire Prevention Authority. (2) Forty percent to the Marion County
Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association, to be divided as follows: a. Twenty-five percent to
the Marion County Firefighters Association. b. Ten percent to rescue squad associations. c.
Five percent to public licensed ambulance services if such services are authorized and created
by such association. (b) The Marion County Fire and Rescue Association shall have authority
to promulgate rules and regulations having the force and effect...
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