2013 Mississippi Code
Title 49 - CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY
Chapter 19 - FORESTS AND FOREST PROTECTION
IN GENERAL
§ 49-19-11 - Land adjacent to protective areas, etc
The State Forestry Commission is hereby authorized to protect intermingled or adjacent state owned lands in the same manner and form as other lands within the state and the expenses thereof may be paid out of any appropriation made to the State Forestry Commission; provided such expenditures are not greater per acre in any year than the expenditures by the commission on account of the protection of any other lands than that owned by the State of Mississippi.
The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to the protection of established state parks, state forests or other state owned lands when increased expenditure may be necessary for the protection thereof in the opinion of the State Forestry Commission.
It is hereby made the duty of all agents and employees of the State Forestry Commission to report to the commission any timber or other trespass discovered by such agent or employees on state owned lands giving detailed information thereof in such report.
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