2010 Mississippi Code
TITLE 65 - HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES
Chapter 7 - Public Roads and Streets; Private Way.
65-7-1 - Jurisdiction over county roads; width of roads; drainage; inclusion of new roads in official records.

§ 65-7-1. Jurisdiction over county roads; width of roads; drainage; inclusion of new roads in official records.
 

(1)  The board of supervisors of each county shall have full jurisdiction over all matters relating to the public roads of the county, including the establishment, laying out, opening, abandonment, altering, changing, working and maintaining of such roads, except as otherwise provided by Section 170 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890. 

(2)  All roads now laid out and opened or hereafter laid out and opened according to law shall be deemed public roads and highways and shall be opened and worked at least sixteen (16) feet wide, wherever practicable, and in any case not less than twelve (12) feet, and any greater width that may be necessary. Ditches and borrow pits shall be kept open or connected so as to drain off the water from the road bed, as far as practicable. 

(3)  From and after July 1, 2000, no road shall be included as a part of the county road system until and unless the board of supervisors, by appropriate action spread on its minutes, has established or accepted such road and caused the road to be included in the official record of the county road system as provided in Section 65-7-4. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 10, art. 7 (25); 1857, ch. 15, art. 8; 1871, § 2334; 1880, § 821; 1892, § 3887; 1906, § 4394; Hemingway's 1917, § 7074; 1930, § 6310; 1942, § 8286; Laws,  1920, ch. 274; Laws, 1998, ch. 539, § 2, eff from and after July 1, 1998.