2016 Mississippi Code
Title 21 - Municipalities
Chapter 37 - Streets, Parks and Other Public Property
§ 21-37-47. Exercise of eminent domain by municipalities

The governing authorities of municipalities, and any commission created under legislative act and operating as an agency of any municipality, where necessary or incidental to the functions and purposes of the commission as set out in the legislative act providing for such commission, shall have the power to exercise the right of eminent domain for the following purposes:

1. the laying out of streets, avenues and alleys:

2. the straightening and widening of streets, or changing the grade thereof;

3. the constructing or repairing of sidewalks, sewers, and other improvements;

4. the securing of land for parks, cemeteries, schoolhouses, fire departments, market houses, and for the constructing of any public building;

5. the laying out, constructing, erecting or perfecting of levees, or a system of levees, for the protection of such municipality or any part thereof, or for the protection of any public work or building, and for the constructing or perfecting of its drainage system;

6. the establishing, altering and changing of the channel of streams or water courses or ditches, and the acquiring of land to bridge the same;

7. and in any other case where the land is to be used for public purposes.

Such governing authorities or commission may exercise the right without, as well as within, the corporate limits of the municipality, and this right may be exercised by any municipality or any such commission aforesaid.

Moreover, any municipality in the state may, in the furtherance of any national defense project, within or without its corporate limits but located within ten miles of the corporate limits of such municipality, purchase or acquire lands connected with such project and in so doing exercise the right of eminent domain, if necessary.