2016 Mississippi Code
Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries
Chapter 3 - State Highway System
Additions to and Deletions From State System After 1971 (§§ 65-3-72 - 65-3-143.18)
§ 65-3-143.8. Add segment in Central District -- Rankin County -- to State Highway System

MS Code § 65-3-143.8 (2016) What's This?

(1) The following segment of highway is designated as a state highway and placed under the jurisdiction of the Mississippi Transportation Commission for construction and maintenance; and such highway, together with the highways designated in Section 65-3-3, and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system, are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi:

Central District -- Rankin County:

A three-mile section of Old U.S. 49 beginning at U.S. 80 and extending southerly to new U.S. 49 in the City of Richland.

(2) The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall take over and assume responsibility for construction and maintenance of the segment of highway described under subsection (1) of this section whenever the commission certifies that such segment of highway has been brought up to commission standards and all utilities, signs, structures and other encroachments on such highway and right-of-way, are removed or relocated.

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