2017 Mississippi Code
Title 33 - Military Affairs
Chapter 11 - Training Facilities
§ 33-11-13. Exchange of parcels of military reservation for lands vital to its purposes

Universal Citation:
MS Code § 33-11-13 (2017)
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  • (1) The Camp Shelby committee, composed of the Adjutant General of the State of Mississippi, the United States property and disbursing officer for the State of Mississippi, and the senior National Guard officer from the infantry, artillery, engineers, medical corps, and quartermaster corps, with the advice and consent of the Governor of Mississippi, are hereby authorized to negotiate and enter into trades with private parties owning lands within, or within the vicinity of, the military reservation comprising the permanent National Guard camp site in Forrest and Perry Counties, Mississippi, known as Camp Shelby, which private lands, in the opinion of the committee, are needed for said permanent camp site and firing ranges, by exchanging therefor parcels of state lands belonging to said military reservation, which parcels, in the judgment of said committee, are not needed for or as vital to said camp site and firing ranges as the parcels owned by private persons to be acquired in exchange therefor.
  • (2) The committee shall make a finding that the lands to be so acquired are more vital and essential to the needs and betterment of said permanent camp site and firing ranges than parcels of state lands to be exchanged therefor, and such exchanges shall be approved by the Department of Defense. In no case shall the state lands so exchanged exceed in acreage the lands acquired in exchange therefor.
  • (3) The state lands to be so exchanged shall be conveyed by deeds executed by the Governor of Mississippi, attested by the secretary of state under the great seal of the State of Mississippi, and approved by all the members of the said Camp Shelby committee.
  • (4) The Attorney General of the State of Mississippi shall pass upon the title and the deeds to the lands to be acquired, and shall approve their legality before they are accepted by the State of Mississippi.
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