As Amended
SEC. 65-1-37. Driveways of certain institutions.
The Mississippi State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to have the state highway department construct, repair and maintain the driveways and streets on the grounds of the universities and colleges under the jurisdiction of the board of trustees of the state institutions of higher learning, state, and/or county supported junior colleges, the state hospitals, and institutions under the jurisdiction of the board of trustees of mental institutions, the board of trustees of the Columbia Training School and Oakley Training School, the state charity hospitals, the Mississippi schools for the deaf and blind, and the Mississippi Park Commission in the manner provided herein, including bypasses to connect said driveways and streets with roads on the state highway system, and the main thoroughfare running east and west through the grounds of the Mississippi Penitentiary, provided said institutions obtain the necessary rights-of-way, said institutions being hereby authorized so to do.
The state highway commission and the governing boards of said institutions shall enter into an agreement prior to undertaking any of the work mentioned in the first paragraph of this section, and said agreement shall be based on the state highway department's furnishing equipment, equipment operators, skilled labor, supervision, and engineering services, and the governing bodies of the aforementioned institutions shall furnish material, supplies, and common labor. This agreement shall further provide for reimbursement of the Mississippi State Highway Department, in full, for the expenditures incurred in the construction, repair and maintenance of driveways and streets at the institutions hereinabove mentioned, such reimbursement to be made directly to the state highway commission of Mississippi from the institutions. Upon the execution of an agreement as set out herein, the state highway department is hereby authorized to provide all the necessary engineering, supervision, skilled labor, equipment, and equipment operators to perform such work.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 8038.9; Laws, 1954, ch. 272, Secs. 1-3(PP 1-3); 1960, ch. 365; 1975, ch. 341; 1981, ch. 464, Sec. 5, eff from and after July 1, 1981.