As Amended
SEC. 65-3-73. Additions to and deletions from state highway system; Laws, 1973, chs. 350, 449.
(1) Additions to state highway system.
The mileage of the highway hereinafter specifically designated is in addition to the total mileage limitation of eight thousand six hundred (8,600) miles which is set out in Section 65-3-3.
The following highway is hereby designated as a state highway and shall be placed under the jurisdiction of the State Highway Commission for construction and maintenance as hereinafter provided, and such highway, together with the highways designated in Sections 65-3-3 and 65-3-5, and any and all other laws adding links to the designated state highway system, are declared to be the state highway system of Mississippi:
Northern District-DeSoto County. That road beginning at U.S. 61 in DeSoto County running east essentially parallel to the present right-of-way of Goodman Road to U.S. 78. The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized and directed to take over and assume jurisdiction of said highway for construction and maintenance, and, notwithstanding the provisions of Section 65-1-85, Section 1, subsection (d), Chapter 484, Laws of 1972, or any other provisions of law to the contrary, to utilize State Highway Department labor, equipment and material; provided, however, the following conditions are met: (1) the Board of Supervisors of DeSoto County shall have provided the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00) to the State Highway Department to be used to pay the cost of such construction, maintenance or for use as matching funds to obtain funding for such project; (2) the Board of Supervisors of DeSoto County, Mississippi, shall acquire all such right-of-way for said highway as has been determined to be reasonable and necessary for a final survey of the State Highway Commission which can be acquired prior to April 15, 1978, and shall thereafter have conveyed such right-of-way of said highway, including the present right-of-way of said highway, together with such additionally acquired right-of-way acquired prior to April 15, 1978, to vest title in said highway in the State Highway Commission. Immediately thereafter, if necessary, the State Highway Commission shall proceed to acquire title to any necessary right-of-way of said highway not acquired by the Board of Supervisors of DeSoto County prior to April 15, 1978; and the Board of Supervisors of DeSoto County shall fully pay all acquisition costs and other costs involved in such acquisition by the State Highway Commission; and (3) the Board of Supervisors of DeSoto County shall certify the availability of sufficient quantities of asphalt at its local asphalt plant in DeSoto County necessary for the construction of said road and shall certify that such asphalt may be obtained at a cost not to exceed the actual cost of production.
The State Highway Commission shall immediately proceed to widen, overlay, bring up to its standards for a state highway and maintain said highway, utilizing the existing bridge structures and the existing right-of-way as much as possible. If the costs of such shall exceed the above-mentioned Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00), the State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to pay such additional costs from any funds available to it, whether maintenance funds, construction funds, or otherwise, or any combination thereof. Should such costs not exceed the above-mentioned Three Hundred Thousand Dollars ($300,000.00), the State Highway Commission shall retain any remaining difference to be used to pay the cost of any needed maintenance of said highway until such remaining difference has been expended for such purpose. [Laws, 1973, Ch. 449, Secs. 1-3; 1977, Ch. 421]
(2) Deletions from state highway system.
(a) DeSoto County.
The following state highway is hereby deleted from and removed from the state highway system, and shall no longer be designated as a state highway:
Northern District-DeSoto County. That length of road designated as a state highway beginning at Hernando and running to Lewisburg (Laws, 1973, Ch. 449, Sec. 4).
(b) Union County.
The following link of highway in Union County, Mississippi, is hereby deleted from the state highway system, removed from the jurisdiction of the State Highway Commission, and returned to the jurisdiction of the Board of Supervisors of Union County:
Northern District: Beginning at a point on State Highway 355 at its intersection with the west boundary line of Section 30, Township 6 South, Range 2 East, Union County, Mississippi, and extending northeasterly along State Highway 355 and FAS Route No. 932 a distance of approximately two (2) miles to U.S. Highway 78 in the Town of Myrtle, Mississippi, at a point in the Southwest Quarter of Section 17, Township 6 South, Range 2 East.
This is a portion of a section of highway added to the state highway system as set out in item 2(a)(15), Section 65-3-7, Mississippi Code of 1972 (Laws, 1973, Ch. 350, Sec.1).
SOURCES: Laws, 1973, ch. 350, Sec. 1, ch. 449, Secs. 1-4; 1977, ch. 421; 1978, ch. 480, Sec. 1; repealed, 1981, ch. 464, Sec. 32; reenacted without change, 1985, ch. 537, Sec. 23; reenacted without change, 1987, ch. 510, Sec. 16, eff from and after July 1, 1987.