As Amended
SEC. 65-3-111. Improvement of highway in Webster County; addition of highway in Pike County to state highway system; transfer of jurisdiction of highway to State Highway Commission.
Along the presently designated highway system, the State Highway Commission, subject to the provisions of this section is authorized and directed to pave, widen, overlay or do whatever is otherwise necessary in a timely manner to bring up to minimum traffic standards that unimproved portion of Mississippi Highway 50 in Webster County extending in a westerly direction from the Natchez Trace to approximately three (3) miles east of the Town of Walthall.
(1) The mileage of highway specifically designated in subsection (2) is in addition to the total mileage limitation of eight thousand six hundred (8,600) miles that is set out in Section 65-3-3.
(2) The following highway is designated as a state highway and, subject to the provisions of this section shall be placed under the jurisdiction of the State Highway Commission for construction and maintenance; 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.
Southern District-Pike County:
Beginning at the southernmost point of Mississippi Highway 575 where state maintenance ends near Progress and thence leading southwesterly along an existing road known as the "Osyka-Progress Road" to a point at or near Osyka at its intersection with U.S. Highway 51.
The counties within which the highways designated in this section are located shall prepare the preliminary engineering plans in accordance with the Design Manual for Federal Aid Secondary Highway Projects, shall comply with the National Environmental Policy Act, and shall acquire the right-of-way necessary for the designated highways in accordance with the Real Property Acquisition Policies Law and the Relocation Assistance Law, being Chapters 37 and 39 of Title 43, Mississippi Code of 1972. Upon compliance by the counties with such provisions and the conveyance of the acquired right-of-way to the Mississippi State Highway Commission, the highways designated shall be under the jurisdiction of the State Highway Commission, and the State Highway Department shall thereafter construct, improve and do all that is necessary to bring and maintain such designated highways to state highway standards.
SOURCES: Laws, 1991, ch. 493 Secs. 1-3, eff from and after passage (approved April 1, 1991).