MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 1-3-31. Navigable waters.

Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-109-1, all rivers, creeks and bayous in this state, twenty-five (25) miles in length, and having sufficient depth and width of water for thirty (30) consecutive days in the year to float a steamboat with carrying capacity of two hundred (200) bales of cotton, are navigable waters of this state and public highways.

SOURCES: Codes, 1906, Sec. 1587; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 1354; 1930, Sec. 1378; 1942, Sec. 686. Laws, 1990 Ex Sess, ch. 45 Sec. 141, eff from and after passage (approved June 29, 1990).


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