As Amended
SEC. 51-19-11. Powers and duties.
The West Central Mississippi Waterway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to do any and all things necessary or deemed by it advisable in studying the benefits to be derived, determining the feasibility and practicability of, developing, and otherwise bringing into being, if warranted, a multipurpose waterway traversing part of Warren and Hinds Counties, with an auxiliary or supply channel traversing part of Madison County.
The duties of the commission will include, but are not limited to, investigating the possibility of creating and utilizing for the benefit of the people of Mississippi such domestic water supply, industrial water supply, irrigation, flood control, power, navigation, and recreational benefits as might be made available from a waterway as hereinbefore described.
The West Central Mississippi Waterway Commission is hereby authorized and empowered to coordinate, make agreements, apply for and accept gifts, grants, or loans with or from any municipal, county, state, or federal government agency or commission.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 5956-306; Laws, 1966, ch. 281, Sec. 6, eff from and after passage (approved June 14, 1966).
1997 Amendment:
SECTION 4. Sections 51-19-1, 51-19-3, 51-19-5, 51-19-7, 51-19-9, 51-19-11, 51-19-13 and 51-19-15, Mississippi Code of 1972, which establish the purpose of the West Central Mississippi Waterway Commission, provide for the commission membership, appointment of delegates and their compensation and term of office and organization and powers and duties of the commission, authorize cooperation by other governmental bodies and provide that this chapter is supplemental to other laws, is repealed.
SOURCE: 1997 Laws, Chapter 403, Section 4, SB2937, Effective July 1, 1997.