Miss. Code Ann. § 57-1-1: Miss. Code Ann. § 57-1-1

It is hereby declared that the state public welfare demands, and the state public policy requires:

(a) That a balanced economic development of this state is essential.

(b) That the reconversion from wartime economy to peacetime pursuits appears reasonably imminent, requiring a planning program for readjustment of employment to accord with employment problems necessarily arising from changed conditions.

(c) That the present and prospective health, safety, morals, pursuit of happiness, right to gainful employment and the general welfare of the citizens demand as a public purpose the development within Mississippi of commercial, industrial, agricultural, manufacturing and tourism enterprises, herein called “enterprises” by the several counties, supervisors districts and municipalities, all herein called “municipalities.” “Enterprises” shall be construed to include expansion of such existing buildings and facilities, conditioned, however, that the municipality, if required by the Board of Economic Development, shall take security upon the existing building or buildings at the time of entering into contract for the expansion of existing buildings and facilities.

(d) That the means and measures herein authorized to promote said enterprises are, as a matter of public policy, for the public purposes of the several counties, supervisors districts, municipalities, and of the State of Mississippi.

(e) That the present and prospective promotion of health, safety, morals, pursuit of happiness, right to gainful employment, and the general welfare of the state requires the accomplishment of that which is herein and hereby authorized, in order to afford ready and attractive markets for farm and garden products, to develop natural resources and convert raw materials of farm, mine and forest into finished products for the general welfare of each of said municipalities and the entire state.

(f) That the accomplishment of the things herein authorized to be done by the several municipalities will give to them local benefits peculiar to each.