{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-57-61-41","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 57-61-41","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 57-61-41","body":"(1) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter to the contrary, the Mississippi Development Authority shall utilize not more than Twelve Million Dollars ($ 12,000,000.00) out of the proceeds of bonds authorized to be issued in this chapter to be made available to state, county or municipal port and airport authorities through a Port Revitalization Revolving Loan Fund for the purpose of making loans to port authorities for the improvement of port and airport facilities to promote commerce and economic growth. Proceeds shall not be made available to provide any facilities for utilization by a gaming vessel.\n\n(2) In exercising its authority, the Mississippi Development Authority shall work in conjunction with the Water Resources Council to establish criteria and guidelines to govern loans made pursuant to this section.\n\n(3) The Mississippi Development Authority may, on a case-by-case basis, renegotiate the payment of principal and interest on loans made under this section to state, county and municipal port and airport authorities located in the six (6) most southern counties of the state covered by the Presidential Declaration of Major Disaster for the State of Mississippi (FEMA-1604-DR) dated August 29, 2005; however, the interest on the loans shall not be forgiven for a period of more than twenty-four (24) months and the maturity of the loans shall not be extended for a period of more than forty-eight (48) months.","path":["MS Code","Title 57"],"source_url":"https://legislature.ms.gov/","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T20:49:39Z","sha256":"9e8284eb46b9883b83d52c275c2635d80aa12daf1fae33684f89012339f279e9","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-57-61-37","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-57-61-43","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}