{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-59-13-1","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 59-13-1","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 59-13-1","body":"The board of supervisors of any county in the State of Mississippi, bordering on the Mississippi Sound or Gulf of Mexico, having an assessed valuation in excess of eight million dollars ($8,000,000.00) according to the last completed assessment; and any county in the state bordering on the Mississippi Sound or Gulf of Mexico having an assessed valuation of less than five million dollars ($5,000,000.00), according to the last completed assessment, be, and it is hereby authorized, in its discretion, and subject to complying with the provisions of this chapter, to use and expend for public harbor improvements, harbor development, breakwaters, wharves and docks, recreational centers and all buildings in connection therewith deemed necessary or appropriate by such board, and for the purchase of necessary lands and rights of way in the county or in any supervisor's district therein bordering on the Mississippi Sound or Gulf of Mexico, any funds received from the sale of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter.","path":["MS Code","Title 59"],"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":"8b749c1f1a852f58cff6371fe805cd81cc143503903ae54c7f30a0b90a59fdb1","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-59-11-7","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-59-13-11","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."}