{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-65-19-11","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-11","heading":"Miss. Code Ann. § 65-19-11","body":"In like manner and under like conditions as mentioned in the preceding sections, (a) separate road districts heretofore or hereafter created may be consolidated into a single separate road district; (b) a separate road district may be created from parts of two or more districts heretofore or hereafter created, or from territory partly of such a district or districts and partly of territory not theretofore in any separate road district; and (c) suitable territory, whether within or without a separate road district, may be added to an adjoining separate road district. All the qualified electors residing in each of the component parts of the territory proposed to be consolidated or joined in or added, as well as of the proposed district when completed, shall have the right to be heard and to vote in any election held as a part of said procedure. If twenty-five percent (25%) of the qualified electors in any one of the component parts aforesaid of the proposed territory or a like percent of the entire territory so petition, the board shall order an election and, unless at said election the qualified electors of each of the said component parts counted separately and a majority of the entire proposed new district counted in the aggregate shall favor the proposal, it shall not be allowed and the proposal shall be ordered rejected.","path":["MS Code","Title 65"],"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":"74fd5f38cb3f38e998ed66285ec8cb86a5c5f2e0feca1ec547e7bf9d148de25a","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-65-19-1","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-65-19-13","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."}