Mississippi Statutes

TITLE 49 - CONSERVATION AND ECOLOGY

Chapter 1 - General Provisions.
- 49-1-1 - Definitions.
- 49-1-11 - Public relations officer.
- 49-1-12 - Wardens, game wardens, and game and fish wardens designated conservation officers; construction and effect of designation.
- 49-1-13 - Conservation officers.
- 49-1-14 - Retiring sworn law enforcement officer employed by Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks authorized to retain side arm under certain circumstances.
- 49-1-15 - Conservation officers; appointments and qualifications.
- 49-1-16 - Conservation Officers' Reserve Unit.
- 49-1-17 - Repealed.
- 49-1-19 - Political activity.
- 49-1-21 - Fidelity bonds; oath of office.
- 49-1-23 - and 49-1-24. Repealed.
- 49-1-25 - and 49-1-27. Repealed.
- 49-1-29 - Powers and duties of commission and executive director.
- 49-1-3 - Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks assuming powers and duties of Commission on Wildlife Conservation.
- 49-1-31 - Repealed.
- 49-1-33 - Acquisition of lands overflowed by construction of dam.
- 49-1-35 - Official magazine of department.
- 49-1-37 - Power to dispose of contraband animals, birds, fish, etc.
- 49-1-39 - Power to capture or destroy animals injurious to property.
- 49-1-4 - Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to assume powers and duties of Department of Wildlife Conservation.
- 49-1-41 - Power to issue permits for scientific or propagation purposes.
- 49-1-43 - Powers and duties of director of Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
- 49-1-44 - Powers and duties of conservation officers to apprehend certain violators.
- 49-1-45 - Publication of rules, regulations and orders.
- 49-1-47 - Commission may execute deeds to clear up ambiguities in conveyances to it.
- 49-1-49 - Cooperation with other departments.
- 49-1-5 - and 49-1-7. Repealed.
- 49-1-51 - Funds.
- 49-1-53 - Offices; supplies.
- 49-1-55 - Natural Science Museum.
- 49-1-57 - Assent to federal program for promotion of hunter safety, principles of conservation and sportsmanship.
- 49-1-59 - Repealed.
- 49-1-60 - Insurance covering hunter safety program.
- 49-1-61 - through 49-1-63. Repealed.
- 49-1-65 - Hunter Education and Training Program Fund.
- 49-1-9 - Chief law enforcement officer.
Chapter 2 - Department of Environmental Quality.
- 49-2-1 - Declaration of purpose.
- 49-2-11 - Economic and fiscal impact statements; prerequisite to enactment of rule or regulation and notice of action; effect of statements.
- 49-2-13 - Powers and duties of executive director.
- 49-2-15 - Repealed.
- 49-2-16 - Qualifications for certain office heads.
- 49-2-17 - Assistant for administration.
- 49-2-19 - Traveling expenses of departmental employees.
- 49-2-2 - Definitions.
- 49-2-21 - Attorney General as counsel to Commission and Department of Environmental Quality; executive director authorized to employ legal counsel.
- 49-2-23 - Authority to enter agreements with National Space Technology Laboratories.
- 49-2-24 - Conference suite within Mississippi Technology Transfer Center named in honor of Herman Cowan Glazier, Jr.
- 49-2-25 - Creation of office of technical resources; supervision.
- 49-2-27 - Repealed.
- 49-2-29 - Strategic plan for operations of Department of Environmental Quality.
- 49-2-3 - Repealed.
- 49-2-31 - Comparative risk assessment.
- 49-2-4 - Department of Environmental Quality; executive director; qualifications.
- 49-2-41 - through 49-2-63. Repealed.
- 49-2-5 - Commission on Environmental Quality.
- 49-2-6 - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality assuming powers and duties of Mississippi Commission on Natural Resources.
- 49-2-7 - Department of Environmental Quality assuming powers and duties of Department of Natural Resources; organization of department; duties.
- 49-2-71 - Discovery and admissibility in evidence of environmental self-evaluation reports; divulgence or dissemination of information in reports; exemption from Public Records Act.
- 49-2-81 - Short title.
- 49-2-83 - Legislative findings.
- 49-2-85 - Definitions.
- 49-2-87 - Development and implementation of home-generated medical sharps disposal education program.
- 49-2-9 - Commission on Environmental Quality; powers and duties.
Chapter 3 - Fisheries and Wildlife Research.
- 49-3-1 - Short title.
- 49-3-11 - Acceptance of gifts, grants, and contributions.
- 49-3-13 - Cooperation with state agencies.
- 49-3-15 - Work for other organizations.
- 49-3-17 - "Fish" defined; effect of chapter on authority of other agencies.
- 49-3-3 - Purpose of chapter.
- 49-3-5 - Establishment of laboratory.
- 49-3-7 - Maintenance of laboratory.
- 49-3-9 - Functions.
Chapter 4 - Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
- 49-4-1 - Declaration of purpose.
- 49-4-11 - Qualifications of executive director.
- 49-4-13 - Powers and duties of executive director.
- 49-4-15 - Repealed.
- 49-4-17 - Repealed.
- 49-4-19 - Traveling expenses of departmental employees.
- 49-4-21 - Attorney General as counsel to Commission and Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
- 49-4-22 - Maintaining court records and abstracts of game and fish law violations.
- 49-4-23 - Repealed.
- 49-4-25 - Repealed.
- 49-4-27 - Repealed.
- 49-4-29 - Repealed.
- 49-4-3 - Definitions.
- 49-4-31 - Hunter safety officers to investigate hunting accidents; law enforcement officer authorized to request that person involved in hunting accident resulting in injury or death submit to chemica
- 49-4-33 - Repealed.
- 49-4-35 - Marked and unmarked department vehicles; violations and penalties.
- 49-4-37 - North Mississippi fish hatchery; establishment; operation.
- 49-4-39 - Regulation of hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing, guide and outfitter services.
- 49-4-4 - Mississippi Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
- 49-4-41 - Regulation of the feeding of wild animals and game birds outside of wildlife enclosures.
- 49-4-5 - Repealed.
- 49-4-6 - Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks; organization of department; executive director; removal for cause; office heads; merit promotion system for certain enforcement officers.
- 49-4-7 - Commission to appoint advisory committees; department designated to receive federal funds; department to manage and coordinate all functions related to wildlife and fisheries.
- 49-4-8 - Powers and duties of department.
- 49-4-9 - Powers and duties of Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
Chapter 5 - Fish, Game and Bird Protection and Refuges.
- 49-5-1 - Public lands.
- 49-5-101 - Title.
- 49-5-103 - Legislative findings and declaration.
- 49-5-105 - Definitions.
- 49-5-107 - Designation and protection of nongame wildlife in need of management.
- 49-5-109 - Designation and protection of endangered species.
- 49-5-11 - Game and fish management projects or refuges; purchase of lands.
- 49-5-111 - Programs; permission to remove, capture or destroy endangered species.
- 49-5-113 - Regulations.
- 49-5-115 - Enforcement; penalties.
- 49-5-117 - Construction.
- 49-5-119 - Funding of programs.
- 49-5-13 - Wildlife management projects or refuges; regulation and management; lease of lands.
- 49-5-14 - Fox preserve or refuge; contracts with private landowners in Yalobusha or Grenada counties.
- 49-5-141 - Short title.
- 49-5-143 - Legislative findings and declaration.
- 49-5-145 - Purpose.
- 49-5-147 - Definitions.
- 49-5-149 - Powers and duties of commission.
- 49-5-15 - Contracts with counties for joint support and maintenance of projects or refuges.
- 49-5-151 - Register of natural areas.
- 49-5-153 - Registration of natural areas.
- 49-5-155 - Dedication of natural areas to commission; exemption from ad valorem taxation.
- 49-5-157 - Management, protection and inspection of natural area preserves.
- 49-5-16 - Construction of lodges.
- 49-5-17 - Issuance and retirement of bonds.
- 49-5-19 - Posting of refuges.
- 49-5-2 - Definitions.
- 49-5-21 - Fisheries and Wildlife Fund created; annual budget requests to Legislature.
- 49-5-23 - Federal regulatory authority; cooperative agreements with United States.
- 49-5-25 - Wildlife restoration.
- 49-5-27 - Fish restoration and management projects.
- 49-5-29 - Federal migratory bird refuges.
- 49-5-3 - Boards of supervisors may add to preserve.
- 49-5-31 - Federal acts.
- 49-5-33 - Authority of United States Commissioner of fishieries.
- 49-5-35 - Biological survey.
- 49-5-37 - Appropriation to eradicate rabies among foxes.
- 49-5-39 - Fines and penalties.
- 49-5-41 - Statute of limitations.
- 49-5-43 - Duties of sheriffs and other peace officers.
- 49-5-45 - Duties of district attorneys, county attorneys and circuit judges.
- 49-5-47 - Corporations; how prosecuted.
- 49-5-49 - Witnesses.
- 49-5-5 - Unlawful to hunt on preserve.
- 49-5-51 - Disposition of fines.
- 49-5-61 - Transfer of powers and duties of Wildlife Heritage Committee.
- 49-5-63 - through 49-5-67. Repealed.
- 49-5-69 - Contracts and agreements.
- 49-5-7 - What birds protected.
- 49-5-71 - Acquisition and disposition of real and personal property; easements and rights-of-way.
- 49-5-73 - Employment of personnel.
- 49-5-75 - Rules and regulations.
- 49-5-76 - Commission authorized to solicit and receive gifts on behalf of Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks Foundation.
- 49-5-77 - Wildlife Heritage Fund; gifts; administration of acquired property.
- 49-5-78 - Additional hunting and fishing fee for Wildlife Heritage Fund; purchase of hunting and fishing areas.
- 49-5-79 - Repealed.
- 49-5-81 - Camping and recreational facilities.
- 49-5-83 - Expenditures and audit of funds.
- 49-5-85 - Sections cumulative.
- 49-5-86 - Definitions.
- 49-5-87 - Commission to take title to certain lands in name of state.
- 49-5-88 - Bond issuance authorized for purpose of acquiring aforementioned lands.
- 49-5-89 - Bonds; authority of state bond commission; payment; maturities and signatures.
- 49-5-9 - Waterfowl included within term game.
- 49-5-90 - Bonds; negotiability; exemption from taxation.
- 49-5-91 - Bonds; sale; interest.
- 49-5-92 - Bonds; wildlife heritage committee land purchase fund.
- 49-5-93 - Bonds; rights of bondholders.
- 49-5-94 - Bonds; validation.
- 49-5-95 - Bonds; legal investments and securities.
- 49-5-96 - Bonds; sections 49-5-86 to 49-5-98 full and complete authority.
- 49-5-97 - Bonds; withdrawals from land purchase fund; report of expenditures.
- 49-5-98 - Bonds; duty of attorney general; costs.
- 49-5-99 - Open access to and use of land managed by commission for recreational hunting; certain limitations; report of acreage managed by commission.
Chapter 6 - Motor Vehicle and Boat Replacement Program.
- 49-6-1 - Definitions.
- 49-6-3 - Wildlife Fisheries and Parks Motor Vehicle Fund; creation; funding; administration.
- 49-6-5 - Motor vehicle replacement program; standards.
- 49-6-7 - and 49-6-9. Repealed.
Chapter 7 - Hunting and Fishing.
- 49-7-1 - Definitions and interpretations.
- 49-7-10 - Repealed.
- 49-7-101 - General fines and penalties.
- 49-7-102 - Repealed.
- 49-7-103 - Seizure and confiscation of property used in illegal hunting or fishing, etc., as contraband.
- 49-7-105 - through 49-7-131. Repealed.
- 49-7-11 - Repealed.
- 49-7-12 - Reciprocal agreements with other states; nonresident freshwater commercial fishing licenses; fees; penalties.
- 49-7-13 - Fee for resident trapper's license; permission of landowners to trap; identification of traps; placing or setting traps near public roads or streets; selling of skins and meat of certain ani
- 49-7-133 - Compact concerning Mississippi River authorized.
- 49-7-135 - Compact concerning Pearl River authorized.
- 49-7-137 - Lease of certain state lands for hunting, fishing and conservation purposes.
- 49-7-139 - Seafoods excluded.
- 49-7-140 - Importation and release of wild hogs; prohibition; penalties.
- 49-7-141 - Penalties; Class I violations.
- 49-7-143 - Penalties; Class II violations.
- 49-7-145 - Repealed.
- 49-7-147 - Interference with lawful taking of wildlife.
- 49-7-148 - Access for handicapped hunters.
- 49-7-149 - and 49-7-150. Repealed.
- 49-7-15 - Repealed.
- 49-7-151 - Creation of lifetime sportsman license and Mississippi Wildlife Endowment Fund.
- 49-7-153 - Lifetime sportsman and lifetime fishing licenses.
- 49-7-155 - Wildlife Endowment Fund.
- 49-7-16 - Fur dealer or regular buyer of fur bearing animals; license; fees; possession of furs; tagging.
- 49-7-161 - Definitions.
- 49-7-163 - Unlawful to hunt or take migratory waterfowl without stamp or electronic equivalent; validation of stamp or proof of purchase of electronic equivalent; issuance or sale of stamp or electron
- 49-7-165 - Fee for stamp.
- 49-7-167 - Disposition of revenues.
- 49-7-169 - Commission may enter into reciprocal agreements with other states.
- 49-7-17 - License agents; bonding requirements; additional license fee for officer or person issuing license.
- 49-7-171 - Ascertainment of acceptability of projects undertaken outside of state.
- 49-7-173 - Penalties.
- 49-7-19 - Prohibition against issuing license to person physically or mentally unfit to carry or use firearm.
- 49-7-2 - "Social Security Administration" construed to include Railroad Retirement Board.
- 49-7-20 - Requirement of satisfactory completion of hunter education course; resident apprentice hunting license.
- 49-7-201 - Beaver control program established; funding; county contributions; "participating landowner" defined.
- 49-7-203 - Beaver Control Advisory Board created; composition of board; compensation of members; duties, responsibilities and authority of board.
- 49-7-21 - License certificates; hunting, trapping or fishing without license prohibited; penalties.
- 49-7-22 - Multiyear licenses; fees; additional license fee for person issuing license.
- 49-7-23 - Sale of hunting and fishing licenses by constables designated as deputy conservation officers.
- 49-7-25 - Records and reports.
- 49-7-251 - Petition for forfeiture; service of process; procedure to determine ownership of particular types of property; hearing prerequisite.
- 49-7-253 - Time to file answer; failure to file; time for hearing; burden of proof; evidence at hearing; decision.
- 49-7-255 - Liquidation of forfeited property; disposition of proceeds; retention and use of certain property; issuance of certificate of title.
- 49-7-257 - Administrative forfeiture procedures for certain property.
- 49-7-26 - Development of tagging and reporting program for deer and turkey to collect harvest data and monitor bag limit compliance; penalties for violation of turkey or deer tagging program.
- 49-7-27 - Revocation and suspension of licenses and privileges; penalties for hunting, trapping or fishing without license or privilege.
- 49-7-29 - Wholesale minnow dealers.
- 49-7-3 - Issuance of resident hunting or fishing licenses; possession of license.
- 49-7-30 - Season for nongame gross fish.
- 49-7-301 - Implied consent to chemical test of certain bodily substances for presence of alcohol or other drugs; validity of chemical analysis; who may take bodily substance specimens.
- 49-7-303 - Revocation or suspension of hunting license where use of weapon by person with specified alcohol concentration causes serious injury or death to another person; admissibility of chemical te
- 49-7-305 - Hunting incident reports.
- 49-7-31 - Open season on deer.
- 49-7-32 - Restrictions on hunting with dogs during turkey season.
- 49-7-33 - Use of scents, lures or sound devices.
- 49-7-34 - Hunting enclosures; permits; regulations; penalties for violation.
- 49-7-35 - Game season beginning on Sunday.
- 49-7-37 - Hunting of game with falcons or hawks, bow and arrow or primitive firearms; special open seasons on deer and small game; license fees; penalties.
- 49-7-38 - Crossbow hunting licenses for elderly and disabled persons.
- 49-7-39 - Special hunt for youth and persons with disabilities in Natchez State Park; primitive weapon season in Natchez State Park; commission may establish such hunts in other state parks; commissio
- 49-7-40 - Special hunt by handicapped persons in natural area at Arkabutla Lake.
- 49-7-41 - Bag limits.
- 49-7-42 - Training bird dogs through use of release pens and tamed and identified quail.
- 49-7-43 - Regulation of certain Mississippi lands purchased by federal government.
- 49-7-45 - Certain acts declared unlawful; dismissal upon proper proof of actions for failure to register or possess boat's registration card.
- 49-7-47 - Restrictions on hunting or catching alligators.
- 49-7-49 - Prima facie evidence of hunting, trapping, or fishing.
- 49-7-5 - Fees for resident hunting, fishing, and combination hunting and fishing licenses; exemptions.
- 49-7-51 - Sale of game birds, animals or fish.
- 49-7-53 - Shipment and other transportation of game birds, animals or fish.
- 49-7-54 - Importation and translocation of white-tailed deer into state prohibited; exception for university research facilities; commission to establish regulations governing importation with emphasi
- 49-7-55 - Unlawful to possess, etc.
- 49-7-57 - Possession of lawfully taken game animal, bird or fish; unlawful possession prohibited.
- 49-7-58 - Temporary moratorium on importation of elk, red deer, mule deer, black-tailed deer and other cervids designated as susceptible to chronic wasting disease; penalties; authority of commission.
- 49-7-59 - Hours for hunting.
- 49-7-6 - and 49-7-7. Repealed.
- 49-7-61 - Hunting on Sabbath.
- 49-7-63 - Use of traps, nets, etc., prohibited.
- 49-7-65 - Unlawful to hunt, when.
- 49-7-67 - Unlawful to sell, when.
- 49-7-68 - Unlawful to engage in computer-assisted remote hunting; penalties.
- 49-7-69 - Use of explosives and chemicals prohibited.
- 49-7-71 - Unlawful to disturb traps.
- 49-7-73 - Unlawful to disturb nests or eggs.
- 49-7-75 - Unlawful to fire woods, when.
- 49-7-77 - Game protected during high water or fire.
- 49-7-78 - Canned hunts prohibited.
- 49-7-79 - Unlawful to hunt on lands of others, when.
- 49-7-8 - Hunting, fishing or trapping license for nonresident; fees; violations.
- 49-7-80 - Releasing aquatic species or animals not indigenous to Mississippi without permit.
- 49-7-81 - Unlawful methods of taking fish; exceptions; penalties.
- 49-7-83 - Unlawful not to return to water game fish taken by net.
- 49-7-85 - Repealed.
- 49-7-87 - Fish, sale of, unlawful, when.
- 49-7-89 - Fish dealers not to possess.
- 49-7-9 - Resident fishing licenses.
- 49-7-90 - Possession of paddlefish in violation of law or regulation; penalties; permits and fees [Repealed effective July 1, 2010].
- 49-7-91 - Unlawful to fish commercially in Muddy Bayou.
- 49-7-93 - Killing deer or spotted fawn out of season; penalties.
- 49-7-95 - Killing deer by headlighting or other lighting devices; killing livestock; harassment of wildlife; penalties.
- 49-7-96 - Deer management zones; antler restrictions [Repealed effective July 1, 2010].
- 49-7-97 - Liability of public officer for failure to perform duty.
- 49-7-99 - Repealed.
Chapter 8 - Importation, Sale and Possession of Inherently Dangerous Wild Animals.
- 49-8-1 - Legislative findings and declarations.
- 49-8-11 - Powers and duties of department.
- 49-8-13 - Inspections; notification of escape of wild animal.
- 49-8-15 - Penalty.
- 49-8-17 - Authority of counties and municipalities to regulate possession of wild animals.
- 49-8-19 - Chapter not applicable to certain livestock.
- 49-8-3 - Definitions.
- 49-8-5 - Animals inherently dangerous to humans.
- 49-8-7 - Possession of wild animals prohibited; permit required; exemptions.
- 49-8-9 - Powers and duties of commission.
Chapter 9 - Mussels.
- 49-9-1 - Definitions.
- 49-9-10 - Exporters to pay severance fees; surety bonds.
- 49-9-11 - Deposit of collected monies in game and fish protection fund.
- 49-9-13 - Regulation of mussel beds; taking of mussels; notice.
- 49-9-15 - Hearings; notice; rules and regulations.
- 49-9-17 - Penalties.
- 49-9-3 - Mussels to be owned by state.
- 49-9-5 - Unlawful to take; when.
- 49-9-7 - License fees.
- 49-9-9 - License.
Chapter 10 - Wildlife Violator Compact.
- 49-10-1 - Enactment; provisions of compact.
- 49-10-3 - Penalties for violations by person whose hunting privileges are suspended under compact.
- 49-10-5 - Rules and regulations to be made and published by Commission on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.
Chapter 11 - Private Shooting Preserves.
- 49-11-1 - Definitions.
- 49-11-11 - Repealed.
- 49-11-13 - Hunting season.
- 49-11-15 - Game which may be hunted; authority of commission.
- 49-11-17 - Recovery of released game.
- 49-11-19 - Authority of operators restrictions.
- 49-11-21 - Harvesting of wild game on shooting preserves or commercial wildlife enclosures.
- 49-11-23 - Certificate issued to hunter or person leaving preserve with harvested game.
- 49-11-25 - Records of operators; consent to patrolling of preserve or enclosure areas.
- 49-11-27 - Penalties for violations.
- 49-11-29 - Chapter not applicable to fox, coyote, or rabbit enclosures.
- 49-11-3 - Persons to whom operating licenses may be issued; area and other requirements; regulatory authority [Subsection (3) repealed effective July 1, 2012].
- 49-11-5 - Fees for shooting preserve and commercial wildlife enclosure licenses.
- 49-11-7 - License to indicate whether preserve or commercial wildlife enclosure is open to public; records of department.
- 49-11-9 - Chapter and license hereunder to be supplemental and additional.
Chapter 13 - Commercial Quail.
- 49-13-1 - Citation of chapter.
- 49-13-11 - Packaging and labeling for transferred quail carcasses.
- 49-13-13 - Shipment by carrier.
- 49-13-15 - Storage of carcasses.
- 49-13-17 - Records; subsequent change of ownership.
- 49-13-19 - Records; examination and inspection.
- 49-13-21 - Shipments into state.
- 49-13-23 - Penalties; suspension of license.
- 49-13-25 - Raising of quail for other than commercial sale.
- 49-13-3 - Definitions.
- 49-13-5 - Who may engage in the business of propagating quail for commercial sale.
- 49-13-7 - Commercial quail breeder's license.
- 49-13-9 - Sale or transfer of quail carcasses; necessity of transfer by licensed commercial breeder; record of transfer; penalties.
Chapter 15 - Seafood.
- 49-15-1 - Public policy of the state as to seafood laws.
- 49-15-100 - Usage of gill or trammel nets in certain marine waters; penalties.
- 49-15-101 - Form of compact.
- 49-15-103 - Membership of Gulf States Marine Commission.
- 49-15-105 - Cooperation of state officers and agencies.
- 49-15-107 - Powers of commission.
- 49-15-109 - Records and reports.
- 49-15-11 - Mississippi Department of Marine Resources; transfer of certain powers and duties from Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks; Executive Director of the Department of Marine Resources;
- 49-15-12 - Transfer of duties to comply with Sections 5-11-1 through 5-11-5; personnel actions; merit promotion system.
- 49-15-13 - Repealed.
- 49-15-15 - Powers and duties of commission.
- 49-15-16 - Limited entry fisheries management program.
- 49-15-17 - "Seafood Fund."
- 49-15-18 - Distribution of chapter.
- 49-15-19 - Attorney General; designation of deputies or assistants; legal advisors to commission and department.
- 49-15-2 - Standards for fishery conservation and management; fishery management plans.
- 49-15-201 - Institution of forfeiture proceedings; petition for forfeiture; inquiry into ownership, lien, or other security interest in seized motor vehicle, aircraft, or other personal property subje
- 49-15-203 - Answer; hearing in contested cases; order of forfeiture; rights of parties holding liens or security interests in property subject to forfeiture.
- 49-15-205 - Liquidation of forfeited property; distribution of proceeds from forfeited property; maintenance, repair, use and operation of forfeited property by law enforcement agencies or Department
- 49-15-207 - Administrative forfeiture procedure for property with value not exceeding certain threshold.
- 49-15-21 - Enforcement officers; reserve unit.
- 49-15-22 - Marine patrol officers of Department of Marine Resources permitted to keep side arm upon retirement.
- 49-15-23 - Establishment of dividing line between salt and fresh waters; notice.
- 49-15-25 - Advisory council may be appointed by commission.
- 49-15-27 - Commission granted authority to lease bottoms.
- 49-15-28 - Combination seafood dealer and processor license; fees.
- 49-15-29 - Taxes and license fees to be collected by the commission.
- 49-15-3 - Definitions.
- 49-15-30 - Commission may promulgate regulations for nonresident permits, reciprocity; penalties.
- 49-15-301 - Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources; powers and duties; membership; chairman; rules and regulations; marine resources technical advisory council; definitions.
- 49-15-303 - Powers and duties of commission.
- 49-15-304 - Promulgation of regulations regarding marine resources.
- 49-15-305 - Executive director; nomination; powers and duties.
- 49-15-307 - Powers and duties of department.
- 49-15-309 - Establishment of saltwater recreational fishing record list.
- 49-15-31 - Commission to maintain and operate patrol stations, camps and related facilities; reciprocity.
- 49-15-311 - Authority of department to purchase physical loss and liability coverage insurance.
- 49-15-313 - Saltwater sports fishing license; separate annual license for charter boat fishing, party boat fishing, head boat and guide boat fishing; proof of random drug testing participation and of
- 49-15-315 - Unlawful to engage in commercial harvesting of crabs, oysters, shrimp, bait shrimp or saltwater fish in certain portions of Pascagoula River System; exceptions; Gulf Coast Research Laborat
- 49-15-317 - Certain charter or recreational fishing boats authorized to fillet certain fish at sea.
- 49-15-319 - Filing float plan; effect of failure to file.
- 49-15-321 - Commission authorized to establish sanctuaries and nursery grounds; unlawful to engage in prohibited activity in designated sanctuary or nursery area.
- 49-15-323 - Commission to have jurisdiction over certain violations of marine resources law or regulations committed in the Gulf of Mexico outside state's territorial waters.
- 49-15-33 - Repealed.
- 49-15-34 - Boats used in other states; license and fee requirements; transport permits.
- 49-15-35 - Authority to regulate taking and catching of menhaden.
- 49-15-36 - Oyster reefs and bottoms; rotating opening; closing of oyster reefs; special permits for taking oysters during closed season; depuration.
- 49-15-37 - Cultivation of oyster reefs; removal of oysters from restricted areas.
- 49-15-38 - Culling requirements; collection and planting of shells; penalties and fees for failure to deliver shells.
- 49-15-39 - Dredging limits; reefs reserved for tonging; penalties.
- 49-15-40 - Projects to create or establish new oyster beds; molluscan depuration facilities; lease of water bottoms to political subdivisions.
- 49-15-401 - Purpose; commission not to seek both administrative and criminal penalties except under limited circumstances; commission to notify Department of Marine Resources of violations for adminis
- 49-15-403 - Complaint; executive director of department to review each complaint for reasonable grounds to indicate violation; director may recommend fine where reasonable grounds exist; violator may
- 49-15-405 - Hearing to be scheduled upon request of alleged violator; transcript of hearing; commission empowered to require attendance of witnesses, administer oaths, and hear testimony; subpoena pow
- 49-15-407 - Waiver of right to hearing.
- 49-15-409 - Jurisdiction; rules and regulations.
- 49-15-41 - Oysters not to be caught at night.
- 49-15-411 - Judicial review.
- 49-15-413 - Civil penalties for violations.
- 49-15-415 - Payment of penalties; sums collected paid into Seafood Fund.
- 49-15-417 - Criminal immunity for witnesses subpoenaed by commission.
- 49-15-42 - Tagging, unloading and transporting of oysters.
- 49-15-43 - Packaging of oysters; containers.
- 49-15-44 - Sale or possession of illegal oysters prohibited; penalties.
- 49-15-45 - Certain municipalities may enforce oyster laws.
- 49-15-46 - Licensing and fees for vessels engaged in catching, taking, carrying or transporting oysters; license requirement for captain of commercial oyster vessel; designation of alternate captain f
- 49-15-47 - through 49-15-59. Repealed.
- 49-15-5 - All seafoods initially the property of the state.
- 49-15-61 - Marine museum.
- 49-15-63 - Penalties.
- 49-15-64 - Shrimping during closed season prohibited; penalties; promulgation of rules and regulations.
- 49-15-65 - Jurisdiction of courts; appeals.
- 49-15-67 - Appellate procedure.
- 49-15-69 - Exemption of certain minors, senior citizens or disabled persons from licensing requirements.
- 49-15-7 - Oyster, clam, cay shells and other shells declared to be property of state.
- 49-15-71 - Commercial taking of redfish prohibited; unlawful to take below minimum size; penalties; redfish management plan.
- 49-15-73 - Use of aircraft to assist in harvesting of redfish; penalties.
- 49-15-74 - Open season for menhaden.
- 49-15-75 - Catch limit based on weight limitations as to certain fish.
- 49-15-76 - Prohibition of sale of game fish; exceptions; punishment.
- 49-15-77 - Prohibition against catching saltwater fish by use of certain nets, seines or traps in certain areas of the state; punishment.
- 49-15-78 - Prohibition against using gill net, trammel net, entanglement net, or like contrivance within a certain distance of the shoreline; punishment.
- 49-15-79 - Prohibition of use of purse seine offshore from Hancock or Harrison Counties; promulgation of regulations governing use of gill nets and trammel nets in Hancock, Harrison, and Jackson Count
- 49-15-80 - Vessels used to catch or transport fish; licensing and fees; nonresident reciprocity.
- 49-15-81 - Catching or transporting saltwater minnows for sale; license requirements; fees; tagging of minnow traps to mark ownership; exemptions.
- 49-15-83 - Interpretation and application of Sections 49-15-71 through 49-15-81.
- 49-15-84 - Requirements for the taking of crabs; crab traps.
- 49-15-85 - Repealed.
- 49-15-86 - Commercial and recreational crabbing licenses.
- 49-15-87 - "Peeler crab" and "soft-shell crab" defined.
- 49-15-89 - Unlawful to catch, destroy, confine, hold or have in possession certain crabs.
- 49-15-9 - Rights of riparian owners on Gulf Coast defined.
- 49-15-91 - Regulatory authority for maximum number of crab pots allowable per licensee.
- 49-15-92 - Penalties for theft of crab traps or crabs.
- 49-15-93 - Penalties.
- 49-15-94 - Use of purse seine to catch mullet during roe mullet season; penalties.
- 49-15-95 - Use of brill and cast nets.
- 49-15-96 - Keeping of certain fish caught in shrimp nets for personal consumption.
- 49-15-97 - Requirement that commercial fishing vessels use approved lights; penalties.
- 49-15-98 - Repealed.
- 49-15-99 - Repealed.
Chapter 17 - Pollution of Waters, Streams, and Air.
- 49-17-1 - Short title.
- 49-17-101 - Definitions.
- 49-17-103 - General powers of local governments.
- 49-17-105 - General provisions as to bonds.
- 49-17-107 - Securing payment of bonds.
- 49-17-108 - Refunding bonds.
- 49-17-109 - Contracts for facilities.
- 49-17-111 - Certain findings necessary preliminary to financing of facilities.
- 49-17-113 - Duties required of industries under agreements and lease/sales.
- 49-17-115 - Optional terms of lease/sale agreements.
- 49-17-117 - Application of bond proceeds; what costs of acquisition include.
- 49-17-119 - Exemption from state taxation.
- 49-17-121 - Governing board to petition for permission to issue bonds.
- 49-17-123 - Construction against participation under Laws 1971, ch. 471 or in state pollution appropriations.
- 49-17-13 - Commission designated as pollution control agency for state; assistance from other state agencies.
- 49-17-131 - through 49-17-143. Repealed.
- 49-17-14 - Title V air operating permit program; program fee trust fund; expenditures for authorized purposes.
- 49-17-15 - Repealed.
- 49-17-16 - Advisory Council.
- 49-17-161 - through 49-17-209. [Repealed].
- 49-17-17 - Powers and duties.
- 49-17-19 - Standards of air and water quality.
- 49-17-21 - Inspections and investigations; access to and maintenance of records; testing and sampling; monitoring equipment.
- 49-17-22 - Enforcement powers of Commission on Marine Resources; cooperation with commission or environmental quality.
- 49-17-23 - Record of minutes, rules, regulations and orders; annual publication, available to public; copies; index.
- 49-17-25 - Procedures for publication, adoption, amendment or repeal of rules and regulations necessary to implement laws administered by Department of Environmental Quality; notice.
- 49-17-26 - Notification procedures as to chemicals in underground water exceeding state standards.
- 49-17-27 - Emergency orders; public notice of emergency situations.
- 49-17-28 - Permit board; membership; compensation.
- 49-17-29 - Permit Board; prohibitions; air and water permits; solid waste and hazardous permits; permit hearings; permit appeals.
- 49-17-3 - Statement of policy.
- 49-17-30 - Title V permit fees.
- 49-17-301 - through 49-17-353. Repealed.
- 49-17-31 - Proceedings before commission.
- 49-17-32 - Collection of fees.
- 49-17-33 - Hearings.
- 49-17-34 - Air and water permits; applications; rules, regulations and standards; administrative procedures.
- 49-17-35 - Request for hearing.
- 49-17-36 - Violations; penalties.
- 49-17-37 - Transcript of hearings.
- 49-17-39 - Protection of confidential information.
- 49-17-401 - Short title.
- 49-17-403 - Definitions.
- 49-17-405 - Groundwater protection fund; duties of executive director; liability of tank owners; limitation on provisions of chapter and section.
- 49-17-407 - Environmental protection fee on motor fuels; deposit of fees; limits on use of fund; third party claims.
- 49-17-409 - Reports of contamination incidents; no recourse against tank owner; exceptions.
- 49-17-41 - Administrative appeals; appeals to chancery court; appeals to Supreme Court.
- 49-17-411 - Compliance with regulations.
- 49-17-413 - Rules and regulations.
- 49-17-415 - Obligations of owners and operators of tanks; powers of commission or representatives.
- 49-17-417 - Repealed.
- 49-17-419 - Authority of commission to take timely and effective corrective action; use of funds from pollution emergency fund.
- 49-17-42 - Consideration as "owner"; exemption from liability.
- 49-17-421 - Tank regulatory fee.
- 49-17-423 - Commission to administer funds from Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund.
- 49-17-425 - Disclosure of records, reports, and information.
- 49-17-427 - Proceedings before commission; penalties for violations of Sections 49-17-401 through 49-17-433; penalty consideration factors; limitations on liability.
- 49-17-429 - Certification to install, alter or remove underground storage tanks.
- 49-17-43 - Penalties.
- 49-17-431 - Appeal rights.
- 49-17-433 - Savings clause.
- 49-17-435 - Annual report on status of underground storage tank program and groundwater protection trust fund.
- 49-17-44 - Applicants for water pollution control permit required to provide bonds or security; acceptable forms of security; creation of Water Pollution Control Bond Forfeiture Fund.
- 49-17-45 - Small Business Stationary Source Technical and Environmental Compliance Assistance program; Small Business Compliance Advisory Panel.
- 49-17-5 - Definitions.
- 49-17-501 - Short title.
- 49-17-503 - Purpose.
- 49-17-505 - Definitions.
- 49-17-507 - Powers and duties of commission.
- 49-17-509 - Authority of commission; applicability of Sections 49-17-501 through 49-17-531.
- 49-17-511 - Lead-based paint risk assessor certificate required.
- 49-17-513 - Lead-based paint project designer certificate required.
- 49-17-515 - Lead-based paint supervisor certificate required.
- 49-17-516 - Lead-based paint renovator certificate required.
- 49-17-517 - Lead-based paint inspector certificate required.
- 49-17-518 - Lead-based paint dust sampling technician certificate required.
- 49-17-519 - Lead-based paint abatement worker certificate required; certificate not required for work on renovation activities.
- 49-17-521 - Lead-based paint certified firm certificate required; certificates to indicate whether firm is certified for renovations or abatements or both.
- 49-17-523 - Denial of issuance or reissuance of certificates.
- 49-17-525 - Creation of Lead-Based Paint Program Operations Fund; fees.
- 49-17-527 - Prohibitions under chapter.
- 49-17-529 - Penalties; reprimands; suspension and revocation of certificates; procedure; deposit of collected monies.
- 49-17-531 - Authority of commission to establish reciprocity requirements.
- 49-17-601 - Legislative intent.
- 49-17-603 - Definitions; generation of waste in manufacture of controlled substances prohibited; penalties; exceptions.
- 49-17-61 - Water pollution abatement loan program established; water pollution abatement bond and loan funds.
- 49-17-63 - Loans in aid; eligibility.
- 49-17-65 - Waste disposal plants; construction loans; pledge for repayment; disposition of repaid funds; renegotiation of certain loans.
- 49-17-67 - Repayment agreement.
- 49-17-68 - Pollution Emergency Fund created; sources of funds.
- 49-17-69 - Repayment of loan by political subdivision ineligible to pledge for repayment under §§ 49-17-65 and 49-17-67; disposition of repaid funds.
- 49-17-7 - Transfer of duties and responsibilities of Mississippi Air and Water Pollution Control Commission.
- 49-17-70 - Repayment agreement; certificate of approved disposal plant.
- 49-17-701 - Title.
- 49-17-703 - Legislative findings.
- 49-17-705 - Definitions.
- 49-17-707 - Creation of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Region Utility Board [Repealed effective July 1, 2011].
- 49-17-709 - Board of Directors of the Mississippi Gulf Coast Region Utility Board [Repealed effective July 1, 2011].
- 49-17-71 - Tennessee River Basin Water Pollution Control Compact.
- 49-17-711 - Employees; budget [Repealed effective July 1, 2011].
- 49-17-713 - Duties and responsibilities of the utility board [Repealed effective July 1, 2011].
- 49-17-715 - Creation of the George County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-717 - Board of Directors for George County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-719 - Creation of the Pearl River County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-721 - Board of Directors for Pearl River County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-723 - Creation of the Stone County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-725 - Board of Directors for Stone County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-727 - Creation of the Harrison County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-729 - Board of Directors for Harrison County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-73 - When compact effective.
- 49-17-731 - Creation of the Jackson County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-733 - Board of Directors for Jackson County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-735 - Creation of the Hancock County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-737 - Board of Directors for Hancock County Utility Authority.
- 49-17-739 - Provisions common to the county authorities.
- 49-17-741 - Board of directors, officers, compensation.
- 49-17-743 - Powers of the county authorities.
- 49-17-745 - Promulgation of rules and regulations relating to construction, operation and maintenance of any water, wastewater and storm water systems within each county authority's service area.
- 49-17-747 - Contracts between public agencies or persons and the county authority for provision of water, wastewater and storm water services by the county authority; payment for services and contribu
- 49-17-749 - Rates, fees and other charges by public agencies for services provided by county authority.
- 49-17-75 - Commission created.
- 49-17-751 - Public Service Commission notice.
- 49-17-753 - Validation of prior indebtedness.
- 49-17-755 - The power to borrow money and to issue revenue bonds.
- 49-17-757 - Bonds of county authority.
- 49-17-759 - Validation of bonds.
- 49-17-761 - Payment of bonds.
- 49-17-763 - Powers of county authority in connection with issuance of bonds.
- 49-17-765 - Appointment of trustee to represent bond owners; appointment of receiver.
- 49-17-767 - Exemption of county authority from taxes and fees; bonds to be free from taxation; exceptions.
- 49-17-769 - Bonds as legal investments and securities.
- 49-17-77 - Authority of commissioners; construction of laws.
- 49-17-771 - Rights and powers of county authority to remain unchanged while bonds are outstanding and unpaid.
- 49-17-773 - Advance of funds or issuance of notes authorized; terms and conditions.
- 49-17-775 - Severability of provisions.
- 49-17-81 - Short title.
- 49-17-83 - Definitions.
- 49-17-85 - Funds established; promulgation of regulations; uses of fund; administrative fees; renegotiation of certain loans.
- 49-17-86 - Water Pollution Control Emergency Loan Fund; short title.
- 49-17-87 - Pledge of moneys for repayment of loan; loan agreement and repayment schedule; audits; applicability of limitations on indebtedness.
- 49-17-89 - Borrowing of monies, issuance of securities, etc., by political subdivisions authorized; issuance of municipal securities; validation of securities; provisions of section supplemental.
- 49-17-9 - and 49-17-11. Repealed.
Chapter 18 - Mississippi Liability of Persons Responding to Oil Spills Act.
- 49-18-1 - Short title.
- 49-18-3 - Definitions.
- 49-18-5 - Liability of persons for oil spill response consistent with National Contingency Plan or on-scene directions.
Chapter 19 - Forests and Forest Protection.
- 49-19-1 - State forestry commission; membership; compensation; organization.
- 49-19-11 - Land adjacent to protective areas, etc.
- 49-19-111 - Promotion of forestry education, timber management and forest fire control.
- 49-19-113 - Forestry districts and areas to be created.
- 49-19-115 - Forest acreage tax. [Repealed effective June 30, 2012].
- 49-19-117 - Use of funds by State Forestry Commission.
- 49-19-13 - Part of severance tax may be donated by county.
- 49-19-141 - South Central Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact authorized.
- 49-19-143 - When compact effective.
- 49-19-145 - State forester as compact administrator.
- 49-19-147 - Powers and duties of compact administrator.
- 49-19-149 - Giving and accepting assistance from member states.
- 49-19-15 - Appropriations.
- 49-19-17 - Study of forestry in schools and colleges.
- 49-19-171 - Southeastern Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact authorized.
- 49-19-173 - When compact effective.
- 49-19-175 - State forester as compact administrator; advisory committee.
- 49-19-177 - Powers and duties of compact administrator.
- 49-19-179 - Giving and accepting assistance from member states.
- 49-19-19 - Free commercial tree seedlings for farm owners and schools.
- 49-19-201 - Short title.
- 49-19-203 - Public policy stated.
- 49-19-205 - Definitions.
- 49-19-207 - Administration of law.
- 49-19-209 - Employment of personnel; purchase of supplies and equipment.
- 49-19-21 - How moneys contributed by government spent.
- 49-19-211 - Rules and regulations.
- 49-19-213 - Utilization of funds to assist in implementing approved practices.
- 49-19-215 - Eligible owners to be encouraged to use own resources or to employ private vendors.
- 49-19-217 - When commission may act as vendor; charge for services.
- 49-19-219 - Powers and duties of commission.
- 49-19-221 - Limitation on amount of cost-share assistance; allocation of funds for reforestation of sixteenth section school trust lands.
- 49-19-223 - Application for cost-share assistance; payment.
- 49-19-225 - Implementation of approved practice on publicly owned land.
- 49-19-227 - Forest resource development fund.
- 49-19-23 - Federal funds; apportionment.
- 49-19-25 - Fires declared nuisances; abandoned open cisterns and wells declared nuisances; abatement.
- 49-19-27 - Tree Seedling Revolving Fund; reforestation.
- 49-19-29 - Repealed.
- 49-19-3 - Selection and qualifications of state forester; other duties and powers of the commission [Subsection (j) repealed effective June 30, 2011].
- 49-19-301 - Short title.
- 49-19-303 - Legislative findings; purpose.
- 49-19-305 - Definitions.
- 49-19-307 - Regulation of prescribed burns; liability.
- 49-19-31 - Joint Study Committee on Forestry.
- 49-19-33 - Southern Regional Fire Training Center renamed the Richard (Dick) Allen Building.
- 49-19-351 - Restrictions on outdoor burning during drought or wildfire conditions; penalties.
- 49-19-401 - Short title.
- 49-19-403 - Mississippi Institute for Forest Inventory created within State Forestry Commission; appointment of institute director; advisory board created; membership; chairman; duties; reimbursement
- 49-19-405 - Duties and responsibilities of Institute.
- 49-19-407 - Outreach and education program.
- 49-19-408 - Limited immunity from criminal trespass for persons conducting forest inventory on private lands for the Mississippi Institute for Forest Inventory.
- 49-19-409 - Repealed.
- 49-19-5 - Acquisition and disposal of property.
- 49-19-51 - Title; cooperation of state agencies.
- 49-19-53 - Forest harvesting law; legislative policy.
- 49-19-55 - Trees to be left standing; cutting for naval stores.
- 49-19-57 - Pine trees.
- 49-19-59 - Hardwood trees.
- 49-19-61 - Mixed pine and hardwood trees.
- 49-19-63 - Seed trees.
- 49-19-65 - Publicity; posting notices.
- 49-19-67 - Sections inapplicable in certain cases.
- 49-19-69 - Prior contracts.
- 49-19-7 - Control pine beetle epidemics and other timber insects and pests.
- 49-19-71 - Enforcement by Forestry Commission; injunction.
- 49-19-73 - Cooperation of law enforcement officers.
- 49-19-75 - Penalty for violation.
- 49-19-77 - Owners encouraged to leave seed trees.
- 49-19-9 - Fire protection services for Choctaw Indian lands.
Chapter 20 - Mississippi River Timberlands Control Act [Repealed].
- 49-20-1 - through 49-20-37. Repealed.
Chapter 21 - Interstate Environmental Compact.
- 49-21-1 - Enactment; provisions of compact.
- 49-21-3 - Construction.
Chapter 23 - Outdoor Advertising.
- 49-23-1 - Legislative intent.
- 49-23-11 - Permit required; application and fees.
- 49-23-13 - Bond required; amount.
- 49-23-15 - Removal of nonconforming advertising.
- 49-23-17 - Compensation for removal of advertising.
- 49-23-19 - Unlawful advertising.
- 49-23-21 - Injunctive relief.
- 49-23-23 - Interpretation.
- 49-23-25 - Advertising in safety rest area.
- 49-23-27 - Agreements with the United States authorized.
- 49-23-29 - Apportionment of federal funds.
- 49-23-3 - Definitions.
- 49-23-31 - and 49-23-33. Repealed.
- 49-23-35 - Name or logo of owner of outdoor advertising to be posted upon sign if owner is not the landowner.
- 49-23-5 - Limitations of outdoor advertising devices.
- 49-23-7 - Regulations pertaining to advertising.
- 49-23-9 - Standards for signs erected or maintained in business areas.
Chapter 25 - Junkyards.
- 49-25-1 - Short title.
- 49-25-11 - Regulatory authority.
- 49-25-13 - Authority to acquire interest in land in removal and screening of junkyards.
- 49-25-15 - Nonconforming junkyards; limitation upon continued existence.
- 49-25-17 - Enforcement provision.
- 49-25-19 - Interpretation.
- 49-25-21 - Agreements with United States authorized.
- 49-25-23 - Apportionment of federal funds.
- 49-25-3 - Purposes of chapter.
- 49-25-5 - Definitions.
- 49-25-7 - Prohibited operations; exceptions.
- 49-25-9 - Junkyards lawfully in existence.
Chapter 26 - Channel Maintenance Act.
- 49-26-1 - Short title.
- 49-26-3 - Legislative findings and declarations.
- 49-26-5 - Duties and Department of Marine Resources.
- 49-26-7 - Identification and pursuit of federal funding alternatives.
Chapter 27 - Coastal Wetlands Protection Act.
- 49-27-1 - Title and citation of chapter.
- 49-27-11 - Application; contents.
- 49-27-13 - Application; copy may be mailed to parties.
- 49-27-15 - Application; notice of date for filing objections; hearing and notice of hearing; payment of costs and fees of notice.
- 49-27-17 - Application; notice to parties prior to date set for hearing; effect of failure to comply with section.
- 49-27-19 - Application; appearance at hearing by person filing objection; applicant's burden of proof and right to hearing.
- 49-27-21 - Public inspection of evidence, applications and related documents; record and transcription of oral testimony.
- 49-27-23 - Commission authorized to grant, issue, reissue, modify, deny, suspend, revoke, limit, or condition permits; expressed public policy to be considered in connection with permits; acquisition
- 49-27-25 - Repealed.
- 49-27-27 - Permits to dredge new channels; considerations and restrictions.
- 49-27-29 - Conditions or limitations may be imposed on grant or modification of permit.
- 49-27-3 - Public policy declared.
- 49-27-31 - Performance bond may be required.
- 49-27-33 - Suspension or revocation of permit after notice and hearing.
- 49-27-35 - Findings, reasons and descriptions to be recorded by council.
- 49-27-37 - Copy of order in issuance, denial, revocation or suspension of permit to be sent to parties; time; extensions.
- 49-27-39 - Appeal to chancery court; when council's order to be confirmed.
- 49-27-41 - Appeal to chancery court; complaint; return date; cost bond; record; appeal with supersedeas.
- 49-27-43 - Appeal to chancery court; service upon commission; certification of record.
- 49-27-45 - Appeal to chancery court; when case to be referred back to commission.
- 49-27-47 - Appeal to chancery court; precedence; powers of chancellor.
- 49-27-49 - Appeal to Supreme Court.
- 49-27-5 - Definitions.
- 49-27-51 - After-the-fact authorization for work upon proper application; civil and criminal actions; who may initiate.
- 49-27-53 - Jurisdiction and venue for judicial actions.
- 49-27-55 - Civil liability of violators; restoration; punitive damages; mandatory injunction; jurisdiction of circuit or county court; remedies preserved.
- 49-27-57 - Fines and penalties.
- 49-27-59 - Rules and regulations.
- 49-27-6 - Marinas; classification.
- 49-27-61 - Charges for materials removed under permit; alternative for dredge material disposal.
- 49-27-63 - Inspections.
- 49-27-65 - Evaluation of coastal wetlands; charts; education of public; overall use plan.
- 49-27-67 - Exclusion from assessment for ad valorem taxes.
- 49-27-69 - Disposition of fees and other sums.
- 49-27-7 - Chapter inapplicable to certain activities, areas and entities; exempt activities, areas and entities to adhere to declared public policy; exempt entities to notify commission of activities.
- 49-27-71 - Removal of derelict vessels from manmade canal with navigable connection to coastal wetlands; immediate removal of sunken or submerged vessels creating hazard to navigation.
- 49-27-9 - Permit required to conduct regulated activity; filing and form of application; fee.
Chapter 28 - Shoreline and Beach Preservation Districts.
- 49-28-1 - Eligibility for status as shoreline and beach preservation district; purpose of district.
- 49-28-11 - Payment of costs for creation of district.
- 49-28-13 - Appeals.
- 49-28-15 - District to be public corporation in perpetuity.
- 49-28-17 - Appointment of board of commissioners; membership; terms of office; compensation.
- 49-28-19 - Powers and duties of district.
- 49-28-21 - Power of eminent domain.
- 49-28-23 - District authorized to issue negotiable special improvement bonds for projects.
- 49-28-25 - Purposes for which special improvement bond issued; district empowered to do any act to secure bonds  or make them more marketable.
- 49-28-27 - Authorization for ad valorem tax on real property.
- 49-28-29 - Special assessments.
- 49-28-3 - Petition for incorporation.
- 49-28-31 - Special assessments; bonds secured by pledge thereof.
- 49-28-33 - Special assessments; payment.
- 49-28-35 - Distribution of costs and expenses of special improvements among the properties affected.
- 49-28-37 - Written protest objecting to assessments.
- 49-28-39 - Financial assistance or cooperation from state or federal government.
- 49-28-41 - Chapter as full and complete authority.
- 49-28-43 - Publication of financial statement.
- 49-28-45 - Validation of bonds.
- 49-28-47 - Chapter to be liberally construed.
- 49-28-49 - Severability.
- 49-28-5 - Hearing; adoption of resolution of findings and intention to create district.
- 49-28-7 - Publication of notice of intent to create district; referendum on creation of district.
- 49-28-9 - Adoption of resolution creating district.
Chapter 29 - Environmental Protection Council [Repealed].
Chapter 31 - Mississippi Multimedia Pollution Prevention Act.
- 49-31-1 - Short title.
- 49-31-11 - Mississippi Multimedia Pollution Prevention Program; purposes; rules and regulations; coordination and promotion of alternatives to waste disposal.
- 49-31-13 - Comprehensive study of status of pollution prevention and recycling activities.
- 49-31-15 - State agencies, branches and institutions to establish recycling programs and source reduction programs.
- 49-31-17 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the Mississippi Development Authority to assist and promote recycling industry; reports.
- 49-31-19 - Department of Education to develop waste minimization awareness program; advisory role of Department of Environmental Quality; program of student instruction in minimization of waste.
- 49-31-21 - Generators of hazardous waste to provide waste minimization plans; contents of plan; annual update; review of plan; report of wastes generated and minimized.
- 49-31-23 - Repealed.
- 49-31-25 - Pollution prevention fee; penalty for failure to pay.
- 49-31-27 - Repealed.
- 49-31-3 - Legislative findings.
- 49-31-41 - Task Force on Recycling created; purpose; membership.
- 49-31-43 - Duties of task force; election of chairman; meetings; administration; compensation.
- 49-31-5 - Legislative intent.
- 49-31-7 - Purposes of chapter.
- 49-31-9 - Definitions.
Chapter 33 - Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Activity Act.
- 49-33-1 - Short title.
- 49-33-11 - Conditional waivers prohibited.
- 49-33-13 - Constitutional requirements and legal challenges.
- 49-33-15 - Severability.
- 49-33-17 - Other provisions to which chapter is subject.
- 49-33-19 - Repealed.
- 49-33-3 - Purpose.
- 49-33-5 - Declaration of policy.
- 49-33-7 - Definitions.
- 49-33-9 - Inverse condemnation.
Chapter 35 - Mississippi Brownfields Voluntary Cleanup and Redevelopment; Remediation of Property on National Priorities List.
- 49-35-1 - Short title.
- 49-35-11 - Approval and execution of agreements; modifications; changes in surface ownership; powers of executive director.
- 49-35-13 - Violations; time period for corrections; penalties.
- 49-35-15 - Liability protections; exceptions; additional remediation; conditions; completed performance; order by commission; letter.
- 49-35-17 - Proposed notice of agreement site; required information; certified copy of agreement and notice to be filed; disclosures; cancellation of notice of agreement site.
- 49-35-19 - Enforcement of land-use restrictions or engineering controls.
- 49-35-21 - Implementation of act; date; promulgation of regulations.
- 49-35-23 - Restrictions on effect of act.
- 49-35-25 - Payment of costs; Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment Trust Fund; collection and use of funds; suspension of activities.
- 49-35-27 - Periodic report; contents; incentive programs.
- 49-35-3 - Legislative findings.
- 49-35-31 - Short title.
- 49-35-33 - Legislative findings; attractiveness of certain brownfields for redevelopment; provision of capital and labor for safe remediation of brownfields should be encouraged; reduction of public h
- 49-35-5 - Definitions.
- 49-35-51 - Definitions.
- 49-35-53 - Immunity of certain persons seeking to remediate property on sites listed on the National Priorities List (NPL) of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
- 49-35-7 - Application; required information and agreement terms; remediation.
- 49-35-9 - Agreements reached before consideration by commission; public notice; notice to property owners; public hearings.
Chapter 37 - Statewide Scientific Information Management.
- 49-37-1 - Short title.
- 49-37-11 - Department of Environmental Quality to serve as coordinator for implementation.
- 49-37-3 - Legislative findings and purpose.
- 49-37-5 - Definitions.
- 49-37-7 - Statewide Scientific Information Management System Coordinating Council; creation; membership; powers and duties.
- 49-37-9 - Repealed.