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Statutes > Mississippi > Title-49 > 28 > 49-28-5§ 49-28-5. Hearing; adoption of resolution of findings and intention to create district.
(1) Upon the filing of a petition, the board of supervisors shall fix a time and place for a public hearing upon the question of the public convenience and necessity of the incorporation of the proposed district. The date fixed for the hearing shall be not more than thirty (30) days after the filing of the petition. The time, date and location of the hearing, the proposed boundaries of the district, and the purpose of the hearing shall be set forth in a notice to be signed by the clerk of the board of supervisors. The notice shall be published in a newspaper having general circulation within the proposed district once a week for at least three (3) consecutive weeks before the date of the hearing. The first publication of the notice shall be made not less than twenty-one (21) days before the date of the hearing and the last publication shall be made not more than seven (7) days before the date of the hearing.
(2) If, at the public hearing, the board of supervisors finds (a) that the public convenience and necessity require the creation of the district and (b) that the creation of the district is economically sound and desirable, then the board of supervisors shall adopt a resolution making those findings and declaring its intention to create the district on a date to be specified in the resolution. The resolution shall also designate the name of the proposed district, define its territorial limits which shall be fixed by the board of supervisors pursuant to the hearing, and state whether or not the board of supervisors shall levy the ad valorem tax authorized in Section 49-28-27 and whether or not the board of supervisors proposes to make special assessments against benefited properties as outlined in Section 49-28-29.
Sources: Laws, 1999, ch. 566, § 3, eff from and after passage (approved Apr. 21, 1999.)
