Except as otherwise provided in Section 27-109-1, all rivers, creeks and bayous in this state, twenty-five (25) miles in length, and having sufficient depth and width of water for thirty (30) consecutive days in the year to float a steamboat with carrying capacity of two hundred (200) bales of cotton, are navigable waters of this state and public highways.
Miss. Code Ann. § 1-3-31
Navigable waters
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 580 So. 2d 1140 - Ryals v. Pigott (1990)
Most recently applied in Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks v. Candace Webb (April 2017)
Codes, 1906, § 1587; Hemingway’s 1917, § 1354; 1930, § 1378; 1942, § 686; Laws, 1990 Ex Sess, ch. 45, § 141, eff from and after passage (approved June 29, 1990
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