Miss. Code Ann. § 21-27-1

No franchise or right to be exclusive, without compensation, or longer than 25 years

Known as the Metropolitan Area Waste Disposal Act

The act spans §§ 21–21 (83 sections).

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case 819 So. 2d 1216 - City of Starkville v. 4-COUNTY ELECTRIC POWER ASSN. (2002)

Most recently applied in 819 So. 2d 1216 - City of Starkville v. 4-COUNTY ELECTRIC POWER ASSN. (January 2002)

Codes, Hemingway’s 1917, § 6056; 1930, § 2644; 1942, §§ 3374-85, 3374-111; Laws, 1912, ch. 120; Laws, 1950, ch. 491, § 85, 111, eff from and after July 1, 1950.

No municipality shall have the power to grant to any person, firm or corporation any exclusive franchise or any exclusive right to use or occupy the streets, highways, bridges, or public places in such municipality for any purpose. No municipality shall grant, renew, or extend any such franchise, privilege or right, without compensation or for any longer period than twenty-five years.

The provisions of this section shall be applicable to all municipalities of this state, whether operating under a code charter, special charter, or the commission form of government, except in cases of conflict between the provisions of this section and the provisions of the special charter of a municipality, or the law governing the commission form of government, in which cases of conflict the provisions of the special charter or the statutes relative to the commission form of government shall control.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.