Streets, sidewalks, sewers and parks
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Alesa Dawn Crum v. City of Corinth (2016)
Most recently applied in Alesa Dawn Crum v. City of Corinth (January 2016)
Codes, 1892, § 2947; 1906, § 3338; Hemingway’s 1917, § 5835; 1930, § 2414; 1942, § 3374-129; Laws, 1950, ch. 491, § 129; Laws, 2003, ch. 485, § 4, eff from and after July 1, 2003.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2) of this section, the governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power to exercise full jurisdiction in the matter of streets, sidewalks, sewers, and parks; to open and lay out and construct the same; and to repair, maintain, pave, sprinkle, adorn, and light the same.
(2) Section 63-3-208, shall govern the use of electric personal assistive mobility devices (as defined in Section 63-3-103) on streets and sidewalks.
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.