The owner of a multiunit rental complex or a property owners association is not required to enclose a body of water or construct barriers between the owner’s or property owners association’s property and a body of water such as an ocean, bay, lake, pond, bayou, river, creek, stream, spring, reservoir, stock tank, culvert, drainage ditch, detention pond, or other flood or drainage facility.
Miss. Code Ann. § 45-43-25
Applicability to other bodies of water
Known as the William Lee Montjoy Pool Safety Act
The act spans §§ 45–45 (16 sections).
Laws, 2012, ch. 508, § 13, eff from and after July 1, 2012.
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.