This chapter may be cited as the “State Ports and Harbors Law.”
As used in this chapter the word “board” shall mean the Mississippi Development Authority.
Miss. Code Ann. § 59-5-1
Short title; definition of “board”
Known as the State Ports and Harbors Law
The act spans §§ 59–59 (35 sections).
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Tradigrain, Inc. v. Mississippi State Port Authority (1983)
Most recently applied in Parsons v. MISS. STATE PORT AUTHORITY AT GULFPORT (November 2008)
Codes, 1942, § 7564-01; Laws, 1958, ch. 365, § 1; Laws, 2012, ch. 485, § 4, eff from and after passage (approved Apr. 26, 2012.
How often courts cite this section
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.
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.