All public roads shall be kept open and worked to the width required by law and, when necessary, shall be raised in the middle and sloped toward the ditches or sides, which shall be kept open and of sufficient size and proper fall to drain the road bed.
Miss. Code Ann. § 65-7-3
Standard for working roads
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case John T. Seyfarth, Jr. v. Adams County Board of Supervisors (2019)
Most recently applied in John T. Seyfarth, Jr. v. Adams County Board of Supervisors (April 2019)
Codes, 1892, § 3903; 1906, § 4413; Hemingway’s 1917, § 4093; 1930, § 6313; 1942, § 8287.
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