Bill Amendment: MS HB891 | 2017 | Regular Session

NOTE: For additional amemendments please see the Bill Drafting List

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Bill Title: Recognition and welcome signs; allow for placement adjacent to state highways in unincorporated area of counties.

Status: 2017-03-29 - Approved by Governor [HB891 Detail]

Download: Mississippi-2017-HB891-Senate_Amendment_No_1_to_Committee_Amendment_No_1.html

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Adopted

 

AMENDMENT NO 1 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT NO 1 PROPOSED TO

 

House Bill No.  891

 

BY: Senator(s) Simmons (13th)

 

     AMEND by placing the following after line 20 and renumber subsequent sections accordingly:

     SECTION *.  (1)  The Mississippi Transportation Commission may allow for the erection of signs for member institutions of the Mississippi Association of Independent Colleges and Universities that display the name and emblem of such institutions that are similar to signs erected for public state institutions of higher learning.  The institutions for which the signs are erected shall be required to purchase and pay the cost of erecting and maintaining such signs which shall conform to the requirements of similar signs that are erected for public state institutions of higher learning.  

     (2)  The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.

     FURTHER AMEND line 2 of the title by placing the following after the semicolon:

TO AUTHORIZE THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO ERECT CERTAIN SIGNS FOR MEMBER INSTITUTIONS OF THE MISSISSIPPI ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES; TO REQUIRE THE INSTITUTIONS FOR WHICH THE SIGNS ARE ERECTED TO PURCHASE AND PAY THE COST OF ERECTING AND MAINTAINING SUCH SIGNS;