Bill Text: MS HB891 | 2017 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Recognition and welcome signs; allow for placement adjacent to state highways in unincorporated area of counties.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-29 - Approved by Governor [HB891 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2017-HB891-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2017 Regular Session
To: Transportation; Revenue and Expenditure General Bills
By: Representatives Moore, Miles, Brown, Powell, Gibbs (72nd)
House Bill 891
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO ALLOW FOR THE PLACEMENT OF WELCOME AND RECOGNITION SIGNS ON STATE HIGHWAYS WITHIN AN UNINCORPORATED AREA OF A COUNTY; 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; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. (1) The Mississippi Transportation Commission may allow for the erection of welcome, recognition and acknowledgement signs that are adjacent to state highways within an unincorporated area of a county and maintained by public officers or elected officials of counties while carrying out an official duty or responsibility. The local jurisdiction shall be required to purchase and pay the cost of maintaining such signs which shall conform to the requirements of similar signs that are placed by incorporated areas in accordance with rules adopted by the commission and the Mississippi Department of Transportation. The erection of welcome, recognition and acknowledgment signs in areas on or adjacent to freeways or interstate highways is prohibited.
(2) The Mississippi Transportation Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.
SECTION 2. (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.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2017.
