Bill Text: MS HB941 | 2014 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Coastal wetlands permit; increase time for which applicant can request and extension for.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-03-21 - Approved by Governor [HB941 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2014-HB941-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2014 Regular Session
To: Marine Resources
By: Representative Eure
House Bill 941
(As Sent to Governor)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 49-27-37, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO INCREASE TO NINETY DAYS THE AMOUNT OF TIME FOR WHICH AN APPLICANT CAN REQUEST FOR AN EXTENSION FOR A COASTLAND WETLANDS PERMIT TO THE MISSISSIPPI COMMISSION ON MARINE RESOURCES; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 49-27-37, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
49-27-37. (1) The commission shall send a copy of any order in issuance, denial, revocation or suspension of a permit to the parties stated in Section 49-27-17, and such orders must be sent within ninety (90) days from the receipt of a complete application, or within ninety (90) days from an amendment to the application as provided by Section 49-27-11(2), in the case of granting or denying or thirty (30) days from the date of the hearing in the case of suspension or revocation, unless an extension is requested as provided in subsection (2) and approved by the commission.
(2) An applicant may
request, in writing, additional * * * extensions up to ninety (90) days
for the processing of an application.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2014.
