Bill Text: MS SB2399 | 2014 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Transportation; make placement of guides or warning posts on culverts a discretionary duty of MS Transportation Commission.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Failed) 2014-03-14 - Died On Calendar [SB2399 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2014-SB2399-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2014 Regular Session
To: Highways and Transportation
By: Senator(s) Simmons (13th)
Senate Bill 2399
(As Passed the Senate)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 65-21-1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO MAKE THE PLACEMENT OF GUIDES OR WARNING POSTS ON CULVERTS A DISCRETIONARY DUTY OF THE MISSISSIPPI TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 65-21-1, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
65-21-1. All culverts * * * built, rebuilt, or placed in any
public road in this state shall be not less than the full width of the crown of
the roadway, and * * *
may have guides or warning posts on either side as deemed
necessary by the Mississippi Transportation Commission. All bridges * * * built, rebuilt, or placed in any
public road of this state shall be built the full width of the crown of the
roadway where the same is sixteen feet wide or less, and on roads having a
greater width than sixteen feet the bridges shall be not less than sixteen feet
wide; and all bridges * * *
built or rebuilt shall be built with banisters on either side. This section
shall not apply to temporary bridges and culverts on detours; and all public
highways in this state within the area of, or contingent to, any national
reforestation project, which have been or may be taken over, constructed, or
reconstructed by * * *
a department of the national government, may have bridges or culverts
the width of * * *
the highways, but not less than twelve feet.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
