Bill Text: MS SB2728 | 2015 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Transportation; make placement of guides or warning posts on culverts a discretionary duty of MS Transportation Commission.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2015-03-03 - Died In Committee [SB2728 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2015-SB2728-Engrossed.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Highways and Transportation
By: Senator(s) Simmons (13th)
Senate Bill 2728
(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 (16) feet wide or less, and on roads
having a greater width than sixteen (16) feet the bridges shall be not
less than sixteen (16) feet wide; and all bridges * * * built or rebuilt shall be built with
banisters on * * *
both sides. 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 (12) feet.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
