17-11-5 - Declaration of purpose. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 17-11-5. Declaration of purpose.
 

The Gulf Regional District is hereby created as an agency and instrumentality of the State of Mississippi for the purpose of encouraging the voluntary association of local communities and political entities of the state within the region, and for the purpose of acting as a unified coordinating unit structured to solve common areawide problems by mutual cooperation within the framework of local governmental control. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 9054-52; Laws,  1971, ch. 517, § 2, eff from and after passage (approved April 14, 1971).