21-19-43 - Encouraging establishment of industry. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 21-19-43. Encouraging establishment of industry.
 

The governing authorities of municipalities shall have the power and authority to aid and encourage the establishment of manufactures and other new enterprises mentioned in Section 27-31-101, Mississippi Code of 1972, and gas works, water works, and cooperative rural electrification associations, but not railroads, within the corporate limits of municipalities, by exempting all tangible property used in or necessary to the operation thereof for such purposes from municipal taxation for a period not exceeding ten years as authorized by Sections 27-31-101 and 27-31-115, Mississippi Code of 1972, and as authorized by Section 192 of the Constitution of the State of Mississippi. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1892, § 2956; 1906, § 3347; Hemingway's 1917, § 5844; 1930, § 2423; 1942, § 3374-136; Laws,  1920, ch. 236; Laws, 1932, ch. 221; Laws, 1938, ch. 336; Laws, 1950, ch. 491, § 136; Laws, 1952, ch. 420, § 8.