21-38-3 - Definitions. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 21-38-3. Definitions.
 

As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed herein unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 
 

(a) "Municipality" means any municipality located in a county in which Sardis Lake is located, in which Mississippi Highway 6 and Interstate Highway 55 intersect and having a population of five thousand (5,000) or less according to the 1990 federal decennial census. 

(b) "Sardis Lake" means that certain flood control reservoir and adjacent real property in Lafayette and Panola Counties owned by the United States and operated and managed by the Department of the Army through its Corps of Engineers on March 8, 1999. 

(c) The "United States" means the United States Government and the United States Department of the Army, acting by and through its Corps of Engineers, and any other agency, department or commission of the United States owning or having jurisdiction or authority, or both, over Sardis Lake or matters relating thereto. 
 

Sources: Laws, 1999, ch. 308, § 2, eff from and after passage (approved Mar. 8, 1999.)