65-21-11 - Board of supervisors may purchase privately owned bridges. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 65-21-11. Board of supervisors may purchase privately owned bridges.
 

The boards of supervisors of the respective counties are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire by purchase or condemnation proceedings privately owned bridges across rivers or other bodies of water where the said bridges form a link or part of any county, public road, or highway. The boards of supervisors may, in their discretion, contract to purchase and buy any such privately owned bridges at such price and upon such terms as may seem reasonable to the board. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 7133; 1930, § 6350; 1942, § 8425; Laws,  1916, ch. 170.