69-27-311 - Implementation of program; recovery of improperly used grants. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 69-27-311. Implementation of program; recovery of improperly used grants.
 

The commission shall have the following powers and duties to implement the provisions of the Mississippi Soil and Water Cost-Share Program: 
 

(a) To determine which approved practices shall be eligible for cost-share assistance; 

(b) To establish maximum sums and cost-share rates which any one eligible landowner or land operator may receive for implementation of an approved practice; 

(c) To review periodically the costs of establishing conservation practices and to make such adjustment as, in the discretion of the commission, is necessary. 

Upon request of the commission, the Attorney General of the State of Mississippi shall institute proper legal proceedings to recover any or all of the cost-share assistance provided an eligible landowner or land operator if the commission shall determine that the landowner or land operator failed to implement any portion of or all of the practice approved by the commission for such landowner or land operator, and if the commission determines that legal proceedings are necessary and proper. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1985, ch. 375, § 6, eff from and after July 1, 1985.