Bill Text: MS HB1491 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Jails; remove requirement that county jails be built in the county seat.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-02-02 - Died In Committee [HB1491 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2010-HB1491-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2010 Regular Session
To: County Affairs
By: Representative Malone
House Bill 1491
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 19-7-1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT THAT A COUNTY JAIL MUST BE BUILT WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE COUNTY SEAT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 19-7-1, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
19-7-1. (With regard to any county which is exempt from the provisions of Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:)
(1) (a) The board of supervisors shall have power to accept as a gift, or to purchase for the county, so much real estate, in fee simple, at the place where the courts may be required to sit, as may be convenient and necessary for the building and use of the courthouse * * * and, at any convenient place in the county, property for fire protection purposes and homes and farms for the poor, the purchase money to be paid out of the county treasury, and the title to the property be made to and in the name of the county.
(b) The board of supervisors may acquire by gift or purchase any property within the county convenient for the building and use of a jail.
(2) The board of supervisors of any county may acquire, by lease or purchase, grounds and buildings or may erect buildings on grounds owned by the county or road district, to be used by the county or road district in storing and preserving road machinery, trucks, teams or other county or road district property. The same shall be paid for out of the general fund or road district fund.
(With regard to any county which is required to operate on a countywide system of road administration as described in Section 19-2-3, this section shall read as follows:)
(1) (a) The board of supervisors shall have power to accept as a gift, or to purchase for the county, so much real estate, in fee simple, at the place where the courts may be required to sit, as may be convenient and necessary for the building and use of the courthouse and county facilities * * * and, at any convenient place in the county, property for fire protection purposes and homes and farms for the poor, the purchase money to be paid out of the county treasury, and the title to the property be made to and in the name of the county.
(b) The board of supervisors may acquire by gift or purchase any property within the county convenient for the building and use of a jail.
(2) Subject to the provisions of Section 65-7-91, the board of supervisors of any county may purchase or lease grounds and buildings or may erect buildings on grounds owned or leased by the county, to be used by the county in storing and preserving road machinery, trucks or other county property. The same shall be paid for out of the general fund of the county or out of road maintenance and bridge funds.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
