Mississippi § 51-29-145 - Consolidation of districts.

§ 51-29-145. Consolidation of districts.

The board of commissioners of any drainage district of the State of Mississippi organized and existing under and by virtue of this chapter, which embraces lands in three or more counties in the State of Mississippi and which supplies an outlet for the water of three or more drainage districts draining tributary streams, in its discretion may, by resolution adopted at any meeting of said board and spread upon its official minutes, declare its proposal and intent to combine the territory of all of the drainage districts for which it supplies a drainage outlet, hereinafter referred to as tributary drainage districts, with the territory of the district supplying said outlet so as to form a single consolidated drainage district embracing the territory of all of the said drainage districts to be under the governing authority of a single board. The same discretionary authority shall also be vested in the board of commissioners of a drainage district of the State of Mississippi meeting the following qualifications: That it was organized and is existing under and by virtue of this chapter; That it is located in two counties in the State of Mississippi, one of which has a population in accordance with the last previous federal census of less than 20,000 and an assessed value on the basis of the 1930-1954 assessment rolls placing it in class 5, and the other of which has a population of less than 20,000 and an assessed value on the basis of the 1930-1954 assessment rolls placing it in class 6, where the combined area of all the drainage districts proposed to be consolidated is less than 24,000 acres; and That it supplies an outlet for the water of one or more drainage districts through which there runs a continuous drainage canal shared by said districts and providing a combined drainage system for said districts. Also, the same discretionary authority is vested in the board of drainage commissioners of any drainage district of the State of Mississippi located in one or more counties meeting only the qualifications of subsection (a) of this section whose drainage canal supplies an outlet for the water of one or more tributary drainage districts.