Mississippi Code

Miss. Code Ann. § 61-3-5 (2026)

Creation of municipal airport authority; applicability

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Any municipality or a state-supported institution of higher learning or a public community or junior college, by resolution, may create a public body, corporate and politic, to be known as a municipal airport authority, which shall be authorized to exercise its functions upon the appointment and qualification of the first commissioners thereof. Upon the adoption of a resolution creating a municipal airport authority, the governing body of the municipality or of the state-supported institution of higher learning or other public community or junior college, pursuant to the resolution, shall appoint five (5) persons as commissioners of the authority. The commissioners who are first appointed shall be designated to serve for terms of one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4) and five (5) years, respectively. Thereafter, each commissioner shall be appointed for a term of five (5) years, except that vacancies occurring otherwise than by the expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointments. This section shall not apply to the airport authority created in Section 61-3-6.

Codes, 1942, § 7545-32; Laws, 1958, ch. 230, § 2; Laws, 1999, ch. 309, § 2, eff. 7/1/1999.

Amended by Laws, 2016, ch. 456, SB 2162, 3, eff. 7/1/2016.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1999–2025 · leading case: Falco Lime, Inc. v. Mayor & Aldermen of City of Vicksburg, 836 So. 2d 711 (Miss. 2002).

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Falco Lime, Inc. v. Mayor & Aldermen of City of Vicksburg, 836 So. 2d 711 (Miss. 2002). · cites it 14× “" The Board also appeals the circuit court's entry of partial summary judgment against it on December 14, 1998, in which the court found that the Board was required to create a "separate corporate authority" under Miss.Code Ann. §§ 61-3-5 or 61-3-7 before it could "act under the…”

Falco Lime, Inc. v. Mayor & Bd. of Aldermen (Miss. 1999). · cites it 14× “" The Board also appeals the circuit court's entry of partial summary judgment against it on December 14, 1998, in which the court found that the Board was required to create a "separate corporate authority" under Miss. Code Ann. §§ 61-3-5 or 61-3-7 before it could "act under…”

Branson v. Harris (5th Cir. 2025). “See Miss. Code § 61-3-5. 2 Case: 24-60453 Document: 74-1 Page: 3 Date Filed: 04/03/2025 No.”

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