Joint operations; joint board generally.

Miss. Code Ann. § 61-3-71
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Public agencies acting jointly pursuant to Section 61-3-67 shall create a joint board which shall consist of members appointed by the governing body of each participating public agency. The number to be appointed, their term and compensation, if any, shall be provided for in the joint agreement. Each joint board shall organize, select officers for such terms as are fixed by the agreement, and adopt and amend, from time to time, rules for its own procedure. The joint board shall have power, as agent of the participating public agencies, to plan, acquire, establish, develop, construct, enlarge, improve, maintain, equip, operate, lease, regulate, protect, and police any airport or other air navigation facility, airport hazard or other airport property, real or personal, to be jointly acquired, controlled, and operated and to lease any property, real or personal, inside or outside the boundaries of an airport or airport site as it may deem necessary to carry out its duties. The board may be authorized by the participating public agencies to exercise on behalf of its constituent public agencies all the powers of each with respect to the airport, air navigation facility, airport hazard, or other airport property, real or personal, subject to the limitations of Section 61-3-73.

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