Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 28 - Ports and Airports
Part 309 - Mississippi State Port Authority's Section 3 Plan Port Restoration
MSPA Preference for Contracting with Section 3 Business Concerns

The Mississippi State Port Authority is committed to and recognizes the importance of ensuring that Section 3 Eligible business concerns derive economic benefit from any and all MSPA Section 3 Projects in their communities. Likewise, contractors and subcontractors are required by the MSPA to demonstrate in their Section 3 plans and their subsequent implementation actions that Section 3 certified business concerns are included in the contracting goals and are indeed economic beneficiaries of the plan's business and procurement policies and practices. The Mississippi State Port Authority's Section 3 policy requires Section 3 business concerns to be given priority in contracting for work:3

Business concerns that are 51% or more owned by a Section 3 resident(s), or whose permanent, full-time workforce includes no less than 30% Section 3 residents or that subcontract in excess of 25% of the total amount of subcontracts to Section 3 business concerns.