Mississippi Administrative Code
Title 6 - Economic Development
Part 401 - PEARL RIVER BASIN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
Chapter 1 - REGULATIONS
Rule 6-401-1.1 - PURPOSE
The Pearl River Basin Development District is an agency of the State of Mississippi and a body politic and corporate established pursuant to Sections 51-11-1 et seq. of the Mississippi Code of 1972, as amended. The purpose of The Pearl River Basin Development District as set out in Chapter 11 of Title 51, includes the preservation, conservation, storage, and regulation of the waters of the Pearl River and its tributaries and their overflow waters for domestic, commercial, municipal, industrial, agricultural, and manufacturing purposes, for recreational uses, for flood control, timber development, irrigation, navigation, and pollution abatement, and for the preservation, conservation, and development of the soil of the Pearl River Basin for the general welfare of the entire people of the state.
Miss. Code Ann. § 51-11-1