The Mississippi Agricultural and Industrial Board is hereby authorized and empowered to contract with a firm or firms which are experienced, competent and qualified to make market, operating and financial feasibility studies as may be necessary to accomplish the following:(a) To make specific marketing, operating and financial feasibility studies of selected heavy industries in the chemical, petrochemical, mineral, wood and pulp-using, and related fields that can properly be constructed and operated in the State of Mississippi to preempt markets that now exist or may exist.(b) To contract with the firm or firms making such feasibility studies on the basis that they will recommend methods which will promptly cause to be constructed and/or operated, such manufacturing and industrial facilities, or either, as may prove by these studies to be feasible.Codes, 1942, § 8939-22; Laws, 1964, ch. 218, § 2; Laws, 1966, ch. 236, § 1, eff. 6/16/1966.
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