MS HB439

Establishes a state-assisted local road construction and maintenance program administered by the Office of State Aid Road Construction to provide financial assistance to eligible counties and municipalities for roads not in the state highway or state aid road systems

Creates a special fund in the State Treasury designated "State-assisted County and Municipality Road Construction and Maintenance Fund" with $15,000,000 transferred annually from the General Fund for fiscal years 2018-2021 in four equal quarterly payments

Eligible recipients are counties with populations not exceeding 30,000 and municipalities with populations not exceeding 5,000 according to the 2010 federal census, with no administrative deductions from distributed funds

Limits each county or municipality to receiving distributions no more than once per three-year period, with a maximum grant of $150,000 and eligible projects capped at 75% of total project costs

Amends Section 65-9-11 to authorize the State Aid Engineer to distribute funds from the new special fund according to legislative appropriation