Southaven, MS

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, a home-based business cannot generate traffic in greater volumes than would normally be expected in a residential neighborhood, and the parking…

In the City of Southaven, every home-based business needs a city permit, obtained with a current Mississippi-issued photo ID showing the business's physical address (no post office…

Mississippi's cottage food law is a single section, Miss. Code Ann. § 75-29-951, and it works as an exemption rather than a licence. A cottage food operation needs no food permit under…

Mississippi requires state licensing through the Department of Health for any home-based child care facility serving six or more unrelated children, with mandated staff-to-child…

Mississippi has created no microenterprise home kitchen permit, and it has not carved a paid-meal exemption into its food establishment rules either. The state's retail food…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Section 10-7 treats any property with more than six (6) inches of grass in height as an unsafe property environment. After forty-eight (48) hours…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Sec. 13-11(c) requires an intent of removal application to the office of development no more than forty-five (45) days and no less than fourteen…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, a radio, tape player or television on publicly owned property, including parks, is unlawful when a person of normal hearing can hear it 100 feet…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, keeping any animal, bird or fowl that causes frequent or long continued noise disturbing the comfort or repose of persons in the vicinity is a…

The City of Southaven, Mississippi, has no single curfew clause. Section 10-122 bars pile drivers, hammers, power saws and other powered tools between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., and…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, noise from a vehicle motor not reasonably required for its operation, including backfiring and motor racing, is unlawful, as is sounding a horn…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, construction activities are limited to 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Emergencies declared by the Governor or mayor and government work in the public…

In the City of Southaven, Section 5-2 makes it unlawful to manufacture, possess, sell or discharge fireworks inside the corporate limits, with one exception: a special supervised…

In the City of Southaven, Chapter 7 of Title IV requires smoke detectors in every new and existing dwelling unit in an apartment complex, dormitory, townhouse or duplex condominium…

Mississippi regulates outdoor burning through the Mississippi Forestry Commission and Department of Environmental Quality. Burning of household refuse and yard debris is allowed with…

Mississippi regulates liquefied petroleum (LP) gas storage, installation, and dealers through the Mississippi Liquefied Compressed Gas Board under Title 75 Chapter 57, applying NFPA 58…

The Mississippi Forestry Commission has statewide authority to declare wildfire burn bans, regulate forest fire prevention, and pursue civil and criminal penalties for negligent fires…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, every cat three months of age or older must be vaccinated against rabies and must wear a metal tag stamped with the vaccination serial number and…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, owners cannot let any animal run at large. Away from home, a dog is under restraint only when held on a leash or lead of less than six feet in…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, every pet store is subject to inspection on demand by the supervisor of animal control. The inspection checks for sanitary and humane conditions…

In the City of Southaven, Section 3-10 makes it unlawful to kill, wound, injure, shoot, trap, net or snare any birds of any kind within the corporate limits, and to destroy any bird's…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Chart 4 lists 'Pet grooming shop without open kennel' as a site plan review use in exactly four districts: C-1, C-3, C-4 and PUD. The office…

In the City of Southaven, no one can keep fowl or livestock in an area zoned other than agricultural within two hundred fifty (250) feet of any building used as a residence, and…

In the City of Southaven, no one can have more than five (5) dogs and/or cats over the age of three (3) months in any combination in an area zoned other than agricultural. Agricultural…

In the City of Southaven, Section 3-13 bars keeping any wild animal for display or exhibition on a premises or in a roadside zoo or pet store, whether free or for a fee. Zoological…

In the City of Southaven, Section 3-14 requires a vicious dog to be confined in a secure, locked pen or indoors, leashed and muzzled off the premises, and marked with a Beware of Dog…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, a veterinary clinic needs site plan review in C-1, C-3, C-4, M-1, M-2 and PUD, a conditional use in the RO office district, and site plan review…

Mississippi regulates beekeeping primarily for disease control through the Bureau of Plant Industry. The state Apiary Law authorizes inspections, transport certificates, and…

Mississippi regulates supplemental feeding of deer and other wildlife through MDWFP rules. Feeding for hunting purposes is restricted, and feeding is banned in CWD management zones and…

In the City of Southaven, Sec. 13-7(c)(4) bars parking or storing any commercial vehicle classified as Class 3 or greater, or any trailer over sixteen feet in length, at a residence or…

Section 9-401 of the Southaven Code bans stopping, standing or parking on a sidewalk, in front of a public or private driveway, in an intersection, on a crosswalk, and within ten feet…

Sections 9-452 and 9-453 of the Southaven Code restrict marked curb loading zones. A passenger zone allows only expeditious loading or unloading of passengers for no more than three…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, an inoperable motor vehicle parked, kept or stored on a Premises or Yard is a Blighted Property violation under Sec. 4-67, item 2.5. The…

In the City of Southaven, boats, boat trailers, travel trailers, campers and trailers of any kind cannot be parked or stored on any street or yard in a residential district under Sec…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Sec. 13-7(c) bars parking any motor vehicle in a yard in the residential (R) districts. A vehicle can sit on a paved or concrete driveway, or on…

Mississippi split its towing law in two. A 2024 chapter, Miss. Code Ann. Sec. 63-37-1 through Sec. 63-37-15, bans drop fees, requires posted signage and written property-owner…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Sec. 4-27 makes it unlawful to build a swimming pool without first applying in writing to the building official, paying the applicable fees and…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Sec. 4-127(c) requires a four-foot fence around any temporary or portable pool deeper than two feet, and such a pool can then stay up as if…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, an 'Accessory dwelling unit' is listed as a site plan review use in only one residential district, the PUD. The A/ER, R-30 through R-6 and RM-8…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Sec. 13-13(e) holds a storage building in a residential zone to 20 feet high and one story. All accessory buildings on the lot together are…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Sec. 13-10(h) allows only a decorative fence, such as picket, wrought iron or split rail, between the front of a residential building and the…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Sec. 13-10(h) caps residential fences at four (4) feet in the front yard and six (6) feet in the rear yard. A residential corner lot with two (2)…

Mississippi treats short-term rental stays like hotel rooms. Section 27-65-23 imposes a 7% state sales tax on the gross income from renting rooms to transient guests, so Airbnb and…

The Southaven Code has no bar-specific noise rule. Section 10-122(14) makes amplified live music unlawful when it unreasonably disturbs neighbors, and Section 10-145 bars the chief of…

Section 10-95 of the Southaven Code makes it unlawful to operate residential fans, air conditioners, stationary pumps, cooling towers or compressors so as to create noise that violates…

Southaven Code § 10-122(8) makes a loud and excessive noise in connection with loading or unloading any vehicle unlawful, and § 10-122(1) reaches truck motor noise not reasonably…

The Southaven Code never uses the word generator, but Section 10-122(6) and (7) require a muffler on any noise-creating internal combustion engine and on the exhaust of any stationary…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Section 10-6 makes it unlawful for a minor under 18 to be unsupervised in a public place during curfew hours. The definition starts the curfew at…

In the City of Southaven, Section 6-31 sets the community freeboard at eighteen inches: new or substantially improved residential and non-residential buildings must have the lowest…

In the City of Southaven, Section 6-12 requires a development permit before any development activities begin in identified special flood hazard areas and community flood hazard areas…

In the City of Southaven, Title II applies stormwater performance standards to any land disturbing or construction activity disturbing one (1) or more acre. Listed exemptions cover…

In the City of Southaven, no permit for land disturbing or construction activity that uncovers one (1) or more acres is granted without an AEA-approved erosion and sediment control…

Mississippi's Coastal Wetlands Protection Act gives the Department of Marine Resources exclusive authority to permit dredging, filling, or alteration of coastal wetlands in Hancock…

Section 10-12 of the Southaven Code declares a loud or unruly gathering at a residence a public nuisance. The owner and any responsible party can be cited by a City of Southaven police…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, smoking is unlawful in municipal parks, in the seating area of outdoor sports arenas, stadiums and amphitheaters, within fifteen feet of the…

In the City of Southaven, Sec. 8-334 lets patrons of on premises alcohol permittees carry one open container, in a paper or plastic cup of no more than sixteen fluid ounces, anywhere…

Sections 9-374 through 9-376 of the Southaven Code require a pedestrian outside a crosswalk to cross at right angles to the curb or by the shortest route and to yield to all vehicles…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, an inoperable vehicle kept on a residential premises or yard counts as blighted property, and that includes a vehicle in a state of major…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, no one can operate a massage parlor or work as a masseur or masseuse without a permit. The permit costs $50.00, lasts no more than one year…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, every junk dealer, pawnbroker and secondhand dealer must give the chief of police written reports on each sold or pawned article within…

In the City of Southaven, Sec. 8-264 allows sexually oriented businesses only in the M-1 and M-2 zoning districts and only if 1,500 feet from churches, schools, parks, residential…

In the City of Southaven, every junk dealer, pawnbroker and secondhand dealer must make written reports to the chief of police on city forms, available within forty-eight hours of…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, a tattoo shop is a site plan review use in only three districts: M-1 light industrial, M-2 heavy industrial and PUD. The Chart 4 row is blank for…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, a towing company on the Southaven Police Department wrecker rotation, as approved by the Board of Aldermen, can park one on-call wrecker per…

Mississippi regulates the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems through its tobacco statutes, requiring buyers to be at least 21 years old under Miss. Code 97-32-9 and…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, any modification, installation or use of the public right-of-way of a city street requires an application and a granted permit before work…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, no person can remain on a public street, sidewalk, pathway or parking lot so as to obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or motor vehicles…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, it is unlawful to camp or to store personal property on a street, sidewalk, other right-of-way, under a bridge, or in a city-owned park. An…

In the City of Southaven, Sec. 11-69 makes it unlawful to camp, to store personal property, or to interfere with ingress and egress on streets, sidewalks and other rights-of-way…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, every business must buy an annual privilege license from the city tax collector before opening. The fee is set by headcount and business type…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, a block party needs a special event permit from the special events coordinator in the Southaven Police Department. Applications are due at least…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, a fair, carnival or festival needs a special event permit, and every event is conditioned on the business permits, beer permits, fire safety…

Section 9-532 of the Southaven Code makes a permit from the chief of police, or a designee, a requirement before anyone organizes, holds or takes part in a parade, procession or other…

Section 5-76 of the Southaven Code requires an automatic sprinkler system in new buildings, major renovations and changed occupancies. For residential use, hotels and motels follow…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, no permit is issued and no work is performed under the electrical code until the person doing the work holds a master license from the city. Only…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, a written application to the building official and a granted permit are required before erecting, altering, razing or moving any building, fence…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, contractors must call for routine inspections during construction and for a final inspection within thirty days of completion. A $100 penalty…

The City of Southaven, Mississippi adopts the 2024 International Plumbing Code with Appendices A, B, C, D and E in Sec. 4-26, and Sec. 4-202 bars any permit or work regulated by the…

In the City of Southaven, Sec. 7-8 puts garbage carts immediately adjacent to the curb, or beside a paved roadway where there is no curb, and never in the street. Carts in fenced front…

In the City of Southaven, Sec. 7-16 requires refuse at loading dock and other commercial sites to be collected in an enclosed container or enclosed area of adequate size, with dumpster…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, collecting garbage and rubbish is reserved to the city. Title VII makes it unlawful for anyone else to run that business, except private…

In the City of Southaven, Sec. 7-23 makes it unlawful to leave a garbage cart in front of the building line except from the evening before the scheduled collection day until 6:30 p.m…

In the City of Southaven, it is unlawful to dispose of refuse or other waste on any property other than a permitted disposal site designated by the city, and littering on streets…

In the City of Southaven, bulky refuse and tree trimmings are separated from other refuse and placed neatly at the front property line immediately behind the curb. The city does not…

In the City of Southaven, Sec. 7-10 keeps leaves, grass cuttings, garden trimmings, weeds and roots out of garbage carts. They go at the curb in cardboard cartons or plastic or…

Every Mississippi county, working with its cities, must adopt a nonhazardous solid waste management plan that spells out how it will cut waste 25% through source reduction and…

In the City of Southaven, Section 6-30 sets citywide elevation standards in special flood hazard areas: service equipment at least 18 inches above base flood elevation, the lowest…

In the City of Southaven, mobile food vending is confined by Sec. 8-163(d) to C-4 planned commercial or PUD ground with C-4 underlying uses, at a lighted intersection of two arterial…

In the City of Southaven, a food cart or truck operator is a transient vendor, and Sec. 8-163(g) prohibits transient vendors from selling on any public right-of-way or vacant lot…

Mississippi requires every mobile food unit to hold a Mississippi State Department of Health food permit, employ a certified food manager, and pass routine inspections. Local cities…

In the City of Southaven, a seller who travels house to house is a transient vendor under Sec. 8-156 and needs a license under Sec. 8-159 before transacting any business. The…

In the City of Southaven, every person furnished water by the municipality must keep water pipes, fixtures, appliances and outlets in good repair so water is not wasted. Section 1-208…

Sec. 4-67 of the Southaven Code lists ten conditions that make a property a Blighted Property, including damaged exterior surfaces, roofs missing shingles across 50% or more of visible…

Section 9-62 of the Southaven Code authorizes traffic control photographic systems administered by the Southaven Police Department. Crossing the stop line at a system location is…

Chapter 4 of Title IX in the Southaven Code gives bicyclists the rights and duties of vehicle drivers. Section 9-200 requires riding as near to the right side of the roadway as…

Mississippi puts golf carts and low-speed vehicles on one short track, Chapter 32 of Title 63, and the chapter's own heading says how far it reaches: operation on municipal public…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, the Property Maintenance Code sets minimum conditions for every existing residential and nonresidential structure, except properties with current…

Under Miss. Code section 89-8-13, a landlord evicting for nonpayment must serve written notice that the agreement will terminate if rent is not paid within 3 days. For other material…

Mississippi imposes no just-cause eviction requirement. Under the Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, landlords may terminate month-to-month tenancies with 30 days notice without…

Under Miss. Code section 89-8-19, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days' written notice before the termination date, or a week-to-week tenancy with at…

Rent control is barred at the local level in Mississippi. Miss. Code § 21-17-5(2)(h) prohibits a municipality from regulating, directly or indirectly, the amount of rent charged for…

Mississippi sets no statutory cap on a residential security deposit. Under Miss. Code § 89-8-21, a landlord must return any remaining deposit, with an itemized written notice of any…

Mississippi requires 10 years of adverse possession to gain title. Miss. Code section 15-1-13 vests 'full and complete title' in anyone who openly, actually, and continuously occupies…

In the City of Southaven, signs in or on windows cannot exceed twenty (20) percent of any single window area under Sec. 13-6(b)(9). In a building with more than one business, only the…

In the City of Southaven, a special overlay sign district covers commercial land at Interstate 55 interchanges near Stateline Road, Goodman Road and Church Road. Ground-mounted signs…

Every published campaign sign in Mississippi must carry a disclaimer under Miss. Code Ann. § 23-15-897: the candidate's name plus an approval statement, or the name of whoever paid for…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, grass or weeds over six inches in height or length, or growing over the curb line, make a lot a Blighted Property under Sec. 4-67. That covers…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Sec. 4-183 lets the public officers declare a building unfit for human habitation when it is dangerous or injurious to health, safety or morals…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, the site development table for every single-family residential district in Sec. 13-12(c) caps building height at 35 feet, from the ER estate…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Chart 5 caps the impervious surface on a lot by district: 50 percent in A/ER, R-30, R-20 and R-15, 60 percent in R-12, R-10 and R-9, 65 in R-8…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Sec. 13-12(c) sets minimum building setbacks district by district. The ER estate residential district requires fifty (50) feet front, twenty (20)…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, Sec. 13-10(b) requires landscaped areas along all public road rights-of-way, with the planting set by what sits beside the strip. Type B needs a…

In the City of Southaven, Mississippi, the A agricultural district in Sec. 13-12(b) conserves farm land and undeveloped areas from urban encroachment and is designed to encourage large…

Mississippi's Right to Farm law at Miss. Code Section 95-3-29 protects established agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits when surrounding land uses change after the operation…

The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act sets statewide minimum buffer distances and zoning rules for licensed dispensaries, requiring at least 1,000 feet from schools, churches, and child…

Mississippi law prohibits all home cultivation of cannabis, including by registered medical cannabis patients. The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act expressly bars personal grows, and…

Commercial drone operations in Mississippi are governed primarily by FAA Part 107, with state law adding criminal restrictions on critical-infrastructure surveillance under the…

Mississippi regulates recreational drone use through state criminal statutes on voyeurism and critical-infrastructure surveillance, while federal FAA rules govern airspace. The Peeping…

Miss. Code Section 17-1-51 preempts Mississippi cities and counties from adopting local minimum wages, paid leave, or other employment-benefit mandates that exceed state or federal law.

Mississippi recognizes both a permit-based concealed carry license and permitless carry for adults legally able to possess firearms, with the Department of Public Safety administering…

Mississippi Code Section 45-9-51 broadly preempts cities and counties from regulating firearms, ammunition, components, or related items, with very narrow exceptions for public…

Mississippi permits open carry of firearms by lawful adults under its constitutional and statutory framework, and Miss. Code 45-9-51 prevents local governments from restricting open…

Miss. Code Section 45-9-101 establishes Mississippi's licensed concealed carry framework while related provisions and case law confirm that lawful adults may carry firearms in private…

Mississippi legalizes casino gaming only within two geographic bands carved out of its general gambling ban by Miss. Code § 97-33-1: the three southernmost Gulf Coast counties…

Mississippi allows nonprofit civic, veteran, religious, and wildlife-conservation groups to run bingo and pull-tabs under the Charitable Bingo Law once the Mississippi Gaming…

Miss. Code § 97-33-1 makes it a crime to play any game "for money or other valuable thing" or to wager on any game or event: no dollar threshold, no carve-out for a private game among…

Sports wagering is legal in Mississippi only on the physical premises of a licensed casino. Mississippi Gaming Commission Rule 13-9-3.4 requires every race book or sports pool to take…

Mississippi has no general HOA assessment statute, so a standard subdivision HOA's lien and foreclosure powers come from its recorded declaration. Condominiums are different: Miss…

A member of a Mississippi association incorporated under the Nonprofit Corporation Act may inspect and copy the association's governing documents, member-meeting minutes for the past…

Mississippi has no statute capping what a homeowners association may fine a member, no required notice-and-hearing procedure before a fine is levied, and no statutory cure period. The…

Mississippi has exactly one statutory assessment lien, and it belongs to condominiums. Miss. Code Ann. § 89-9-21 lets a condominium management body turn unpaid assessments into a lien…

Mississippi law runs the opposite way from the states that limit association leasing bans. Miss. Code Ann. Sec. 89-9-19 says the covenants authorised by Sec. 89-9-17 may prescribe…

Mississippi has never enacted a statute authorising sobriety or driver licence checkpoints. The words sobriety and safety checkpoint return nothing in the Mississippi Code, and the…

Mississippi has enacted no right-to-record statute and no buffer-zone offence, and its obstruction offence contains no recording proviso either way. What makes filming and recording an…

No Mississippi statute makes it an offence to refuse to give an officer your name. A full-text search of the Mississippi Code turns up no duty-to-identify provision in Title 97 or…

Mississippi has one statutory protection against a roadside search and it is narrow. Miss. Code Ann. Section 41-137-9(4) says that possession of, or application for, a medical cannabis…

Mississippi's 2018 auxiliary-container preemption law, Miss. Code Sections 17-1-71 through 17-1-75, bars cities and counties from regulating, banning, taxing, or charging fees on…

Mississippi's Renewable Energy Net Metering Rule requires Entergy Mississippi and Mississippi Power to offer net metering to any customer self-generating with renewables. Residential…

Mississippi prohibits the sale, distribution, or furnishing of tobacco, alternative nicotine, and vapor products to anyone under age 21 under Miss. Code Section 97-32-9 and related…

Mississippi has not enacted a statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vapor products, and its Title 97 Chapter 32 framework governs uniform tobacco regulation without authorizing local…

Mississippi regulates extra vehicle lighting mainly by colour and by count. Miss. Code Ann. Section 63-7-19 reserves blinking, oscillating or rotating blue lights to police vehicles…

Mississippi has no dash cam statute and no windshield-mounting rule that a camera can breach. The only provision that regulates what may sit on a Mississippi windshield, Miss. Code…

Mississippi neither authorises lane splitting nor bans it by name. Nothing in the Mississippi Code 1972 Annotated ties motorcycles to lane position at all: Chapter 3's Article 13 on…

Mississippi reaches plate covers through its tag-display statute, Miss. Code Ann. § 27-19-31(2)(a), and it names the hardware directly. The tag, every character on it and any legally…

Mississippi has no radar detector law. The phrase radar detector appears nowhere in the Mississippi Code, and no provision bans owning, mounting or using one in a private vehicle. What…

Mississippi never opens a studded-tire season, because it never created one. Miss. Code Ann. § 63-7-67 forbids any tire moved on a highway from carrying on its periphery a block, stud…

Mississippi sets one light transmittance figure for the whole car: every window must pass 28% or more, and the proof is a Department of Public Safety label glued to the lower left…