The Legislature of the State of Mississippi in the regular session of 1984 amended Section 29, Subsection 13, Parts 1, 3, and 5, Mississippi Code of 1972. This Section requires the Department of Finance & Administration (DFA), to (1) purchase flood insurance for state-owned buildings and/or contents as required by federal law; (2) adopt floodplain management criteria applicable to all new construction or substantial improvement of state-owned buildings and other state-owned development located in floodplain areas; (3) compile an inventory of all state-owned buildings and land in floodplain areas; and (4) enforce the floodplain management criteria and procedure.
12 Miss. Code. R. 10-100.1