The following activities, if performed in accordance with Rule 11.1, shall be considered Routine Maintenance:
1. Grass and brush cutting. 2. Removing dead, dying or other trees considered a hazard to the public. 3. Removing litter, trash, animal carcasses and other debris. 4. Installation of pavement markings. 5. Milling the surface of pavements to remove defective pavement. 6. Roadway base repair requiring excavation and backfill of twelve (12) inches or less. 7. Resurfacing or repairing paved interstates, highways, streets, roads, or sidewalks. 8. Addition of granular material and/or light machine blading of granular surfaces to maintain a roadway surface. 9. Blade away built up grass, soil, granular material, etc. from shoulders to allow proper drainage away from roadway surfaces. 10. Repair washes on roadway shoulders and slopes to replace material that has eroded away. 11. Perform ditch blading to replace material eroded away and to remove material that has silted into ditch to insure proper drainage. 12. Replacing traffic signs and signals in the existing hole. 13. Cleaning debris from inlets and outlets of culverts and box bridges. 14. Bridge repair that does not include driving additional piling. 15. Bridge approach and roadway guardrail repair that does not involve adding new posts. 16. Debris and drift removal from bridges over waterways. 17. Storm drain inlet clean out and repair. 39 Miss. Code. R. 101-II-11.2
Miss. Code Ann. § 77-13-3(i)