Miss. Code § 69-5-115
In order to encourage and promote the raising of livestock in the State of Mississippi there is hereby created a body politic and corporate to be hereinafter known as "Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association," which said body politic and corporate shall be under the management and control of the commissioner of agriculture and commerce, director of extension service, and president of the Mississippi Livestock Association, hereinafter designated as directors, who shall serve without compensation.
The Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association shall each year, at a time to be fixed by the directors, and under the supervision and rules and regulations promulgated by said directors, hold a livestock show at Greenwood in Leflore county, for the counties of Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Leflore, Sharkey, Sunflower, Washington, Yazoo, Tallahatchie, and Montgomery, at which the owners of livestock within said counties may exhibit and compete for prizes or awards offered by the directors of the said Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association, or for prizes or awards offered by any person or corporation through said directors, upon complying with the rules and regulations governing such livestock show.
No owner of livestock who has competed for a prize at any of the district livestock shows provided for in Section 69-5-105, during the current year, shall be eligible to compete for a prize at the show herein provided for in that year; and likewise, no one who competed for a prize at the show herein provided for during the current year shall be eligible to compete for a prize at any of the said district livestock shows during the current year.
The directors are hereby authorized to accept and hold for use at the Mississippi Delta Livestock Fair Association any appropriations, donations, or other funds designated to or to be awarded as prizes or awards under regulations promulgated by the directors.
Miss. Code § 69-5-115