§ Miss. Code § 23-15-883(untitled)

Exceptions to prohibitions with respect to state highway or public road
expenditures or employment.
The restriction imposed upon the State Highway Commission and the boards of supervisors of
the several counties in the employment of labor to work and maintain the state highways and the
public roads of the several supervisors' districts of the county, as provided in Section 23-15881, shall not apply to road contractors or bridge contractors engaged in the construction or
maintenance of state highways or county roads under contracts awarded by the State Highway
Commission, or the board of supervisors, as the case may be, where such contracts shall have
been awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, after legal advertisement, as provided by law; nor
shall the restriction imposed in Section 23-15-881 apply to the labor employed by such road
contractors or bridge contractors in carrying out such contracts. Nor shall the provisions of this
chapter apply to the employment by the State Highway Commission, or the board of supervisors,
as the case may be, of extra labor employed to make repairs upon the state highways or highway
bridges, or upon the county roads or bridges, in cases where such state highways or highway
bridges, or such county roads or bridges, have been damaged or destroyed by severe
storms, floods or other unforeseen disasters.