47-5-331 - Lease of buildings at Parchman facility; provisions of lease.
§ 47-5-331. Lease of buildings at Parchman facility; provisions of lease.
(1) Upon request of the Board of Corrections the Governor's Office of General Services is authorized to lease one or more existing buildings or portions thereof on the grounds of the Parchman facility of the Department of Corrections (a) to a private individual, firm or corporation for the purpose of establishing and operating a factory for the manufacture and processing of products, or (b) to any other commercial enterprise deemed consistent with the aims and purposes of the Penitentiary-Made Goods Law. The leased premises shall include any real estate needed for reasonable access to and access from the leased buildings. The term of the lease shall not exceed twenty (20) years. Money derived from the lease of such buildings and real estate shall be placed in the Prison Industries Fund in the State Treasury.
(2) Each lease negotiated and concluded under subsection (1) of this section shall include and shall be valid only so long as the lessee adheres to the following provisions:
(a) All persons employed in the factory or other commercial enterprise operated in the leased property, except for lessee's supervisory employees and necessary training personnel approved by the warden, shall be inmates of the State Penitentiary and approved for such employment by the warden and the lessee.
(b) The factory or other commercial enterprise operated in the leased property shall observe at all times such practices and procedures regarding security as the lease may specify, or as the warden may temporarily stipulate during periods of emergency.
(c) The factory or other commercial enterprise operated in the leased property shall be deemed a private enterprise and subject to all the laws and lawfully adopted rules of this state governing the operation of similar business enterprises elsewhere.
Sources: Laws, 1981, ch. 516, § 4; brought forward, 1984, ch. 471, § 88; Laws, 1984, ch. 488, § 229; reenacted, 1986, ch. 413, § 88, eff from and after passage (approved March 28, 1986).