37 Miss. Code. R. § 1-8501-06010-101

A. The urban boundary shall, as a minimum, encompass the entire urban place or urbanized area designated by the Bureau of the Census. All urban development contiguous to the designated urban place shall be included. Urban development shall be considered as dense residential, commercial, and governmental land use. Examples of development that shall be included are: airports, subdivisions, commercial areas, shopping areas, sewage treatment facilities, schools, parks, etc. Urban areas shall not include large tracts of undeveloped land; however, small areas of undeveloped land may be included in order to eliminate excessive offsets or jags in the urban boundary. Urban areas are divided into two categories:

1. Small Urban Areas which are those urban places as designated by the Bureau of the Census having a census population of 5,000 or more that are not within any urbanized area.

2. Urbanized Areas as designated by the Bureau of the Census with a census population of 50,000 or more. 102 B. Rural areas comprise the areas outside the urban boundaries of small urban and urbanized areas.

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37 Miss. Code. R. § 1-8501-06010-101