No action may be brought to recover damages for injury to property, real or personal, or for an injury to the person, arising out of any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction, or construction of an improvement to real property, and no action may be brought for contribution or indemnity for damages sustained on account of such injury except by prior written agreement providing for such contribution or indemnity, against any person, firm or corporation performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision of construction or construction of such improvement to real property more than six (6) years after the written acceptance or actual occupancy or use, whichever occurs first, of such improvement by the owner thereof. This limitation shall apply to actions against persons, firms and corporations performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision of construction or construction of such improvement to real property for the State of Mississippi or any agency, department, institution or political subdivision thereof as well as for any private or nongovernmental entity.
This limitation shall not apply to any person, firm or corporation in actual possession and control as owner, tenant or otherwise of the improvement at the time the defective and unsafe condition of such improvement causes injury.
This limitation shall not apply to actions for wrongful death.
The provisions of this section shall only apply to causes of action accruing from and after January 1, 1986; and any cause of action accruing prior to January 1, 1986, shall be governed by Chapter 350, Laws of 1972.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 15 - Limitations of Actions and Prevention of Frauds
Chapter 1 - Limitation of Actions
§ 15-1-1. Application of chapter
§ 15-1-5. Period of limitations shall not be changed by contract
§ 15-1-7. Limitations applicable to actions to recover land
§ 15-1-9. Limitations applicable to suits in equity to recover land
§ 15-1-11. Limitations applicable to actions to recover land for defect in instrument
§ 15-1-15. Three years' actual occupation under a tax title bars suit
§ 15-1-17. Limitations applicable to actions or suits to cancel tax titles
§ 15-1-19. Limitations applicable to suits to redeem mortgage or deed of trust
§ 15-1-25. Limitations applicable to action or scire facias against executor or administrator
§ 15-1-27. Limitations applicable to action by ward against guardian or surety
§ 15-1-29. Limitations applicable to actions on accounts and unwritten contracts
§ 15-1-31. When statute commences to run on open accounts
§ 15-1-33. Limitations applicable to actions and suits for penalty or forfeiture
§ 15-1-35. Limitations applicable to actions for certain torts
§ 15-1-39. Limitations applicable to actions involving certain trusts
§ 15-1-45. Limitations applicable to actions founded on foreign judgments or decrees
§ 15-1-47. Lien of judgments limited
§ 15-1-51. Limitations of suits by and against the state, counties and municipal corporations
§ 15-1-55. Effect of death of party before bar is complete
§ 15-1-57. Statute of limitations not to run when person prohibited to sue
§ 15-1-59. Saving in favor of persons under disabilities
§ 15-1-63. Effect of absence from the state
§ 15-1-65. Action barred in another jurisdiction barred here
§ 15-1-67. Effect of fraudulent concealment of cause of action
§ 15-1-69. Commencement of new action subsequent to abatement or defeat of original action
§ 15-1-71. Limitation of setoff
§ 15-1-75. Bar of statute of limitations against one does not affect another jointly interested
§ 15-1-77. Effect upon limitations of concurrent jurisdiction in courts of common law and of equity