Any municipality in the state having a tax lien for special improvements or any other tax lien upon property located therein is hereby authorized, when the said property is offered for sale by the state and county for state and county taxes due thereon, to purchase at such tax sale the property upon which it holds said special improvement lien, and shall be authorized to pay the amount of its bid therefor.
Whenever property upon which any municipality in this state holds a lien has already been sold for state and county taxes, the municipality may redeem the tax sale the same as other lien holders in the state, and authority for municipalities to so thus redeem is hereby granted.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 33 - Taxation and Finance
§ 21-33-1. Date of tax liability
§ 21-33-3. Municipal tax forms
§ 21-33-5. Form of land assessment roll
§ 21-33-7. Form of personal assessment roll
§ 21-33-9. Manner of municipal assessment
§ 21-33-11. Assessment of public utilities and added territory
§ 21-33-13. Assessment of private car companies
§ 21-33-15. Assessment of land
§ 21-33-17. Recapitulation of land roll
§ 21-33-19. Assessment of personal property
§ 21-33-21. Assessment of property in added territory
§ 21-33-23. Filing of assessments rolls
§ 21-33-25. Validity of assessment not affected by omissions of assessor
§ 21-33-27. Correction and revision of municipal assessment roll
§ 21-33-29. Equalization of assessments
§ 21-33-31. Rolls approved upon completion of equalization
§ 21-33-33. Objections to roll
§ 21-33-35. Rolls approved after objections heard
§ 21-33-39. Appeals of equalizations and assessments
§ 21-33-41. Clerk to make copy of rolls
§ 21-33-43. Change of assessments
§ 21-33-45. Levy of municipal ad valorem taxes
§ 21-33-51. Tax receipts to be given taxpayer
§ 21-33-53. Duties of tax collector
§ 21-33-55. Property escaping taxation; assessment
§ 21-33-57. Property escaping taxation; collection of tax; sale
§ 21-33-61. Redemption of land sold
§ 21-33-63. Sale for taxes; sale list
§ 21-33-65. Sale of land not sold at appointed time
§ 21-33-67. Recording of conveyances
§ 21-33-69. Lands struck off to the municipality
§ 21-33-71. Taxing of lands acquired by municipality
§ 21-33-73. Municipality may purchase at state and county tax sales
§ 21-33-75. Sale or lease of land by municipality
§ 21-33-77. Borrowing on delinquent tax lands
§ 21-33-79. Refund of erroneously paid taxes
§ 21-33-81. Surveys and appraisals authorized
§ 21-33-85. Application of Sections 21-33-1 through 21-33-85
§ 21-33-87. Tax levy to pay bonds and coupons
§ 21-33-89. Tax levy for street and cemetery purposes in certain municipalities