Any corporation owning, possessing, holding or operating a toll bridge structure located partly but not wholly within one county of this state and any substantial part of which so situated in this state is used or operated, howsoever, by or in connection with any common carrier railroad, as an instrumentality or facility for the conduct by such common carrier railroad of interstate commerce or its interstate transportation business, shall be considered and the same is hereby declared and defined to be a public service corporation as to all of its property situated in this state and which is liable to taxation in this state; and such property shall be wholly and exclusively subject to valuation and assessment for the purposes of taxation by the state tax commission of Mississippi, which commission is by law constituted state assessor of railroads and other public service corporations. Such property of said corporation shall be assessed to the extent and in like manner as the property of other public service corporations and public utilities now subject to the authority and jurisdiction of said commission; and said toll bridge corporations shall make and file schedules in time and manner as provided by Sections 27-35-309, 27-35-317 and 27-35-323 and under penalties as therein provided.
Such property of all persons, partnerships or associations of persons, so owned, held, possessed, operated, situated and utilized, however, shall, likewise, be valued and assessed for the purposes of taxation by the said state tax commission of Mississippi.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 27 - Taxation and Finance
Chapter 35 - Ad Valorem Taxes-Assessment
Article 3 - Assessment of Railroads and Other Public Service Corporations
§ 27-35-301. State Tax Commission assessors of public service corporations
§ 27-35-305. Penalty for failure to file schedule
§ 27-35-307. Assessment and taxation of railroads; false or fraudulent schedules
§ 27-35-310. Abandoned nuclear power plant property exempt from ad valorem taxation
§ 27-35-313. Rolls to be sent to counties
§ 27-35-315. Duty of clerk of board of supervisors
§ 27-35-325. Department of Revenue empowered to assess certain property escaping taxation
§ 27-35-327. Records to be kept and preserved
§ 27-35-331. Public service corporations liable for ad valorem taxes on certain buildings and land
§ 27-35-333. Properties of public service corporations subject to ad valorem taxes
§ 27-35-335. Properties of public service corporations not subject to ad valorem taxes
§ 27-35-337. Duty of public service corporations to report certain data to county tax assessors
§ 27-35-339. Appraisal and assessment of certain property of public service corporations
§ 27-35-343. Years to which Sections 27-35-331 through 27-35-343 shall apply