The seizing law enforcement agency shall within thirty (30) days of a seizure, request either the district attorney of the county in which property is seized or the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics to prosecute any cases involving seized property. No one other than the district attorney of the county in which the seizure occurred or an attorney from the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics shall have authority to prosecute the forfeiture of the seized property. If the district attorney and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics decline to prosecute the forfeiture of the seized property, the seizing law enforcement agency shall notify the person from whom the property was seized that the property will not be forfeited, within thirty (30) days of receiving the notice not to prosecute, and shall provide written instructions advising the person how to retrieve the seized property.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 29 - Poisons, Drugs and Other Controlled Substances
Article 3 - Uniform Controlled Substances Law
§ 41-29-107. Bureau of narcotics; composition; qualifications; dismissal
§ 41-29-109. Cooperation with bureau of narcotics
§ 41-29-110. Bureau of narcotics work program
§ 41-29-112. Special contract agents or investigators
§ 41-29-113. Schedule I of controlled substances
§ 41-29-115. Schedule II of controlled substances
§ 41-29-117. Schedule III of controlled substances
§ 41-29-119. Schedule IV of controlled substances
§ 41-29-121. Schedule V of controlled substances
§ 41-29-122. Exempt chemical preparations and mixtures
§ 41-29-123. Revision and republication of schedules
§ 41-29-127. Registration; factors considered
§ 41-29-129. Revocation and suspension of registration
§ 41-29-133. Records and inventories
§ 41-29-138. Applicability of avoirdupois system of weights
§ 41-29-139. Prohibited acts; penalties
§ 41-29-140. Fines and penalties; violation of Section 41-29-139
§ 41-29-141. Prohibited acts B; penalties
§ 41-29-143. Prohibited acts C; penalties
§ 41-29-145. Distribution to persons under age twenty-one
§ 41-29-147. Second and subsequent offenses
§ 41-29-149. Suspended sentences; eligibility for parole; resentencing
§ 41-29-151. Penalties to be additional; barring of prosecutions
§ 41-29-154. Disposition of seized controlled substances and paraphernalia
§ 41-29-157. Administrative inspection warrants and search warrants
§ 41-29-161. Bonds of bureau officers and employees
§ 41-29-163. Judicial review of final determinations, findings and conclusions
§ 41-29-165. Judicial review of convictions and orders
§ 41-29-167. Cooperative arrangements
§ 41-29-169. Drug abuse education programs
§ 41-29-171. Research programs on misuse and abuse of controlled substances
§ 41-29-173. Effect of Uniform Controlled Substances Law on pending proceedings
§ 41-29-175. Continuation of regulations
§ 41-29-176.1. Prosecution of cases involving seized property
§ 41-29-183. Procedure for disposition of seized property; exclusiveness of remedy
§ 41-29-189. Drug Evidence Disposition Fund created; purpose; sources of funds