Mississippi Code
Chapter 31 - Drainage Districts with County Commissioners
§ 51-31-61. Levy to provide estimated funds

Upon the organization of said districts as herein provided, and as soon as said drainage commissioners have proceeded to procure the rights-of-way, either by agreement or condemnation, for ditches or canals, both main and lateral, or for the erection of levees, and the right-of-way to enter upon, alter, deepen, or improve natural drains or watercourses, they shall make an estimate of the cost, including commissioner's fees and expenses of said proposed work, or if said estimate has been made it shall be revised and approved. Said commissioners shall file a levy certifying the amount required by them for the construction of such proposed work, and may in said levy order that so much of the benefits or betterments assessed against the lands in such district as will be necessary to defray the costs of said work, to be paid in cash; or said commissioners may in said levy order that the same be paid in not exceeding forty (40) installments, with interest on each installment at a rate of interest not to exceed six percent (6%) per annum. Or, the said commissioners may order in said levy that bonds of said district shall be issued and sold for any amount not exceeding eighty percent (80%) of the assessed value of the benefits or betterments. Said bonds shall be payable in from one (1) to forty (40) years from the date issued, with interest from the date issued at an overall maximum interest rate to maturity not greater than that allowed in Section 75-17-101, payable annually or semiannually, as the court or chancellor in vacation may direct; and it shall be lawful to attach coupons for any part of a year to the bonds maturing the first year. If bonds are thus issued and sold for an amount not exceeding eighty percent (80%) of the value of said betterments, the said commissioners may order the remaining twenty percent (20%), or any part thereof, to be paid in cash at its discretion. If the amounts levied be not sufficient to complete the work done or hereafter to be done, or if bonds are issued and sold for an amount less than eighty percent (80%) of the value of the assessed benefits and additional funds are required to complete the work or pay for work theretofore done, an additional levy may be made or an additional issue of bonds may be made, provided the additional levy, when added to the original levy, shall not exceed the amount of betterments assessed, or that the additional bond issue shall not be for an amount which, added to the original bond issue, shall exceed eighty percent (80%) of the assessed value of the betterment. Such additional levy shall be made payable in cash or in not exceeding fifteen (15) installments, each installment bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six percent (6%) per annum.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, bonds referred to hereinabove may be issued pursuant to the supplemental powers and authorizations conferred by the provisions of the registered bond act, being Sections 31-21-1 through 31-21-7.

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Mississippi Code

Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control

Chapter 31 - Drainage Districts with County Commissioners

§ 51-31-1. Powers of drainage districts

§ 51-31-3. Definitions

§ 51-31-5. General authority of drainage districts

§ 51-31-7. Exercise of authority

§ 51-31-9. Selection of county drainage commissioners

§ 51-31-11. Oath and bond of drainage commissioners

§ 51-31-13. Compensation of commissioners

§ 51-31-15. Quorum

§ 51-31-17. Secretary and treasurer of drainage districts

§ 51-31-19. Employment of counsel

§ 51-31-21. Creation of drainage districts on petition

§ 51-31-23. Jurisdiction of organization

§ 51-31-25. Notice of petition

§ 51-31-27. Date of hearing

§ 51-31-29. Hearing of petitions

§ 51-31-31. Landowners may sign petition at hearing

§ 51-31-33. Commissioners to estimate cost

§ 51-31-35. Proceedings on report of commissioners

§ 51-31-37. Disposition of report

§ 51-31-39. Form of court's order

§ 51-31-41. District declared organized

§ 51-31-43. Preliminary expenses

§ 51-31-45. Assessment roll

§ 51-31-47. Notice of assessments

§ 51-31-49. Hearing objections

§ 51-31-51. Assessments confirmed

§ 51-31-53. Payment of assessments

§ 51-31-55. Right of way agreements

§ 51-31-57. Notice of appraisement by commissioners

§ 51-31-59. Appraisement hearing

§ 51-31-61. Levy to provide estimated funds

§ 51-31-63. Tax levied to meet assessment

§ 51-31-65. Levy each year to meet bond obligations

§ 51-31-67. Reassessments in case of underestimates

§ 51-31-69. Sale of district bonds

§ 51-31-71. Contracts let to lowest bidder

§ 51-31-73. Commissioners to construct and maintain drains

§ 51-31-75. Lateral ditches to be laid out

§ 51-31-77. Actual damages recoverable

§ 51-31-79. Jurisdiction of drainage commissioners

§ 51-31-81. Annual reports

§ 51-31-83. Commissioners may go on lands

§ 51-31-85. Ditches already constructed may be used

§ 51-31-87. Compensation for use of other district drains

§ 51-31-89. Passing railroads with canal

§ 51-31-91. Notice and damages

§ 51-31-93. Railroad may be assessed for benefits

§ 51-31-95. Drain may cross public road

§ 51-31-97. Landowners outside of district may use drains

§ 51-31-99. Reassessment if estimate deficient

§ 51-31-101. Penalty for injuring drains

§ 51-31-103. Benefit to county farm

§ 51-31-105. Jurisdiction of suits

§ 51-31-107. Master may hear and determine causes; report of findings to chancellor

§ 51-31-109. Expenses of chancellor and master taxed against district

§ 51-31-111. Additional bond issue

§ 51-31-113. Interest rate of additional bonds

§ 51-31-115. Notice of issue to be published

§ 51-31-117. Proceedings in rem

§ 51-31-119. Subdrainage districts authorized

§ 51-31-121. Notice of subdistrict proceedings

§ 51-31-123. Creation of subdistrict

§ 51-31-125. Subdistricts managed by drainage commissioners

§ 51-31-127. Separate financial account kept for subdrainage district

§ 51-31-129. Collection of taxes

§ 51-31-131. Delinquent lands

§ 51-31-133. Tax lists

§ 51-31-135. Record of tax sales

§ 51-31-137. Expiration of redemption period

§ 51-31-139. District placed under supervisors

§ 51-31-141. Procedure for districts to come under this chapter

§ 51-31-143. Drainage law construed