Whenever twenty-five per cent (25%) of the landowners owning a majority of the acreage of any drainage district organized under any of the laws of the State of Mississippi desire to have the same dissolved and its affairs wound up, the chancery court in which said district was organized, or the chancery court of the county in which the lands of said district are located, or the chancellor of either of said courts in vacation shall be authorized to enter an order or decree directing that the affairs of the same be wound up and that said districts be dissolved on such terms as the court or chancellor in vacation might deem meet and proper, (a) whenever it shall be made to appear to the court or chancellor in vacation in any proceeding filed for said purpose that said drainage district does not have any outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, or (b) in the event it does have an outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, but owns easements, rights of way, drains, canals, ditches, or other property which said district can sell for an amount equal to its fair cash market value which will be sufficient, or when added to any other funds of the district will be sufficient, to enable it to pay off and discharge all of its outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control
Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts
Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts
§ 51-33-1. Soil and water conservation and utilization
§ 51-33-3. Additional powers for conservation
§ 51-33-5. Petition for conservation powers
§ 51-33-7. Creation of district for conservation purposes
§ 51-33-9. Construction of conservation program
§ 51-33-11. Additional powers for beneficial use of water
§ 51-33-13. Cooperative agreements for conservation programs
§ 51-33-15. Water management district
§ 51-33-17. Borrowing funds from government agencies
§ 51-33-19. Funds for repairs and restoration
§ 51-33-21. Certificates of indebtedness for repairs
§ 51-33-23. Tax levy for repairs
§ 51-33-25. Hearing on indebtedness for repairs
§ 51-33-27. Authority for indebtedness for repairs
§ 51-33-29. Cooperative agreements with U.S. Corps of Engineers
§ 51-33-31. Borrowing from Farmers' Home Administration
§ 51-33-33. Irrigation of farm lands
§ 51-33-35. Contract for irrigation funds
§ 51-33-37. Bond issue to fund legal indebtedness
§ 51-33-41. Payment of refunding bonds
§ 51-33-43. State sale of tax lands
§ 51-33-45. District may purchase tax lands
§ 51-33-47. Lands conveyed to drainage district liable for state and county taxes
§ 51-33-49. Sale or lease of tax lands
§ 51-33-51. Sale price of tax lands
§ 51-33-53. Terms of sale of tax lands
§ 51-33-55. Terms of lease of tax lands
§ 51-33-57. Seal required for conveyance of tax lands
§ 51-33-59. Release of land by lump sum payment
§ 51-33-63. Procedure to release lands from Reconstruction Finance Corporation
§ 51-33-65. Release of lands by agreement with commissioners and bondholders
§ 51-33-67. Procedure to release lands from bondholders
§ 51-33-71. Procedure to release lands in districts with more than fifty percent tax-forfeited lands
§ 51-33-73. Payment for release
§ 51-33-75. Receivership for certain districts
§ 51-33-77. Proceedings for appointment of receiver
§ 51-33-79. Duties of receiver; oath; bond; records
§ 51-33-83. Payment of assessments by landowners or sale of property
§ 51-33-85. Compromise of assessments between landowners and bondholders
§ 51-33-87. Disposition of funds and discharge of receiver
§ 51-33-89. Receivership as additional management method
§ 51-33-93. Dissolution of district without construction; petition; notice
§ 51-33-95. Dissolution of district without construction; proceedings; chancery court jurisdiction
§ 51-33-97. Dissolution of district without construction; claims
§ 51-33-99. Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance
§ 51-33-101. Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; petition; notice
§ 51-33-105. Dissolution of district by cumulative method
§ 51-33-107. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; petition
§ 51-33-109. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; notice and summons
§ 51-33-111. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; claims
§ 51-33-117. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; surplus funds; effect of dissolution
§ 51-33-119. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; appeals