If it shall be made to appear to the court or chancellor in vacation on the hearing of any proceedings filed under Sections 51-33-105 through 51-33-121 that the district will have funds on hand after all of its debts and all expenses and court costs incident to said proceeding have been paid, then and in this event, the court or chancellor in vacation shall provide, order, and direct in the final decree dissolving said district that the said surplus shall be refunded among the landowners of said district on such pro rata, equitable, and just basis and terms as the court or chancellor shall find to be proper. After the final decree has been rendered by the court or chancellor in vacation in any proceeding instituted under said sections dissolving any drainage district, said district shall have no further existence and no further drainage taxes shall be levied against any of the lands embraced within the limits of said district. All of the unpaid benefits and assessments assessed against the lands in said drainage district for drainage purposes shall stand canceled, the lien therefor shall be unenforceable, and the court or chancellor in vacation shall so provide in the final decree rendered dissolving said drainage district.
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