Any drainage district, acting through the drainage commissioners of said district, as organized and provided in Title 51, Chapters 27, 29, 31, of the Mississippi Code of 1972, is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to transfer to the State of Mississippi, free of any and all liens, any lands purchased by such drainage district for nonpayment of taxes. However, no such transfer shall be made except that it be stated in the deed of conveyance that the lands so transferred shall be dedicated and used by the State of Mississippi as provided in Sections 55-3-5 through 55-3-15.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 55 - Parks and Recreation
Chapter 3 - State Parks and Forests
§ 55-3-1. Gifts of land for state forests and parks
§ 55-3-5. Survey of state land
§ 55-3-7. Transfer and dedication of lands for use as state forests, parks, etc.
§ 55-3-9. Exchange of lands by state and private landowner
§ 55-3-11. Control and management of lands
§ 55-3-13. Purchase or condemnation by counties of lands to be given to state; source of funds
§ 55-3-15. Disposition of revenues
§ 55-3-17. Transfer of lands by drainage districts
§ 55-3-23. Maintenance of cemetery where donors of Kurtz State Forest buried