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§ 51-33-1. Soil and water conservation and utilization - The purpose of Sections 51-33-1 through 51-33-9 is to confer...
§ 51-33-3. Additional powers for conservation - To the end that soil and water conservation measures may...
§ 51-33-5. Petition for conservation powers - Before the additional powers granted by Sections 51-33-1 through 51-33-9...
§ 51-33-7. Creation of district for conservation purposes - In areas not presently within the boundaries of an existing...
§ 51-33-9. Construction of conservation program - The purpose of Sections 51-33-1 through 51-33-9 is to enable...
§ 51-33-11. Additional powers for beneficial use of water - The general powers granted to drainage districts by the laws...
§ 51-33-13. Cooperative agreements for conservation programs - It is the intention of Sections 51-33-9 through 51-33-15 to...
§ 51-33-15. Water management district - Upon the exercise of any power under the provisions of...
§ 51-33-17. Borrowing funds from government agencies - Drainage districts existing or hereafter created under the laws of...
§ 51-33-19. Funds for repairs and restoration - The commissioners of any drainage district organized and existing under...
§ 51-33-21. Certificates of indebtedness for repairs - Such certificates of indebtedness shall in no case be issued...
§ 51-33-23. Tax levy for repairs - For the purpose of providing for the payment of the...
§ 51-33-25. Hearing on indebtedness for repairs - Before issuing any certificates of indebtedness hereunder, the commissioners of...
§ 51-33-27. Authority for indebtedness for repairs - Sections 51-33-19 through 51-33-27 shall be deemed to be full...
§ 51-33-29. Cooperative agreements with U.S. Corps of Engineers - Drainage districts already created or to be created under the...
§ 51-33-31. Borrowing from Farmers' Home Administration - Drainage districts already created or to be created under the...
§ 51-33-33. Irrigation of farm lands - All drainage districts of this state may, in the discretion...
§ 51-33-35. Contract for irrigation funds - The drainage commissioners of all drainage districts of this state...
§ 51-33-37. Bond issue to fund legal indebtedness - For the purpose of funding or paying any legal indebtedness,...
§ 51-33-39. Refunding bonds - For the purpose of refunding bonded indebtedness, now or hereafter...
§ 51-33-41. Payment of refunding bonds - The administrative or governing authority of each such district issuing...
§ 51-33-43. State sale of tax lands - No sale of tax lands in any drainage district organized...
§ 51-33-45. District may purchase tax lands - The board of drainage commissioners of any drainage district organized...
§ 51-33-47. Lands conveyed to drainage district liable for state and county taxes - When lands are purchased by the board of drainage commissioners...
§ 51-33-49. Sale or lease of tax lands - The board of commissioners of any drainage district operating under...
§ 51-33-51. Sale price of tax lands - Any lands purchased by any drainage district from the State...
§ 51-33-53. Terms of sale of tax lands - The lands authorized to be sold under the terms of...
§ 51-33-55. Terms of lease of tax lands - The lands authorized to be leased or rented under the...
§ 51-33-57. Seal required for conveyance of tax lands - The deed conveying any lands authorized to be sold by...
§ 51-33-59. Release of land by lump sum payment - Any owner of land situated in any drainage district of...
§ 51-33-61. Release of lands where indebtedness refinanced through Reconstruction Finance Corporation - In any drainage district of the State of Mississippi which...
§ 51-33-63. Procedure to release lands from Reconstruction Finance Corporation - Any landowner desiring to take advantage of Sections 51-33-61 and...
§ 51-33-65. Release of lands by agreement with commissioners and bondholders - In any drainage district of the State of Mississippi which...
§ 51-33-67. Procedure to release lands from bondholders - Any landowner desiring to take advantage of Sections 51-33-65 and...
§ 51-33-69. Release of lands in districts with more than fifty per cent of lands forfeited to state for taxes - In any drainage district in the State of Mississippi in...
§ 51-33-71. Procedure to release lands in districts with more than fifty percent tax-forfeited lands - Any landowner desiring to take advantage of Sections 51-33-69 through...
§ 51-33-73. Payment for release - The amount required to be paid to obtain the release...
§ 51-33-75. Receivership for certain districts - Whenever any drainage district organized under the laws of this...
§ 51-33-77. Proceedings for appointment of receiver - Upon the filing of petition, process may be had on...
§ 51-33-79. Duties of receiver; oath; bond; records - The bond of the state auditor of public accounts, as...
§ 51-33-81. Audit of records - It shall be the duty of the receiver to audit...
§ 51-33-83. Payment of assessments by landowners or sale of property - Any landowner interested shall have the right to pay to...
§ 51-33-85. Compromise of assessments between landowners and bondholders - It shall be permissible for the landowner and the bond...
§ 51-33-87. Disposition of funds and discharge of receiver - All funds received by the receiver, either as payments made...
§ 51-33-89. Receivership as additional management method - Sections 51-33-75 through 51-33-89 are not intended as repealing or...
§ 51-33-91. Dissolution of district without construction-time limitation for commencement of proceedings - Any drainage district operating under the provisions of any law...
§ 51-33-93. Dissolution of district without construction; petition; notice - Whenever, after the expiration of the said period of three...
§ 51-33-95. Dissolution of district without construction; proceedings; chancery court jurisdiction - The said chancery court, or the chancellor thereof in vacation,...
§ 51-33-97. Dissolution of district without construction; claims - Nothing contained in Sections 51-33-91 through 51-33-97 shall be construed...
§ 51-33-99. Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance - Any drainage district heretofore organized which has constructed drainage canals...
§ 51-33-101. Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; petition; notice - Whenever a majority of the landowners owning a majority of...
§ 51-33-103. Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; proceedings; chancery court jurisdiction - The said chancery court, or the chancellor thereof in vacation,...
§ 51-33-105. Dissolution of district by cumulative method - Whenever twenty-five per cent (25%) of the landowners owning a...
§ 51-33-107. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; petition - All proceedings instituted under Section 51-33-105 shall be by petition...
§ 51-33-109. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; notice and summons - After said petition has been filed with the clerk and...
§ 51-33-111. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; claims - At the time, date, and place set for the hearing...
§ 51-33-113. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; sale of property; orders and decrees; appointment of masters - In the event the petition as filed shows and the...
§ 51-33-115. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; claims; fees and commissions; contraction of debts - The court or chancellor in vacation is hereby authorized at...
§ 51-33-117. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; surplus funds; effect of dissolution - If it shall be made to appear to the court...
§ 51-33-119. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; appeals - The hearing and trial of any proceeding instituted under the...
§ 51-33-121. Law as additional method of dissolution - Sections 51-33-105 through 51-33-121 shall be cumulative and additional and...
§ 51-33-123. Saving statute - Drainage districts heretofore organized under the provisions of any law...
§ 51-33-125. Transfer of powers, duties and responsibilities of dissolved drainage districts with federally funded water impoundment structures to county soil and water conservation districts - The duties, powers and responsibilities of a drainage district with...
§ 51-33-127. Procedures for transfer of drainage district attributes to county soil and water conservation district; dissolution of drainage district; continuation of maintenance and operation of existing structures - 1. Dissolving the drainage district. 2. Transferring all the powers,...