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§ 29-1-3. Sixteenth section or in lieu lands; biennial report of commissioner; public officials to supply management and investment information - The action of mandamus shall lie as is provided under...
§ 29-1-5. Value of state lands - Whenever the state land commissioner shall need information as to...
§ 29-1-7. Suits for or on behalf of public lands - The land commissioner may prosecute suits in the name of...
§ 29-1-9. Suits for recovery of lands - The land commissioner shall institute and prosecute, and prosecute where...
§ 29-1-11. Fraudulent purchases declared void - All fraudulent purchases of public lands heretofore made are void,...
§ 29-1-13. Private claims to lands - The land commissioner shall investigate all claims of persons to...
§ 29-1-15. Counties and municipalities may grant lands to state - The governing authorities of any county or municipality of the...
§ 29-1-17. Protection of public lands from trespass - It is the duty of the land commissioner to see...
§ 29-1-19. Damages for trespass - If any person go or be upon any public land,...
§ 29-1-21. Record of tax lands - The Secretary of State, on receiving from the chancery clerk...
§ 29-1-23. Definition - Wherever the words "original owner" appear in this chapter, they...
§ 29-1-25. Lands acquired through error - In cases where lands have passed from the ownership of...
§ 29-1-27. Lands mistakenly claimed by state stricken from tax list - The land commissioner and auditor are hereby authorized to report...
§ 29-1-29. Lands mistakenly sold to state may be stricken - The chancery clerk of any county is hereby authorized to...
§ 29-1-31. Void tax sales stricken - In all cases where it appears that the claim of...
§ 29-1-33. Sale price of tax lands - The land commissioner with the approval of the governor is...
§ 29-1-35. Sale of land after buildings destroyed; factors Secretary of State may consider in determining sales price for land - Where buildings and improvements situated on tax-forfeited lands have been...
§ 29-1-37. Application to purchase tax lands - Each applicationshall be signed by the applicant and shall contain...
§ 29-1-39. Contract for sale of tax lands - The Secretary of State with the approval of the Governor...
§ 29-1-41. Unlawful to cut timber until purchase price is paid - It shall be unlawful for any person who has contracted...
§ 29-1-43. Lands under contract for sale taxable - When any contract for the sale of state forfeited tax...
§ 29-1-45. Cancellation of contract of sale - If taxes become delinquent on lands which are contracted for...
§ 29-1-47. Purchase price forfeited - On the cancellation of the contract of sale, as provided...
§ 29-1-49. Tax land may be sold to drainage district - The land commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, is...
§ 29-1-51. Tax land may be sold to municipality - The Secretary of State, with the approval of the Governor,...
§ 29-1-53. Sale of tax; forfeited improvements - Where one party owns lands and another owns the improvements...
§ 29-1-55. Sale of tax-forfeited timber - Where timber standing on lands is assessed to persons other...
§ 29-1-57. Sale of buildings, personal property and land associated with tax lands; factors Secretary of State may consider in determining sale price for land - Where tax-forfeited lands have situated thereon buildings or personal property...
§ 29-1-59. Sale price of swamp and overflowed lands - The minimum sale price of the swamp and overflowed lands...
§ 29-1-61. Sale price of internal improvement lands - The internal improvement lands may be sold by the land...
§ 29-1-63. Sale price of Chickasaw school lands - The Chickasaw school lands are to be sold by the...
§ 29-1-67. Sale of lands in municipalities - Land situated within municipalities which has once been patented either...
§ 29-1-69. Sale of certain lands sold by municipalities - Lands situated in municipalities which have heretofore escheated to or...
§ 29-1-71. Sale of lands for municipal defense projects - When it is sufficiently shown to the Governor and Secretary...
§ 29-1-73. Quantity purchased by one person - One person may purchase or contract to purchase as much...
§ 29-1-77. Sale or lease to highway commission - The land commissioner with the approval of the Governor is...
§ 29-1-79. How purchase money paid - The Secretary of State shall receive the purchase money of...
§ 29-1-83. Land sold by the state to be assessed for taxes - When a patent shall issue for public lands, the land...
§ 29-1-85. Failure of title to public lands - If the title to any public land sold by the...
§ 29-1-89. Certain entries cancelled - If it appear to the land commissioner that any land...
§ 29-1-91. Taxes remain a charge on redeemed land - If the state's title to any land certified into the...
§ 29-1-93. Fees of county officers - The fees of all county officers allowed by law in...
§ 29-1-97. Lien of drainage district or municipality not abated - When any land is situated in a drainage district and...
§ 29-1-99. Easements for flood control, etc. - The land commissioner of the State of Mississippi, with the...
§ 29-1-101. Easements for pipe lines - The Secretary of State, for and on behalf of the...
§ 29-1-103. Liability for damages in construction of pipe lines - No such pipe line shall be built or constructed in...
§ 29-1-105. Restrictions on construction or use of pipe lines - The right to construct or use any such pipe line...
§ 29-1-107. Leasing or renting of surface and submerged lands - For calendar year 2006, the annual in-lieu tidelands assessment paid...
§ 29-1-109. Fees or commissions prohibited for collecting rent on state-owned property - It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of...
§ 29-1-111. Duplicate of conveyance issued - When any conveyance or any release upon redemption made by...
§ 29-1-113. Presumption of patent in absence of record - Whenever a sale of land for delinquent taxes to the...
§ 29-1-115. Presumption of validity of patents of forfeited tax land - Whenever any forfeited tax land patent has been issued by...
§ 29-1-117. Titles and claims vacated and relinquished - All apparent title and claims of the State of Mississippi...
§ 29-1-119. Patents to issue in certain cases - Where the records of the land office or any office...
§ 29-1-121. Agent to collect fund due state - The Governor may contract with and appoint an agent for...
§ 29-1-123. Lists of tax lands prepared; copies to counties - Immediately after March 26, 1936, it shall be the duty...
§ 29-1-125. Collection of sums due state arising from mineral interests - The State Tax Commission is authorized, empowered, and directed to...
§ 29-1-129. Accounting for and disposition of monies collected or received - All monies received or collected by the State Tax Commission...
§ 29-1-131. Powers and duties of Department of Revenue - The commission is hereby empowered and authorized to do and...
§ 29-1-133. Information to be furnished to State Tax Commission - The state land commissioner and the state oil and gas...
§ 29-1-135. Lien of state - The state shall have a lien on all oil, gas,...
§ 29-1-137. Powers and duties of Attorney General - The Attorney General of the state shall act as attorney...
§ 29-1-139. Agents of Department of Revenue - The commission shall use as its agents any person employed...
§ 29-1-141. Interest on unpaid sums - All due but unpaid and delinquent sums shall bear interest...
§ 29-1-143. Jurisdiction of chancery court - The chancery court shall have jurisdiction of all matters and...
§ 29-1-145. State reimbursement of county or municipality for maintenance costs of land to be sold for unpaid taxes - The chancery clerk or municipal clerk shall report to the...
§ 29-1-147. Relinquishment by state of claims for certain forfeited tax lands - All apparent title and claims of the State of Mississippi...
§ 29-1-149. Report of transactions for all conveyances of real property - Each agency, department, community or junior college and public institution...
Lease or Rental of Certain State-Owned Lands in Jackson
§ 29-1-203. Authorization to lease or rent additional state-owned lands located in Jackson; terms; purpose - Beginning at southwest corner of West Broadmoor Subdivision, as recorded...
§ 29-1-205. Lease of certain land in Jackson to national educational honor fraternity - Commence at the Southwest corner of Lot 2 of Northeast...
§ 29-1-211. Exemption from ad valorem taxation - The conveyance of the property pursuant to Sections 29-1-205 and...