Ask a question on the site
Questions
Lawyers
Blogs
Legislation
Contacts
Become a lawyer
Login Registration
In General
§ 29-3-1.1. Definitions - For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have...
§ 29-3-2. Secretary of State to assist in school trust land management - It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State...
§ 29-3-3. Suits to establish title - The board of education may employ one (1) or more...
§ 29-3-7. Adverse possession - Adverse possession for a period of twenty-five (25) years, under...
§ 29-3-9. Compliance with title requirements - In all cases where this chapter has not been complied...
§ 29-3-11. Board of education to ascertain whether county has title to lieu lands; certification to land commissioner where it does not - It shall likewise be the duty of the board of...
§ 29-3-13. Exchange of lieu land with state - When the state owns land in a county which owns...
§ 29-3-15. Sale of lieu lands situated outside county - Land granted in lieu of sixteenth section lands in this...
§ 29-3-17. Lieu land commission - A commission is hereby established to be known as the...
§ 29-3-19. Purchase of lieu lands - Any person desiring to purchase such lands shall file his...
§ 29-3-21. Mineral rights in lieu lands - All oil and mineral rights in and to the lieu...
§ 29-3-25. Report of sale of lieu lands - Said lieu land commission shall make a report to the...
§ 29-3-27. Sale of lands situated within school district - No sixteenth section lands or lands granted in lieu thereof,...
§ 29-3-29. Sales for use as industrial parks - Before any sixteenth section school land or land granted in...
§ 29-3-31. Survey and classification of lands in Choctaw Purchase - It is hereby made the duty of the board of...
§ 29-3-33. Lands defined for classification - For the purpose of determining the proper category for such...
§ 29-3-35. Public agencies to assist in classification - The board of education is authorized and empowered to supervise...
§ 29-3-37. Objections to classification - At any time when any or all portions of such...
§ 29-3-39. Reclassification of lands - It shall be the duty of the board of education...
§ 29-3-40. Farm residential or residential lands exchanged for other lands of equal value - The land commissioner is authorized, in his discretion, to make...
§ 29-3-41. Lease of forest lands restricted - After any parcels of sixteenth section lands have been classified...
§ 29-3-43. Improvements on forest lands - If any sixteenth section land is declared forest land at...
§ 29-3-47. Forestry escrow fund - For its services the state forestry commission shall be entitled...
§ 29-3-49. Agreements for timber improvement - It shall be the duty of the State Forestry Commission,...
§ 29-3-51. Determination of lands subject to lease - The chancery courts have jurisdiction to determine, on bill or...
§ 29-3-52. Prima facie validity of leases executed and recorded in substantial conformity with law - Any lease of sixteenth section lands, or lands granted in...
§ 29-3-53. Term lessee defined - Any lease executed pursuant to this chapter shall inure to...
§ 29-3-54. Posting of leased land against trespassers - Any leaseholder of sixteenth section land, or land granted in...
§ 29-3-57. Superintendent of education to docket leases and collect rentals - The superintendent of education shall keep a current docket as...
§ 29-3-59. Proceeds of leases - All rentals, or other revenue payable under any leases executed...
§ 29-3-65. Appraisal of lands; adjustment of rental amounts - One (1) year prior to the date, when any such...
§ 29-3-69. Lease for ground rental - The board of education may lease school trust lands classified...
§ 29-3-71. Leaseholds subject to taxes - Sixteenth section lands reserved for the use of schools, or...
§ 29-3-73. Lands liable for drainage taxes - Where any school land, generally known as sixteenth sections, reserved...
§ 29-3-75. Insurance - Any leaseholder shall have the right at his own expense...
§ 29-3-77. Disposition of buildings - Where buildings are located on sixteenth section lands which are...
§ 29-3-81. Leasing of land classified as agricultural land - Bids received by the board of education in response to...
§ 29-3-82. Leasing of land not classified as agricultural land - The following procedure shall be followed for the leasing of...
§ 29-3-85. Reservation of rights in lease - In all surface leases of sixteenth section land made by...
§ 29-3-87. Reservation of lands for school building site, public park, or recreational area - Notwithstanding the provisions of this or any other statute, the...
§ 29-3-88. Acquisition of land for construction of school buildings or structures - The board of education is authorized and empowered to acquire...
§ 29-3-99. Leases for oil, gas and mineral exploration, mining, production and development - The board of education is hereby authorized and empowered, in...
§ 29-3-103. Confirmation of leases - Any person holding or claiming any sixteenth section school land...
§ 29-3-105. Decree of confirmation - Should the court be of the opinion that the complainant...
§ 29-3-107. Illegal leases - Should it appear to the court that the lease under...
§ 29-3-109. Crediting of funds derived from lands - All expendable funds derived from sixteenth section or lieu lands...
§ 29-3-113. Investment and lending of funds - The principal fund shall be a permanent township fund which...
§ 29-3-115. Use of expendable funds - The expendable funds derived from sixteenth section or lieu lands...
§ 29-3-117. Revenues to be paid into maintenance or building fund - All expendable sixteenth section revenues to which a school district...
§ 29-3-123. Lists of educable children required before payment of funds - It shall be unlawful for any township funds to be...
§ 29-3-127. Inter-county townships - Where a township is divided so that parts are situated...
§ 29-3-129. Division of damages to land in two school districts - Where sixteenth section or lieu land allotted the township in...
§ 29-3-132. Effect of chapter on power of other entities to make zoning and land use laws, ordinances or regulations - Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to supersede or...
§ 29-3-133. Construction of roads or streets upon lands in certain counties; authorization - The board of supervisors of any county within the state...
§ 29-3-135. Construction of roads or streets upon lands in certain counties; payment of cost - The cost of the construction of any roads or streets...
§ 29-3-139. Disbursement of funds under Section 29-3-137 as affecting sums paid under Section 212 of Mississippi Constitution - In no event shall any sums to be paid to...
Sixteenth Section Development Authorities
§ 29-3-151. Declaration of purpose - The purpose of Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183 is to authorize...
§ 29-3-153. Definitions - Whenever used in Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183, unless a different...
§ 29-3-155. Creation of sixteenth section development authority; acquisition of easements; interim financing - The board of supervisors of any county with a population...
§ 29-3-157. Selection of trustees of authority; vacancies; qualifications; compensation - All powers of the authority shall be exercised by a...
§ 29-3-159. General powers of authority - The authority, through its trustees, is hereby empowered: To develop...
§ 29-3-161. Issuance of bonds authorized - The board of trustees of the authority is hereby authorized...
§ 29-3-163. Payments on bonds when net revenues are insufficient - In the event net revenues of the project are insufficient...
§ 29-3-165. Sale of bonds - On all revenue bonds issued pursuant to the provisions of...
§ 29-3-167. Issuance of bonds to defray expenses of authority - The board of trustees, subject to the call for an...
§ 29-3-169. General terms and conditions as to bonds - All such bonds provided for by Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183...
§ 29-3-171. Validation of bonds - All bonds issued pursuant to Sections 29-3-151 through 29-3-183 shall...
§ 29-3-173. Cooperation with other governmental agencies - The authority shall have authority to act jointly with political...
§ 29-3-174. Immunity from tort actions except for wilful or gross negligence - Except for willful or gross negligence, no action or suit...
§ 29-3-175. Exemptions from state taxation - The accomplishment of the purposes stated in Sections 29-3-151 through...
§ 29-3-177. Bonds as legal investments and as security for deposits of public funds - All bonds of the authority shall be and are hereby...
§ 29-3-179. Construction contracts - All construction contracts by the authority where the amount of...
§ 29-3-181. Deposit of authority's funds - All funds of the authority shall be deposited in the...
§ 29-3-183. Bond proceeds may be utilized to pay preliminary expenses - The authority is hereby authorized to pay from the proceeds...