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2016 Mississippi Code
Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property
Chapter 1 - Public Lands
In General (§§ 29-1-1 - 29-1-149)
- § 29-1-1. Purchase of land by state; title to land acquired with state funds as under name of state; sale of public lands; gift or donation of land to state; Secretary of State to sign conveyances; inventory of state lands; land purchased for benefit of state agency; use of assets of Public Employees' Retirement System restricted; cultural resources survey; land acquired for highways, through federal funds or for the Mississippi Major Economic Impact Authority projects exempt; recovery of expenses for record-keeping; requirements for certain legislatively authorized conveyances of specifically described real property
- § 29-1-3. Sixteenth section or in lieu lands; biennial report of commissioner; public officials to supply management and investment information
- § 29-1-5. Value of state lands
- § 29-1-7. Suits for or on behalf of public lands
- § 29-1-9. Suits for recovery of lands
- § 29-1-11. Fraudulent purchases declared void
- § 29-1-13. Private claims to lands
- § 29-1-15. Counties and municipalities may grant lands to state
- § 29-1-17. Protection of public lands from trespass
- § 29-1-19. Damages for trespass
- § 29-1-21. Record of tax lands
- § 29-1-23. Definition
- § 29-1-25. Lands acquired through error
- § 29-1-27. Lands mistakenly claimed by state stricken from tax list
- § 29-1-29. Lands mistakenly sold to state may be stricken
- § 29-1-31. Void tax sales stricken
- § 29-1-33. Sale price of tax lands
- § 29-1-35. Sale of land after buildings destroyed; factors Secretary of State may consider in determining sales price for land
- § 29-1-37. Application to purchase tax lands
- § 29-1-39. Contract for sale of tax lands
- § 29-1-41. Unlawful to cut timber until purchase price is paid
- § 29-1-43. Lands under contract for sale taxable
- § 29-1-45. Cancellation of contract of sale
- § 29-1-47. Purchase price forfeited
- § 29-1-49. Tax land may be sold to drainage district
- § 29-1-51. Tax land may be sold to municipality
- § 29-1-53. Sale of tax; forfeited improvements
- § 29-1-55. Sale of tax-forfeited timber
- § 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
- § 29-1-59. Sale price of swamp and overflowed lands
- § 29-1-61. Sale price of internal improvement lands
- § 29-1-63. Sale price of Chickasaw school lands
- § 29-1-65. Sale price of other lands
- § 29-1-67. Sale of lands in municipalities
- § 29-1-69. Sale of certain lands sold by municipalities
- § 29-1-71. Sale of lands for municipal defense projects
- § 29-1-73. Quantity purchased by one person
- § 29-1-75. Who may not purchase public lands [Repealed effective July 1, 2019]
- § 29-1-77. Sale or lease to highway commission
- § 29-1-79. How purchase money paid
- § 29-1-81. Issuance of patents and contracts
- § 29-1-83. Land sold by the state to be assessed for taxes
- § 29-1-85. Failure of title to public lands
- § 29-1-87. Patents cancelled where state has no title
- § 29-1-89. Certain entries cancelled
- § 29-1-91. Taxes remain a charge on redeemed land
- § 29-1-93. Fees of county officers
- § 29-1-95. County, municipality, public school district, drainage district and levee board taxes; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund
- § 29-1-97. Lien of drainage district or municipality not abated
- § 29-1-99. Easements for flood control, etc
- § 29-1-101. Easements for pipe lines
- § 29-1-103. Liability for damages in construction of pipe lines
- § 29-1-105. Restrictions on construction or use of pipe lines
- § 29-1-107. Leasing or renting of surface and submerged lands
- § 29-1-109. Fees or commissions prohibited for collecting rent on state-owned property
- § 29-1-111. Duplicate of conveyance issued
- § 29-1-113. Presumption of patent in absence of record
- § 29-1-115. Presumption of validity of patents of forfeited tax land
- § 29-1-117. Titles and claims vacated and relinquished
- § 29-1-119. Patents to issue in certain cases
- § 29-1-121. Agent to collect fund due state
- § 29-1-123. Lists of tax lands prepared; copies to counties
- § 29-1-125. Collection of sums due state arising from mineral interests
- § 29-1-127. Reports as to mineral interests and payment of royalties and other returns
- § 29-1-129. Accounting for and disposition of monies collected or received
- § 29-1-131. Powers and duties of Department of Revenue
- § 29-1-133. Information to be furnished to State Tax Commission
- § 29-1-135. Lien of state
- § 29-1-137. Powers and duties of Attorney General
- § 29-1-139. Agents of Department of Revenue
- § 29-1-141. Interest on unpaid sums
- § 29-1-143. Jurisdiction of chancery court
- § 29-1-145. State reimbursement of county or municipality for maintenance costs of land to be sold for unpaid taxes
- § 29-1-147. Relinquishment by state of claims for certain forfeited tax lands
- § 29-1-149. Report of transactions for all conveyances of real property
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