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MS Code § 29-1-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-91. Taxes remain a charge on redeemed land

 If the state's title to any land certified into the land office fail, and the land be reclaimed or redeemed before or after sale by the state, the taxes for which it was sold and the taxes for each subsequent year and all officers' fees shall remain and become a charge upon the land as if it had been regularly assessed to the owner in each of said years.   If the title to any land purchased by any municipality under any provisions of Sections 21-33-69, 21-33-73, or 21-37-49 shall fail, and the land be reclaimed before or after any sale by the municipality, the municipal, municipal separate school, and/or special improvement or other taxes for which it was sold, and any and all of such taxes for any subsequent year, and all officers' fees shall remain and become a charge upon such land, subordinate only to state and county taxes, as if it had been regularly assessed to the owner in each of said years.
MS Code § 29-1-93 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-93. Fees of county officers

 The fees of all county officers allowed by law in connection with land sold to the state for taxes shall be paid by the state when such land shall be sold by the state. Upon such sale the land commissioner shall carefully calculate said fees and shall certify the same to the auditor who, if he finds the same correct, shall issue his warrants therefor to the proper persons; provided, that said fees shall lapse as to any land not sold within ten (10) years after the period of redemption has expired.
MS Code § 29-1-97 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-97. Lien of drainage district or municipality not abated

 When any land is situated in a drainage district and is subject to any special drainage district assessment which is secured by a lien on said land, such lien shall not be abated or cancelled on account of the sale of such land to the state for delinquent taxes, but such lien shall be held in abeyance during the period the property is owned by the state and, immediately upon the title to the land passing from the state by virtue of a sale, such lien shall again become effective. And, likewise, when any land is situated in a municipality and is subject to any special municipal benefit assessment which is secured by a lien on the land, such lien shall not be abated or cancelled on account of the sale of such land to the state for delinquent taxes, but such lien shall be held in abeyance during the period such property is owned by the state and, immediately upon the title to the state passing from the state by virtue of a sale, such lien shall again become effective.
MS Code § 29-1-99 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-99. Easements for flood control, etc.

 The land commissioner of the State of Mississippi, with the approval of the governor, is hereby authorized and empowered to grant or donate easements in and to the public lands of the state to any drainage district, flood control district, or to any county in this state, or to the United States or to any agency thereof, for the construction and the maintenance of flood control canals and ditches, or drainage canals and ditches, or other flood control or drainage instrumentalities.
MS Code § 29-1-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-101. Easements for pipe lines

 The Secretary of State, for and on behalf of the state, may convey an easement or easements for the construction and maintenance of pipe lines in, on, under, and across all of the state land owned (including that submerged or wherever the tide may ebb and flow) now or hereafter acquired, excepting, however, state highway rights-of-way, sixteenth section school land, lieu lands, and forfeited tax land and property the title to which is subject to any lawful redemption, and excepting the state land comprising the old asylum property located in the City of Jackson, property of the Department of Mental Health, the Parchman Penitentiary property located in Sunflower County, Mississippi, and all other Penitentiary property, to any person, firm, or corporation constructing or operating a refinery for the refining of oil, gas, or petroleum products in the state, or to any person, firm, or corporation transporting by pipe line any substance to or from any such refinery in this state, for such consideration as the Secretary of State deems just and proper, which shall be subject to approval by the Secretary of State, the Governor, and the Attorney General of the state, for easements in, on, under, and across the state-owned land.
MS Code § 29-1-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-103. Liability for damages in construction of pipe lines

 No such pipe line shall be built or constructed in a manner to be dangerous to persons or property, nor in a manner to interfere with the common use of public lands, and the owner of any such pipe line shall be responsible in damages for any injury caused by construction or use of such pipe line.
MS Code § 29-1-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-105. Restrictions on construction or use of pipe lines

 The right to construct or use any such pipe line in, on, under, or across land which is submerged or whereover the tide may ebb and flow shall be subject to the following:   The paramount right of the United States to control commerce and navigation; and   The right of the public to make free use of the waters; and   The restrictions and prohibitions contained in Section 81 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890.
MS Code § 29-1-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-109. Fees or commissions prohibited for collecting rent on state-owned property

 It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of the State of Mississippi or any department, institution, or agency thereof to pay or authorize the payment of any fee, commission, or compensation whatsoever to any person for the collection of rents arising from any property owned by the State of Mississippi or any department, institution, or agency thereof. Any person who shall pay or authorize the payment of any such fees, commissions, or compensation shall be civilly liable to the State of Mississippi in double the amount of the fees, commissions, or other compensation so paid.
MS Code § 29-1-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-111. Duplicate of conveyance issued

 When any conveyance or any release upon redemption made by the auditor or the land commissioner shall be lost or destroyed, upon the application of the person interested, the land commissioner may make another conveyance or release of the same land to the person to whom the first was made. The latter shall be in lieu of the former, shall be marked "duplicate," and shall have the same effect.
MS Code § 29-1-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-113. Presumption of patent in absence of record

 Whenever a sale of land for delinquent taxes to the state has been certified to the state land commissioner for more than twenty-five (25) years and there is no record in the land commissioner's office of said lands having been patented out of the state, there shall arise a presumption that said land has been duly patented out of the state. The land commissioner, with the consent of the attorney general, upon application of anyone claiming title to said land and upon his furnishing proof that the taxes to the state and county have been paid on said land for each year for the past ten (10) years, is hereby authorized to strike said sale, which striking shall be a disclaimer of all right, title, or interest which the State of Mississippi has in such lands.
MS Code § 29-1-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-115. Presumption of validity of patents of forfeited tax land

 Whenever any forfeited tax land patent has been issued by the state for a period of at least ten (10) years, and the patentee has paid into the state treasury the price fixed by the land commissioner, and all taxes accruing and payable upon the land described in such patent subsequent to the issuance thereof have been paid, it shall be presumed that in the procurement of such patent the patentee paid a valid, legal, and adequate consideration therefor, complied with all the requirements of law, and practiced no fraud upon the state, and that such patent is a valid and legal patent; and said state shall thereafter be forever precluded and estopped from questioning the validity of such patent.
MS Code § 29-1-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-117. Titles and claims vacated and relinquished

 All apparent title and claims of the State of Mississippi to and for lands on account of their sale for delinquent taxes prior to the sales under the Abatement Act of 1875, now held by the state, are hereby vacated and relinquished, leaving the apparent title in those who would have been the owners of the land had not such sales been made, as was the intent and purpose of said act.
MS Code § 29-1-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-119. Patents to issue in certain cases

 Where the records of the land office or any office in the state show that full payment was made for any of the lands which were described in the act approved March 2, 1875, and which were leased under the authority of said act by the secretary of state on December 18, 1875, for ninety-nine (99) years from that time, the land commissioner, on application of the lessee or persons holding under him and the payment of the fee prescribed for such patents, shall issue to such lessee a patent which shall vest in him or his heirs, devisees, or assigns title for the unexpired time of such lease to such lands as prescribed by said act of March 2, 1875, and shall inure to the person entitled under the said lease, whether he be living or dead.
MS Code § 29-1-121 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-121. Agent to collect fund due state

 The Governor may contract with and appoint an agent for the collection of any funds due by the federal government to the State of Mississippi on account of the sale of any land made or hereafter to be made or located or disposed of by the United States, for cash or bounty land warrants or land scrip or certificates of any kind or agricultural college scrip, and to all lands allotted to Indians in severalty, including former and existing Indian, military, or other reservations in said state, and he may allow him such reasonable compensation as may be agreed upon, to be paid only out of funds actually collected by him.
MS Code § 29-1-123 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-123. Lists of tax lands prepared; copies to counties

 Immediately after March 26, 1936, it shall be the duty of the land commissioner to prepare or cause to be prepared accurate and complete lists of all lands in each county which have been forfeited to the state for the nonpayment of taxes, the title to which has matured in the state. Such lists shall be prepared for each county separately and embrace and include all lands heretofore sold to the state for delinquent taxes in such county and now held or claimed by the state; and such lists shall be made up in the regular order of townships, ranges, and sections as now appearing on the records of his office. Such lists shall show the date of the tax sale to the state, the amount of taxes, damages, costs, and special assessments of every kind whatsoever for which such lands were sold. No lands heretofore stricken by the land commissioner, with the approval of the Attorney General, from the lists of lands sold to the state for delinquent taxes in his office under the provisions of Section 29-1-31 of the Mississippi Code of 1972 shall be included in the lists of lands to be compiled under the provisions of this section.   Such lists, when completed, shall be examined by the Attorney General; and the land commissioner, with the approval of the Attorney General, shall strike from such lists and from the land book or books in his office all lands which, by reason of insufficient description or other cause, in the opinion of the Attorney General are not the property of the state. The title to the state to such lands as may be thus stricken off shall be thereby relinquished. When such lists shall have been completed, they shall be duly recorded by the land commissioner in a record book provided by him for that purpose in his office, the lists of such lands for each county to be recorded in a separate book, and the land commissioner shall certify to the correctness of such lists as thus recorded.   The land commissioner, after recording in his office such lists of lands sold to the state for delinquent taxes and held or claimed by the state, shall prepare and mail to the chancery clerk of the county in which such lands are situated a certified copy of such lists under the seal of the land office, and the chancery clerk shall record the same in a separate record book in his office provided for that purpose. In counties having two (2) judicial districts, such lists shall be recorded in the office of the chancery clerk of each such judicial district. For recording such lists, the chancery clerk shall be allowed Five Cents (5¢) for each tract of land formerly included as a single assessment embraced in such lists, to be paid out of the county treasury upon allowance of the board of supervisors.
MS Code § 29-1-125 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-125. Collection of sums due state arising from mineral interests

 The State Tax Commission is authorized, empowered, and directed to collect and receive any and all sums of money due the State of Mississippi as royalties or other returns arising as a result of the ownership of tax-forfeited lands, title to which is vested in the state and which lands have not been sold; and the commission is further authorized, empowered and directed to determine the interest of the state in any royalties or other mineral interests due it and accruing or arising from ownership, lease, or otherwise, excepting only lands owned by the state and its institutions which are under the control of a legally constituted board of trustees or other agency having the power to enforce all the rights of the state.
MS Code § 29-1-127 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-127. Reports as to mineral interests and payment of royalties and other returns

  It shall be the duty of any and all persons, firms, or corporations having any interest in the lands described in Section 29-1-125, or in minerals produced from said lands, when requested, to report to the State Tax Commission, on forms furnished and prescribed by it, full information with respect to the interest held, claimed, or owned and of any oil, gas, sulphur, or other mineral products which have been produced or transported by such person, firm, or corporation, and all pertinent or necessary information with respect thereto. Such reports shall be made regardless of the kind of title or interest held, whether as tenant, lessee, producer, purchaser, or transporter. All parties or persons shall pay the State Tax Commission, as agent of the state, any royalties or other returns due the state by reason of its ownership of lands or any interest therein, and shall make full and complete disclosure of all pertinent facts with respect to such matters.   Any person responsible for the payment of royalties or other returns and the distribution of royalties or other returns shall make a report on or before the tenth day of each month, on forms prescribed and furnished by the commission, showing for each oil, gas, or sulphur well or any gravel pit or quarry the total quantity of oil, gas, or other minerals produced in the preceding month, the value in money, the name and address of each person receiving or entitled to receive royalties or other returns, the name and address of the person or persons receiving or purchasing the output of the well, pit, or quarry, and other information required by the commission. The report shall show the quantity and value in money of the product which is owned by the state as owner of the title to the land, and shall remit with the report the total amount due the state. Remittance may be by check or bank draft, but this shall not be a discharge of the debt until the state has received the amount in legal tender.
MS Code § 29-1-129 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-129. Accounting for and disposition of monies collected or received

 All monies received or collected by the State Tax Commission under Sections 29-1-125 through 29-1-143 shall be separately accounted for and a permanent record made thereof, showing all proper and necessary details as to the source from which collected, the payor, the quantity, kind, and value of products for which paid, and the description of lands from which severed if the state is the owner of the lands, or the royalties; and it shall issue receipts therefor to the person or persons paying the money. All money collected and received shall be deposited in the bank and paid into the general fund of the state on or before the 10th day of the month following the collection.
MS Code § 29-1-131 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-131. Powers and duties of Department of Revenue

 The commission is hereby empowered and authorized to do and require to be done the following things:   Prepare and furnish all necessary forms for use by persons making reports as required by Sections 29-1-125 through 29-1-143; to adopt and issue rules and regulations for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of said sections and for the collection of all sums due the state under the provisions hereof; and to provide for orderly and reasonable procedure for details and for situations which arise from time to time.   To require the state land commissioner to furnish all needed data available in his office.   To require the state oil and gas board to furnish all needed data available in its office.   To require any owner, producer, purchaser, or transporter of any oil, gas, or other minerals to furnish any needed and useful information pertinent to the administration of the cited sections, and in the possession of any such parties; and to require the said persons to furnish monthly reports with respect to current operations.   To require any chancery clerk, or other officer in the state having public records, to furnish copies of any needed and useful information or record in his possession.   Any member of the commission or its authorized agents shall have the authority to examine any book, paper, record, or other data when considered necessary or useful in the administration of the aforesaid sections, and this shall include the right to examine the records of any bank, any common carrier, or any dealer in materials or merchandise commonly used in the severance of oil, gas, or other minerals from land; the commission shall have the right to summon any person as a witness to testify to any pertinent fact; and the commission, through the Attorney General, may have proceedings instituted in the proper court to compel compliance with the foregoing provisions.   Make use of any tax return in its possession, when such return contains information relative to matters connected with the administration of said sections.
MS Code § 29-1-133 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-133. Information to be furnished to State Tax Commission

 The state land commissioner and the state oil and gas board shall furnish, when requested by the commission, a certified copy of any document, record, letter, or other data needed and useful in the administration of Sections 29-1-125 through 29-1-143, and shall give any information that they have with respect to matters in controversy. The state land commissioner shall furnish a list of all state owned lands shown by the records in his office, if the lands are located in a county or in counties adjoining a county in which is located any oil or gas field in the state.
MS Code § 29-1-135 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-135. Lien of state

 The state shall have a lien on all oil, gas, or other minerals produced from any land owned by it or in which it has any interest, and this lien shall exist and continue against such oil, gas, or other minerals when in the hands of the first owner after severance, the producer, lessee, or transporter. If any of said parties fail to make provision for the payment of the sums due the state, they shall be personally liable, individually and severally, to the state for all sums lawfully due to it.
MS Code § 29-1-137 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-137. Powers and duties of Attorney General

 The Attorney General of the state shall act as attorney for the commission and shall advise it as to all questions arising in connection with the administration of Sections 29-1-125 through 29-1-143, and as to all matters in controversy. He shall represent the commission in any and all suits at law or equity arising from the administration of said sections, and shall bring suit for the collection of any sum due the state on behalf of the commission, as the agent of the state, in all cases which he believes the conditions warrant suit. He may, if deemed advisable, sue in his own name as the chief law officer of the state. He shall represent the commission in all cases involving the title of lands in question, and on any and all other matters arising from the administration of the cited sections.   The Attorney General may request and direct any district attorney to aid in the trial of any suit in the district which he serves and, when so requested, the district attorney shall assist in the conduct and trial of any suit in his district; but the Attorney General shall prepare all bills, declarations, and pleadings.
MS Code § 29-1-139 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 1 - Public Lands|In General|§ 29-1-139. Agents of Department of Revenue

 The commission shall use as its agents any person employed by the commissioner as provided by law, and assigned to and accepted by the commission; and any such persons, when properly authorized, shall have the power to act to the same extent as the commission itself, except as to such matters that require the adoption of a formal order by the commission.