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MS Code § 51-33-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-73. Payment for release

 The amount required to be paid to obtain the release provided for in Sections 51-33-69 through 51-33-73 may be paid in cash, bonds, interest coupons of such drainage district, or by credit on any judgment rendered against the district on defaulted bonds and coupons; however, the same shall not be paid by any bonds or interest coupons which have become barred by the statutes of limitation of the State of Mississippi. If the amount paid be in cash, the drainage commissioners shall deposit the same in a special fund to be used in paying the bonded indebtedness of the district; but if the release be paid for in bonds or coupons or by credit on judgment against the district, the same shall immediately be cancelled by the drainage commissioners.
MS Code § 51-33-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-75. Receivership for certain districts

 Whenever any drainage district organized under the laws of this state shall cease to function in the manner provided by law for a period of two or more years by failing to levy and collect the annual assessments made and pledged by it to the payment of its bonded indebtedness, or by failing to function as an organized body, or shall suffer its bonded indebtedness or a substantial part thereof to be in default and so remain for a period of two or more years, then, in either or all of such events, any holder of any of the outstanding and past due bonds issued by said drainage district or of judgments based upon said bonded indebtedness shall have the right to petition the chancery court of the county in which said drainage district or the greater part thereof is situated, for the appointment of a receiver for said drainage district.
MS Code § 51-33-77 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-77. Proceedings for appointment of receiver

 Upon the filing of petition, process may be had on all interested persons by publication of summons as provided by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure directed to the landowners, bondholders, and creditors of said drainage district commanding them to appear before the chancery court at a place named within such chancery court district on a day certain in termtime or before the chancellor in vacation and show cause, if any they can, why a receiver shall not be appointed for said drainage district. Upon the hearing of said petition, if it shall be proven that any or all of said allegations as set forth herein and alleged in said petition are true, the court shall appoint the State Auditor of Public Accounts as receiver for said drainage district.
MS Code § 51-33-79 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-79. Duties of receiver; oath; bond; records

 The bond of the state auditor of public accounts, as said auditor, is hereby fixed to be the bond of said state auditor of public accounts as receiver hereunder; and the oath of office taken by said state auditor of public accounts shall be sufficient oath to be required as receiver hereunder. It is hereby fixed to be the duty of the state auditor of public accounts to serve and qualify as receiver under Sections 51-33-75 through 51-33-89, and upon being appointed hereunder he shall discharge all the duties heretofore required of the drainage commissioner, other duties prescribed by said sections, and orders of the court; and he shall be subject to the orders of the court. The tenure of office of the drainage commissioners shall thereupon terminate during the pendency of said receivership, and the court shall order all the records of said drainage district to be turned over to said receiver who may take possession thereof.
MS Code § 51-33-83 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-83. Payment of assessments by landowners or sale of property

 Any landowner interested shall have the right to pay to the receiver, whether due or not, the amount charged and assessed as a lien on his tract of land at any time before it is sold. In such event the receiver shall issue to him a receipt therefor, which shall discharge such tract of land from the lien and assessment fixed against it and may be recorded by the clerk of said court. In the event of a sale the landowner, the bond and judgment holders, or their agent shall have the right to purchase, and sale shall be made to the highest bidder for cash at public outcry. The receiver shall execute to the purchaser an appropriate conveyance of the tract sold for the amount bid, and such sale shall extinguish all claims and demands of the bond and judgment holders against said land for the benefit assessments for which it is sold, whether for the full amount or not, but shall not affect the lien of the bond and judgment holders for any benefit assessments not due.
MS Code § 51-33-85 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-85. Compromise of assessments between landowners and bondholders

 It shall be permissible for the landowner and the bond and judgment holders of such bonds as may be adjudicated a lien on unpaid assessed benefits to agree, in writing signed by them and filed with the receiver, to compromise and settle the amount assessed and fixed as a lien on any particular tract of land for such sum as they may agree on. In such event the receiver shall, upon the landowner paying to him the agreed sum, issue to the landowner a receipt for the amount so agreed in full satisfaction of such lien; and such receipt may be recorded by the chancery clerk when signed and acknowledged by the receiver. The bond and judgment holders of such bonds as may be adjudicated a lien on unpaid assessed benefits may act by a common agency appointed by them for this purpose, which appointment shall be in writing and duly acknowledged and recorded in the land deed records of such county.
MS Code § 51-33-87 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-87. Disposition of funds and discharge of receiver

 All funds received by the receiver, either as payments made by the landowners or by sale of the land as authorized in Section 51-33-83, shall constitute a trust fund in the hands of said receiver for the use and benefit of the bond and judgment holders entitled thereto. The receiver shall make report to court annually and from time to time as the court may order, showing the amount of assessments by him collected. Out of the funds so collected, the court shall order all costs paid. Ten per cent (10%) of the amount collected under said receivership shall, by said receiver, be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the department of audit fund; and the balance remaining shall be paid to the bond and judgment holders entitled thereto in proportion to their respective valid and legal holdings. When all assessed benefits become due and the receiver has collected all that can be collected, either by payment by the landowners or by sale of the land, he shall make final report; and upon paying out all funds in accordance with the orders of the court, the receiver may be finally discharged. Upon the discharge of said receiver, the status quo of the drainage district shall be reestablished by order of the court, or said district may be dissolved as by law permitted.
MS Code § 51-33-89 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-89. Receivership as additional management method

 Sections 51-33-75 through 51-33-89 are not intended as repealing or modifying any statute of this state pertaining to drainage districts, but are intended as an additional and cumulative method of managing and operating drainage districts under special circumstances.
MS Code § 51-33-91 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-91. Dissolution of district without construction-time limitation for commencement of proceedings

 Any drainage district operating under the provisions of any law of the State of Mississippi which has no unmatured bonded indebtedness and has constructed no levees, canals, or other drainage improvements may be dissolved by the chancery court of the county in which said district was organized, or by the chancellor of such court in vacation, in the manner hereinafter provided; but the proceedings for its dissolution shall not be commenced within three years after the date of the organization of such district.
MS Code § 51-33-93 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-93. Dissolution of district without construction; petition; notice

 Whenever, after the expiration of the said period of three years, five or more landowners of any such district, or a majority of the landowners of any such district, excluding lands owned by the state, or any landowner or owners owning more than fifty per cent of the total acreage of said district, excluding the acreage owned by the state, shall sign and file with the clerk of the chancery court by which such district was organized, or in the county in which such district was organized, a petition for the dissolution of such drainage district, it shall be the duty of such clerk to give notice thereof by publishing said notice for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in said county, or in each of the counties in which lands of the district lie. Said notice shall be addressed to all persons interested in said drainage district and shall command them to appear before the said chancery court at a place named within the said chancery court district on a day certain in term time, or before the chancellor in vacation, not earlier than twenty days nor more than sixty days after the date of the first publication of said notice, and show cause, if any they can, why said drainage district should not be dissolved. Upon the first publication of said notice, all proceedings of every kind of said drainage district and of the commissioners of the said drainage district shall be discontinued until the hearing of said cause as herein provided.
MS Code § 51-33-95 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-95. Dissolution of district without construction; proceedings; chancery court jurisdiction

 The said chancery court, or the chancellor thereof in vacation, shall take jurisdiction of said cause and shall hear the same on the return day thereof in the same manner as other causes in chancery. If upon the hearing of said cause it appear that it is to the best interests of the landowners of said drainage district that said district be dissolved, the said court or chancellor shall thereupon enter an order dissolving the said drainage district, and requiring and decreeing that no further expenses or indebtedness be incurred or contracted by the commissioners of said drainage district. Said commissioners of said drainage district shall immediately and within ten days thereafter deposit with the clerk of the said court in which said proceedings are pending all papers, records, and documents of the said drainage district.   If it shall appear that it is not to the best interests of the landowners of the said district that the same be dissolved, the chancellor or chancery court shall so decree.   If it appear to the chancery court or chancellor that it is to the best interests of the said drainage district that same be dissolved and the decree is entered accordingly, the costs of the proceeding, including solicitors fees as might be allowed by the court, shall be assessed and taxed by the court to be collected on an acreage basis on the lands within said drainage district; and thereafter the said district shall be dissolved and shall have no further powers or authorities under the law whatsoever. In the event that the said district shall not be dissolved, such costs, attorneys fees, and expenses as may be involved shall be assessed against the petitioners; and the drainage district shall be absolved from any liability on account thereof.
MS Code § 51-33-97 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-97. Dissolution of district without construction; claims

 Nothing contained in Sections 51-33-91 through 51-33-97 shall be construed to impair or affect any contract or other obligation of any such drainage district, but persons holding claims against such drainage district shall, on notice of the dissolution thereof as provided herein, file any such claims as they may have against such district. If the court should decree that said district should be liquidated, all of said claims shall be passed upon by the chancery court or chancellor, as the case may be, and if found just, a levy shall be made upon said lands upon an acreage basis as hereinabove provided, in order to liquidate and pay such indebtedness as may be found due and owing by said district.
MS Code § 51-33-99 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-99. Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance

 Any drainage district heretofore organized which has constructed drainage canals and which has no outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, and wherein there is no necessity of maintenance work from year to year may be dissolved by the chancery court in which the drainage district was organized, or by the chancellor in vacation, in the manner hereinafter provided.
MS Code § 51-33-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-101. Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; petition; notice

 Whenever a majority of the landowners owning a majority of the land in such drainage district shall sign and file with the clerk of the chancery court in which such drainage district was organized a petition for the dissolution of such drainage district, it shall be the duty of the chancery clerk to give notice thereof by publication. Such notice shall be published for three weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which the drainage district was organized, shall be addressed to all persons interested in said drainage district, and shall command them to appear before the said chancery court on a day certain in term time, or before the chancellor in vacation at a place and time to be stated in said notice, not later than five days nor more than sixty days after the date of the last publication of said notice and show cause, if any they can, why said drainage district should not be dissolved.
MS Code § 51-33-103 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 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, shall take jurisdiction of said cause and shall hear the same on the return day thereof in the same manner as other causes in chancery. If, upon the hearing of said cause, it shall appear that it is to the best interest of the landowners of said drainage district that said district be dissolved and that there is no outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, the court or chancellor shall thereupon enter an order dissolving the said district, requiring that no further expense or indebtedness be incurred or contracted by the commissioners of said drainage district, and that said drainage commissioners shall, within thirty days thereafter, deposit with the clerk of said court all papers and records of said district. If it shall not appear to be to the best interest of the landowners or if there is outstanding indebtedness against said drainage district and necessity for maintenance work from year to year in said district, the petition shall be dismissed at the cost of petitioners and no further petition for the dissolution of said district shall be filed within two years thereafter.
MS Code § 51-33-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-105. Dissolution of district by cumulative method

 Whenever twenty-five per cent (25%) of the landowners owning a majority of the acreage of any drainage district organized under any of the laws of the State of Mississippi desire to have the same dissolved and its affairs wound up, the chancery court in which said district was organized, or the chancery court of the county in which the lands of said district are located, or the chancellor of either of said courts in vacation shall be authorized to enter an order or decree directing that the affairs of the same be wound up and that said districts be dissolved on such terms as the court or chancellor in vacation might deem meet and proper, (a) whenever it shall be made to appear to the court or chancellor in vacation in any proceeding filed for said purpose that said drainage district does not have any outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, or (b) in the event it does have an outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, but owns easements, rights of way, drains, canals, ditches, or other property which said district can sell for an amount equal to its fair cash market value which will be sufficient, or when added to any other funds of the district will be sufficient, to enable it to pay off and discharge all of its outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise.
MS Code § 51-33-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-107. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; petition

 All proceedings instituted under Section 51-33-105 shall be by petition addressed to the court having jurisdiction of said proceedings, as aforesaid, and, when executed as hereinafter directed, filed with the clerk of said court. Said petition shall be signed by twenty-five per cent (25%) of the landowners owning a majority of the acreage in any of said drainage districts. Any guardian of the estate of any person under legal disability owning lands in said district is hereby authorized to sign said petition for said person or persons under disability and, likewise, the executors, administrators, or trustees of any decedent's estate are authorized to sign said petition for said decedent. Any officer of any corporation may sign the same for said corporation.
MS Code § 51-33-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 51 - Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control|Chapter 33 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts and Swamp Land Districts|Article 1 - Provisions Common to Drainage Districts|§ 51-33-111. Dissolution of district by cumulative method; claims

 At the time, date, and place set for the hearing of said petition as above provided, the court or chancellor in vacation shall at said time, date, and place also take up, examine, determine, and allow all claims of indebtedness of said district, bonded or otherwise. Any claims of indebtedness against any of said drainage districts which are not filed and presented with the clerk of the court in which said proceeding is pending on or before the time and date fixed therefor by the decree of the court or chancellor in vacation and in the notice so published shall be forever barred, except the claims of holders of bonds or of certificates of indebtedness legally issued by said district, and the interest thereon.