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MS Code § 89-9-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 9 - Condominiums|§ 89-9-21. Liability of owner for assessment upon condominium; lien on assessed condominium; recording, priority, enforcement, etc., of lien

 A reasonable assessment upon any condominium made in accordance with a recorded declaration of restrictions permitted by Section 89-9-17 shall be a debt of the owner thereof at the time the assessment is made. The amount of any such assessment plus any other charges thereon, such as interest, costs, attorneys' fees, and penalties, as such may be provided for in the declaration of restrictions, shall be and become a lien upon the condominium assessed when the management body causes to be recorded in the office of the chancery clerk of the county in which such condominium is located a notice of assessment, which shall state the amount of such assessment and such other charges thereon as may be authorized by the declaration of restrictions, a description of the condominium against which the same has been assessed, and the name of the record owner thereof. Such notice shall be signed and verified by an authorized representative of the management body or as otherwise provided in the declaration of restrictions. Such lien shall be recorded in a condominium lien book alphabetically by name of the condominium unit owner, and such books need not be obtained until a condominium plat shall have been first recorded in said county. Upon payment of said assessment and charges in connection with which such notice has been so recorded, or other satisfaction thereof, the management body shall cause to be recorded a further notice stating the satisfaction and the release of the lien thereof.   Such lien shall be prior to all other liens recorded subsequent to the recordation of said notice of assessment except that the declaration of restrictions may provide for the subordination thereof to any other liens and encumbrances. Unless sooner satisfied and released, or the enforcement thereof initiated as hereafter provided, such lien shall expire and be of no further force or effect one year from the date of recordation of said notice of assessment; provided, however, that said one-year period may be extended by the management body for a time not to exceed one (1) additional year by recording a written extension thereof.   Such lien against any unit may be enforced by sale of same by the management body, its attorney or other person authorized to make the sale, after failure of the owner to pay such an assessment in accordance with its terms, such sale to be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Section 89-1-55, applicable to the exercise of powers of sale in mortgages and deeds of trust, or in any other manner permitted by law. Unless otherwise provided in the declaration of restrictions, the management body shall have power to bid in the condominium at foreclosure sale and to hold, lease, mortgage and convey the same. Suit to recover a money judgment for unpaid assessments may be maintained without waiving the lien securing the same.
MS Code § 89-9-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 9 - Condominiums|§ 89-9-23. Lien for labor performed or services or materials furnished

 No labor performed or services or materials furnished with the consent of or at the request of a condominium owner or his agent or his contractor or subcontractor shall be the basis for the filing of a lien against the condominium of any other condominium owner, or against any part thereof, or against any other property of any other condominium owner, unless such other owner has expressly consented to or requested the performance of such labor or furnishing of such materials or services. Such express consent shall be deemed to have been given by the owner of any condominium in the case of emergency repairs thereto. Labor performed or services or materials furnished for the common areas, if duly authorized by a management body provided for in a declaration of restrictions governing the property, shall be deemed to be performed or furnished with the express consent of each condominium owner. The owner of any condominium may remove his condominium from a lien against two (2) or more condominiums or any part thereof by payment to the holder of the lien of the fraction of the total sum secured by such lien which is attributable to his condominium.
MS Code § 89-9-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 9 - Condominiums|§ 89-9-25. Acquisition, etc., of personal property by management body for benefit of condominium owners; transfer of beneficial interest

 Unless otherwise provided by a declaration of restrictions under Section 89-9-17, the management body, if any, provided for therein, may acquire and hold, for the benefit of the condominium owners, tangible and intangible personal property and may dispose of the same by sale or otherwise; and the beneficial interest in such personal property shall be owned by the condominium owners in the same proportion as their respective interests in the common areas, and shall not be transferrable except with a transfer of a condominium. A transfer of a condominium shall transfer to the transferee ownership of the transferor's beneficial interest in such personal property.
MS Code § 89-9-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 9 - Condominiums|§ 89-9-27. Construction of deed, declaration, or plan for condominium project

 Any deed, declaration, or plan for a condominium project shall be liberally construed to facilitate the operation of the project, and its provisions shall be presumed to be independent and severable.
MS Code § 89-9-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 9 - Condominiums|§ 89-9-29. Liabilities of unit owners

 A. The liability of the owner of a unit for common expenses shall be limited to the amounts for which he is assessed from time to time in accordance with this chapter and the declaration.   B. The owners of a unit shall have no personal liability for any damages caused by the governing body on or in connection with the use of common areas. A unit owner shall be liable for injuries or damages resulting from an accident in his own unit to the same extent and degree that the owner of a house, an office, or a store would be liable for an accident occurring therein.
MS Code § 89-9-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 9 - Condominiums|§ 89-9-31. Taxes and special assessments; provisions of declaration enforceable after foreclosure of assessment, tax deed, etc.; exemption as homestead

  Property taxes and special assessments assessed by municipalities, counties, the State of Mississippi, and other taxing authorities shall be assessed against and collected on the unit and the common areas and not upon the project as a whole. Each unit and common areas shall be separately assessed for ad valorem taxes and special assessments as a single parcel. The taxes and special assessments levied against each unit and common areas shall constitute a lien only upon such unit and common areas so assessed and upon no other portion of the project.   All provisions of a declaration relating to a unit or common areas sold for taxes or special assessments shall survive and be enforceable after the issuance of a tax deed or other deed upon foreclosure of an assessment, certificate, or lien, a tax deed, tax certificate, or tax lien to the same extent that they would be enforceable against a voluntary grantee, immediate, mediate, or remote, of the owner of the title immediately prior to the delivery of the tax deed or other deed.   Any unit of a condominium project shall be eligible for exemption under the Homestead Exemption Act of 1946, Sections 27-33-1 through 27-33-65, Mississippi Code of 1972, if all other criteria of said sections are met.
MS Code § 89-9-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 9 - Condominiums|§ 89-9-33. Construction of local zoning ordinances

 Unless a contrary intent is clearly expressed, local zoning ordinances shall be construed to treat like structures, lots, or parcels in like manner regardless of whether the ownership thereof is divided by sale of condominiums or into community apartments rather than by lease of apartments, offices, or stores.
MS Code § 89-9-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 9 - Condominiums|§ 89-9-35. Action for partition of condominium project by sale thereof

 Where several persons own condominiums, as defined in the Mississippi Condominium Law, in a condominium project, as defined in said law, an action may be brought by one or more of such persons for partition thereof by sale of the entire project, as though the owners of all of the condominiums in such project were tenants in common in the entire project in the same proportion as their interests in the common areas; provided, however, that a partition shall be made only upon the showing that: (1) three (3) years after damage or destruction to the project which renders a material part thereof unfit for its use prior thereto, the project has not been rebuilt or repaired substantially to its state prior to its damage or destruction, or (2) that three-fourths (3/4) or more of the project has been destroyed or substantially damaged, and that condominium owners holding in aggregate more than a fifty percent (50%) interest in the common areas are opposed to repair or restoration of the project, or (3) that the project has been in existence in excess of fifty (50) years, that it is obsolete and uneconomic, and that condominium owners holding in aggregate more than a fifty percent (50%) interest in the common areas are opposed to repair or restoration of the project, or (4) that conditions for such a partition by sale set forth in the declaration of restrictions entered into with respect to such project, pursuant to the provisions of the Mississippi Condominium Law, have been met.
MS Code § 89-9-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 9 - Condominiums|§ 89-9-37. Action for partition of condominium project by sale; venue; powers of court; sale

 Such action for partition by sale shall be brought in the chancery court of that county in which the project or some part thereof is situated, subject to the provisions for partition of lands by sale, as far as applicable, and the court shall have power to make all such orders as may be necessary to protect the rights of parties, and any sale ordered in such cases shall be made and reported as in the case of the sale of land; and decrees making partition shall vest title according to their terms. In such cases the court or chancellor may make all orders, and cause to be issued all process necessary to secure the rights of parties.
MS Code § 89-11-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-1. When property shall escheat

 If any person die intestate, seized of or holding, either in possession or in right, at the time of his death, real or personal property, or money or choses in action, whether such person were a citizen of the state or not, and leave no heir capable of inheriting the same, all such property shall escheat to the state.
MS Code § 89-11-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-3. County administrator or sheriff is escheator; his duty, and duty of the assessor

 The county administrator, if there be one, and, if none, the sheriff, shall be escheator for his county, and he shall ascertain by all practicable means what estate or property within his county, for defect of heirs, has escheated to the state, and he shall institute proceedings therefor as hereinafter directed; and the assessor of taxes shall annually, on the completion of his assessment, report to the escheator a list of all property that may have escheated to the state within the preceding twelve (12) months, or previously if not already reported, or to which no heir is known; and the assessor shall also furnish the land commissioner with a copy of such report.
MS Code § 89-11-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-5. Proceedings to establish escheats

 In all cases when property may have escheated to the state, it shall be the duty of the escheator of the county in which said property may be to file in the chancery court a bill in the name of the state to have the escheat judicially declared; the bill shall contain a statement of the name of the last owner, and that he died without heirs, the names of all persons who claim an interest in the property, if any be known, and also a description of the property and who, if any one, is in possession, and an averment that the same has escheated to the state for want of heirs.
MS Code § 89-11-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-7. What persons summoned; publication made

 On the filing of the bill, the clerk shall issue a summons to all persons residing in this state and named in the bill as having or claiming an interest in the property, and also to the person named as being in possession, to appear and answer the same; and he shall give notice, by publication as in other cases, to all parties, known or unknown, having or claiming an interest in the property, to appear and answer the bill; which notice shall contain a description of the property, and the name, residence, and place of death of the last owner, if known.
MS Code § 89-11-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-9. A claimant not a party may answer

 Any person who claims an estate or interest in property against which proceedings have been instituted to have an escheat judicially declared, though not named in the bill or summoned, may, nevertheless, appear and answer the bill, interposing his title or claim, but shall not recover costs unless it appear that he has some estate or interest in the property, even though the state fail in establishing an escheat.
MS Code § 89-11-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-11. Proceedings in court

 The proceedings shall be conducted as other suits in the chancery court; and, if determined in favor of the state, the court shall decree the property escheated to the state, and thereby the state shall be seized and possessed of the property in law and in fact; but no final decree shall be rendered therein within less than twelve (12) months from the commencement of the suit. The successor of the escheator who filed the bill may appear and conduct the suit without revivor or alteration of the pleadings.
MS Code § 89-11-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-13. Persons in possession liable for rent or hire of escheated property

 The person in possession of escheated property shall be liable for the rent of real estate and hire of personal property, whether he claim title or not. Where the escheat is established, the court shall determine and decree rent or hire to the state, if any be due, and may make an allowance in proper cases to a party for the care of the property. In case the party in possession refuse or fail to deliver possession to the escheator who is authorized to receive the same, such party shall be liable to double the value of the rent or hire for the time he may so withhold possession, to be determined by the court on petition of the escheator. Decrees rendered in matters of escheats shall be conclusive against all parties thereto and privies, but may be reviewed by the supreme court on appeal.
MS Code § 89-11-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-15. Reports by escheator

 On the establishment of any escheat of land, the escheator shall, within thirty (30) days, report the fact to the land commissioner, giving a description of the land and its value, under the direction of the court. The land commissioner shall at once register the land in the register of escheated lands.
MS Code § 89-11-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-17. Sale of escheated personalty; payment of debts

 The court which decrees any escheat thereof shall retain jurisdiction of personal property after decreeing the escheat, and shall require the same to be sold and the net proceeds to be paid into the state treasury; and it may provide for the payment of the debts of the deceased owner out of the proceeds of the personal property before the same be paid over; but any petition by a creditor, alleging an indebtedness due to him by the late owner of real or personal property which may escheat, must be filed in the suit for the declaration of the escheat before final hearing thereof, accompanied with the claim probated as if administration had been granted, or the claim will be barred.
MS Code § 89-11-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-19. How real estate subjected to payments of debts

 If the personal property of a deceased owner of escheated property be insufficient for the payment of his debts, or if there be no personal property, the petition of the creditor must show the fact. In such case the court will require the land commissioner to be notified of the pendency of the petition, and he may appear and contest the petition. And if the real estate be decreed subject to the payment of debts, the court will order the sale of a sufficiency thereof for that purpose, and require any balance of proceeds to be paid into the state treasury through the land office.
MS Code § 89-11-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-21. Where escheated land is recovered from the purchaser

 If escheated land be recovered from the purchaser at the suit of an heir of the deceased owner, by proceeding instituted within ten (10) years after the escheat was declared, the state will refund to the purchaser the purchase-money with three percent (3%) per annum interest; the purchaser being liable to the heir for rents and profits, which he may recoup, pro tanto, by the improvements put upon the land, if any, and all taxes paid thereon. In all such suits to recover the land of the state's purchaser, or his assigns, the land commissioner shall be made a party.
MS Code § 89-11-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-23. Proceeds of personal property reclaimed

 Any person who is not concluded as a party or privy by a decree in favor of the state in proceedings to establish an escheat, may, at any time within six (6) years after the rendition of the decree, recover of the state, by suit, the net proceeds derived from the sale of personal property and paid into the state treasury, and three percent (3%) interest thereon, if the party shall establish his right to the property and that the same had not properly escheated to the state; but the title of the purchaser of such personal property shall not be thereby disturbed.
MS Code § 89-11-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-25. Proceedings, where had

 Proceedings to recover real property or the proceeds of personalty escheated, shall be by bill to open the decree declaring the escheat, in the court in which the escheat was decreed.
MS Code § 89-11-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-27. Costs shall be allowed as in other cases

 In case the property be not escheated, the costs incurred in behalf of the state shall be paid out of the state treasury, and the court shall cause the same to be certified to the auditor of public accounts, who shall issue his warrant therefor. In case the property shall be adjudged to be escheated, a reasonable commission and attorneys' fees shall be allowed by the court to the escheator, which shall be taxed as costs and, together with all other costs allowed by the court, shall be paid out of the proceeds of the personal property, if the said proceeds be sufficient to pay the same. If the personal property of a deceased owner of escheated property be insufficient for the payment of his debts and the costs so allowed by the court, or if there be no personal property, the court shall decree the real estate subject to the payment of the costs so allowed, and shall order the sale of a sufficiency thereof for that purpose, and require any balance of proceeds to be paid into the state treasury through the land office.
MS Code § 89-11-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-29. Institution of escheat proceedings

 The land commissioner shall have the power to discharge all the duties and to exercise all the powers herein imposed and conferred upon the county administrator or the sheriff, as the case may be, and he may institute and conduct to final conclusion all escheat proceedings authorized under this chapter, the same to be conducted in the manner herein prescribed.
MS Code § 89-11-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 11 - Escheats|§ 89-11-31. Sale of severed minerals which escheat to the state

 Any severed minerals which escheat to the state under the provisions of Section 89-11-1 et seq. shall, within six (6) months after the rendition of a final decree declaring the property escheated to the state, be sold at the door of the courthouse in the county, or in the judicial district in counties having more than one (1) such district, wherein the mineral estate is located. Provided, however, that no mineral interest shall be sold if it is still producing income. Notice and advertisement of such sale shall be published each week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the county, if any, and if no newspaper be published in a county, then in a newspaper having general circulation in the county and in a newspaper having a general circulation within the state, the first such publication to appear at least fifteen (15) days prior to the date fixed in said notice for such sale. Each severed mineral interest shall be sold to the highest and best bidder, except that the owner of the surface estate in which the subject mineral estate was severed may, at such sale, match the highest and best bid and be allowed to purchase said severed mineral estate, upon showing proper proof of ownership of all or part of the surface estate. The sale shall be continued from day to day, except Sundays, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. until completed.
MS Code § 89-12-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 12 - Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act|§ 89-12-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Uniform Disposition of Unclaimed Property Act."