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MS Code § 29-7-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 7 - Mineral Leases of State Lands|§ 29-7-13. Proceeds of leases

 All sums of money realized and/or received from the sale of any and all oil or gas or other minerals, lease contract, rentals, royalties, or otherwise, contemplated by this chapter, shall be immediately deposited in the general fund of the state treasury.
MS Code § 29-7-14 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 7 - Mineral Leases of State Lands|§ 29-7-14. Proceeds from leases of sixteenth section school lands or lieu lands located in area defined as coastal wetlands

 That the state mineral lease commission is hereby authorized to pay to the proper local taxing district in which are located sixteenth section school lands or lieu lands that fall within the definition of coastal wetlands, that portion of funds received from leases entered into or royalties received from the exploring or exploiting of oil, gas or other minerals on such lands. Such monies shall be paid to the local taxing district entitled to such funds under the law and used for school purposes.
MS Code § 29-7-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 7 - Mineral Leases of State Lands|§ 29-7-19. Hearings

  The hearings, as provided under Section 29-7-21(1), may be conducted by the commission itself at a regular or special meeting of the commission, or the commission may designate a hearing officer, who may conduct such hearings in the name of the commission at any time and place as conditions and circumstances may warrant. The hearing officer shall have the record prepared of any hearing that he has conducted for the commission. The record shall be submitted to the commission along with that hearing officer's findings of fact and recommended decision. Upon receipt and review of the record of the hearing and the hearing officer's findings of fact and recommended decision, the commission shall render its decision in the matter. The decision shall become final after it is entered on the minutes and shall be considered the final administrative agency decision on the matter. The decision may be appealed under Section 29-7-21(2).   All hearings before the commission shall be recorded either by a court reporter, tape or mechanical recorders and subject to transcription upon order of the commission or any interested party, but if the request for transcription originates with an interested party, that party shall pay the cost thereof.
MS Code § 29-9-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 9 - Inventories of State Property|§ 29-9-1. Inventories to be made by heads of state agencies

 The state auditor of public accounts shall require the heads of all state agencies to make an inventory of all lands, buildings, equipment, furniture, and other personal property owned by or under the control of the respective agencies, except highway rights of way owned or acquired by the Mississippi state highway commission. The inventories shall be made on forms to be prescribed and furnished by said state auditor. Agencies, including the legislature, which have on file proper inventories on August 8, 1968, shall not be required to make new inventories, but the remaining provisions of this chapter respecting inventories shall be applicable thereto.
MS Code § 29-9-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 9 - Inventories of State Property|§ 29-9-3. Content

 The inventories herein required shall show the name, description, serial number, purchase or construction date, and the cost or purchase price of each article or piece of property, and any further information which the state auditor may require. A number shall be securely attached to each piece of furniture, equipment, or other property designated by the auditor not having a serial number, and the number shall be used in inventories as a serial number. Estimates may be used for purchase prices and dates on items purchased prior to January, 1946, provided records of same are not available.
MS Code § 29-9-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 9 - Inventories of State Property|§ 29-9-5. Execution and certification

 Each inventory shall be executed in duplicate, the copy shall be retained by the maker for his files, and the original shall be delivered to the state auditor of public accounts. The original shall be certified by the heads of the respective institutions, departments, commissions, and agencies, or a responsible bonded property officer designated by him.
MS Code § 29-9-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 9 - Inventories of State Property|§ 29-9-7. Master inventory compiled

 The auditor of public accounts shall compile or cause to be compiled from the inventories thus submitted to him one master inventory for the state as a whole, which shall be available for inspection to all state officials and newly elected or appointed officials who are about to take office.
MS Code § 29-9-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 9 - Inventories of State Property|§ 29-9-9. Disposal of obsolete or unnecessary property

  Whenever any vehicle, equipment, office furniture, office fixture or any other personal property which has been acquired or is owned by any institution, department or agency of the State of Mississippi becomes obsolete or is no longer needed or required for the use of such institution, department or agency, the same may be: (a) sold for cash, transferred, traded or exchanged for other property, furniture, equipment, fixture or vehicle needed by said institution, department or agency after having first obtained the written approval of the Governor's Office of General Services and the State Auditor or approval by the Legislative Budget Office if utilized under the jurisdiction of the Legislature; or (b) donated to any institution, department or agency of the State of Mississippi, or any political subdivision or local governing authority of the state. The singular shall include the plural. Transfers, trades, exchanges or donations made pursuant to this subsection may be made to any political subdivision or local governing authority of the State of Mississippi.   The proceeds of all cash sales made, as authorized in this section, shall be paid over into the support and maintenance or contingent fund of the institution, department or agency as it deems best.   The head of each state institution, department or agency shall be responsible and liable personally and on his official bond, in the amount of the value shown on the state inventory, for the disposal of any property contrary to the provisions of this section.   The Office of General Services, on the approval of the Public Procurement Review Board, is hereby authorized and empowered to make reasonable rules and regulations and to require such information as may be necessary to carry out the purpose and provisions of this section.   Any violation of the provisions hereof by any elected head of any institution, department, commission or agency of the State of Mississippi, or any appointee or employee of any institution, department, agency or commission coming under the provisions of this section, shall constitute a misdemeanor and, upon conviction therefor, shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) in addition to personal and official liability, as hereinabove provided.   The disposal of any unneeded personal property at the project described in Section 57-75-5(f)(vi), may be made in accordance with the provisions of the Mississippi Major Economic Impact Act by the Mississippi Major Economic Impact Authority, under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by such authority.   The disposal of any alternative housing units purchased through the Mississippi Alternative Housing Pilot Program may be made by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency as required by federal law to be in compliance with regulations of the federal articles of agreement and its awarded conditions, and upon approval of the Public Procurement Review Board.
MS Code § 29-9-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 9 - Inventories of State Property|§ 29-9-11. Report of additions and deletions

 On or before the fifteenth day of each month, the heads of all state agencies shall add to their inventory or inventories the items purchased or otherwise acquired during the last preceding month in the same manner as set forth in the original inventory, and indicate items that have been disposed of and that should be deleted therefrom, showing how and where disposals were made. Should there be no change in the inventory, a report shall be filed so indicating. This additional list and items to be deleted shall be submitted to the auditor of public accounts, to be used to add to or delete from the inventory or inventories in his office.
MS Code § 29-9-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 9 - Inventories of State Property|§ 29-9-13. Physical audit

 Representatives of the State Auditor's office under the direction of the State Auditor, in making regular audits of the different state agencies, shall make a check or physical audit of the actual items or properties shown on their inventories and related records. Each state agency, the Secretary of the Senate, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, when requested to do so, shall furnish a competent person or persons to assist in this check or physical audit. The auditor shall keep his records current at all times and shall report to the agency concerned and the general status of the inventory involved, on the completion of each audit.
MS Code § 29-9-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 9 - Inventories of State Property|§ 29-9-15. Rules and regulations

 The auditor of public accounts, on approval of the attorney general, is hereby authorized and empowered to make reasonable rules and regulations and to require such additional information as may be necessary to carry out the provisions and purposes of the inventory requirements of this chapter.
MS Code § 29-9-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 9 - Inventories of State Property|§ 29-9-17. Liability for failure to make inventory; recovery of value of missing items

  If any officer or employee of any state agency shall refuse or fail to make any inventory or supplemental inventory thereto as required herein, or to do so in the manner prescribed by the State Auditor, the State Auditor shall proceed to make, or cause to be made, the inventory or supplemental inventory; and the expense thereof shall be personally borne by said officer or employee, and he shall be responsible on his official bond for the payment of the expense.   In the event that an examination conducted pursuant to Section 29-9-13 finds items that are included on an agency's inventory which are missing and otherwise unaccounted for, the State Auditor has the authority to proceed under the provisions of Section 7-7-211 to recover the value of the missing items. The demand shall be made against the head of the agency, the agency's property officer and/or the appropriate officer or employee, if identified.
MS Code § 29-9-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 9 - Inventories of State Property|§ 29-9-21. Complete and current records and reports

 It is the purpose of this chapter to provide for more accurate, detailed, and readily available inventory information on all state property, said records to be maintained on machine equipment in the office of the auditor of public accounts. In carrying out the purpose hereof, it shall be the duty of the auditor to maintain his records complete and current and make such reports to the governor and the legislature whenever required, or when the said auditor, in his discretion, finds it necessary to make other and additional reports.
MS Code § 29-13-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 13 - Flood Insurance for State-Owned Buildings|§ 29-13-3. Filing claims; expenditures

 The Department of Finance and Administration shall file any claims for damages covered under the Hurricane Katrina Disaster of 2005 or subsequent flood insurance policies purchased pursuant to Section 29-13-1. The proceeds of any such claim for damage to a state-owned building shall be paid to the Department of Finance and Administration and the State of Mississippi, which is authorized to expend such proceeds to repair or replace such damaged building.
MS Code § 29-13-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 13 - Flood Insurance for State-Owned Buildings|§ 29-13-5. Inventory of state-owned buildings in flood plain areas

 The Department of Finance and Administration shall compile an inventory of all state-owned buildings in any area of the state affected by the Hurricane Katrina Disaster of 2005 or any floodplain areas and any necessary data concerning such buildings. Each agency, board, commission, department and institution of the state shall cooperate in the preparation of the inventory and shall submit any information required by the department in a timely manner which will allow the inventory to be finalized and presented to the appropriate federal and state agencies. Such information shall include the specific location and, where available, the elevation of all state-owned buildings under the jurisdiction of the agency, board, commission, department or institution in any hurricane hazard or floodplain areas.
MS Code § 29-15-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-1. Definitions

 "Commission" means the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources.   "Local tidal datum" means the datum established for a specific tide station through the use of tidal observations made at that station.   "Mean high water" means the arithmetic mean of all the high waters occurring in a particular nineteen-year tidal epoch period; or for a shorter period of time after corrections are applied to the short term observations to reduce these values to the equivalent nineteen-year value.   "Mean high water line" means the intersection of the tidal datum plane of mean high water with the shore.   "Mean high water survey" means a survey of the intersection of the shoreline with the tidal datum plane of mean high water using local tidal datums and surveying methodologies approved by the commission. Methodologies shall include but not be limited to the "staking method," "the topographic method" and "tide coordinated aerial photography."   "National map accuracy standards" means a set of guidelines published by the Office of Management and Budget of the United States to which maps produced by the United States government adhere.   "Submerged lands" means lands which remain covered by waters, where the tides ebb and flow, at ordinary low tides.   "Tidelands" means those lands which are daily covered and uncovered by water by the action of the tides, up to the mean line of the ordinary high tides.
MS Code § 29-15-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-3. Declaration of public policy and purpose

  It is declared to be the public policy of this state to favor the preservation of the natural state of the public trust tidelands and their ecosystems and to prevent the despoliation and destruction of them, except where a specific alteration of specific public trust tidelands would serve a higher public interest in compliance with the public purposes of the public trust in which such tidelands are held.   It is hereby declared to be a higher public purpose of this state and the public tidelands trust to resolve the uncertainty and disputes which have arisen as to the location of the boundary between the state's public trust tidelands and the upland property and to confirm the mean high water boundary line as determined by the Mississippi Supreme Court, the laws of this state and this chapter.
MS Code § 29-15-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-5. Tidelands and submerged lands held in public trust; rights of littoral and riparian property owners

  Tidelands and submerged lands are held by the state in trust for use of all the people, and are so held in their character as the beds and shores of the sea and its tidally affected arms and tributaries for the purposes defined by common law and statutory law. Littoral and riparian property owners have common law and statutory rights under the Coastal Wetlands Protection Law which extend into the waters and beyond the low tide line, and the state's responsibilities as trustee extends to such owners as well as to the other members of the public.   Residential property owners shall not be required to obtain a tidelands lease for exercising their common law and statutory littoral and riparian rights.
MS Code § 29-15-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-9. Public Trust Tidelands Fund; distribution of funds derived from lease rentals of tidelands and submerged lands; disbursement of funds appropriated as separate line items in appropriation bill

  There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the "Public Trust Tidelands Fund." The fund shall be administered by the Secretary of State as trustee.   Any funds derived from lease rentals of tidelands and submerged lands, except those funds derived from mineral leases, or funds previously specifically designated to be applied to other agencies, shall be transferred to the special fund. However, funds derived from lease rentals may be used to cover the administrative cost incurred by the Secretary of State. Any remaining funds derived from lease rentals shall be disbursed pro rata to the local taxing authorities for the replacement of lost ad valorem taxes, if any. Then, any remaining funds shall be disbursed to the commission for new and extra programs of tidelands management, such as conservation, reclamation, preservation, acquisition, education or the enhancement of public access to the public trust tidelands or public improvement projects as they relate to those lands.   Any funds that are appropriated as separate line items in an appropriation bill for tideland programs or projects authorized under this section for political subdivisions or other agencies shall be disbursed as provided in this subsection.   The Department of Marine Resources shall make progress payments in installments based on the work completed and material used in the performance of a tidelands project only after receiving written verification from the political subdivision or agency. The political subdivision or agency shall submit verification of the work completed or materials in such detail and form that the department may require.   The Department of Marine Resources shall make funds available for the purpose of using such funds as a match or leverage for federal or other funds that are available for the designated tidelands project.
MS Code § 29-15-10 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-10. Public Trust Tidelands Assessments Fund; purpose of fund; distribution of funds derived from certain assessments on gaming licensees; disbursement of funds appropriated as separate line items in an appropriation bill

  There is created in the State Treasury a special fund to be known as the "Public Trust Tidelands Assessments Fund." The purpose of the fund is to ensure that monies derived from the public trust tidelands assessments shall be used for the benefit of preserving and protecting the tidelands and submerged lands found within the three (3) most southern counties of the state. One (1) specific purpose of the fund is to ensure that the annual payment made by the state for the purchase of Deer Island shall continue uninterrupted until the purchase transaction is completed. The fund shall be administered by the Secretary of State, as trustee. None of the funds that are in the special fund or that are required to be deposited into the special fund shall be transferred, diverted or in any other manner expended or used for any purpose other than those purposes specified in this section.     Any funds derived from assessments made pursuant to Section 29-1-107(4)(c) shall be deposited into the special fund.   Funds paid pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subsection may be appropriated by the Legislature in an amount necessary to cover the administrative cost incurred by the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources. Any remaining funds shall be disbursed by the commission for new and extra programs of tidelands management, such as conservation, reclamation, preservation, acquisition, education or the enhancement of public access to the public trust tidelands or public improvement projects as they relate to those lands.     Any funds that are appropriated as separate line items in an appropriation bill for tideland programs or projects authorized under this section for political subdivisions or other agencies shall be disbursed as provided in this subsection.   The Department of Marine Resources shall make progress payments in installments based on the work completed and material used in the performance of a tidelands project only after receiving written verification from the political subdivision or agency. The political subdivision or agency shall submit verification of the work completed or materials in such detail and form that the department may require.   The Department of Marine Resources shall make funds available for the purpose of using such funds as a match or leverage for federal or other funds that are available for the designated tidelands project.
MS Code § 29-15-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-11. Lessee of tidelands or submerged lands responsible for tax levy on leasehold interest

 Upon the proper authorized leasing of any state public trust tidelands, or submerged lands, the lessee shall be responsible for any county or municipal tax levy upon the leasehold interest.
MS Code § 29-15-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-13. Exemptions from any use or rental fees

 All public projects of any federal, state or local governmental entity which serve a higher public purpose of promoting the conservation, reclamation, preservation of the tidelands and submerged lands, public use for fishing, recreation or navigation, or the enhancement of public access to such lands shall be exempt from any use or rental fees.
MS Code § 29-15-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 29 - Public Lands, Buildings and Property|Chapter 15 - Public Trust Tidelands|§ 29-15-15. State public trust tidelands mapping program declared to be in public interest

 The Legislature hereby declares that accurate maps of coastal areas are required for many public purposes, and a state public trust tidelands mapping program establishing uniform standards and procedures is declared to be in the public interest.