The purpose of Sections 51-33-1 through 51-33-9 is to confer certain additional powers on drainage districts already created or to be created under the laws of the State of Mississippi for the purposes of cooperating with the government of the United States and landowners in soil and water conservation and utilization programs for the further […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
After said petition has been filed with the clerk and if the same pray for a hearing in vacation, the clerk shall thereupon refer the same to the chancellor of said court with the request that he set the matter and fix the time, date, and place for the hearing thereof by him in vacation, […]
The general powers granted to drainage districts by the laws under which they were created and those granted to drainage districts under the provisions of Sections 51-33-1 through 51-33-9 are further hereby expanded to permit all drainage districts created under said sections, and all those modified by the application of their provisions, and all drainage […]
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 […]
In the event the petition as filed shows and the court or chancellor in vacation finds that said district has not paid off all of its outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, but owns easements, rights of way, canals, ditches, drains, or other property which can be sold for an amount equal to its fair cash […]
The court or chancellor in vacation is hereby authorized at the time, date, and place of the first hearing of all of the aforesaid matters, as well as at any other time he might order, to allow and determine all claims of indebtedness of said district, bonded or otherwise, and to provide for the payment […]
If it shall be made to appear to the court or chancellor in vacation on the hearing of any proceedings filed under Sections 51-33-105 through 51-33-121 that the district will have funds on hand after all of its debts and all expenses and court costs incident to said proceeding have been paid, then and in […]
The hearing and trial of any proceeding instituted under the terms of Sections 51-33-105 through 51-33-121 shall be conducted as other hearings and trials are conducted in the chancery court or by the chancellor in vacation, except as hereinabove provided. Any person feeling aggrieved by a final decree rendered by the court or chancellor in […]
Sections 51-33-105 through 51-33-121 shall be cumulative and additional and supplementary to any and all other laws of the State of Mississippi which provide for the dissolution of drainage districts and for the affairs of said districts to be wound up. In the event a petition filed under said sections is dismissed, the same shall […]
Drainage districts heretofore organized under the provisions of any law and amendments thereto not brought forward in this code shall have the privilege of continuing to operate under such law, and the adoption of this code shall not be held to repeal any such law or laws and amendments thereto, in so far as such […]
The duties, powers and responsibilities of a drainage district with water impoundment structures constructed with financing from the United States under Public Law 534 or Public Law 566, 83rd Congress of the United States, or both, may be transferred to the county soil and water conservation district if it becomes apparent that such drainage district […]
A drainage district may be dissolved and its powers, duties and responsibilities transferred to the county soil and water conservation district by: The commissioners of the drainage district determining and spreading on the district’s minutes that it is in the best interest of the residents and landowners of the drainage district that the district be […]
It is the intention of Sections 51-33-9 through 51-33-15 to permit all drainage districts to enter into cooperative agreements and programs and cooperate in carrying out the purposes of Public Law 566, 83rd Congress of the United States, or other laws of the national Congress pertaining to soil and water conservation and utilization, as provided […]
Upon the exercise of any power under the provisions of Sections 51-33-1 through 51-33-9 or under the provisions of Sections 51-33-11 through 51-33-15, a drainage district shall be and become known as a “water management district.”
Drainage districts existing or hereafter created under the laws of the State of Mississippi and having secured the powers conferred by Sections 51-33-1 through 51-33-9, may borrow funds for any purpose authorized by law from state agencies, political subdivisions of the state, other organizations created under state laws, the government of the United States, and […]
The commissioners of any drainage district organized and existing under any law of this state are hereby authorized and empowered to issue and sell the negotiable certificate of indebtedness of such district as herein provided, for the purpose of providing funds with which to clean out, restore, repair, and rehabilitate the whole or any part […]
