For the purpose of this chapter the terms place, person and nuisance are defined as follows: a. “Place” shall include any building, erection, or structure or any separate part or portion thereof or the ground itself. b. “Person” shall include any individual, corporation, association, partnership, trustee, lessee, agent or assignee. c. “Nuisance” shall mean any […]
If, upon the hearing, the allegations be sustained to the satisfaction of the court, the court shall issue a temporary injunction restraining the defendants and any other person or persons from continuing the nuisance. When the temporary injunction has been granted, it shall be binding on the defendants throughout the chancery district. If at the […]
The action when brought shall be triable at the next term of court, provided process shall have been served for twenty or more days, otherwise at the following term, and said cause shall have precedence over all other cases except election contests, or injunctions. In such action evidence of the general reputation of the place, […]
If the existence of the nuisance be admitted, or established in an action as provided in this chapter, an order of abatement shall be entered as a part of judgment in the case, which order shall direct the removal from the place of all personal property and contents used in conducting the nuisance, and not […]
The provisions of existing laws regarding the service of process shall apply to service in proceedings under this chapter. The person in whose name the real estate affected by the action stands on the books of the tax collector for purposes of taxation shall be presumed to be the owner thereof, and in case of […]
In case of the violation of any injunction or closing order granted under provisions of this chapter, or of a restraining order or the commission of any other contempt of court in proceedings under this chapter, the court, or the chancellor in vacation, may summarily try and punish the offender. The proceedings shall be commenced […]
In case the existence of such nuisance is established in a criminal proceeding, under existing laws, it shall be the duty of the county attorney or district attorney to proceed promptly under this chapter to enforce the provisions and penalties thereof, and the finding of the defendant guilty in such criminal proceedings, unless reversed or […]
If a tenant or occupant of a building or tenement under a lawful title uses such place as a nuisance as herein defined, such use shall annul and make void the lease or other title under which he holds and, without any act of the owner, shall cause the right of possession to revert and […]
Any building, club, vessel, boat, place or room, wherein is kept or exhibited any game or gaming table, commonly called A.B.C. or E.O. roulette, or rowley-powley, or rouquetnoir, roredo, keno, monte, or any faro-bank, dice, or other game, gaming table, or bank of the same or like kind, or any other kind or description of […]
This chapter shall be construed as supplementary to and in aid of existing statutes in this state relating to the same subject-matter, and not as a repeal of the same.
In any nuisance action, public or private, against an agricultural operation, including forestry activity, proof that the agricultural operation, including forestry activity, has existed for one (1) year or more is an absolute defense to the nuisance action, if the operation is in compliance with all applicable state and federal permits. The following words and […]
Any person who shall use, occupy, establish or conduct a nuisance as herein defined, or aid or abet therein, and the owner, agent or lessee of any interest in such nuisance, together with the person employed in or in control of any such nuisance by any such owner, agent or lessee, shall be guilty of […]
Whenever a nuisance exists, the attorney-general of the state, the district attorney of the district, the county attorney, or any person who is a citizen of the county, may bring an action in equity in the name of the State of Mississippi, upon the relation of such attorney general, district attorney, or county attorney, or […]
Such action shall be brought in the chancery court of the county in which the property is located, by a verified bill of complaint, stating the facts constituting the nuisance, the names of the parties, the object of the action, a substantial description of the place constituting the alleged nuisance, and a general description of […]
When the bill contains an application for a temporary injunction a hearing thereon shall be granted within ten (10) days after the filing of the bill; but a copy of the complaint together with a notice of the time and place of the hearing of the application for a temporary injunction, shall be served upon […]
