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Mississippi Statutes, Title 7

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Title 7, Executive Department

9 chapters · 254 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 7254 Ch 1, Governor61 Ch 7, State Fiscal Officer; Department of …59 Ch 5, Attorney General42 Ch 9, State Treasurer39 Ch 3, Secretary of State29 Ch 11, Secretary of State; Land Records11 Ch 17, Mississippi Executive Reorganization…9 Ch 13, Mississippi Administrative Reorganiz…4

11 sections·Filtered byTitle 7✕Ch 11✕

Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-11 Duties and powers of Secretary of State
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The Secretary of State shall have charge of the swamp and the overflowed lands and indemnity lands in lieu thereof, the internal improvement lands, the lands forfeited to the state for nonpayment of taxes after the time allowed by law for redemption shall have expired, and of all…
Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-13 Land records
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All state land records, all levee land records, and all other land records, except assessment rolls, shall be kept in the office of the Secretary of State and be held by him. The Secretary of State shall keep a record of all state-owned lands in a separate and well bound book. He…
Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-15 Form of records
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The Secretary of State shall secure a sufficient number of suitable and well bound books for each county, so that the lands now or hereafter owned by the state may be complied therein. The books, in addition to the necessary columns on which to list all necessary information with…
Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-17 Records preserved and bound
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The land records in the Secretary of State’s office shall be carefully preserved and valuable records shall be bound and rebound when necessary.

Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-19 Copies of records

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The Secretary of State shall furnish to any party interested therein a copy or exemplification of any record, patent, plat, diagram, township plat or map, field notes, surveys or other paper or document deposited in the office of the Secretary of State and relating to the selecti…

Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-2 Abolition of office of State Land Commissioner; transferral of duties and responsibilities to Secretary of State

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The office of State Land Commissioner as heretofore existing is hereby abolished, and all the duties, responsibilities and title of said office are transferred to the office of Secretary of State, who shall perform the duties heretofore performed by the elected State Land Commiss…

Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-25 Report to legislature

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The Secretary of State shall make a report to the legislature at each regular session of all the business transactions in the Secretary of State’s office pertaining to public lands for the preceding fiscal year. He shall state therein the monthly sale of land, of what class and w…

Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-3 Custodian of records of former land office

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The Secretary of State shall have custody of the records of the Surveyor General’s Office turned over to this state by the United States, all field notes, plats and maps of surveys of lands belonging to the old office of Swamp Land Commissioner and all other papers, documents and…

Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-4 “State land commissioner,” “land commissioner,” “state land office,” “land office” to mean Secretary of State

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The words “state land commissioner,” “land commissioner,” “state land office” and “land office” shall mean the secretary of state wherever they appear in sections 3-5-11, 21-33-69, 21-37-49, 25-7-83, 27-3-43, 27-29-1, 27-35-65, 27-35-69, 27-39-319, 27-45-21, 29-1-1, 29-1-5, 29-1-…

Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-6 Assistant Secretary of State to perform functions of state land office; employment of additional personnel; transition of power by state land commissioner

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The Secretary of State shall appoint a competent attorney to be designated as an assistant secretary of state, who shall have the responsibilities of performing the function of the former state land office in addition to any other duties as assigned by the Secretary of State. The…

Miss. Code Ann. § 7-11-8 Functions assigned to Secretary of State to be merged and coordinated with those of former state land office

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It is the intent of the legislature that the functions assigned to the Secretary of State by this chapter shall be merged and coordinated with similar functions being exercised by the state land office on January 1, 1980.