Title 51, Waters, Water Resources, Water Districts, Drainage, and Flood Control

Any landowner interested shall have the right to pay to the receiver, whether due or not, the amount charged and assessed as a lien on his tract of land at any time before it is sold. In such event the receiver shall issue to him a receipt therefor, which shall discharge such tra…

It shall be permissible for the landowner and the bond and judgment holders of such bonds as may be adjudicated a lien on unpaid assessed benefits to agree, in writing signed by them and filed with the receiver, to compromise and settle the amount assessed and fixed as a lien on …

All funds received by the receiver, either as payments made by the landowners or by sale of the land as authorized in Section 51-33-83, shall constitute a trust fund in the hands of said receiver for the use and benefit of the bond and judgment holders entitled thereto. The recei…

Sections 51-33-75 through 51-33-89 are not intended as repealing or modifying any statute of this state pertaining to drainage districts, but are intended as an additional and cumulative method of managing and operating drainage districts under special circumstances.

The purpose of Sections 51-33-1 through 51-33-9 is to enable existing drainage districts or newly created drainage districts as provided herein to enter into cooperative agreements and programs to carry out the purposes of Public Law 566, 83rd Congress of the United States, or ot…

Any drainage district operating under the provisions of any law of the State of Mississippi which has no unmatured bonded indebtedness and has constructed no levees, canals, or other drainage improvements may be dissolved by the chancery court of the county in which said district…

Whenever, after the expiration of the said period of three years, five or more landowners of any such district, or a majority of the landowners of any such district, excluding lands owned by the state, or any landowner or owners owning more than fifty per cent of the total acreag…

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 appear that it is to the best interests of …

Nothing contained in Sections 51-33-91 through 51-33-97 shall be construed to impair or affect any contract or other obligation of any such drainage district, but persons holding claims against such drainage district shall, on notice of the dissolution thereof as provided herein,…

Any drainage district heretofore organized which has constructed drainage canals and which has no outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, and wherein there is no necessity of maintenance work from year to year may be dissolved by the chancery court in which the drainage di…

Swampland districts heretofore organized under the provisions of Sections 371 through 391, inclusive, of the Code of 1906 and amendments thereto shall continue to operate under the provisions of said laws, and the adoption of this Code of 1972 shall not be held to repeal such law…

The commissioners provided for herein shall have control and management of all of the affairs of such swamp land district, shall have the power and authority to make improvements to and to maintain the existing drainage channel or channels of such district, and shall have the pow…

When so recommended by such commissioners, the board of supervisors of the county wherein such swamp land district is located shall have the power and authority to levy an annual tax upon all the lands included in such district, which said tax shall not exceed twenty cents (20¢) …

The said commissioners shall have full power and authority to do and perform all acts and things necessary and desirable in carrying out the purposes of this article and shall have all powers set forth in said Sections 371 to 391, Code of 1906.