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Section
29-1-1

Purchase of land by state; title to land acquired with state funds as under name of state; sale of public lands; gift or donation of land to state; Secretary of State to sign conveyances; inventory of state lands; land purchased for benefit of state agency; use of assets of Public Employees' Retirement System restricted; cultural resources survey; land acquired for highways, through federal funds or for the Mississippi Major Economic Impact Authority projects exempt; recovery of expenses for record-keeping; requirements for certain legislatively authorized conveyances of specifically described real property

Section
29-1-3

Sixteenth section or in lieu lands; biennial report of commissioner; public officials to supply management and investment information

Section
29-1-5

Value of state lands

Section
29-1-7

Suits for or on behalf of public lands

Section
29-1-9

Suits for recovery of lands

Section
29-1-11

Fraudulent purchases declared void

Section
29-1-13

Private claims to lands

Section
29-1-15

Counties and municipalities may grant lands to state

Section
29-1-17

Protection of public lands from trespass

Section
29-1-19

Damages for trespass

Section
29-1-21

Record of tax lands

Section
29-1-23

Definition

Section
29-1-25

Lands acquired through error

Section
29-1-27

Lands mistakenly claimed by state stricken from tax list

Section
29-1-29

Lands mistakenly sold to state may be stricken

Section
29-1-31

Void tax sales stricken

Section
29-1-33

Sale price of tax lands

Section
29-1-35

Sale of land after buildings destroyed; factors Secretary of State may consider in determining sales price for land

Section
29-1-37

Application to purchase tax lands

Section
29-1-39

Contract for sale of tax lands

Section
29-1-41

Unlawful to cut timber until purchase price is paid

Section
29-1-43

Lands under contract for sale taxable

Section
29-1-45

Cancellation of contract of sale

Section
29-1-47

Purchase price forfeited

Section
29-1-49

Tax land may be sold to drainage district

Section
29-1-51

Tax land may be sold to municipality

Section
29-1-53

Sale of tax; forfeited improvements

Section
29-1-55

Sale of tax-forfeited timber

Section
29-1-57

Sale of buildings, personal property and land associated with tax lands; factors Secretary of State may consider in determining sale price for land

Section
29-1-59

Sale price of swamp and overflowed lands

Section
29-1-61

Sale price of internal improvement lands

Section
29-1-63

Sale price of Chickasaw school lands

Section
29-1-65

Sale price of other lands

Section
29-1-67

Sale of lands in municipalities

Section
29-1-69

Sale of certain lands sold by municipalities

Section
29-1-71

Sale of lands for municipal defense projects

Section
29-1-73

Quantity purchased by one person

Section
29-1-75

Who may not purchase public lands

Section
29-1-77

Sale or lease to highway commission

Section
29-1-79

How purchase money paid

Section
29-1-81

Issuance of patents and contracts

Section
29-1-83

Land sold by the state to be assessed for taxes

Section
29-1-85

Failure of title to public lands

Section
29-1-87

Patents cancelled where state has no title; refund to purchasers for cancelled patents; determination of failure of title

Section
29-1-89

Certain entries cancelled

Section
29-1-91

Taxes remain a charge on redeemed land

Section
29-1-93

Fees of county officers

Section
29-1-95

County, municipality, public school district, drainage district and levee board taxes; funding of agency expenses; deposit of monies into State General Fund and use of monies so deposited

Section
29-1-97

Lien of drainage district or municipality not abated

Section
29-1-99

Easements for flood control, etc.

Section
29-1-101

Easements for pipe lines

Section
29-1-103

Liability for damages in construction of pipe lines

Section
29-1-105

Restrictions on construction or use of pipe lines

Section
29-1-107

Leasing or renting of surface and submerged lands

Section
29-1-109

Fees or commissions prohibited for collecting rent on state-owned property

Section
29-1-111

Duplicate of conveyance issued

Section
29-1-113

Presumption of patent in absence of record

Section
29-1-115

Presumption of validity of patents of forfeited tax land

Section
29-1-117

Titles and claims vacated and relinquished

Section
29-1-119

Patents to issue in certain cases

Section
29-1-121

Agent to collect fund due state

Section
29-1-123

Lists of tax lands prepared; copies to counties

Section
29-1-125

Collection of sums due state arising from mineral interests

Section
29-1-127

Reports as to mineral interests and payment of royalties and other returns

Section
29-1-129

Accounting for and disposition of monies collected or received

Section
29-1-131

Powers and duties of Department of Revenue

Section
29-1-133

Information to be furnished to State Tax Commission

Section
29-1-135

Lien of state

Section
29-1-137

Powers and duties of Attorney General

Section
29-1-139

Agents of Department of Revenue

Section
29-1-141

Interest on unpaid sums

Section
29-1-143

Jurisdiction of chancery court

Section
29-1-145

State reimbursement of county or municipality for maintenance costs of land to be sold for unpaid taxes

Section
29-1-147

Relinquishment by state of claims for certain forfeited tax lands

Section
29-1-149

Report of transactions for all conveyances of real property