Mississippi § 27-31-75 - Application for exemption of existing interests.

§ 27-31-75. Application for exemption of existing interests.

Application for such exemption upon existing interests shall be made to the chancery clerk of the county wherein the land lies in which such interest is owned, by filing application in duplicate with the said clerk, which shall contain the following information: Name of applicant; Address of applicant; Description of land affected (including aggregate acreage); Fractional interest for which exemption is applied and nature of such interest; Recording data concerning the instrument creating the interest including grantor or lessor, grantee or lessee, date of instrument, book and page of record and date of filing; Length of primary term; Recording data on instruments divesting original party of any interest in a portion of original interest therein conveyed; Number of net mineral, royalty or lease acres on which exemption sought; Amount tendered therewith. Upon receipt of such application, accompanied by the sum shown therein, the chancery clerk shall give it a serial number, mark it filed, showing the date received and shall note the payment of the mineral documentary tax on the original application. The clerk shall make a notation on the face of the record of the instrument described in the application showing the date of payment, the amount of the payment as stated in the application and the serial number of the application. After such notation is made, the original application, with the required notations, shall be returned to the applicant by mailing to the address shown on the application (or delivered otherwise to the applicant) and the duplicate application shall be retained by the clerk as his permanent record. If it later be ascertained that an insufficient amount was paid with the application for the exemption provided herein, such exemption shall not be thereby rendered void but the additional amount which should have been paid, together with a penalty of twenty-five percent (25%) and one percent (1%) interest per month thereon from the date of the application until paid, shall be a lien on the interest exempted and a personal debt of the applicant collectible by suit for appropriate personal judgment and to enforce the lien, which may be maintained by the county to which such sum should have been paid.