Mississippi § 27-35-161 - Taxes collected from persons removing.

§ 27-35-161. Taxes collected from persons removing.

When the assessor shall learn that any person assessed with personal property, or subject to assessment, is about to leave the county or remove the property, he shall notify the tax collector; and when the tax collector receives such notice, or has information, no matter from whom or how derived, that a person liable for personal property taxes, or owning taxable personal property, is about to remove from the county or remove the property, whether the time for collecting taxes by distress and sale of the property has come or not, or whether the property be assessed or not, if the tax collector shall determine that the removal of the person or property will probably result in a failure to collect the personal property taxes, the said tax collector shall demand bond of the said person, as owner, agent or otherwise, in an amount sufficient to cover all taxes estimated to be due or to become due up to the end of the current year by said person, as the owner, agent or otherwise of the personal property. In default of such bond, the said tax collector shall seize sufficient of the property of said person to pay said taxes, and shall hold the same until such time as same may be sold under distress and sale by the tax collector in due course of such procedure. In lieu of such bond, the tax collector may accept cash in an amount which is ten percent (10%) in excess of the estimated unpaid taxes; and the tax collector shall be officially responsible for such cash deposit. When bond is given as required in this section, the same shall be in the name of the state, and suit may be brought thereon by the tax collector in any court of competent jurisdiction.