Mississippi § 51-33-101 - Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; petition; notice.
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§ 51-33-101. Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; petition; notice.
Whenever a majority of the landowners owning a majority of the land in such drainage district shall sign and file with the clerk of the chancery court in which such drainage district was organized a petition for the dissolution of such drainage district, it shall be the duty of the chancery clerk to give notice thereof by publication. Such notice shall be published for three weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which the drainage district was organized, shall be addressed to all persons interested in said drainage district, and shall command them to appear before the said chancery court on a day certain in term time, or before the chancellor in vacation at a place and time to be stated in said notice, not later than five days nor more than sixty days after the date of the last publication of said notice and show cause, if any they can, why said drainage district should not be dissolved.
Source: official Mississippi text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 51-33-101 ("Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; petition; notice.") is part of the Mississippi Code of 1972 Annotated, the codified statutory law of Mississippi. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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