MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2002 Regular Session
To: Ways and Means
By: Representative Espy
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 27-41-1, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO PROVIDE THAT A TAX COLLECTOR SHALL ACCEPT PAYMENT FOR AD VALOREM TAXES ON THE SAME DAY THAT A PERSON PRESENTS SUCH PAYMENT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 27-41-1, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
27-41-1. Except as may otherwise be provided in Section 27-41-2, all state, county, school, road, levee and other taxing districts and municipal ad valorem taxes, except ad valorem taxes levied for county or district or municipal bonds and other evidences of indebtedness for money borrowed, and interest thereon, heretofore or hereafter assessed or levied shall be due, payable and collectible by the tax collector and shall be paid on or before the first day of February next succeeding the date of the assessment and levying of such taxes. All taxes levied for county and district and municipal bonds and interest thereon, or betterment or improvement assessments, shall be paid by each person assessed therewith on or before the first day of February next succeeding the date of the assessment and levying of the same, at the time of payment of the state and county ad valorem taxes, except as otherwise hereinafter provided in this chapter. The tax collector shall begin to accept payment for such ad valorem taxes or assessments not later than December 26 of the year prior to the year in which such taxes are required to be paid and shall accept payment for ad valorem taxes on the same day that a person presents such payment.
Any county may, by an order spread upon the minutes of the board of supervisors, allow the acceptance of partial payments for ad valorem taxes. Any municipality wherein municipal taxes are not collected by the county may, by an order spread upon the minutes of the governing authority of said municipality, allow the acceptance of partial payments for ad valorem taxes. If said partial payments are allowed by the county or municipality, said partial payments shall be made as follows:
(a) One-half (1/2) of all ad valorem taxes due shall be paid on or before February 1.
(b) One-fourth (1/4) of all ad valorem taxes, interest and penalty due shall be paid on or before May 1.
(c) One-fourth (1/4) of all ad valorem taxes, interest and penalty due shall be paid on or before July 1.
If any unpaid balance exists on August 1, then the lands shall be sold at the land sale on the last Monday in August for said unpaid balance.
All ad valorem taxes, however, assessed against motor vehicles as prescribed by the Motor Vehicle Ad Valorem Tax Law of 1958, for any and all purposes and in any and all jurisdictions, shall be paid in full on the date such taxes are due and payable.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.