MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE

2015 Regular Session

To: Public Property; Appropriations

By: Representative Weathersby

House Bill 738

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 29-1-79, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE PROCEDURE BY WHICH MONEY PAID FOR THE PURCHASE OF PUBLIC LANDS IS RECEIVED AND DEPOSITED INTO THE STATE TREASURY BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

     BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:

     SECTION 1.  Section 29-1-79, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

     29-1-79.  The * * *Land Commissioner Secretary of State shall * * * not receive the purchase money of lands * * *; but the same, which purchase money shall be paid into the Treasury * * * on the receipt warrant of the * * *Auditor of Public Accounts State Fiscal Officer, as in other cases; and the purchaser shall present to the * * *Land Commissioner Secretary of State, in payment for the land, the Treasurer's receipt for the purchase money, which shall be filed in the land office.  In the event a patent has not been finally completed within thirty (30) days after purchase money has been paid * * * into the * * * State TreasurySecretary of State, then, upon written request to the * * *State Land Commissioner Secretary of State by the party making * * * said the application to purchase state land, there shall be refunded all money, less fees provided under this chapter, paid upon * * * said the application to purchase state land.  The * * *Land Commissioner Secretary of State shall issue * * * a requisition to the State Auditor, setting forth the sum of money to be refunded, who shall then issue a warrant upon the State Treasurer for * * * said the sum of money * * * shown by said requisitionto be refunded; * * * said the warrant shall be paid as all other warrants are paid.  The application upon which any money is refunded shall be void, and no patent shall be granted thereon.

     SECTION 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2015.

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