MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2015 Regular Session
To: Public Property; Appropriations
By: Representative Weathersby
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 * * * Secretary of State
shall * * * receive
the purchase money of lands * * *, which purchase money
shall be paid into the Treasury * * *. In the event a patent has
not been finally completed within thirty (30) days after purchase money has
been paid * * * to
the * * * Secretary
of State, then, upon written request to the * * * Secretary of State
by the party making * * * the application to purchase state land, there shall be
refunded all money, less fees provided under this chapter, paid upon * * *
the application to
purchase state land. The * * *Land Commissioner Secretary of State shall issue * * *
a
warrant upon the State Treasurer for * * * the sum of money * * *
to be
refunded; * * * 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.