Senate Bill 2442

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 27-43-5, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REQUIRE THE CHANCERY CLERK TO MAKE AVAILABLE TO BIDDERS AT TAX SALES A LIST OF ALL LIENORS ON EACH PARCEL OF LAND OFFERED FOR SALE TO WHOM NOTICES OF A TAX SALE WERE REQUIRED TO BE SENT; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

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

SECTION 1. Section 27-43-5, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:

27-43-5. (1) It shall be the duty of the clerk of the chancery court to examine the record of deeds, mortgages and deeds of trust in his office to ascertain the names and addresses of all mortgagees, beneficiaries and holders of vendors liens of all lands sold for taxes; and he shall, within the time fixed by law for notifying owners, send by certified mail with return receipt requested to all such lienors so shown of record the following notice, to-wit:

"State of Mississippi, To ______________________

County of ___________

You will take notice that ___________________ (here describe lands) assessed to, or supposed to be owned by __________________ was on the ______ day of _______________, 2___, sold to _____________________ for the taxes of __________________ (giving year) upon which you have a lien by virtue of the instrument recorded in this office in ______ Book _____, page _____, dated __________________, and that the title to said land will become absolute in said purchaser unless redemption from said sale be made on or before the ______ day of 2___.

This _____ day of _____, 2___.

__________________________________________

Chancery Clerk of _________ County, Miss."

(2) The clerk shall make available to bidders at tax sales a list of all lienors on each parcel of land offered for sale to whom notices were required to be sent under this section.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2016.