21-43-127 - Imposition and collection of assessment. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 21-43-127. Imposition and collection of assessment.
 

(1)  The assessment upon benefited real property pursuant to Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 shall be imposed as established in the district plan. 

(2)  The governing authorities of the municipality shall annually certify to the tax collector, or other officer charged with the duty of collecting taxes in the municipality, the annual installment of assessment due from each tract of land against which an assessment has been levied. The collector shall thereupon enter upon the annual tax roll of the municipality, in a separate column, the amount of the installment to be collected for each tract of land assessed, and the collector shall collect such installment at the same time he collects the annual municipal tax. 

(3)  All assessments levied under the provisions of Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133 shall be enforced in the same manner in which the payment of other municipal taxes is enforced, and all statutes regulating the collection of other municipal taxes shall apply to the enforcement and collection of the assessments levied under the provisions of Sections 21-43-101 through 21-43-133. 
 

Sources: Laws,  1995, ch. 442, § 14, eff from and after passage (approved March 21, 1995).