27-51-33 - Tax assessors not required to assess motor vehicles; value of vehicles part of assessed value of personal property in county and municipality; effectiveness of order directing county tax co - Mississippi Statutes

§ 27-51-33. Tax assessors not required to assess motor vehicles; value of vehicles part of assessed value of personal property in county and municipality; effectiveness of order directing county tax collector to collect municipal taxes.
 

Upon enactment of this law, the tax assessors of the various counties and municipalities of the state shall not be required to assess motor vehicles, as defined in this chapter, in preparing their regular assessment rolls from year to year. 
 

The total assessed value of all motor vehicles as reflected by the annual report of the county tax collector shall be considered as a legal part of the assessed value of personal property in the county and the total assessed value of motor vehicles on which taxes were paid during the next preceding fiscal year shall be used in determining the total assessed value of a county for classification purposes, and the total assessed value of all such motor vehicles of the municipality for the same period, as reflected by the annual report of the county tax collector, shall be considered as a legal part of the assessed value of personal property in the municipality in determining the total assessed value of such municipality. 
 

Any order legally adopted and made of minute record by the municipal authorities directing the county tax collector to collect its ad valorem taxes on motor vehicles as provided by this chapter shall remain in force from year to year until rescinded by official order duly recorded and certified to the county tax collector and the municipal assessor. Further, any such order shall comply with the provisions of Section 27-41-2. 
 

For any year, any municipality may adopt an order rescinding its former order authorizing the county tax collector to collect its ad valorem taxes on motor vehicles, provided that such rescinding order is duly adopted, made of minute record, and certified to the county tax collector at least sixty (60) days prior to the beginning of the ensuing fiscal year, and such order shall be published one (1) time in a newspaper having general circulation in the subject municipality. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 10007-17; Laws,  1958, ch. 588, § 17; Laws, 1960, ch. 413, § 7; Laws, 1977, ch. 484, § 13; Laws, 1993, ch. 540, § 9, eff from and after October 1, 1993.