51-29-25 - Costs for proceedings abandoned and afterwards resumed. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 51-29-25. Costs for proceedings abandoned and afterwards resumed.
 

In any proceeding heretofore or hereafter had for the establishment of a ditch or drain or the doing of any other thing deemed necessary, when an engineer has been appointed and has made complete surveys and reports thereof, and for any reason the improvement has been abandoned and the proceedings dismissed, and afterwards proceedings are instituted for the establishment of a ditch or drain or for the doing of anything toward the prosecution of said work for the reclamation of the same territory surveyed in said former proceedings, or a part thereof and the territory additional thereto, the engineer's reports, surveys, stakes, and monuments made in former proceedings, as far as practicable or so much thereof as may be applicable, and the cost thereof in said former proceedings, or such parts thereof as used, shall be paid for as a part of the subsequent proceedings in which such report, surveys, stakes, and monuments, or a part thereof, are used. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hemingway's 1921 Supp., § 4442c; 1930, § 4460; 1942, § 4686; Laws, 1918, ch. 195.