51-29-31 - Notice of assessment to landowners. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 51-29-31. Notice of assessment to landowners.
 

Upon the filing of such assessment, the chancery court, or the chancellor in vacation, shall enter an order directing the clerk of the chancery court to give notice by publication for two (2) weeks by two (2) insertions in some newspaper published and having a general circulation in each of the counties within which the lands of the district may lie, stating that the owners of lands assessed for drainage purposes in said district, if they desire, may appear before the chancery court, or chancellor in vacation, on the date and time and place fixed by said order, which date shall be not less than ten (10) days after the last publication of said notice, and present complaints, if any they have, against the assessment of land in the district. 
 

The clerk of the chancery court shall publish said notice as directed by said order. The said notice shall give description of the lands assessed in as large tracts as the description will permit and shall state that said lands have been assessed for drainage purposes in said district; that any owner of real property, or the improvements thereon, within the district who conceives himself to be aggrieved by the assessment of benefits or damages or deems that the assessment of other lands in the district is inadequate shall file his written complaint or objection, in specific terms, with the clerk of said court prior to the time designated for said hearing. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 4445; 1930, § 4463; 1942, § 4689; Laws, 1912, ch. 195; Laws, 1914, ch. 269; Laws, 1964, ch. 208; Laws, 1973, ch. 348, § 1, eff from and after passage (approved March 23, 1973).