51-33-101 - Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; petition; notice. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 51-33-101. Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; petition; notice.
 

Whenever a majority of the landowners owning a majority of the land in such drainage district shall sign and file with the clerk of the chancery court in which such drainage district was organized a petition for the dissolution of such drainage district, it shall be the duty of the chancery clerk to give notice thereof by publication. Such notice shall be published for three weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which the drainage district was organized, shall be addressed to all persons interested in said drainage district, and shall command them to appear before the said chancery court on a day certain in term time, or before the chancellor in vacation at a place and time to be stated in said notice, not later than five days nor more than sixty days after the date of the last publication of said notice and show cause, if any they can, why said drainage district should not be dissolved. 
 

Sources: Codes, 1942, § 4661; Laws,  1934, ch. 230.