51-33-103 - Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; proceedings; chancery court jurisdiction. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 51-33-103. Dissolution of district with construction not requiring maintenance; proceedings; chancery court jurisdiction.
 

The said chancery court, or the chancellor thereof in vacation, shall take jurisdiction of said cause and shall hear the same on the return day thereof in the same manner as other causes in chancery. If, upon the hearing of said cause, it shall appear that it is to the best interest of the landowners of said drainage district that said district be dissolved and that there is no outstanding indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, the court or chancellor shall thereupon enter an order dissolving the said district, requiring that no further expense or indebtedness be incurred or contracted by the commissioners of said drainage district, and that said drainage commissioners shall, within thirty days thereafter, deposit with the clerk of said court all papers and records of said district. If it shall not appear to be to the best interest of the landowners or if there is outstanding indebtedness against said drainage district and necessity for maintenance work from year to year in said district, the petition shall be dismissed at the cost of petitioners and no further petition for the dissolution of said district shall be filed within two years thereafter. 
 

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