State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Mississippi > Title-21 > 33 > 21-33-73§ 21-33-73. Municipality may purchase at state and county tax sales.
Any municipality in the state having a tax lien for special improvements or any other tax lien upon property located therein is hereby authorized, when the said property is offered for sale by the state and county for state and county taxes due thereon, to purchase at such tax sale the property upon which it holds said special improvement lien, and shall be authorized to pay the amount of its bid therefor.
Whenever property upon which any municipality in this state holds a lien has already been sold for state and county taxes, the municipality may redeem the tax sale the same as other lien holders in the state, and authority for municipalities to so thus redeem is hereby granted.
Sources: Codes, 1942, § 3742-38; Laws, 1932, ch. 231; Laws, 1950, ch. 492, § 38, eff from and after July 1, 1950.
