MS HB711

Requires summons in eviction proceedings to include notice stating that if a tenant fails to remove personal property after losing possession, the landlord may dispose of it without further legal action.

Deems personal property, including manufactured homes, left on the premises after eviction as abandoned and allows the landlord to dispose of it without notice or obligation to the tenant if the judge has not made other findings about the property.

Applies the abandoned property disposal provisions to material noncompliance terminations under landlord-tenant law, in addition to traditional eviction proceedings.

Updates technical language throughout the relevant code sections, including changing references from "justice of the peace" to "justice court judge," "city, town, or village" to "municipality," and archaic terms like "forthwith" to "immediately."

Effective date: July 1, 2015.