MS HB1512

Brings forward Section 27-43-3 of Mississippi Code requiring chancery clerks to provide notice to property owners whose land is sold for nonpayment of ad valorem taxes through personal service, mail, publication, or posting.

Establishes fees for chancery clerk services: $50 for examining records to ascertain record owner, $2 for issuing notice, $1 for mailing and recording, and $5 for issuing a second notice with $2.50 for mailing the second notice.

Establishes sheriff service fees of $35 for serving the initial notice and $35 for serving a second notice on the property owner.

Brings forward Section 27-43-11 establishing a $7 fee for the chancery clerk to examine records and ascertain names and addresses of lienors, with failure to notify lienors rendering the tax title void as to those lienors only.

Takes effect July 1, 2019.