County Chancery Clerk

Lance Reid, Chancery Clerk

Physical Address: 641 N Main St. Hattiesburg, MS 39401

Mailing Address: Po Box 951 Hattiesburg MS 39403

Main Office: Recording/Child Support:

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Land Records/Prior Year Taxes:

Court Department:

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The Chancery Clerk has five major responsibilities:

  1. Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
  2. Clerk for the Chancery Court
  3. County Recorder
  4. County Treasurer
  5. County Auditor

CLERK of the COURT

  • Attending and maintaining the minuets of chancery court
  • Creating and maintaining files for each chancery suit
  • Issuing process for service upon defendants
  • Recording the court’s activities in various docket and minuet books
  • Maintaining dockets
  • Processing all phases of civil commitments
  • Receiving and accounting for various filing fees required to accompany pleadings and appeals
  • Attending each session of the Chancery Court
  • Transmitting statistical data to the Mississippi Supreme Court, AOC\
  • Processing the court’s record(s) for appellate review


CUSTODIAN of PUBLIC LAND RECORDS

  • Creating and maintaining various indexes for documents filed in the public land records (i.e., sectional index, direct/reverse index, ect…)
  • Collects Delinquent Real Property Taxes
  • Creating and maintaining volumes which contain copies of all documents filed and indexed in the public land records (i.e., deed books, deed of trust books, or some combination thereof, etc…)
  • Receiving and accounting for various filing fees required to accompany documents left for recording
  • Maintaining all records of property sold for taxes by the county tax collector each year and accepting and processing payment in redemption of those taxes.

CLERK of the BOARD of SUPERVISORS

  • Receiving and processing claims made against the county, which necessarily includes maintaining the county’s Docket of Claims
  • Assisting the board in equalizing the assessment rolls of the real and personal property
  • Compiling various reports on the board’s behalf and submitting them to other state governmental entities as required
  • Receiving and processing all applications made for homestead exemption and reporting there onto the State Tax Commission
  • Assisting the board in preparing the annual county budget (not required, but routinely done as a courtesy to the board)
  • Submitting a monthly report of all county funds to the board

COUNTY AUDITOR

  • Keeping accounts with each county office
  • Keeping ledger accounts of all receipts and disbursements of county funds
  • Keeping financial records for all county officers responsible for receiving or collecting money for the county, including a detailed account for debits warrants and properly documenting funds paid to the county

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