Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 29-15-1 (2026)
Definitions
✓ current as of July 2026
- (a) "Commission" means the Mississippi Commission on Marine Resources.
- (b) "Local tidal datum" means the datum established for a specific tide station through the use of tidal observations made at that station.
- (c) "Mean high water" means the arithmetic mean of all the high waters occurring in a particular nineteen-year tidal epoch period; or for a shorter period of time after corrections are applied to the short term observations to reduce these values to the equivalent nineteen-year value.
- (d) "Mean high water line" means the intersection of the tidal datum plane of mean high water with the shore.
- (e) "Mean high water survey" means a survey of the intersection of the shoreline with the tidal datum plane of mean high water using local tidal datums and surveying methodologies approved by the commission. Methodologies shall include but not be limited to the "staking method," "the topographic method" and "tide coordinated aerial photography."
- (f) "National map accuracy standards" means a set of guidelines published by the Office of Management and Budget of the United States to which maps produced by the United States government adhere.
- (g) "Submerged lands" means lands which remain covered by waters, where the tides ebb and flow, at ordinary low tides.
- (h) "Tidelands" means those lands which are daily covered and uncovered by water by the action of the tides, up to the mean line of the ordinary high tides.
Laws, 1989, ch. 495, § 2; Laws, 1994, ch. 578, § 52, eff. 7/1/1994.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 12
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1991–2022 · leading case: Sec'y of State v. Wiesenberg, 633 So. 2d 983 (Miss. 1994).
Sec'y of State v. Wiesenberg, 633 So. 2d 983 (Miss. 1994). “" In an effort to designate this legislation as a "higher purpose," the Legislature included a preamble to the tidelands legislation which can be found in the Editor's Note following Miss. Code Ann. § 29-15-1 . These legislative findings of fact are as follows: SECTION 1.”
Bayview Land, Ltd. v. State Ex Rel. Clark, 950 So. 2d 966 (Miss. 2006). “The State filed its answer and counterclaim, stating that pursuant to the Public Trust Tidelands Act, Miss.Code Ann. §§ 29-15-1, et seq. (Rev.2005), the accreted land in question belonged to the State of Mississippi and was held in trust, with the Secretary of State as the…”
State of Mississippi v. Kenneth F. Murphy, 202 So. 3d 1243 (Miss. 2016). “” Miss. Code Ann. § 29-15-1 (h) (Rev. 2010).”
Stewart v. Hoover, 815 So. 2d 1157 (Miss. 2002). “Miss.Code Ann. § 29-15-1 et seq. (2000). The purpose of the legislation was to "resolve the uncertainty and disputes which have arisen as to the location of the boundary between the state's public trust tidelands and the upland property and to confirm the mean high water…”
Sec'y of State of the State of Mississippi v. Gunn, 75 So. 3d 1015 (Miss. 2011). “” Miss.Code Ann. § 29-15-1(h) (Rev.2010). .”
C. Delbert Hosemann, Jr. v. D. Neil Harris, Sr., 163 So. 3d 263 (Miss. 2015). “The Act is codified in Sections 29-15-1 through 29-15-23 of the Mississippi Code.”
The State of Mississippi, by & through Michael Watson in his Off. Capacity as Sec'y of State as Tr. of Pub. Tidelands v. Long Beach Harbor Resort, LLC (Miss. 2022). “” Miss. Code Ann. § 29-15-1 (e) (Rev. 2020).”
Bayview Land, Ltd. v. State of Mississippi (Miss. 2004). “The State filed its answer and counterclaim, stating that pursuant to the Public Trust Tidelands Act, Miss. Code Ann. §§ 29-15-1 , et seq. (Rev.”
Lawrence S. Stewart v. H. James Hoover (Miss. 2001). “Miss. Code Ann. § 29-15-1 et seq. (2000).”
Sec'y of State v. Clyde H. Gunn, III (Miss. 2010). “” Miss. Code Ann. § 29-15-1 (d) (Rev. 2010).”
State v. Molpus, 633 So. 2d 1004 (Miss. 1994). “See Miss.Code Ann. §§ 29-15-1 et seq. (Supp.1991).”
Est. of Mladinich v. Comm'r, 62 T.C.M. 1065 (Tax Ct. 1991). “Miss. Code Ann. secs. 29-15-1 through 29-15-23 (1990).”
Miss. Code Ann. § 29-15-1(g): 1 case
Bayview Land, Ltd. v. State Ex Rel. Clark, 950 So. 2d 966 (Miss. 2006). “The State filed its answer and counterclaim, stating that pursuant to the Public Trust Tidelands Act, Miss.Code Ann. §§ 29-15-1, et seq. (Rev.2005), the accreted land in question belonged to the State of Mississippi and was held in trust, with the Secretary of State as the…”
Miss. Code Ann. § 29-15-1(h): 2 cases
Sec'y of State of the State of Mississippi v. Gunn, 75 So. 3d 1015 (Miss. 2011). “” Miss.Code Ann. § 29-15-1(h) (Rev.2010). .”
The State of Mississippi, by & through Michael Watson in his Off. Capacity as Sec'y of State as Tr. of Pub. Tidelands v. Long Beach Harbor Resort, LLC (Miss. 2022). “” Miss. Code Ann. § 29-15-1 (e) (Rev. 2020).”
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