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AR Code § 14-123-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-303. Certification of unopposed candidates without election

 (a) In all elections held within this state for the election of directors or commissioners of any levee district, the names of unopposed candidates shall not be printed on the ballot, and the election commissioners of the county shall certify as elected the person who qualifies for the office.  (b) In the event all of the candidates within the county are unopposed, no election shall be held in the county. The person qualifying for the office shall be certified by the county board of election commissioners as the duly elected director or commissioner of the district and shall receive from the county board of election commissioners a certificate of election to the office.
AR Code § 14-123-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-304. Procedure at polls — Depositing ballots and returns

 (a) The judges of the election shall:  (1) Open the polls;  (2) Appoint two (2) clerks of election;  (3) Proceed to hold the election by ballot;  (4) Keep the polls open until sundown of election day; and  (5) Cause poll books to be kept and the name of each voter to be recorded with the number of his ballot.    (b) Ballots shall be counted, and the result of the election shall be declared and recorded and the returns signed by the judges and clerks of the election.  (c) The returns and ballots shall be:  (1) Sealed up and directed to the judge of the county court;  (2) Sealed up in separate envelopes; and  (3) Deposited in the clerk's office of the county by one (1) of the judges of the election within five (5) days after the election is held.
AR Code § 14-123-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-305. Canvass of votes — Declaration of result — Contest

 (a) If it is more than ten (10) days until a regular term of the court after the election is held, the judge of the county court shall hold a special term of the court within ten (10) days of the election, at which the returns shall be opened by the court and clerk, who shall constitute the board of canvassers to canvass the votes at the election and declare the result.  (b) The three (3) persons having the highest number of votes in the district for directors shall compose the board of levee directors for the district.  (c) The three (3) persons having the highest number of votes for assessors shall compose the board of assessors of the district.  (d) The court shall cause an order to be entered on the minutes of the court reciting the election and the names of the persons so found to be elected to the offices and shall give to each of the persons a certificate of his election, attested by the clerk and the seal of the court.  (e) In case any person voted for at the election shall contest the election of either of the officers, he shall commence proceedings within ten (10) days after the result of the election is declared by the court. The contest shall be conducted in the same manner and governed by the same laws as are prescribed for contesting the election of constable.
AR Code § 14-123-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-306. Oath — Terms of office

 (a) All directors and assessors elected under the provisions of this act shall, before they enter upon the discharge of their duties, take and subscribe the oath required by Arkansas Constitution, Article 19, § 20.  (b) They shall each hold their office for three (3) years and until their successors are elected and qualified.  (c) After the first election, the county court shall designate one (1) director and one (1) assessor to hold office for one (1) year, and one (1) of each to hold office for two (2) years, and one (1) of each for three (3) years, and thereafter one (1) of each of the officers shall be elected by the landholders of the district on the first Monday of May of each year.  (d) The directors and assessors shall hold their offices until the first Monday in May after the expiration of one (1) year from their first election.
AR Code § 14-123-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-307. Vacancies

 Should a vacancy occur in the board of directors or assessors during the term for which they are elected, the county court shall order an election to fill the vacancy, notice of which election shall be given by posting written or printed handbills in at least twenty (20) public places in the district ten (10) days immediately prior to holding the election.
AR Code § 14-123-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-308. Powers and duties

 The board of directors shall:   (1) Have the exclusive control and supervision of the levees in their district; and  (2) Make all necessary rules for their protection.
AR Code § 14-123-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-309. Records and reports

 The board of directors shall keep a record of their proceedings as well as a record of all the meetings of the district and shall, at the annual meeting on the first Monday of May in each year, report to the electors of the district an itemized statement, under oath, of the receipts and expenditures of the year preceding, which report they shall also cause to be published in some newspaper printed and published in the county, if any exists.
AR Code § 14-123-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-310. Treasurer

 (a) The board of directors shall at their annual meeting on the first Monday in May, or as soon thereafter as practicable, elect a treasurer for the levee district, whose term of office shall continue until the first Monday in the following May or until his successor is duly elected and qualified.  (b) The treasurer shall give such bond and receive such compensation as from time to time may be fixed by the board of directors.  (c) The treasurer of any levee district shall be custodian of all funds of the district and shall cause to be made and filed with the board of directors or commissioners of the district a sufficient bond, conditioned on the faithful performance of his duties, and to render full accountability, which bond shall be written in some surety company authorized to do business in the State of Arkansas and approved by the board or its finance committee, the expense of which is to be paid by the district.  (d) The treasurer shall not be construed to be an insurer of the funds of the district and shall not be liable on the bond except for his failure to pay over or account for funds in his possession. The receipt of any funds by any depository of the district shall release the treasurer from any liability therefor unless and until the funds shall thereafter be paid to him by the depository.
AR Code § 14-123-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-311. Warrants — Employment and supervision of laborers

 (a) The board of levee directors shall draw warrants on the treasurer of the district to pay for work done on the levees, which shall be paid by the treasurer in the order of presentation.  (b) The board of levee directors shall:  (1) Have charge of all the public levees in their districts;  (2) Keep the public levees in repair; and  (3) For this purpose, have power to employ and superintend laborers.
AR Code § 14-123-312 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-312. Determination of necessary work — Survey and report

 (a) It shall be the duty of the board of directors to determine what work is necessary to be done, or levees to be constructed, to protect their district from overflow.  (b) They shall cause accurate surveys of all work deemed necessary by them and accurate estimates and calculations, to be made by some suitable and competent engineer or other person, who shall make a written report thereof, showing the amount, character, and kind of work, the exact location thereof, and the probable cost thereof, and return the report with all plans and specifications to the board of directors.
AR Code § 14-123-313 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-313. Ownership of timber on right-of-way

 The ownership of timber located on the right-of-way of any levee district, embracing lands in four (4) or more counties, shall be vested in the board of directors of the district. The board may use, sell, or dispose of the timber as it deems best.
AR Code § 14-123-314 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-314. Depositories for funds

 (a) The board of directors or commissioners of any levee district organized under general or special laws, which is or may be hereafter authorized to select depositories for the funds of the district, shall select the depositories at the time, in the manner, and for the term as is required by existing statutes.  (b) However, in the event the depositories so selected cannot or do not provide the security required by law in an amount sufficient to provide protection for all the funds of the district, the board of directors or commissioners are authorized to select additional depositories without advertising for bids, which depositories may be located outside the district and within or without the State of Arkansas. The additional depositories shall be required to provide the security required by law for deposits of improvements districts.
AR Code § 14-123-315 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-315. Interest on deposits

 The rate of depository interest to be paid by the depositories selected in accordance with § 14-123-314 and by those depositories selected in accordance with existing laws shall be such as, in the opinion of the board of directors or commissioners, is consistent with the security given and for the best interests of the district. However, if the board is unable to secure any interest on its deposits, then it is authorized to make such deposits without interest.
AR Code § 14-123-316 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors or Assessors|§ 14-123-316. Compensation of directors, assessors, employees, etc

 (a) The directors and assessors shall each receive the sum of up to fifty dollars ($50.00) per day for attending meetings of the board and while actually and necessarily engaged in the performance of their duties under this act.  (b) The directors shall be authorized to employ an engineer at a price not to exceed one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per month while actually engaged in the performance of his or her duties.  (c) The board of directors or board of commissioners of levee districts organized under general laws or special acts shall have the power to fix the amount of compensation to be paid to the officers and employees of the district who are required to devote all their time to the performance of the duties of their office or employment.
AR Code § 14-123-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-401. Assessment of lands

 Assessors shall:   (1) Assess the value of lands in the district subject to overflow and benefited by the work, having reference to the value of the land without the work, and the value thereof as benefited by work; and  (2) Assess the value thereof as improved by the work in an assessment book to be provided for that purpose.
AR Code § 14-123-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-402. Entry of land on assessment book

 (a) The lands shall be entered upon the books in convenient subdivisions, as surveyed by the federal government, with appropriate columns showing the names and residences of owners of the land, and of any person holding recorded liens or encumbrances thereon, if known to the assessors.  (b) The following shall also be recorded on the assessment book: The number of acres cleared or uncleared, as nearly as the assessors can ascertain, without measurement; the value thereof as assessed by them without the work; and the value thereof as improved by the work.  (c) No error in the description of the lands shall invalidate the assessment if sufficient description is given to ascertain where the land is situated.
AR Code § 14-123-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-403. Notice of landholders' meeting

 The board of directors shall then call a meeting of all the landholders of the district at some place convenient to some part of the work and shall give at least five (5) days' notice of the time and place of the meeting, by written or printed handbills put up in ten (10) public places in the district, that the estimates of the surveyor and the list of the assessors will be submitted to the meeting for action, and requiring the owner of the lands and the holders of any lien thereon to show cause at the meeting why the lands shall not be assessed with their proportional part of the cost of the work.
AR Code § 14-123-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-404. Landowners' meeting — Levy of tax — Issuance of evidence of indebtedness

 (a) At the landowners' meetings the reports and estimates of the engineers, the assessments of the assessors, and an estimate of the probable cost of the work shall be laid before the landowners present. If a majority of the landowners present, either in person or by proxy, shall vote in favor of the work, it shall be the duty of the board of directors to cause the levee to be constructed in accordance with the reports and estimates of the engineers, as nearly as may be.  (b) To that end the board of directors shall have power and authority to levy a tax upon the betterment estimated to accrue to the lands by reason of the work, sufficient to pay the cost thereof, which the tax may be paid as a whole or in such annual installments as the board of directors may decide.  (c) When the assessment shall be payable in annual installments, the treasurer of the district shall collect each year only the annual installments due for the year and any delinquent installments.  (d) The board of directors may issue interest-bearing evidences of indebtedness or bonds which may be either negotiable or nonnegotiable, and in such form and bearing interest at such rate or rates, and payable at such time or times as the board of directors may by resolution declare.  (e) To secure the prompt payment thereof, the board may pledge the property and revenue of the district, provided the total indebtedness shall not exceed the estimated betterment to accrue to the land by reason of the work.
AR Code § 14-123-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-405. Letting of work

 If it shall be decided at the meeting, in the manner aforesaid, to do the work, the directors shall proceed to let the work out to the lowest and best bidder. However, the directors shall have the right to reject all bids if the bids shall be deemed too high.
AR Code § 14-123-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-406. Bond of contractors

 The contractors shall give bond to the directors in a sum sufficient to secure the prompt execution of their contract, conditioned to pay any damages which shall result to the landholders of the district from a failure to perform their contracts or by reason of a negligent performance of the contract.
AR Code § 14-123-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-407. Execution of work — Acceptance

 The work shall be done by contractors, under the supervision of the board of directors or any engineers to be selected by them and, when completed, if performed according to the terms of their contract and the plans and specifications submitted to the meeting of landholders, shall be received and accepted by the board of directors.
AR Code § 14-123-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-408. Assessment for cost of work — Revision and delivery of lists

 (a) The board of assessors shall:  (1) Make an assessment of the cost of the work upon the lands situated in the district benefited by the work and reported to the meeting of landholders upon the value of the lands as increased by the work; and  (2) Also make a list of the lands as assessed, showing the owners' names, the description of the land, the number of acres, the valuation thereof as increased by the work, and the amounts of the assessments thereon.    (b) The assessors and board of directors shall then go carefully over the list, descriptions, and valuations and make all necessary corrections in the description of the lands assessed, adding to the list any lands omitted and striking out any lands improperly assessed.  (c) Notice of the time and place of the revision shall be given by written or printed handbills posted in ten (10) public places in the district for ten (10) days prior thereto. At that time any person feeling himself aggrieved by the assessment may appear and have his complaint heard and considered by the board of directors.  (d) The assessors shall make alterations and corrections in the list ordered by the board and shall then file the list in the clerk's office of the county court of the county. They shall also make a separate list thereof and deliver the separate list to the treasurer of the district. Both lists shall be signed by the assessors. For the purpose of ascertaining the description of any lands embraced in the district, the assessors and the owners of the land shall be governed by and subject to the provisions of § 26-26-717.
AR Code § 14-123-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-409. Assessments as lien — Interest on delinquent assessments — Correcting errors

 (a) The assessments shall be a lien on all the lands of the district, in the nature of a mortgage, and shall bear interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum after thirty (30) days from the filing of the assessments in the county clerk's office, and until paid.  (b) If at any time before judgment, in any foreclosure proceeding brought to enforce the lien, it shall appear that an error has been made in the description of any of the lands embraced in the assessment or lists, the error shall be at once corrected, and the correction shall have the effect in all respects as if the error had not existed.
AR Code § 14-123-410 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-410. Assessment of omitted lands

 (a) If, for any cause, any of the lands in any district now existing, or hereafter formed, has not been assessed or subjected to its proportional share of any work voted to be done, or to the annual tax provided in § 14-123-419, it shall be the duty of the assessors to at once make out and present lists to the board of directors, who shall examine the lists. They shall proceed to hear and determine all complaints respecting the lists, after notice to the owners as provided in § 14-123-408.  (b) The list shall then be filed in the clerk's office and with the board of directors, as provided in § 14-123-408, and shall constitute a lien on the lands to be enforced as if originally assessed as herein provided in this chapter.