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AR Code § 27-86-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 86 - Bridges|Subchapter 2 - Private Franchises|§ 27-86-210. State purchase of private toll bridges — Construction of free bridges

 (a) The State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to purchase any or all of the privately owned toll bridges in the State of Arkansas at prices to be fixed by the commission in accordance with rules to be promulgated by the commission.  (b) Where it is not possible to purchase any privately owned toll bridges, then the commission is authorized to construct bridges at places where there are now operated any privately owned toll bridges.  (c) The purchase of each bridge shall include the right-of-way, franchise, and license, if any, and all right, title, and interest and claim of the owner in and to it together with all appurtenances thereunto belonging.  (d) No money shall be paid over on the purchase of a toll bridge under authority of this section until there has been a conveyance by the owner to the State of Arkansas of the bridge proper together with approaches, right-of-way, license, franchise, and whatever other outstanding claim, right, title, or interest there may be in the bridge, to the end that the state may completely own and control the bridge and that the public may use it free of toll.  (e) The state shall repair and maintain all bridges purchased by authority of this section in the same manner that it now or may hereafter repair and maintain bridges which are parts of the state highway system.
AR Code § 27-86-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 86 - Bridges|Subchapter 2 - Private Franchises|§ 27-86-211. Toll rates on privately owned bridges in state highway system

 (a) The State Highway Commission is empowered to fix and enforce the schedule or rate of tolls to be collected on any privately owned toll bridge located on any road embraced in the state highway system.  (b) In fixing schedules or rates, regard shall be had to the interests of the owner and the public so that the owner shall be allowed to collect such rates as shall afford him or her a fair return on the value of his or her property, and the public shall not be required to pay more than is required to net such return.  (c) As the state is spending millions of dollars in building roads, not only to serve its own citizens but to induce tourists to visit the state, and as a certain percent of tourists will buy land and become citizens, the state should protect the interests of the public against those who operate toll bridges that injure the state as a whole by charging tolls to pay interest and dividends on watered bonds and stock. One of the purposes of this section is to grant protection to the state and the public.  (d) All suits involving the validity of this section or any portion thereof shall be deemed matters of public interest and shall be advanced and disposed of at the earliest possible moment. Appeals in these suits must be taken and perfected within thirty (30) days from the date of the judgment or decree.
AR Code § 27-86-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 86 - Bridges|Subchapter 3 - Transportation of Cotton over Toll Bridges|§ 27-86-301. Records

 (a) It shall be the duty of every person, firm, or corporation owning or operating any toll bridge within or partially within the State of Arkansas to make, maintain, and preserve a record of every bale of cotton or part of a bale of cotton, whether seed cotton or lint cotton, which shall cross the toll bridge.  (b) The record shall contain the following data:  (1) The date, together with the hour of the day, the cotton passed over the toll bridge;  (2) The destination of the cotton as declared by the person transporting the cotton across the bridge;  (3) The name of the persons transporting the cotton across the bridge together with the name and address of the persons for whom the cotton is being so transported;  (4) A general description of the vehicle in which the cotton is being transported, that is, whether by motor vehicle or otherwise. If transported by motor vehicle, the record shall show the state license number and the city license number, if any, of the motor vehicle;  (5) The approximate amount of cotton transported in terms of bales or parts of bales as nearly as can be determined without weighing;  (6) The point of origin of the cotton; that is, if the cotton is in bales, the name and location of the gin where the cotton was ginned and, if seed cotton, the approximate location of the farm on which the cotton was produced. This information shall be supplied by the persons so transporting the cotton; and  (7) The name and address of every person, firm, or corporation having any interest in the cotton either by ownership or lien so far as known to the person or persons transporting the cotton.    (c) The records made and maintained pursuant to this subchapter shall be open to inspection by any person at all reasonable times at the place of business maintained by the owner or operator within the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 27-86-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 86 - Bridges|Subchapter 3 - Transportation of Cotton over Toll Bridges|§ 27-86-302. Application to state bridges

 It is expressly declared that this subchapter shall apply to all toll bridges owned or operated by the State of Arkansas or any of its agencies.
AR Code § 27-86-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 86 - Bridges|Subchapter 3 - Transportation of Cotton over Toll Bridges|§ 27-86-303. Transporter's failure to furnish information — Penalty

 Any person transporting cotton across a toll bridge as specified in this subchapter who shall willfully and knowingly fail or refuse to furnish the information set forth in § 27-86-301 to the owner or operator of the toll bridge or who shall willfully and knowingly furnish false information with respect thereto, shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisoned for a period not less than thirty (30) days nor more than one (1) year or may be both fined and imprisoned as provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 27-86-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 86 - Bridges|Subchapter 3 - Transportation of Cotton over Toll Bridges|§ 27-86-304. Operator's failure to keep record — Penalty

 (a) Any owner or operator of any toll bridge, except the State of Arkansas, shall be punished as set forth in subsection (b) of this section if he or she shall knowingly and willfully:  (1) Fail or refuse to procure the data set forth in § 27-86-301;  (2) Fail or refuse to keep and maintain this record; or  (3) Fail to permit this record to be inspected by any interested party as herein provided.    (b) Upon conviction, the owner or operator shall be fined in any amount not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisoned for a period not less than thirty (30) days nor more than one (1) year, or he or she may be both fined and imprisoned as provided herein.
AR Code § 27-86-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 86 - Bridges|Subchapter 3 - Transportation of Cotton over Toll Bridges|§ 27-86-305. Mandamus

 The State Highway Commission or other agency of the state having charge of the operation of any state-owned toll bridge may be compelled to carry out the provisions of this subchapter as to any state-owned toll bridge by mandamus proceedings filed by any citizen of the state in the circuit court of the county in which the state-owned toll bridge, or any part thereof, is operated.
AR Code § 27-86-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 86 - Bridges|Subchapter 3 - Transportation of Cotton over Toll Bridges|§ 27-86-306. No charge

 It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of a toll bridge to make any charge against the person so transporting cotton by reason of the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 27-87-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-87-101. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Public ferries” means all ferries upon or over any public navigable streams in this state; and  (2) “Navigable streams” includes all lakes within this state that have been meandered in making the public surveys of the United States lands and retained as public property by the United States.
AR Code § 27-87-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-87-102. Ferrykeeper's neglect of duty — Penalties

 (a) Any person detained at any public ferry by reason of the ferrykeeper not having sufficient boats or other proper craft and hands to work it, or by neglecting his or her duty in any way, may make application to a justice of the peace in the township where the ferry is located for a warrant of arrest.  (b) The justice of the peace is required to issue the warrant of arrest and impose a fine on the ferrykeeper, not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25.00), as the justice of the peace may find just and equitable.  (c) The fine shall not extend to, or be deemed a bar to, any action for personal damages sustained by any person or persons by reason of the insufficiency of the ferry or boats.
AR Code § 27-87-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-87-103. Public ferry on private stream

 (a) Where a public road crosses any private stream which has not been meandered as a navigable stream, the bed of which may belong to any individual, if in the opinion of the county court, the public convenience will be promoted thereby, the court may make an order upon its record to that effect, declaring the crossing to be a public ferry.  (b) And when so declared by the county court, the ferry shall be and remain a public ferry during the pleasure of the court and be subject to all the rules and restrictions that are made by law applicable to public ferries on navigable streams.
AR Code § 27-87-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-87-104. Eligibility to keep ferry

 (a) Every person owning the land fronting on any public navigable stream shall be entitled to the privilege of keeping a public ferry over or across the navigable stream if that person:  (1) Owns the land on both sides or banks; or  (2) Shall have possession of both sides or banks by preemption or settlement right and shall be entitled to the sole and exclusive right of ferriage at that place.    (b) If the person owns the lands on one (1) side only, or has possession thereof by preemption or settlement right, he or she shall have the privilege of:  (1) A public ferry from his or her own shore;  (2) Making the landing and road up the opposite bank;  (3) Keeping them at all times in good repair and condition for ascending and descending; and  (4) An exclusive right to all ferry privileges in any such case shall follow any leasehold interest during the life of the lease and the faithful performance of all municipal, county, and state obligations.    (c) The right shall not be impaired by any packet trade or company, or otherwise, under penalty of one hundred dollars ($100) fine of any owner or manager of the packet enterprise or the party in any way violating the spirit or letter hereof, to be recovered by appropriate action in any court having jurisdiction, at the instance of the injured party.  (d) Each day's interference shall constitute a separate offense.
AR Code § 27-87-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-87-105. Exclusiveness of privilege

 The county court shall not permit any ferry to be established within one (1) mile above or below any ferry previously established, except at or near cities and towns where the public convenience may require it and satisfactory proof of the need shall be first adduced.
AR Code § 27-87-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-87-106. State establishment and operation

 (a) In all cases hereafter existing in which a privately owned ferry serving traffic upon any state highway is discontinued, leaving no means of crossing available to the public, the State Highway Commission is authorized to establish and maintain ferry service at that point.  (b) To the end of providing ferry service, the State Highway Commission is authorized to acquire by negotiation, purchase, or exercise of eminent domain any required sites for landings or other needed acreage and to purchase or construct ferry boats and all facilities needed in the operation of the ferries.  (c) The ferries as provided shall be operated free of tolls to the public and shall be operated in the manner and at the hours as the State Highway Commission may from time to time prescribe.  (d) No portion of §§ 27-87-101 — 27-87-105, 27-87-201 — 27-87-209, 27-87-301 — 27-87-303, and 27-87-401 — 27-87-403 shall apply to the free ferries installed and operated by the State Highway Commission hereunder.  (e) All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are repealed.
AR Code § 27-87-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-87-107. Record of cotton shipments

 (a) It shall be unlawful for any ferry boat to transport cotton or cottonseed from the shores of the State of Arkansas on the Mississippi River across the river into another state unless the owner or operator of the ferry boat shall keep a record of the vehicle used in the transportation of the cotton or cottonseed.  (b) The record shall show:  (1) The date of the trip;  (2) The name and address of the driver of the vehicle, to be obtained from the driver;  (3) The make and kind of the automobile, truck, wagon, or other vehicle so used; and  (4) If an automobile or truck, the number and state appearing on the license plate of the vehicle.    (c) If cotton so transported is already baled, the record shall further show the marks of identification appearing on the baled cotton.  (d) The record shall be kept in a book to be provided by the owner or operator of the ferry boat for that purpose and shall be kept on the ferry boat for a period of six (6) months following the date of the transportation of the cotton or cottonseed, during which period the record shall be open and subject to the inspection of the public at all times.  (e) After the expiration of the period, the book containing the record shall be filed with the State Highway Commission, to be preserved by it as a permanent record.  (f) Any person, firm, or corporation which shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) for each and every separate offense.
AR Code § 27-87-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 2 - License and Privilege Tax|§ 27-87-201. Taking toll without license — Penalty

 If any person shall keep any ferry over any navigable stream, for which he or she shall charge any person any money or any other valuable thing, without complying with the provisions of this chapter in relation to obtaining license, he or she shall forfeit and pay to every other person having a licensed ferry on the same stream or lake in the same county five dollars ($5.00) for every person so ferried, and the same sum for every vehicle or other article so transported which may be the subject of a separate charge is to be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace in the county by civil action founded on this statute, with the costs of prosecution.
AR Code § 27-87-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 2 - License and Privilege Tax|§ 27-87-202. License — Navigable waterways generally

 (a) No person shall keep any ferry over or across any public navigable stream or lake so as to charge any compensation for crossing the stream or lake without first procuring a license from the county court of the county in which the ferry is situated.  (b) Any person wishing to establish a ferry across any navigable stream in this state shall apply to the county court of the county in which the ferry site may be.  (c) The county court shall grant a license to the applicant for the term of one (1) year from the date of the license upon the applicant's:  (1) Showing lawful possession of the land on which the ferry is sought to be established;  (2) Satisfying the court that the public convenience will be promoted thereby;  (3) Paying the tax levied by the county court for the privilege of the ferry; and  (4) Executing the bond required by this chapter.
AR Code § 27-87-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 2 - License and Privilege Tax|§ 27-87-203. License — Stream on county boundary

 If any navigable stream or lake shall form a portion of the boundary of any county, so that one bank is in one county and the other is in a different county at the place where it is proposed to erect a ferry, a license shall be had from the county court for the ferry on the counties' respective banks or shores.
AR Code § 27-87-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 2 - License and Privilege Tax|§ 27-87-204. Operation by advertisement

 (a) Any person wishing to put into operation any public ferry when the county court is not in session may do so by putting up an advertisement at the ferry, stating that he or she intends to apply at the next county court for a license for the ferry, and he or she may charge and receive the usual rates of ferriage until the county court shall meet.  (b) The county court, in cases where ferries have been put in operation in vacation of the court, by advertisement shall grant to the person a license at the next term of such court on his or her applying for it and complying with the provisions of this chapter as in cases of other ferries, which shall relate back for one (1) year from the time of putting the ferry in operation by advertisement.  (c) Any person putting a ferry across any navigable stream in operation by advertisement who shall fail or neglect at the next term of the county court to apply for a license and in all respects to comply with the orders of the county court in respect thereto shall by notice served on him or her by order of the county court be required to appear at its next term and show cause, if any, why he or she should not be fined. If no sufficient legal reason is shown, he or she shall be fined by the court in any sum not exceeding thirty dollars ($30.00). These proceedings shall be had without the necessity of formal pleadings.
AR Code § 27-87-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 2 - License and Privilege Tax|§ 27-87-205. Tax — Assessment

 (a) Before any ferry shall be established, the court shall determine what tax shall be paid by the applicant for the privilege of the ferry, which shall not be less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).  (b) It shall be the duty of the county courts to levy a tax on all ferry privileges in their respective counties whether application be made by any person for the same or not. However, no ferry at which the public county road does not cross shall be subject to the tax herein provided.
AR Code § 27-87-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 2 - License and Privilege Tax|§ 27-87-206. License — Issuance

 It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county court, immediately after the assessment of any tax for ferry privileges by the court, to issue a license for the ferrykeeper to whom the privileges were granted and to deliver it to the sheriff and charge him or her with the amount thereof, in the same manner that he or she is required to be charged with other county revenue.
AR Code § 27-87-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 2 - License and Privilege Tax|§ 27-87-207. Tax — Failure to pay

 (a) It shall be the duty of the sheriff to present the licenses named in § 27-87-206 to the proper ferryman within twenty (20) days after they are issued.  (b) If the amount is not paid, the sheriff shall retain the license.  (c) Twenty (20) days thereafter, if the amount is still unpaid, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to levy on and sell the property of the ferrykeeper to satisfy the amount of the ferry tax, in the same manner and under the same restrictions as lands and tenements, goods, and chattels are required to be levied on and sold under executions on judgments at law.  (d) If sufficient property of the ferrykeeper cannot be found to make the amount of his or her ferry tax, it shall be the duty of the sheriff to return a statement of the facts to the next term of the county court, whose duty it shall be to order a scire facias issued against the securities of the ferrykeeper, returnable to the next term of the court.  (e) If sufficient cause shall not be shown to the contrary, the court shall order judgment against his securities for the amount found due with all costs.
AR Code § 27-87-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 2 - License and Privilege Tax|§ 27-87-208. Tax — Sheriff's settlement

 The sheriff shall settle for the amount collected by him or her for ferry tax in the manner and at the time that he or she is required to settle for other revenue of the county.
AR Code § 27-87-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 2 - License and Privilege Tax|§ 27-87-209. Tax or charge — Stream on state boundary

 When a navigable stream makes a part of the boundary line of this state, if any tax or charge shall be assessed or collected by any adjoining state for the privilege of a ferry landing on the shore or bank of another state from this state, then the same tax or duty shall be assessed and collected for like privilege of landing on the banks or shores of this state.
AR Code § 27-87-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 87 - Ferries|Subchapter 3 - Bonds|§ 27-87-301. Requirement and terms

 The county court shall have authority and is required to compel all persons who are authorized to keep a public ferry to give bond and good security in such sum as the court may deem sufficient to the judge of the county court and his or her successors in office. This bond shall be conditioned that the ferrykeeper will constantly find, provide, and keep good and sufficient boats or other proper craft in constant good repair and the banks on either side of the creek or watercourse that may be ferried in good condition and that the ferry shall always be so attended as to pass all persons and their horses and other stock, vehicles, and effects in safety and without detention and that he or she will comply with all the requisitions of the law relating to or governing public ferries.