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AR Code § 14-301-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-105. Grading streets or alleys — Assessment and recovery of damages

 (a) In all cases where any municipal corporation shall be liable for the payment of damages to the owner or occupant of any lots or grounds, by reason of the grading of any streets or alleys, or public grounds, or part thereof, the damages shall be ascertained and assessed by three (3) disinterested reputable freeholders of the city who shall be appointed as follows:  (1) One (1) by the city or town council;  (2) One (1) by the owner of the property injured; and  (3) The persons thus appointed shall choose the third person.    (b) The assessors thus appointed, before entering on their duties, shall take an oath or affirmation, before some officer authorized to administer oaths, that they will well and truly, to the best of their knowledge and ability, appraise the damages which the claimant may or shall have suffered by reason of the grading, and for which the city is liable. This oath shall be filed in the office of the city clerk, and the assessors shall, within thirty (30) days after their appointment, make the assessment, and file it in the city clerk's office, where it shall be subject to the inspection of all claimants for damages. The damages assessed by them shall be by them paid out of the city treasury or tendered to the party in whose favor the damages were assessed.  (c) If the claimant refuses to appoint, the council shall appoint all three (3) of the assessors.  (d) If any person shall neglect or refuse to accept the amount so assessed, as provided in this section, and shall prosecute the city, and if by suit for damages he shall not recover more than the amount allowed by the assessors, the party so prosecuting shall pay all costs of suit.  (e) No claimant for damages shall commence any suit for damages on account of the grading or improvement until he shall have filed a claim for greater damages with the city clerk at least thirty (30) days before the commencement of the suit.  (f) No suit shall be commenced until after the assessors shall have been appointed and made return of their assessment as herein provided, nor for thirty (30) days thereafter.  (g) The city or town council, within three (3) days after the claimant shall have notified them in writing that he has appointed his assessors, shall appoint one (1) assessor on the part of the city. They shall, within five (5) days thereafter, select the third assessor and qualify him as provided in this section.
AR Code § 14-301-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-106. Sidewalks, curbing, and guttering in cities of the first class — Exceptions

 (a) In order to better provide for the public welfare, safety, comfort, and convenience of the inhabitants of cities of the first class, the council of any city of the first class, by ordinance, resolution, or order, shall have the power to:  (1) Compel the owners of any property abutting its streets or public squares to build, rebuild, maintain, and repair foot pavements or sidewalk improvements, curbing, and guttering there along and to designate the kind of sidewalk, curbing, and guttering improvements to be made, the kind of material to be used, the specifications to be followed, and the time within which such improvement is required to be completed; and  (2) Provide that:  (A) If the owner of the property shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions thereof, in the manner and within the time therein prescribed, the cities may contract with some suitable person for the construction, reconstruction, or repair of the sidewalk, curbing, or guttering, on the best terms that can be made and in the manner to be prescribed in the ordinance, resolution, or order after giving reasonable notice to the owner or agent in charge of the property of an intention to do so; and  (B) The cities may pay that person for so constructing, reconstructing, or repairing the sidewalk, curbing, or guttering and to provide that the amount so paid by the cities, together with a six percent (6%) penalty added thereto, shall constitute a charge against the owner of the property and shall be a lien on the property from the date of the commencement of the work, the charge and lien to be assignable by the city, the charge to be recovered in an ordinary suit against the owner by the city or its assignee, or the lien to be foreclosed by the city or its assignee by suit in equity in the courts having jurisdiction of suits for the enforcement of liens upon real property, for the condemnation and sale of the property for the payment of the sums so paid by the city, together with the interest, penalty, and cost of suit, the suit in equity to be brought in the manner and under the terms now provided by law for the foreclosure of property by improvement districts, so far as applicable.      (b) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as repealing § 14-54-104 or as preventing cities of the first class from proceeding in any other manner provided by existing laws.
AR Code § 14-301-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-107. Sidewalks and curbing in towns and in cities of the first and second class

 (a) In order to better provide for the public welfare, safety, comfort, and convenience of the inhabitants of cities of the first and second class and of incorporated towns, the council of any such city or town, by ordinance, resolution, or order, shall have the power to:  (1) Compel the owners of any property abutting its streets or public squares to build, rebuild, maintain, and repair foot pavements or sidewalk improvements and curbing and to designate the kind of sidewalks and curbing improvements to be made, the kind of material to be used, the specifications to be followed, and the time within which the improvement is required to be completed; and  (2) Provide that:  (A) If the owner of any property shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions thereof, in the manner and within the time therein prescribed, the cities and towns may contract with some suitable person for the construction, reconstruction, or repair of the sidewalk or curbing, on the best terms that can be made and in the manner prescribed in the ordinance, resolution, or order after giving reasonable notice to the owner or the agent in charge of the property of an intention to do so; and  (B) The cities and towns may pay that person for so constructing, reconstructing, or repairing the sidewalks and curbing and that the amount so paid by the cities and towns, together with six percent (6%) penalty added thereto, shall constitute a charge against the owner of the property and shall be a lien on the property from the date of the commencement of the work with the charge and lien to be assignable by the city and town and the charge to be recovered in an ordinary suit against the owner by the city or town or its assignee or the lien to be foreclosed by the city or town or its assignee by suit in equity in the courts having jurisdiction of suits for the enforcement of liens upon real property, for the condemnation and sale of the property for the payment of the sums so paid by the city or town, together with the interest, penalty, and cost of suit, the suit in equity to be brought in the manner and under the terms now provided by law for the foreclosure of property by improvement districts, so far as applicable.      (b) Nothing herein contained shall be construed as repealing § 14-54-104, or as preventing the cities and towns from proceedings in any manner provided by existing laws.
AR Code § 14-301-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-108. Wheelchair access

 In any instance where a city of the first class, city of the second class, or incorporated town repairs or constructs a street curb at a corner or intersection in a business district, that city or town shall repair or construct the curb in such manner as to provide access to wheelchairs.
AR Code § 14-301-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-109. Public foot-walk required over railroad tracks near depot

 The council of any city of the first or second class or of any incorporated town shall have and is vested with authority and power to require by ordinance any railroad company that has or maintains a passenger depot in the city or incorporated town in this state to construct and to maintain a public footwalk over and across its right-of-way, switches, sidetracks, and main track to its passenger depot from either or both sides of any street abutting on its right-of-way and lying opposite its passenger depot, in cases where walks have already been constructed, or required to be constructed to the right-of-way. The walks are to be uniform in kind and width with the walks with which they connect, and are to designate the width thereof, and the material of which the walk shall be constructed and maintained, and are to provide and assess penalties, fines, and forfeitures for the violation of any such ordinances.
AR Code § 14-301-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-110. Straightening or abandoning streets in cities of over 15,000 inhabitants

 (a) Every city which has a population of more than fifteen thousand (15,000) inhabitants as shown by the last federal census shall have the right in all cases where a street contains offsets and sufficient property is dedicated to the offsets to:  (1) Straighten the street and eliminate any one (1) or more of the offsets;  (2) Abandon, with the consent of the abutting property owners and any other persons directly interested, such part of the property formerly used as a street which shall not be within the line of the street as straightened.    (b) When any person owning property abutting any part of the property proposed to be abandoned as a street shall present to the city council his petition praying that any property be abandoned as a street, the city council shall by resolution direct the city clerk to give notice by a publication one (1) time a week for two (2) weeks in some newspaper published in the county in which the city may lie. To advise the property owners affected that on a day named in the notice the council will hear the petition and determine whether the property should be abandoned as a street and whether all abutting property owners and other persons directly interested have consented to the abandonment. At the meeting named in the notice, all property owners affected shall be heard before the council, which shall determine whether the property should be abandoned and whether all abutting property owners and other persons directly interested have consented to the abandonment. The determination and finding of the council shall be conclusive unless within thirty (30) days thereafter suit is brought to review its action in the chancery court of the county where the city lies. In determining whether all abutting property owners and other persons directly interested have consented to the abandonment, the council and the chancery court shall be guided by the record of deeds in the office of the recorder of the county and shall not consider any unrecorded instrument.  (c) If the council finds that the property should be abandoned as a street and that all abutting property owners and other persons directly interested have consented to the abandonment, the finding shall be expressed in an ordinance which shall have all of the force and effect of a judgment. Thereupon, the absolute ownership of the property abandoned shall vest in the owners of the fee simple title to the property free from the former easement of the city therein for public use as a street.
AR Code § 14-301-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-111. Abandonment suits involving public interest

 All suits which involve the right of any city to abandon any such property as a street or the unqualified and absolute fee simple ownership of the property free from the public easement therein for use as a street shall be deemed suits involving the public interest and shall be advanced in all courts and heard at the earliest practicable moment.
AR Code § 14-301-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-112. Abandonment of unnecessary alleys in cities of the first class — Utilities as property owners

 (a) Whenever the city council of any city of the first class shall find and determine that any alley or other passageway across any particular block within the city is not needed for highway purposes and that the welfare of the city will be enhanced or promoted by the closing and abandoning of the alley or passageway, the city council shall have authority, acting by and through its mayor and city clerk and pursuant to resolution of the council, to join in a written agreement with the owners of all the real estate of the block to close and abandon the alley or passageway.  (b) Upon the proper execution and acknowledgment of the instrument and the filing of it in the office of the proper circuit clerk and recorder, the title to the alley or passageway so abandoned shall vest in the owners of the real estate adjacent thereto, each adjacent owner taking title to the middle of the alley or passageway.  (c) Express authority is granted and conferred upon cities of the first class to close and abandon alleys or other passageways in this manner.  (d) However, any owner of property in the vicinity of the alley, feeling aggrieved by the action, may file suit within thirty (30) days after the filing of the instrument in the office of the circuit clerk and recorder to have the court determine whether he has been especially damaged by the action.  (e) Any person, firm, or corporation which has erected or installed any conduit, pipe, cable, pole, or overhead wire along or across any such alley or passageway shall be considered a property owner whose consent to the closing of the alley or passageway must be secured as provided in this section.
AR Code § 14-301-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-113. Prohibition on adverse possession of alleys, streets, or public parks — Validity of prior deeds

 (a) No title or right of possession to any alley, street, or public park, or any portion thereof, in any city or incorporated town in this state shall or can be acquired by adverse possession or adverse occupancy thereof. The right of the public or of any city or incorporated town in this state or of the authorities of any such city or incorporated town to open or have opened any alley, street, or public park, or parts thereof, shall not be defeated in any action or proceeding by reason or because of adverse possession or adverse occupancy of the alley, street, or public park or any portion thereof where such adverse possession or occupancy commenced after the passage of this section.  (b) However, all deeds or conveyances to any portion of any lands dedicated to public use as a street or thoroughfare in any city of the first or second class made by authority of the city council of the city during and prior to the year 1924 shall be confirmed and validated, subject, however, to the payment of any purchase money that may be due and owing therefor. No such deed or conveyance made as aforesaid shall be impeached on the ground that it was made without authority of law. No such deed or conveyance shall be valid if any street or boulevard is thereby reduced in width to less than fifty feet (50').
AR Code § 14-301-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-114. Validation of pre-1960 conveyances of streets, etc. — Prohibition on impeaching deed

 (a) All deeds or conveyances of any street, alley, or public ground, or any portion of streets, alleys, or public grounds, executed by any city of the first class, city of the second class, or incorporated town in the State of Arkansas, conveying all or any portion of the street, alley, or public ground which before the making of the deed had been dedicated to public use, and made by authority of the city or town council of the city or incorporated town named as grantor in the deed, prior to 1960, shall be validated.  (b) No such deed made as set forth in subsection (a) of this section shall be impeached or its validity brought in question on the ground that the deed was made without authority of law. However, this section shall not change the effect of any judgment or decree rendered by any court of this state before the passage of this section in any cause wherein the validity of the deed has been brought in question, nor shall this section be pleaded in any action now pending in any of the courts of this state wherein the validity of any deed executed by any city or town of the type referred to in subsection (a) of this section is a matter of litigation.
AR Code § 14-301-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-301-115. Validation of pre-1925 conveyances of land for streets

 (a) All deeds or conveyances to any portion of any lands dedicated to public use as a street or thoroughfare to any incorporated town, made by authority of the city council to individuals prior to and during the year 1924, shall be and are confirmed and validated.  (b) No such deed or conveyance made as aforesaid shall be impeached on the ground that it was made without authority of law.
AR Code § 14-301-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 2 - Street Improvements|§ 14-301-201. Provisions supplemental

 The procedure prescribed in this subchapter for the construction of street improvements and the financing thereof shall be supplemental to all other laws of this state with respect thereto and shall not be construed to amend, repeal, or otherwise affect those laws.
AR Code § 14-301-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 2 - Street Improvements|§ 14-301-202. Street improvement studies — Resolution of findings and determinations

 (a) When the governing body of any city or incorporated town in this state shall deem it desirable to enter into a street improvement program in the city or town or any defined areas thereof, the governing body of the city or town may cause studies to be made of:  (1) The needs for street improvements including grading, paving, curbing, guttering, drainage, and storm sewers in the city or town or the designated areas thereof; and  (2) The approximate cost of the improvements, the means available for financing the improvements, the portion thereof which the municipality is willing and able to pay, taking into account any funds available to the city for street improvements including federal funds and the approximate assessment which would be made against each lot or parcel of property in the defined area to reimburse the city for the cost of the improvements to be borne by the property owners in the area.    (b) Upon the completion of the study and determination as provided for in this section, the governing body of the municipality may adopt a resolution setting forth the findings and determinations and agreeing to make the improvements and pay for the improvements out of funds available to the municipality for those purposes, provided the property owners in the municipality or defined areas thereof agree to repay the municipality the cost of the improvements or a prescribed percentage of the cost through uniform, ad valorem, according to value assessed benefits upon each lot or parcel of property in the municipality or defined areas thereof. The governing body of the municipality shall cause the resolution to be published one (1) time in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.
AR Code § 14-301-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 2 - Street Improvements|§ 14-301-203. Petition to undertake improvements — Notice — Special meeting

 (a) If, within sixty (60) days after the adoption and publication of the resolution by the governing body of the municipality, petitions are filed with the clerk or recorder of the municipality containing the signatures of a majority in value of the real property owners in the municipality or the defined areas thereof requesting that the improvements be undertaken and financed in the manner as stated in the resolution adopted by the governing body of the municipality as authorized in § 14-301-202, the clerk or recorder shall set a date and place for a public hearing on the sufficiency of the petitions.  (b) Notice of the public hearing shall be published one (1) time in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality not less than five (5) days prior to the date fixed for the hearing.  (c) The governing body of the municipality may hold a special meeting for the purpose of conducting the hearing.