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AR Code § 14-118-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 2 - Red River Improvement Districts|§ 14-118-202. Red River Commission — Creation, powers, and duties

 There is created and established the Red River Commission with the following powers, duties, and responsibilities:   (1) To cooperate with the appropriate state and federal agencies for the study and planning of needed improvements to and along the main stem of the Red River in Little River, Hempstead, Miller, and Lafayette Counties, Arkansas;  (2) To review, study, and examine any plan by the State of Arkansas or the federal government, or any agency thereof, for the improvement of the main stem of the Red River in Arkansas and to ascertain the nature and purpose of the improvement, the benefits to be expected therefrom, and the necessity, feasibility, and estimated cost thereof;  (3) To determine the local, nonfederal costs necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance of any Red River improvement project along and upon the main stem thereof;  (4) To delineate the area to be benefited by improvement of the main stem of the Red River.
AR Code § 14-118-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 2 - Red River Improvement Districts|§ 14-118-203. Commission members

 (a)  (1) The commission shall be composed of eight (8) members, appointed by the Governor as follows: Two (2) who are residents and electors of Little River County, two (2) who are residents and electors of Hempstead County, two (2) who are residents and electors of Miller County, and two (2) who are residents and electors of Lafayette County.  (2) The Governor's appointments shall be by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.    (b) Before entering upon commission duties, each member of the commission shall take and subscribe and file in the office of the Secretary of State an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Arkansas and to faithfully perform the duties of the office upon which he is about to enter.  (c) For each member of the commission, the term of office shall commence on January 15 following the January 14 expiration date, and shall end on January 14 of the seventh year following the year in which the term commenced.  (d) Any vacancies arising in the membership of the commission for any reason other than expiration of the regular terms for which the members were appointed shall be filled by appointment by the Governor, and to be thereafter effective until the expiration of the regular terms, subject, however, to the confirmation of the Senate when it is next in session.  (e) Members of the commission shall receive no pay for their services, but whenever the General Assembly shall have appropriated funds to the Arkansas Water Development Fund administered by the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission, they may, upon proper application to the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission, be reimbursed for expenses in accordance with § 25-16-901 et seq.
AR Code § 14-118-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 2 - Red River Improvement Districts|§ 14-118-205. Establishment order

 (a) The order of the circuit court establishing the district shall have all of the force and effect of a judgment.  (b) Any owner of real property within the district may appeal from the judgment within thirty (30) days after the judgment has been made, but if no appeal is taken within that time, the judgment authorizing and creating the district shall be deemed conclusive and binding upon all of the property within the bounds of the district and upon the owners thereof. Any owner of property in the district may in a like manner appeal from any order refusing to establish the district.
AR Code § 14-118-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 2 - Red River Improvement Districts|§ 14-118-206. District board of commissioners

 (a) When the circuit court has established the improvement district upon the petition of the commission, it shall proceed for the appointment of a board of commissioners in the same manner as provided by § 14-118-106.  (b) The board of commissioners shall have all the rights, powers, authorities, and duties required or necessary for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the improvements set forth in the petition for the establishment of the district and as are provided under and by virtue of the provisions of §§ 14-118-106 — 14-118-114. However, any such board of commissioners shall consist of not less than five (5) members nor more than nine (9) members.  (c) The term of the initial board members shall be staggered whereas four (4) shall expire one (1) each year for four (4) years, and the remaining members of the board shall have five-year terms.  (d) Each member shall serve until his successor is appointed and qualified.  (e) Appointments by the court shall be made upon petition by the commission established under this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-118-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 2 - Red River Improvement Districts|§ 14-118-207. Relocation assistance

 The provisions of §§ 22-9-701 and 22-9-702, which provide for public entities to provide assistance and payments to persons displaced by the acquisition of real property in connection with programs and projects wholly or partially financed by federal funds and to do such other acts and follow such procedures and practices as may be necessary to comply with the provisions of Public Law 91-646, shall be applicable to all projects undertaken under the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-118-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 2 - Red River Improvement Districts|§ 14-118-208. Additional powers

 (a) The Red River Commission may receive and use any federal, state or private funds, donations, and grants made available for the development, use and expansion of the Red River.  (b) The commission may share in costs associated with the Red River Valley Association.
AR Code § 14-118-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-301. Subchapter cumulative

 This subchapter shall be cumulative and shall not repeal any existing law, nor shall it be deemed to take away from any levee, drainage, or other improvement district any power or right that district now has to enter into and perform any agreement or contract with the United States Army Corps of Engineers or other federal agency.
AR Code § 14-118-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-302. Subchapter construction

 This subchapter shall be liberally construed to effect its purpose.
AR Code § 14-118-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-303. General rights, powers, and duties not limited

 (a) The enumeration of the specific powers and duties under this subchapter shall not be deemed to be a limitation under the general rights, powers, and privileges conferred by the existing drainage district laws of the State of Arkansas as provided in this subchapter.  (b) The district proceeding under this subchapter shall have all the powers specified in this subchapter as well as all the powers specified in §§ 14-117-101 — 14-117-106, 14-117-201 — 14-117-209, 14-117-301 — 14-117-309, 14-117-401 — 14-117-427.
AR Code § 14-118-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-304. Preconditions for extension of powers

 When an improvement district has been established by order of the circuit court pursuant to the provisions of §§ 14-118-101 — 14-118-114, commissioners for the improvement district have been appointed by order of the circuit court, an assessment of benefits has been made and approved by order of the circuit court in that district, and the project for the improvement of the rivers, tributaries, or streams by the United States with which the improvement district was intended to cooperate has not been completed by the United States and work thereon has ceased, the improvement district may have the additional powers specified in this subchapter by proceeding as provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-118-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-305. Petition to acquire powers of drainage district — Notice — Hearing — Order — Appeal

 (a) The board of commissioners of such an improvement district, by resolution adopted by a majority of the members thereof, may determine that the improvement district should have those rights, powers, and privileges of drainage districts organized under the existing laws of this state and all amendments thereof and specifically under §§ 14-120-601 — 14-120-608, 14-121-101 — 14-121-105, 14-121-201 — 14-121-208, 14-121-301 — 14-121-305, 14-121-307 — 14-121-314, 14-121-401 — 14-121-412, 14-121-420 — 14-121-433, 14-121-440 — 14-121-443, 14-121-501 — 14-121-504, 14-121-602 — 14-121-607, 14-121-701 — 14-121-706, 14-121-801 — 14-121-811, 14-121-1001 — 14-121-1009, and 14-123-313, inclusive, and upon the adoption of the resolution may petition the circuit court by order of which the district was created for such powers.  (b) Upon the filing of the petition, the petition shall be presented to the judge of the circuit court, either in term or vacation, and the court shall make an order directing the clerk of the circuit court in which the petition is filed to give notice by publication for two (2) weeks in some newspaper or newspapers published and having a general circulation in each of the counties embraced within the boundaries of the improvement district, calling upon all persons owning property therein to appear before the court on some day to be fixed by the court and to show cause in favor of or against the enlargement of powers of the district.  (c) At the time named in that notice, the circuit court shall meet and hear all property owners within the district who wish to appear and advocate or resist the enlargement of powers of the district. If the court finds and deems it to be in the best interest of the owners of real property within the district that the powers thereof shall be enlarged as herein provided, it shall make an order upon its records granting to the district the powers herein specified.  (d) The order of the circuit court enlarging the powers of the district shall have all the force and effect of a judgment.  (e) Any owner of real property within the district may appeal from the judgment within thirty (30) days after the judgment has been made, but if no appeal is taken within that time, the judgment authorizing the enlargement of the powers of the district shall be deemed conclusive and binding upon all of the property within the bounds of the district and upon the owners thereof. Any owner of property in the district or the board of commissioners may within a like manner appeal from an order refusing to enlarge the powers thereof.
AR Code § 14-118-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-306. Extension of powers — Purpose

 (a) By the order of the circuit court, the powers of the improvement district shall be enlarged and extended to embrace all the powers, rights, and privileges of drainage districts organized under the existing laws of the State of Arkansas and all amendments to the existing laws and, specifically, under Acts of 1909, No. 279, as amended.  (b) The purpose of this extension of powers shall be to complete the improvements contemplated by the act of Congress and the plans of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, which were filed with and made a part of the petition for the establishment of the improvement district under subchapter 1 of this chapter, which plans constitute the plan of improvement of the district under the provisions of subchapter 1.
AR Code § 14-118-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-307. Assessment of benefits and damages

 (a)  (1) Upon the order granting the enlarged powers, the commissioners of the improvement district may determine to proceed to assess the lands in the district for the purpose of carrying out the plans of improvement as adopted in the order creating the district.  (2) Thereupon, the commissioners shall:  (A) Proceed to assess the lands within the district;  (B) Inscribe in a book the description of each tract of land;  (C) Assess the value of the benefits to accrue to each tract by reason of the improvement; and  (D) Enter the assessment of benefits opposite the description.    (3) The assessment shall embrace not merely the lands but all property and corporate roads, railroads, tramroads, and other improvements on land that will be benefited by the improvement. There shall be placed opposite each tract of land the name of the supposed owner as shown by the last county assessment, but a mistake in the name shall not vitiate the assessment. The commissioners may correct any evident error which occurs in the county assessment list.    (b) The commissioners shall also assess all damages that will accrue to any landowner by reason of the proposed improvement, including all injury to lands taken or damaged. Where they return no such assessment of damages as to any tract of land, it shall be deemed a finding by them that no damage will be sustained.
AR Code § 14-118-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-308. Filing of assessment — Notice

 (a) When the assessment is completed, the commissioners shall subscribe the assessment and deposit it with the clerk at the circuit court where the district was organized. The book shall be kept and preserved as a public record, and a list of the lands and assessments in the county shall be filed with the respective circuit clerk and recorder in each of the counties.  (b) Upon the filing of the assessment, the circuit clerk shall give notice of the fact by publication two (2) weeks in some newspaper in each of the counties in which the lands of the district may be situated. The notice shall give a description of the lands assessed for the proposed improvement. The owners of the lands, if they desire, may appear before the circuit court on a day therein named and fixed by the clerk and present complaints, if they have any, against the assessment of any lands in the district.
AR Code § 14-118-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-309. Hearing of complaints against assessment — Appeal

 (a) Any owner of real property within the district who conceives himself to be aggrieved by the assessment of benefits or damages or deems that the assessment of any lands in the district is inadequate shall present his complaint to the circuit court on the day named in the notice.  (b) The court shall consider the complaint and enter its findings thereon, either confirming the assessment or increasing or diminishing it.  (c) The court's findings shall have the force and effect of a judgment, from which an appeal may be taken to the Supreme Court of Arkansas within thirty (30) days, either by the property owner or by the commissioners of the district.
AR Code § 14-118-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-310. Assessment order — Lien — Appeal

 (a) The circuit court, at the same time that the assessment of benefits is confirmed or any time when called upon by the commissioners of the district, shall enter upon its records an order which shall have all the force of a judgment, providing that:  (1) There shall be assessed upon the real property of the district a tax sufficient to pay the estimated cost of acquiring lands, easements, and rights-of-way and other costs required by the construction of the project by the United States, the estimated cost to complete the improvements, and the estimated cost to maintain the works after completion, with ten percent (10%) added for unforeseen contingencies;  (2) The tax shall be paid by the owner of the real property in the district in proportion to the amount of the assessment of benefits thereon and which is to be paid in annual installments, not to exceed twenty-five percent (25%) for any one (1) year, as provided in the order. The tax so levied shall be a lien upon all real property in the district from the time the tax is levied by the court, shall be entitled to preference over all demands, executions, encumbrances, or liens whensoever created, and shall continue until the assessment with penalty and cost that may accrue thereon shall have been paid.    (b) The remedy against the assessment of taxes shall be by appeal, and the appeal must be taken within thirty (30) days from the time the assessment has been made by the circuit court. On appeal, the presumption shall be in favor of the legality of the tax.
AR Code § 14-118-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-311. Payment of assessment — Interest

 The assessment of benefits shall bear interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum and shall be payable only in installments as levied.
AR Code § 14-118-312 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-312. Board authority to borrow money and issue bonds

 (a) In order to hasten the work, the board may borrow money at a rate of interest not exceeding the maximum rate prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Arkansas at the time of issuance. The board may issue negotiable bonds therefor signed by the members of the board and may pledge all assessments for the repayment thereof.  (b) It may also issue to contractors to do the work as negotiable evidences of debt, bearing interest not exceeding the lawful rate of interest prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Arkansas.  (c) No bonds issued under the terms of this subchapter shall run for more than thirty (30) years. All issues of bonds shall be divided so that a portion thereof may mature each year as the assessments are collected, or they may all be made payable at the same time, with proper provision for a sinking fund.
AR Code § 14-118-313 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers|Subchapter 3 - Extension of Improvement District Powers|§ 14-118-313. Units of construction

 (a) If, in the preparation of the final work plan, it is determined by the board that the location and character of the works of improvement are so varied that it would be impractical to let contracts on all of them in the same year or if funds would not be available for all of them in the same year, the final work plan may be segregated and divided into one (1) or more units of construction constituting any work or group of works proposed in the final work plan which can be constructed and operated as a feasible unit alone and which can also be operated economically and in conjunction with other proposed works in the plan.  (b) The final work plan shall indicate the area included in each unit of construction and establish each such area as a separate construction area, set forth a percentage or portion of the total project costs allocated to each construction area, and delineate the lands in each construction area which, on the basis of preliminary estimates, would derive some benefits from the works of improvement to be installed therein.  (c) Each construction area shall be appropriately identified by name and number, such as “Construction Area No. ”  (d) The determination of the board that the works are approved and proposed in the final work plan, even though divided into units of construction, do not lack unity or singleness of purpose and that the works in each unit of construction confer some benefit on the lands therein shall be final and conclusive.  (e) The board of commissioners shall have authority to let contracts for carrying out the works of improvement on a construction area basis and to borrow money and issue notes or bonds and assess benefits and damages on a construction area basis.  (f) A separate assessment book shall be prepared and maintained for each construction area.  (g) The tax levied to secure and repay notes or bonds shall be limited to and be a lien only on the lands located within each construction area found to be benefited by the works installed at the construction area, and that fact shall be indicated on the face of the bonds or notes.  (h) All published notices with respect to the assessment of benefits and damages and the borrowing of money and issuance of notes and bonds shall list the lands according to the construction area in which they are located.
AR Code § 14-120-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 120 - Drainage and Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-120-101. Date of annual board meeting

 The board of directors of any levee or drainage district created by special act of the General Assembly and for which a date for the regular annual meeting of the board of directors is fixed by special act, may change the date of the regular annual meeting by resolution adopted by a majority vote of the membership of the board of directors.