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AR Code § 14-139-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 139 - Municipal Exhibition Grounds And Buildings|§ 14-139-112. Funds custodian and accounts

 (a)  (1) Any municipality issuing revenue bonds under the provisions of this chapter shall install and maintain a proper system of accounts, showing the amount of revenue received and the application of it.  (2) At least once a year, the municipality shall cause the accounts to be properly audited by a competent auditor, and the report of the audit shall be open for inspection at all proper times to any taxpayer or any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, or anyone acting for and on behalf of such taxpayer or bondholder.    (b)  (1) The treasurer of the municipality shall be custodian of the funds derived from income received from projects acquired or constructed, either in whole or in part, under the provisions of this chapter and shall give proper bond for the faithful discharge of his duties as such custodian. The bond shall be fixed and approved by the legislative body of the municipality.  (2)  (A) All of the funds received as income from exhibition grounds and buildings acquired or constructed, in whole or in part, under the provisions of this chapter and all funds received from the sale of revenue bonds issued to acquire or construct those exhibition grounds and buildings shall be kept separate and apart from the other funds of the city.  (B) The treasurer shall maintain separate accounts in which shall be placed the interest and sinking fund moneys and other accounts in which shall be placed the depreciation funds and to provide for refunding outstanding certificates payable out of the project's revenue.
AR Code § 14-139-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 139 - Municipal Exhibition Grounds And Buildings|§ 14-139-113. Payment of bonds

 Bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be payable solely from the revenues derived from the exhibition grounds and buildings. The bonds shall not, in any event, constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of the constitutional provisions or limitations. It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it has been issued under the provisions of this chapter and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within any constitutional or statutory limitation.
AR Code § 14-139-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 139 - Municipal Exhibition Grounds And Buildings|§ 14-139-114. Obligations payable solely from bond fund

 (a) No obligation shall, or may, be incurred by the municipality in the construction or acquisition of the works contemplated by this chapter, or in the condemnation of property in connection therewith, except such as shall be payable solely from the funds to be acquired from the sale of revenue bonds of the character authorized by this chapter.  (b) In view of this section, the court, in condemnation proceedings instituted under this chapter by the municipality, may make such requirements of security as will serve to protect the landowner.
AR Code § 14-139-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 139 - Municipal Exhibition Grounds And Buildings|§ 14-139-115. Bonds — Tax exemption

 Revenue bonds issued under this chapter shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxation. This exemption shall include income taxation, inheritance taxation, as well as all forms of property taxation.
AR Code § 14-141-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-101. Savings provisions

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as repealing any special act heretofore passed providing for a board of commissioners to administer and operate municipal auditoriums. This chapter shall apply solely to cities of the first class. This chapter shall not alter, amend, or affect any indenture or obligation issued by a city prior to the passage of this act.
AR Code § 14-141-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-102. Creation of commission authorized

 By appropriate action of its city council, any city of the first class that owns and operates a municipal auditorium may create a commission for the purpose of operating and managing the auditorium.
AR Code § 14-141-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-103. Passage or repeal of ordinance

 (a) Any city desiring to avail itself of the benefits of this chapter, by a majority vote of the duly elected and qualified members of its city council, may enact an ordinance creating a municipal auditorium commission to be composed of five (5) citizens who are qualified electors of the municipality.  (b) The city may repeal the ordinance creating the commission by an affirmative vote of three-fourths (¾) of the duly elected and qualified members of the city council.
AR Code § 14-141-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-104. Appointment of commissioners

 (a)  (1)  (A) The commissioners of a municipal auditorium commission shall be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by a majority vote of the duly elected and qualified members of the city council and shall hold office for a term of five (5) years.  (B) Those commissioners first appointed and confirmed after March 16, 1939, shall serve for terms of one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), and five (5) years each, to be designated by the mayor and city council. Thereafter, upon the expiration of their respective terms, commissioners appointed by the mayor and approved by a majority vote of the city council shall each be appointed for a term of five (5) years.    (2) In the event of a vacancy occurring on the auditorium commission, it shall be filled by appointment by the mayor, subject to the approval of a majority vote of the duly elected and qualified members of the city council.  (3) Each commissioner shall file the oath required of public officials by law in the State of Arkansas.    (b) No member of a commission created under the provisions of this chapter shall hold any remunerative elective office under the municipal, county, state, or federal government while a member of the commission. However, the mayor of any such city may be made an ex officio member of the commission.  (c) Upon the appointment of the commissioners as provided in this section, the mayor and city council shall execute such instruments and enact such measures as may be necessary to vest complete charge of the municipally owned auditorium in the commissioners appointed under this chapter.
AR Code § 14-141-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-105. Enlarging commission by two members

 (a) Any city of the first class having a mayor-council form of government in which the city has established a municipal auditorium commission, as authorized in this chapter, which may desire to increase the membership of the commission by two (2) members in addition to the members thereof provided by § 14-141-104 may, upon the adoption of an ordinance therefor, enlarge the membership of the commission by two (2) additional members.  (b)  (1) The members shall be appointed in the same manner as provided in § 14-141-104.  (2) The first additional members appointed to the commission shall be appointed for terms designated by the mayor, with the term of one (1) member to expire six (6) years from the date of the appointment, and the term of the other member to expire seven (7) years from the date of the appointment.    (c) Nothing in this section shall affect or reduce the term of any member then serving on the commission. However, upon the expiration of the term of office of any member of the commission then serving, the successor member shall be appointed for a term of seven (7) years in order that the full membership of the commission shall consist of members appointed for staggered terms, with the term of one (1) member expiring each year.  (d) The provisions of this section shall be cumulative and supplemental to the provisions of this chapter and are not intended to modify or repeal any part or provision of this chapter unless specifically in conflict with this section.  (e) It is the sole purpose of this section to authorize the city council of a city of the first class in this state having a municipal auditorium commission to elect, by adoption of an ordinance therefor, to enlarge the membership of the municipal auditorium commission from five (5) to seven (7) members without disturbing the terms of any of the existing members, and to make the necessary adjustments in the terms of those members in order that successor members will be appointed for seven-year terms.
AR Code § 14-141-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-106. Removal of commissioner

 Any commissioner of a municipal auditorium commission appointed by the provisions of this chapter may be removed for cause upon a two - thirds (2/3) vote of the duly elected and qualified members of the city council.
AR Code § 14-141-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-107. Powers of commissioners generally — Exception

 (a) The commissioners of a municipal auditorium commission appointed under this chapter shall have full and complete authority to manage, operate, maintain, and keep in a good state of repair the municipal auditorium. They shall have full and complete charge of the building, including the right to control and permit or refuse to permit such public gatherings or other meetings or affairs as the commissioners shall see fit and deem to be in the best interests of the city.  (b) The commissioners shall have the right to employ or remove managers, janitors, and other employees of whatsoever nature, kind, or character and to fix, regulate, and pay their salaries, it being the intention of this chapter to vest in the commissioners authority to operate, manage, maintain, and control the municipal auditorium and to have full and complete charge thereof.  (c) The commissioners shall not have authority or power to sell, mortgage, or encumber the auditorium unless otherwise authorized by the statutes of Arkansas.
AR Code § 14-141-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-108. Rules and regulations

 The commissioners of a municipal auditorium commission shall adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary and expedient for the proper operation and management of the municipal auditorium and shall have authority to alter, change, or amend the rules and regulations at their discretion.
AR Code § 14-141-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-109. Contracts for use

 The commissioners of a municipal auditorium commission shall have authority to enter into contracts with persons, firms, corporations, or organizations for the use of the auditorium building, or parts thereof.
AR Code § 14-141-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-110. Expenditures

 (a)  (1) The commissioners of a municipal auditorium commission under this chapter shall have, in addition to other powers enumerated in this chapter, the exclusive right and power to make purchases of all supplies, apparatus, and other property and things requisite and necessary for the management and operation of the city auditorium.  (2) In all expenditures which may exceed three hundred dollars ($300), it shall be the duty of the commissioners to advertise for bids and let the work or contract to the lowest responsible bidder, when and if it is feasible and possible to obtain competitive bids.    (b) The commissioners shall have no power in any case, except upon advertisement and to the lowest bidders, to make any contract with any person associated in business with or related within the sixth degree of consanguinity or affinity under the civil law to any member of the auditorium commission, or to the mayor or any member of the city council. Every contract in which such forbidden person shall have an interest, directly or indirectly, shall be null and void.  (c) In any city which has a population between twenty-five thousand five hundred (25,500) and twenty-seven thousand (27,000) according to the most recent federal decennial census, the commission shall be allowed to make purchases of one thousand dollars ($1,000) or less without soliciting competitive bids.
AR Code § 14-141-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-111. Auditorium fund

 (a)  (1) The commissioners of a municipal auditorium commission appointed under this chapter shall have the authority to utilize all revenues derived from the auditorium in the operations of the auditorium.  (2)  (A) All funds derived from the use of the auditorium shall be segregated into an auditorium fund, which shall be used exclusively in the operations of the auditorium by the commissioners.  (B) Moneys in the fund shall not be mingled with other funds of the city and shall be handled exclusively by the commissioners.      (b)  (1) The commissioners shall each furnish to the city a five thousand dollar ($5,000) surety bond that will serve to insure the city against any misappropriation or mishandling of funds.  (2) The surety on the bond shall be a reputable surety corporation.  (3) The premium on the bonds shall be paid for from moneys in the fund.    (c) The commissioners shall receive no salary for their services but shall be reimbursed from the fund for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.  (d) The fund may also be expended by the commissioners, as they deem best, for the purpose of obtaining conventions or other attractions to meet in the auditorium.
AR Code § 14-141-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-112. Supplemental appropriations

 (a) Upon each quarterly report being made to the mayor and city council by the commissioners of a municipal auditorium commission, the city council may appropriate funds from the general revenue fund of the city, or from such other funds as the city may have available, to make up any deficits or to provide such funds as may be necessary to carry on the operations of the auditorium.  (b) The council may, at any time other than when the quarterly report is filed, appropriate such funds as it deems necessary from the general revenue fund or such other funds that the city may have available for the purpose of maintaining and operating the auditorium.
AR Code § 14-141-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 141 - Operation of Municipal Auditoriums|§ 14-141-113. Quarterly reports — Annual audit

 (a)  (1) The commissioners of a municipal auditorium commission shall submit quarterly reports, beginning three (3) months after they take their oath of office, and each three (3) months thereafter, reporting in full on the operations of the auditorium including an accounting of receipts and disbursements, to the mayor and city council. The commissioners shall furnish such other and further reports, data, and information as may be requested by the mayor or city council.  (2) The quarterly report to the mayor and city council with respect to receipts and disbursements shall be certified by the commissioners as correct.    (b) The commissioners shall further submit an annual audit of the operations of the auditorium to the mayor and city council.
AR Code § 14-143-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 143 - Regional Intermodal Facilities Act|§ 14-143-101. Title

 This chapter may be cited as the “Regional Intermodal Facilities Act.”
AR Code § 14-143-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 143 - Regional Intermodal Facilities Act|§ 14-143-103. Establishment of authorities

 (a)  (1) Any two (2) or more municipalities, any two (2) or more contiguous counties, or any one (1) or more municipalities together with any one (1) or more contiguous counties, are authorized to create and establish an authority as prescribed in this chapter for the purpose of acquiring, equipping, constructing, maintaining, and operating regional intermodal facilities.  (2) No county or municipality shall participate in such authority unless and until its governing body so provides by ordinance, and enters into an agreement with the other participating governmental units establishing the terms and conditions for the operation of the authority within the limitations provided in this chapter and such other laws of the State of Arkansas as may be applicable.    (b) To the extent that it is consistent with this chapter, the agreement shall specify the information provided for in § 25-20-104(c).  (c) The agreement shall be filed with the Secretary of State.
AR Code § 14-143-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 143 - Regional Intermodal Facilities Act|§ 14-143-104. Authority as public corporation

 (a) Each authority when created, and the members thereof, shall constitute a public corporation and, as such, shall have perpetual succession, may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, and have and use a common seal.  (b) The exercise of the powers and performance of duties provided for in this chapter by each authority and its officers, agents, and employees are declared to be public and governmental functions, exercised for a public purpose and matters of public necessity, conferring upon each authority governmental immunity from suit in tort.
AR Code § 14-143-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 143 - Regional Intermodal Facilities Act|§ 14-143-105. Appointment of board

 (a) Subject to such limitations as may be contained in the agreement provided for in § 14-143-103, the management and control of each authority and its property, operations, business, and affairs shall be lodged in a board of not less than six (6) nor more than twenty-four (24) persons who shall be appointed for terms of six (6) years each as hereinafter provided.  (b) The number of members that each of the participating governmental units is entitled to appoint to the board shall be set forth in the agreement provided for in § 14-143-103. However, each of the participating governmental units shall be entitled to appoint at least one (1) member to the board. Appointments shall be made by the mayor of each participating municipality and the county judge of each participating county.  (c) The members of the authority shall have staggered terms, as provided in the agreement establishing the authority, as follows: One-third (1/3) of the members for six-year terms; one-third (1/3) of the members for four-year terms; and one-third (1/3) of the members for two-year terms. Thereafter, all appointments shall be for six-year terms.  (d) All members of the board appointed by the participating municipalities and counties shall be bona fide residents and qualified electors of the county or municipality which the members represent.
AR Code § 14-143-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 143 - Regional Intermodal Facilities Act|§ 14-143-106. Vacancy on board

 (a) If any member of an authority dies, resigns, is removed, or for any other reason ceases to be a member of the authority, the mayor or the county judge, as appropriate to the governmental unit which the member represented, shall appoint another person to fill the unexpired portion of the term of the member.  (b) A member of the authority once qualified shall not be removed during his appointment except for cause by the mayor or the county judge, as appropriate to the governmental unit which the member represents, or upon such other conditions as shall be set forth in the agreement establishing the authority.
AR Code § 14-143-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 143 - Regional Intermodal Facilities Act|§ 14-143-107. Compensation prohibited — Reimbursement of expenses

 (a) No member of the board of an authority shall receive any compensation, whether in form of salary, per diem allowance, or otherwise, for or in connection with his services as a member.  (b) Each member shall, however, be entitled to reimbursement by the authority for any necessary expenditures in connection with the performance of his general duties as a member.
AR Code § 14-143-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 143 - Regional Intermodal Facilities Act|§ 14-143-108. Facilities authorized

 Each authority is authorized and empowered to acquire, equip, construct, maintain, and operate an intermodal facility and appurtenant facilities or properties so located to best serve the region in which they are located. Each authority is further authorized and empowered to acquire, equip, construct, maintain, and operate industrial, warehouse, distribution and related types of facilities, including education, training, office and support facilities, located at or near an intermodal facility for the purpose of securing and developing industry.
AR Code § 14-143-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 8 - Public Facilities Generally|Chapter 143 - Regional Intermodal Facilities Act|§ 14-143-110. Issuance of revenue bonds — Authorization

 (a) Authorities are authorized to use any available revenues for the accomplishment of the purposes and the implementation of the powers authorized by this chapter, including the proceeds of revenue bonds issued from time to time pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, either alone or together with other available funds and revenues.  (b) The amount of each issue of bonds issued may be sufficient to pay:  (1) The costs of accomplishing the purposes for which it is being issued;  (2) The cost of issuing the bonds;  (3) The amount necessary for a reserve, if it is determined to be desirable in favorably marketing the bonds;  (4) The amount, if any, necessary to provide for debt service on the bonds until revenues for the payment thereof are available; and  (5) Any other costs and expenditures of whatever nature incidental to the accomplishment of the specified purposes.