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AR Code § 14-91-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-91-101. Plans and costs for improvements generally

 (a)  (1) Immediately after their qualification, a municipal board of improvement shall form plans for the improvement as requested in the petition and shall procure estimates of the cost thereof. All improvements shall be made with reference to the grades of streets and alleys as fixed, or may be fixed by the ordinances of the city or town.  (2) For this purpose, the board may employ such engineers and other agents as may be needful and may provide for their compensation which, with all other necessary expenditures, shall be taken as a part of the cost of the improvement.    (b) If for any cause the improvement shall not be made, the cost shall be a charge upon the real property in the district and shall be raised and paid by an ad valorem tax upon the real property in the district as assessed for the state and county purposes. This tax shall be levied by the city or town council, on the application of any person interested, and shall be paid to the board, to be distributed among the creditors of the district.  (c) When any improvement is abandoned, it is made the duty of the board to report to the city or town council the total amount of the debts which it has incurred, to the end that the city or town council may make adequate provision for their payment.
AR Code § 14-91-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-91-102. Approval of State Health Officer

 (a) In municipal waterworks and sewer improvement districts, the commissioners shall confer with the State Health Officer in forming their plans and specifications and shall not adopt any plans and specifications until they have been approved by the officer in writing.  (b) A certificate of his approval shall be filed with the city clerk or town recorder.
AR Code § 14-91-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-91-103. Notice before paving streets

 (a)  (1) Before any street is paved, the commissioners on the board of improvement for a municipal improvement district may give notice to waterworks companies, gas companies, and other public service corporations of their intention to pave the street. They shall, in the notice, fix a reasonable time in which the public service corporations shall make excavations, for the purpose of laying down the service pipes and conduits to the property line.  (2) Thereafter, it shall be unlawful for the public service corporations or for any individual to make any excavations in the streets, except upon condition of restoring the streets to their condition as they were before the excavation was made, and paying to the commissioners of the district, or, in case of their discharge, to the city or town, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each excavation.    (b)  (1) The sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) shall be paid before the work of excavation is begun.  (2) If the work of excavation is begun without this payment, the commissioners of the district or, in case of their discharge, the city or town may recover the sum of fifty dollars ($50.00) from the party undertaking the excavations, together with all costs and a reasonable attorney's fee, to be taxed by the court.
AR Code § 14-91-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-91-104. Eminent domain proceedings

 (a)  (1) A municipal board of improvement shall have power to enter upon any private property for the construction of any designed improvement.  (2) Any damages that may be sustained thereby shall be paid out of the improvement fund.    (b)  (1) If the person damaged and the board cannot agree on the sum to be paid for the damages, the person aggrieved may file his petition in the circuit court of the county, setting forth his grievance, and asking compensation therefor, making the board a party defendant.  (2) The issues in the suit shall be made up as in other cases at law, and the cause shall be tried by a jury, unless dispensed with by the parties.  (3) The case shall be advanced on the docket so as to have precedence of all other causes.  (4)  (A) The judge of the circuit court may hold a special term at any time for the trial of any such cause, giving ten (10) days' notice to the parties of the time of holding that special term, which may be in writing.  (B) The notice shall be served on the parties as a writ of summons is directed to be served unless it is waived by the parties or one of them.    (5)  (A) The judge of the court may, in vacation, in case an agreement cannot be arrived at between the board and the owner of the property in relation to the damages claimed, fix an amount to be deposited with some person, to be designated by the court, before the entering upon and taking possession of the property to be used and taken as prescribed.  (B) Upon the amount required being deposited and a certificate thereof filed in the cause, the work may proceed.
AR Code § 14-91-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-91-105. Injunctions

 No injunction shall issue to restrain the prosecution of any work contemplated by this act. Rather, any person injured shall seek his relief by proceedings at law, within the time provided, or he shall be deemed to have waived it. However, an injunction may issue where an illegal assessment shall be sought, under the color of this act, to be enforced.
AR Code § 14-91-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-91-106. Suits on bonds

 Suit may be brought by and in the name of a municipal board of improvement upon any bond given to the board, but the sum recovered shall be for the use of the fund of the improvement district for which the bond was given.
AR Code § 14-91-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-91-107. Exemption from liability

 No member of any municipal board of improvement shall be liable for any damages sustained by anyone in the prosecution of the work under his charge, unless it shall be made to appear that the member has acted with a corrupt or malicious intent.
AR Code § 14-91-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 2 - Construction of Improvements Generally|§ 14-91-201. Powers of improvement boards

 (a) Municipal boards of improvement shall have control of the construction of the improvements in their improvement districts.  (b) The boards may advertise for proposals for doing any work by contract and may accept or reject any proposals.  (c) All contractors shall be required to give bond for the faithful performance of such contracts as may be awarded them, with good and sufficient securities, in double the amount of the contract work, and the board shall not remit or excuse the penalty or forfeiture of the bond for the breaches thereof.  (d) The boards may appoint all necessary agents for carrying on the work and may fix their pay.  (e) The boards may buy all necessary material and may sell any such materials or implements as may be on hand, and which may not be necessary for the completion of the improvement under way, or which may have been completed.  (f) The boards may, in general, make all contracts in the prosecution of the work as may best subserve the public interest.
AR Code § 14-91-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 3 - Construction in Levee or Flood Control Districts|§ 14-91-301. Applicability

 This subchapter shall apply to any municipal levee or flood control district organized and existing under the laws of the State of Arkansas relative to the formation of improvement districts in cities and towns but shall not apply to any rural improvement district.
AR Code § 14-91-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 3 - Construction in Levee or Flood Control Districts|§ 14-91-302. Definition

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “levees and flood control projects” mean all sumps, drainage structures, and other works reasonably necessary or desirable for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a levee or flood control project.
AR Code § 14-91-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 3 - Construction in Levee or Flood Control Districts|§ 14-91-303. Authority generally

 (a) Any municipal levee or flood control improvement district organized and existing in accordance with the laws of the State of Arkansas relative to the formation of improvement districts in cities or towns may construct and maintain, or cause to be constructed and maintained, levees and flood control projects under, over, across, and along the waters and lands belonging to this state and along and over the public streets and highways of the municipality in which the district is located.  (b)  (1) The district may also construct and maintain levees and flood control projects upon, along, and across any railroad right-of-way, on and over any lands belonging to the municipality in which the district is located, and on and over any lands belonging to the county in which the district is located, and on and over the lands belonging to corporations and individuals.  (2) The ordinary use of the railroads shall not be obstructed and just damages shall be paid to the owners of any land structure and railroad right-of-way taken by eminent domain.
AR Code § 14-91-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 3 - Construction in Levee or Flood Control Districts|§ 14-91-304. Agreements with federal government

 (a) A municipal levee or flood control improvement district may enter into contracts with the federal government, or any of its agencies, for the construction of levee or flood control projects and may give such assurances to the federal government, or any of its agencies, as may be required by or under any act of Congress, subject only to such limitations as may be imposed on the district by the Constitution of the State of Arkansas or the acts of the General Assembly under which the district is organized.  (b) The district may authorize the federal government, and its officers, agents, and contractors, to construct levee and flood control projects and to enter upon lands or rights-of-way acquired or occupied by the district pursuant to the terms of this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-91-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 3 - Construction in Levee or Flood Control Districts|§ 14-91-305. Assistance by municipality

 (a) The municipality in which a municipal levee or flood control district is located may enter into contracts with, and give assurances to, the federal government, or any of its agencies, that the municipality, on completion of the project, will operate and maintain it.  (b) The municipality may, from its own funds, assist the district and it may also donate to the district, by proper conveyance, any land belonging to the municipality reasonably necessary or desirable for the construction, maintenance, and operation of the project.
AR Code § 14-91-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 3 - Construction in Levee or Flood Control Districts|§ 14-91-306. Authorization to use county land

 The county court in which a municipal levee or flood control district is located may, by its order, authorize the district, without the payment of compensation or damages, to enter upon and use any land belonging to the county which is reasonably required or desirable for the construction, operation, and maintenance of the project upon a finding by the court that the interests of the public and the county will be benefited thereby.
AR Code § 14-91-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 3 - Construction in Levee or Flood Control Districts|§ 14-91-307. Right to acquire lands

 A municipal levee or flood control improvement district may acquire and occupy all lands and rights-of-way reasonably necessary or desirable for the construction, operation, and maintenance of levees and flood control projects.
AR Code § 14-91-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 3 - Construction in Levee or Flood Control Districts|§ 14-91-308. Failure to obtain rights by agreement

 In the event the district shall fail, upon application to the individuals, corporations, railroads, county, or municipality, to secure the needed right-of-way or lands by consent, contract, or agreement or if the owners of them are unknown, uncertain, nonresidents, or under disability, then the district shall have the right to procure the condemnation of the property, lands, rights, privileges, and easements in the manner prescribed in § 14-91-309.
AR Code § 14-91-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 4 - Operation of Facilities Generally|§ 14-91-401. Operation of water and electric light plants in cities of the first class

 (a) The commissioners on boards of improvement for water and electric light improvement districts in cities of the first class shall control and manage the affairs of the district until the bonds issued to pay therefor and all other indebtedness have been retired. At that time, they shall turn over the works to the city council or other governing body of the city, together with any and all cash on hand, bonds, or other securities, resulting from the operation of the water or electric light plant.  (b)  (1) As long as the commissioners continue to operate the water and electric light districts, they shall make an annual report to the city or town council showing, in detail, all receipts and disbursements made by them.  (2)  (A)  (i) As long as they continue such operation, they shall have the right to fix the rates to be paid by consumers of water and electric light or power.  (ii) The rates shall be fixed as nearly as possible at amounts which will pay the bonds of the district as they mature, so as to relieve the real property of the district as far as possible from the burden of taxation therefor.    (B)  (i) From the rates fixed by the board, any property owner may take an appeal to the circuit court of the county, which shall confirm or set aside the rates as it finds just.  (ii) If it sets aside rates fixed by the board, it shall itself fix rates which will be reasonable and adequate for the purposes prescribed.
AR Code § 14-91-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 4 - Operation of Facilities Generally|§ 14-91-402. Operation of waterworks, gas, or electric light works

 (a) In case of the construction of waterworks or gas or electric light works by any municipal improvement district, the city or town council, after the works are constructed, shall have full power and authority to operate and maintain them instead of the improvement district board.  (b) The council may supply water and light to private consumers and make and collect uniform charges for the service and apply the income therefrom to the payment of operating expenses and maintenance of the works.
AR Code § 14-91-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 5 - Repairs, Replacements, Improvements, and Extensions of Facilities Generally|§ 14-91-501. Authority generally

 (a)  (1) It is realized that waterworks and electric light plants and sewers will wear out and must be repaired and replaced, and that with the growth of our cities and towns, improvement and extensions of these plants and sewers are necessary from time to time.  (2) So far as municipal improvement districts, created for the purpose of installing waterworks and electric light plants and sewers, have funds, they may make these repairs, replacements, improvements, and extensions.    (b)  (1) If it is necessary to borrow money for the purpose of making repairs, replacements, improvements, or extensions, the board of improvement of the district shall cause plans and estimates of cost thereof to be prepared and shall file them with the city or town clerk or recorder.  (2)  (A) If the improvements so to be made will benefit property beyond the limits of the district as then existing, they shall file with their report a map showing the boundaries of the original district and the territory to be annexed thereto.  (B)  (i) If within twelve (12) months thereafter, a petition signed by parties claiming to be two-thirds (2/3) in assessed value of the real property in the original territory and in the territory to be annexed, each taken separately, is filed with the city or town clerk or recorder, requesting that the repairs, replacements, improvements, or extensions be made, he shall give notice of a hearing upon the petition to be had at the next regular meeting of the city or town council held at least fifteen (15) days after the publication of a notice.  (ii) The notice may be substantially in the following form:          “Notice is hereby given that the Commissioners of Water (or Electric Light or Sewer) Improvement District No. , of the City (or Town) of , have filed their plans for repairs, replacements, improvements, or extensions, in my office, and there has been filed in my office a petition signed by parties claiming to be a two-thirds in value of the owners of real property within said district, as shown by the last county assessment on file (and within the territory proposed to be annexed) praying that the repairs, replacements, improvements, or extensions be made. Said petition will be heard at a meeting of the City (or Town) Council to be held at the hour of p.m., on the day of , 19 , and at said meeting said Council will determine whether those signing the petition constitute the two-thirds in value of such owners of real property; and at said meeting all owners of real property within the district (and within the territory to be annexed) who desire, will be heard upon the question. “The territory to be added to the district is described as follows: The City Clerk (or Town Recorder)”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 14-91-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 5 - Repairs, Replacements, Improvements, and Extensions of Facilities Generally|§ 14-91-503. Assessment procedures

 (a)  (1) The city or town council shall also appoint a board of three (3) assessors who shall reassess the benefit that will accrue to the owners of the real property within the improvement district from the making of the original improvements and from the proposed repairs, replacements, improvements, or extensions.  (2) The reassessment shall be filed, advertised, equalized, and corrected like the original assessment of benefits and shall become incontestable under the same circumstances as the original assessment of benefits.    (b) The council shall pass an ordinance levying upon the assessment of benefits the tax essential to pay for the work of improvement, including repairs, replacements, improvements, or extensions, substantially in the following form:  (c) The local assessment shall be a charge and a lien against all the real property in the district from the date of the ordinance and shall be entitled to preference over all judgments, executions, encumbrances, or liens whensoever created.  (d) The assessment shall continue until the local assessment, with any penalty and costs that may accrue thereon, shall be paid.  (e) As between grantor and grantee, all payments not due at the date of the transfer of the real property shall be payable by the grantee.    “AN ORDINANCE LEVYING AN ASSESSMENT FOR REPAIRS, REPLACEMENTS, IMPROVEMENTS OR EXTENSIONS IN WATERWORKS (OR ELECTRIC LIGHT OR SEWER) DISTRICT NO. , OF THE CITY (OR TOWN) OF . “WHEREAS, two-thirds in value of the property holders owning property in District No. of the City (or Town) of as now organized have petitioned the Council of the City (or Town) of for repairs, replacements, improvements or extensions, and that the cost thereof shall be assessed upon the real property of the said district according to benefits received; and “WHEREAS, said benefits received by each and every block, lot, and parcel of real property situated in said district equals or exceeds the local assessment thereon; and “WHEREAS, the estimated cost of said improvement is Dollars; “THEREFORE, it is now ordained by the City or Town Council of the City or Town of , that said several blocks, lots, and parcels of real property in said district be assessed according to the assessment list for said improvement district as the same now remains in the office of the Recorder or City Clerk, and that percent on each of said blocks, lots and parcels shall be paid annually on or before the day of until the whole of said local assessment shall be paid.”   Click to view form.