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AR Code § 14-301-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 2 - Street Improvements|§ 14-301-204. Hearing on petition — Assessments

 (a) At the time and place stated in the notice, the governing body of the municipality shall meet and hear all owners of real property of the designated areas in the municipality who wish to be heard on the question of whether the petitions contain the signatures of a majority in value of the real property owners of the designated areas in the municipality and shall make a finding and ruling as to whether the petitions contain the signatures of a majority in value of the real property owners and shall publish the finding one (1) time in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality.  (b) The finding and ruling of the governing body of the municipality with respect to the sufficiency of the petitions shall be final and conclusive unless questioned by action filed in the chancery court of the county in which the municipality is located within thirty (30) days after the date of publication of the findings.  (c) If the governing body of the municipality determines that the petitions and signatures on the petition are sufficient, it shall cause an assessment to be made against each lot or parcel of real property in the municipality or the designated areas, based upon the cost of the improvements to be borne by the property owners in the district and the benefits accruing to each lot and parcel of property because of the improvements, with the assessments on property in the municipality or designated areas to be ad valorem, according to value of benefits, and uniform.  (d) A copy of the assessed benefits shall be filed with the city clerk or recorder.  (e) Notice that the assessed benefits have been filed with the city clerk or recorder shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality, and the assessments shall be final and conclusive unless questioned by action filed in the chancery court within thirty (30) days after the date of publication of notice of the filing of the assessed benefits.
AR Code § 14-301-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 2 - Street Improvements|§ 14-301-205. Payment

 (a) The assessments on the real property in the district shall be payable to the city or town collector in the manner and within the time prescribed by the governing body of the municipality.  (b) Property owners may be given the option to pay the amount of the assessments in one (1) lump sum payment, or to pay the amount of the assessment in installments, within a time and at a rate of interest prescribed by the governing body of the municipality.
AR Code § 14-301-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 2 - Street Improvements|§ 14-301-206. Lien of assessment

 (a) The assessment against each lot or parcel of property shall constitute a lien on the property in favor of the municipality.  (b) When any annual assessed benefit against any lot or parcel of property has not been paid for two (2) years from the date due, the delinquent assessment plus a ten percent (10%) penalty shall be certified by the mayor to the county clerk. The clerk shall place the assessment and penalty on the tax book as delinquent taxes, which shall be collected accordingly. The amount, when so collected, shall be paid to the city by the collector.
AR Code § 14-301-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 2 - Street Improvements|§ 14-301-207. Disposition of assessments collected

 All funds derived from assessments upon real property under the provisions of this subchapter shall be funds of the municipality, shall at all times be kept separate and apart from other funds of the municipality, and shall be used solely to reimburse the municipality for expenses incurred in making the study and survey provided for in § 14-301-202 and for funds expended by the municipality for the street improvements made pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-301-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 3 - Vacating Streets and Alleys for Public Use Generally|§ 14-301-301. Power and authority to vacate

 (a) Cities of the first and second class and incorporated towns are given power and authority to vacate public streets and alleys within the cities and towns under the conditions and in the manner herein provided.  (b) In all cases where the owner of property within a city or town shall have dedicated, or may hereafter dedicate, a portion of the property to the public use as streets or alleys by platting the property and causing the plat to be filed for record, as provided by law, and any street or alley, or section thereof, shown on the plat so filed shall not have been actually used by the public as a street or alley for a period of five (5) years and in all cases where all property abutting any street or alley, or section thereof, is owned by any educational institution or college, whether the property shall have been actually used by the public as a street or alley for a period of five (5) years or not, the city or town council shall have power to vacate and abandon the street or alley, or any portion thereof, by proceeding in the manner set forth in this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-301-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 3 - Vacating Streets and Alleys for Public Use Generally|§ 14-301-302. Petition to vacate — Notice of hearing

 (a) The owners of any property abutting upon a street or alley referred to in § 14-301-301, may file a petition with the city or town council requesting the council to vacate the street or alley, or a portion thereof.  (b) The petition shall designate the street or alley, or a portion thereof, to be vacated, and there shall be filed with the petition a certified or photostatic copy of the portion of the plat filed in the office of the county recorder which shows the street or alley to be vacated, together with the lot and block numbers of each lot which abuts upon the street or alley to be vacated.  (c) At the next regular or special meeting of the council, the council shall, by resolution, fix a day for the hearing of the petition and shall direct the city clerk or town recorder to give notice of the meeting by publication once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the county and having a general circulation in the city or town.  (d) The notice shall:  (1) State the names of the persons who sign the petition;  (2) State the name of the street or alley, or the portion thereof, to be vacated. If the street or alley is not named on the plat, the notice shall identify the street or alley by the abutting lot or block numbers; and  (3) Advise all persons that on a certain day named in the notice, the council will hear and determine whether the street or alley shall be vacated.
AR Code § 14-301-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 3 - Vacating Streets and Alleys for Public Use Generally|§ 14-301-303. Hearing — Written consent of abutting owners

 At the meeting of the council as designated in the notice, any property owner affected by the petition shall be heard. The council shall then determine whether, from the standpoint of public interest and welfare, the street or alley should be vacated as proposed in the petition. However, no street or alley, or any portion thereof, shall be abandoned or vacated unless there has been filed with the council the written consent of the owners of all lots abutting on the street or alley, or the portion thereof, to be vacated.
AR Code § 14-301-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 3 - Vacating Streets and Alleys for Public Use Generally|§ 14-301-304. Ordinance vacating street or alley

 (a) If the council shall find by a majority vote of its members that the petition should be granted, either in whole or in part, the decision of the council shall be incorporated in an ordinance to that effect which shall be substantially as follows:    “Whereas, a petition was duly filed with the City (or Town) Council of the City (or Town) of , Arkansas, on the day of , 19 , asking the City (or Town) Council to vacate and abandon all that portion of the street (or alley) designated on the plat of the Addition to the City (or Town) now appearing of record in plat book , page , in the office of the recorder of County, beginning at and ending at . “Whereas, after due notice as required by law, the council has, at the time and place mentioned in the notice, heard all persons desiring to be heard on the question and has ascertained that the street (or alley) or the portion thereof, hereinbefore described, has heretofore been dedicated to the public use as a street (or alley) herein described; has not been actually used by the public generally for a period of at least five (5) years subsequent to the filing of the plat; that all the owners of the property abutting upon the portion of the street (or alley) to be vacated have filed with the council their written consent to the abandonment; and that public interest and welfare will not be adversely affected by the abandonment of the street (or alley). “Now, therefore, be it ordained by the City (or Town) Council of the City (or Town) of , Arkansas: “Section 1. The City (or Town) of , Arkansas, releases, vacates, and abandons all its rights, together with the rights of the public generally, in and to the street (or alley) designated as follows: “(Here will be designated the street or alley to be abandoned by reference to the official plat.) “Section 2. A copy of the ordinance duly certified by the city clerk or town recorder shall be filed in the office of the recorder of the county and recorded in the deed records of the county. “Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 14-301-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 3 - Vacating Streets and Alleys for Public Use Generally|§ 14-301-305. Suit to reject ordinance — Evidence of consent

 (a) The determination, findings, and ordinance of the council shall be conclusive unless, within thirty (30) days after the passage of the ordinance, suit is brought to reject the ordinance in the chancery court of the county where the city or town is located.  (b) In determining whether all abutting property owners have consented to the abandonment, the council and chancery court shall be limited by the record of deeds in the office of the recorder of the county and shall not consider unrecorded instruments.
AR Code § 14-301-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 3 - Vacating Streets and Alleys for Public Use Generally|§ 14-301-306. Ownership of street or alley vesting in abutting owners — Pending suits unaffected

 (a) Upon the adoption of the ordinance, the absolute ownership of the property abandoned by the city or town shall vest in the owners of the real estate abutting thereon. Each such abutting owner shall take title to the center line of the street or alley so abandoned, and the ownership shall be free from the easement of the city or town for public use as a street or alley.  (b) This subchapter shall not affect suits now pending in any of the courts of this state.
AR Code § 14-301-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 4 - Closure of Alleys to Build Schools, Hospitals, Orphanages, or Churches|§ 14-301-401. Closure authority

 When, in the opinion of a majority of the members of any city or town council in any of the cities of the first or second class or any incorporated towns of this state, it shall be necessary and desirable to use the land which is or may be dedicated for the use of the general public as an alley through or across any part of any block in the city or town, upon which to build any public school, hospital, orphanage, or church building, or any addition to the buildings as may be built, it shall be lawful for the city or town council, by ordinance duly enacted, to vacate and close the alley, or any part thereof, thereby cancelling and rescinding the rights of the general public and the owners of real property abutting upon the alley to use the property as an alley. However, the procedure for vacating and closing an alley or any part thereof shall be as set out in this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-301-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 4 - Closure of Alleys to Build Schools, Hospitals, Orphanages, or Churches|§ 14-301-402. Petition of property owners to close alley — Notice

 When any person files with the city clerk or recorder of any city of the first or second class or any incorporated town in this state a petition signed by ten (10) or more persons claiming to be owners of real property in the city or town and including a majority of the owners of real property abutting upon any alley running through or across any part of any block in the city, with this petition stating that the land embraced in the alley or any part thereof is needed for the purpose of building on the lands any public school, hospital, orphanage, or church building, or any addition to those buildings, and praying that the alley be vacated as a whole or in part and, if not as a whole, describing specifically the part of the alley desired to be vacated, then it shall be the duty of the city clerk or recorder to give notice of the filing of the petition by publication in some newspaper published in the city or town, by one (1) insertion. If no newspaper is published therein, notice shall be given by publication of the notice, by one (1) insertion, in any newspaper published in the county and shall call upon the owners of real property abutting upon the alley and upon all other persons, firms, and corporations, to appear before the council of the city or town at its next regular meeting to be held after ten (10) days from the date of the notice and show cause, if any they can, why the petition should not be granted and the alley vacated.
AR Code § 14-301-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 4 - Closure of Alleys to Build Schools, Hospitals, Orphanages, or Churches|§ 14-301-403. Hearing — Closure ordinance

 On the day named in the notice provided for in § 14-301-402 of this subchapter, the city or town council shall hear the petition and the protests and objections of all persons, firms, or corporations desiring to object to or protest against the closing and vacating of the alley, and if a majority of the city or town council finds that the petition is signed by ten (10) or more owners of real property in the city or town, including a majority of the owners of real property abutting upon the alley, and that it is desirable or necessary to close the alley for any of the purposes mentioned in § 14-301-401, then the city or town council shall, by ordinance, vacate and close the alley or such part thereof as may be described in the petition. Thereafter, the right of the general public and of the owners of real property abutting upon the alley to use the lands embraced therein and described in the petition as an alley shall be forever cancelled and barred, and the title to the lands embraced in the alley shall be forever free of the right of all persons to use the lands as an alley. However, no protest or objection to the closing of the alley shall be considered by the council or by any court on appeal unless the protest or objection shall be in writing and shall be filed before or at the hearing provided for in this section.
AR Code § 14-301-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 4 - Closure of Alleys to Build Schools, Hospitals, Orphanages, or Churches|§ 14-301-404. Appeal — Bond

 (a) Any person, firm, or corporation aggrieved by the finding of any council of any city or town upon any petition named in this subchapter shall have the right to appeal to the circuit court of the county in which the city or town is located, upon the filing of a good and sufficient bond for all costs of the appeal and an affidavit setting forth that the appeal is not taken for delay but that justice may be done the party appealing. The bond and affidavit shall be filed within ten (10) days after the hearing provided for in § 14-301-402, and not thereafter, but the appeal shall not operate to delay the construction of any building of any public school, hospital, orphanage, or church unless the parties taking the appeal shall enter into bond for the diligent prosecution of the appeal and guaranteeing the payment of all damages that may result from the delay in the construction of the buildings during the time the appeal shall be pending. The bond is to be filed with the city clerk or recorder of the city or town council from the finding of which the appeal shall be taken.  (b) Upon all appeals, the case shall be heard de novo by the circuit judge sitting as a jury. If the court shall find that the lands embraced in the alley or any part of the alley described in the petition are needed for the construction of any of the buildings described in § 14-301-401, that the petition is signed by ten (10) or more owners of real property in the city or town where the alley lies, and that the petition is also signed by a majority of the owners of real property abutting the alley, it shall be the duty of the court to dismiss the appeal; otherwise, the court shall declare the ordinance passed by the city or town council to be void and of no effect and shall enter an order accordingly.
AR Code § 14-301-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 301 - Municipal Streets Generally|Subchapter 4 - Closure of Alleys to Build Schools, Hospitals, Orphanages, or Churches|§ 14-301-405. Transcripts

 (a) Upon the filing of any bond and affidavit for appeal with the city clerk or recorder, as provided in this subchapter, the city clerk or recorder shall immediately prepare a certified transcript of the record in the case. The transcript shall include copies of the original petition, the bond and affidavit for appeal and the ordinance enacted by the city or town council upon the petition closing and vacating the alley. The recorder or clerk shall certify the transcript, affixing to the certificate of the transcript the seal of the city or town council and shall file the transcript with the circuit clerk of the county. The appeal shall stand for trial upon the first day thereafter that the circuit court shall meet in regular or adjourned session.  (b) The appeal, upon motion of any of the parties interested therein, shall be advanced and heard ahead of any and all other cases, such matters being of great public interest and importance. Upon notice by any interested party requiring him to do so, the city clerk or recorder shall file with the circuit clerk any or all of the original papers in such matters.
AR Code § 14-303-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 303 - Municipal Tollway Authority Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-303-101. Title

 This chapter may be referred to and cited as the “Arkansas Municipal Tollway Authority Act.”
AR Code § 14-303-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 303 - Municipal Tollway Authority Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-303-102. Construction

 (a) This chapter shall be construed liberally.  (b) All acts and activities of an authority performed pursuant to the powers of this chapter are determined and declared by the General Assembly to be essential governmental functions. In this regard, it is determined and declared that this chapter is the sole authority necessary for the performance of the acts authorized in this chapter including, without limitation, the issuance of bonds. Specifically, it shall not be necessary for the city involved to take any action with reference to any matters concerning which authority is conferred upon an authority including, without limitation, the issuance of revenue bonds. To this end, there is conferred upon authorities created pursuant to the provisions of this chapter the power to take action and do or cause to be done anything necessary or desirable to accomplish and implement the purposes and intent of this chapter according to the import hereof with the action taken by an authority or the things done or caused to be done by an authority pursuant to the provisions of this section being determined and declared to be ministerial rather than legislative in nature.
AR Code § 14-303-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 303 - Municipal Tollway Authority Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-303-104. Tollway projects declared public properties — Ad valorem tax exemption

 All tollway projects, and all the properties thereof, are legislatively determined and declared to be public properties used exclusively for public purposes and the legislative intent is that tollway projects, and all properties thereof, shall be exempt from ad valorem taxes under and pursuant to the provisions of Arkansas Constitution, Article 16, Section 5.