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AR Code § 27-72-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-401. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Betterment” means any construction or reconstruction on a state aid-designated street that results in an improvement that exceeds or equals any previous improvement whether or not the previous improvement was financed in part or in whole through the provisions of this subchapter;  (2)  (A) “Construction” means any proposal submitted by a municipality that meets the definition of betterment as opposed to maintenance.  (B) “Construction” includes reconstruction or improvement;    (3) “Maintenance” means any act of work that maintains the improvement in serviceable condition;  (4) “Municipality” means a city of the first class, a city of the second class, or an incorporated town;  (5)  (A) “State aid” means funds to be expended on state aid streets and includes any sum or sums provided by the General Assembly to supplement funds furnished by the several municipalities for the purpose of constructing, improving, widening, straightening, surfacing, or reconstructing streets or bridges on the state aid system.  (B) “State aid” shall be available to the several municipalities in a proportion to be fixed and determined by law; and    (6)  (A) “State aid streets” means the classification of municipal streets composing the major and minor arterial and collector routes feeding into local trade areas or into the state highway system that are not designated as state highways.  (B) “State aid streets” include those routes that:  (i) Are particularly essential to the conservation and development of economic and social value;  (ii) Encourage desirable land utilization; and  (iii) Have in addition one (1) or more of the following characteristics:  (a) Extend to communities within or beyond the municipality;  (b) Connect with roads of major importance to municipalities or to counties;  (c) Connect with state highways to form a complete network of main feeder roads;  (d) Carry heavy volumes of traffic serving major business interests of the municipality; or  (e) Collect traffic at reasonable intervals from several local streets.      (C) “State aid streets” include bridges and ferries.
AR Code § 27-72-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-402. Establishment — Scope

 (a) A system of state aid streets in each municipality is established to:  (1) Consist of the major and minor arterial and collector routes not on the state highway system feeding into local trade areas or into the state highway system; and  (2) Provide a program for the construction and improvement of state aid streets.    (b)  (1) A state aid system of streets is established for designation by cooperative action of the state and municipalities, as classified and defined in this subchapter.  (2) This system shall be designated by the several mayors or chief executive officers of the respective municipalities with the consent and approval of the state aid engineer.    (c) This subchapter shall not be construed to deprive or diminish the powers and duties of the mayor or chief executive officer of any municipality in the exercise of his or her constitutional control over municipal streets.
AR Code § 27-72-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-403. State Aid Division

 There is created in the Arkansas Department of Transportation a division to be known as the “State Aid Division”.
AR Code § 27-72-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-406. Eligibility for state aid — Notice

 (a) Before a municipality is eligible to receive benefits under this subchapter, the municipality through its mayor or chief executive officer shall agree to comply with the terms, provisions, and limitations of this subchapter.  (b)  (1) When a municipality meets the requirements of this subchapter and is eligible for state aid, the state aid engineer, as soon as practicable, shall notify the eligible municipality in writing.  (2) The notice shall state that any state funds allocated to the municipality for state aid may be used for construction on the state aid system in the manner provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 27-72-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-407. State Aid Street Fund

 (a) There is created in the State Treasury a fund to be known as the “State Aid Street Fund”, there to be used for construction, reconstruction, and improvements of the state aid street system.  (b)  (1) All revenues deposited in the fund shall be apportioned to the municipalities as prescribed in § 27-72-413 for the distribution on the state aid street system among the various municipalities.  (2) The apportioned funds shall remain for a period of two (2) years from the date they are apportioned.  (3) Any unused funds shall be returned to the fund for redistribution in accordance with § 27-72-413.  (4)  (A) For a municipality to receive these funds, the municipality must be matched in the ratio of ninety percent (90%) of moneys from the fund to not less than ten percent (10%) municipal matching funds for all municipalities with a population in excess of twenty-five thousand (25,000) residents.  (B) For all other municipalities, the state aid street project shall be funded at one hundred percent (100%), and all municipalities receiving moneys from the fund shall comply with the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 27-72-411 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-411. Street maintenance by municipality — Failure to maintain

 (a) It is the duty of each municipality to properly maintain all state aid streets in that municipality after construction of any such streets with state aid moneys.  (b)  (1) If, in the opinion of the state aid engineer, essential maintenance is not properly and regularly carried on, notice of the deficiency shall be given in writing to the mayor or chief executive officer.  (2) If maintenance is not initiated within sixty (60) days from date of notice, the state aid engineer may proceed to have the necessary maintenance and repair work on the street performed and charge the work to any funds in the State Aid Street Fund in the State Treasury allocated to that municipality.  (3)  (A) If failure to maintain continues, the municipality is no longer eligible for state aid until proper maintenance is resumed by that municipality.  (B) Notice of withdrawal of state aid shall be duly given the Auditor of State and Treasurer of State.  (C) However, such ineligibility shall not affect payment from the fund of progress and final estimates on contracts awarded prior to notice of ineligibility.      (c) When a municipality is ineligible for state aid under the provisions of this subchapter for a continuous period of five (5) years, the municipality shall forfeit and no longer be entitled to any part of the funds in the fund later allocated to it.
AR Code § 27-72-412 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-412. Expenses paid prior to allocation

 The pro rata salaries of the state aid engineer, his or her assistants, and all other employees of the State Aid Division of the Arkansas Department of Transportation, as well as all other expenses incurred by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, shall be paid from the State Aid Street Fund in the State Treasury prior to allocation to the several municipalities.
AR Code § 27-72-413 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-413. Allocation of state aid — State Aid Street Committee established

 (a) State aid streets in the several municipalities shall receive state aid in the manner and under the terms and conditions set out in this section.  (b) The state aid street system shall be allocated to the several municipalities of the state by the State Aid Street Committee.  (c)  (1) The committee shall be established to select the state aid street projects for submittal to the state aid engineer for funding and construction pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter.  (2)  (A) The committee shall consist of nine (9) mayors to be appointed as follows:  (i) Three (3) mayors appointed by the Governor;  (ii) Three (3) mayors appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and  (iii) Three (3) mayors appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.    (B) The Governor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall each appoint at least one (1) mayor from a municipality with a population in excess of twenty-five thousand (25,000).    (3)  (A) Each appointed mayor shall serve a term of four (4) years.  (B) A mayor shall be eligible to serve two (2) full terms of four (4) years on the committee.  (C) Committee members shall serve staggered terms.  (D) Should a mayor selected for the committee leave office before the end of his or her term, the party who made the original nomination shall appoint a successor mayor to serve the remainder of the term.    (4) The committee shall select a chair and a vice chair by majority vote to serve a term of one (1) year.  (5) A quorum is necessary to transact the business of the committee.  (6) The committee shall meet at least two (2) times each calendar year.    (d) The committee may establish a formula or criteria to facilitate the identification and selection of state aid street projects, subject to the approval of the state aid engineer and consistent with the provisions of this subchapter.  (e) All state aid street projects proposed by a municipality shall meet the requirements of §§ 27-72-406, 27-72-415, and 27-72-417 of this subchapter before the committee may consider the projects for submission to the state aid engineer.
AR Code § 27-72-414 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-414. Contracts for work to be performed

 (a) All proposals covering work to be performed on state aid streets in a municipality in this state shall be:  (1) Under contract let and approved by the State Highway Commission upon a request from the mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality; and  (2) In accordance with the procedures prescribed in § 27-67-206 and other laws of this state pertaining to contracts for the construction of state highways, which shall be equally applicable to all contracts let by the commission for the construction of state aid streets under this subchapter.    (b)  (1) The mayor or chief executive officer of a municipality is authorized to submit bids for work to be performed on state aid streets in his or her municipality under the provisions of this subchapter.  (2) This section shall not be construed to limit or restrict the right of a mayor or chief executive officer to submit bids for work to be performed by municipal forces in his or her municipality so long as the bids are:  (A) In accordance with procedures of § 27-67-206; and  (B) The aggregate cost does not exceed one hundred sixty-five thousand dollars ($165,000).
AR Code § 27-72-415 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-415. Conditions for use of state aid

 A municipality is entitled to receive state aid and to expend state aid moneys in conjunction with moneys furnished by the municipality on state aid streets in the municipality on projects approved for construction in the municipality provided:   (1) The state aid system in the municipality has been designated and approved as provided in this subchapter;  (2)  (A) The municipality has employed or retained an engineer who is a registered professional engineer to act for and on behalf of the municipality as a whole.  (B) However:  (i) If any mayor or chief executive officer is a registered professional engineer, the mayor or chief executive officer may perform the duties provided under this section for the municipal engineer; and  (ii) A municipality may contract with the Arkansas Department of Transportation for engineering services in lieu of employing or retaining a municipal engineer.    (C) The cost of employing or retaining a municipal engineer or contracting with the department for engineering services shall be paid from the municipal street funds of the municipality and shall not be payable from the State Aid Street Fund.  (D) Engineering costs on federal-aid projects may be included as a cost item of the projects; and    (3) The municipality has complied with all rules promulgated by the state aid engineer.
AR Code § 27-72-416 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-416. Use of state aid

 (a) Funds deposited in the State Aid Street Fund shall be used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction, and improvements of streets or bridges on the state aid street system, except as otherwise provided in this subchapter.  (b) The funds shall not be spent under this subchapter on any project that shall not culminate directly in a paved hard-surfaced street and the associated nonmotorized facilities that may be required by municipal design standards.  (c) The funds shall not be used for maintenance of state aid streets.  (d)  (1) All expenditures from the fund under this subchapter shall be made after publication of:  (A) Notice to bidders of the date for final reception of bids; and  (B) The address at which specifications can be acquired.    (2) After a public opening of the bids, all contracts shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder.
AR Code § 27-72-417 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-417. Rights-of-way — Exception

 (a)  (1) All rights-of-way required on state aid street projects shall be acquired by the municipality.  (2) Any cost of rights-of-way or utility relocation shall not be considered a part of the cost of a project contemplated by this subchapter.    (b) The cost of reconstructing fencing and the construction of property access passages shall not be considered as rights-of-way costs but shall be considered as a component of project cost.
AR Code § 27-72-418 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-418. Municipal highway revenue estimates

 (a)  (1) For each fiscal year, the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall prepare and file quarterly statements setting forth an estimate of the total amount of highway revenues and other state revenues made available by this subchapter and all other laws providing state resources for and to municipal governments for street construction, improvements, and betterments made within the spirit of this subchapter for the express use of the several municipalities of the state.  (2) The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall prepare and file the statement on or before July 10, October 10, January 10, and April 10 of each fiscal year.    (b)  (1) Each statement shall be designated and known as the “Official Estimate of Municipal Highway Revenues Distribution” for the then-current fiscal year.  (2) Copies shall be filed with the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, the Auditor of State, the Treasurer of State, and the Arkansas Municipal League.    (c)  (1) In preparing each official estimate of municipal highway revenues distribution, the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall begin with a basic amount arrived at in the manner prescribed under this subsection.  (2) The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall add or subtract his or her estimate of the net increase or net decrease in municipal street funds as may be affected by various factors, as determined by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, including without limitation:  (A) Changes in the laws pertaining to tax rates and exemptions;  (B) Administration of tax laws;  (C) Indexing; and  (D) Distribution of revenues.    (3) The basic amount of municipal street funds shall be ascertained as follows:  (A) The July estimate shall be the amount of the next-preceding fiscal year's municipal street funds, increased or decreased by that certain percentage determined by the average of percentage changes in the amount of the total municipal street funds by legislated source category of each of the three (3) preceding fiscal years in relation to its preceding fiscal year; and  (B) The October, January, and April estimates shall be the total amount of municipal street funds by legislated source category collected in the preceding months of the then-current fiscal year plus the total amount of municipal street funds by legislated source category collected in all of the other months of the preceding fiscal year, increased or decreased by that certain percentage determined by the average of percentage changes in the collections during all other months of each of the three (3) preceding fiscal years in relation to the same other months of its preceding fiscal years.
AR Code § 27-72-419 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 4 - State Aid Streets|§ 27-72-419. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “State Aid Streets Law”.
AR Code § 27-72-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 5 - State Aid Bridges|§ 27-72-501. Definition

 For the purposes of this subchapter, the term “reconstruction” shall include not only a complete rebuilding or replacement of a bridge, but shall also include major renovations which will extend the service life of an existing bridge.
AR Code § 27-72-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 5 - State Aid Bridges|§ 27-72-502. Approval — Expenditures

 (a) Upon approval of the State Highway Commission, the quorum court, and the county judge, any county may expend state aid road funds, as deposited in the State Aid Road Fund pursuant to § 27-72-305 and as administered pursuant to the policies of the Division of State Aid Road Construction of the State Highway and Transportation Department, as provided in § 27-72-304, for the construction, replacement, or reconstruction of bridges located in incorporated towns with a population of five hundred (500) or less, according to the latest federal census, within the county and may use the state aid road funds as matching funds for state, federal, and local funds available for the replacement, construction, or reconstruction of the bridges, provided such bridges are on highways, roads, or streets in such incorporated towns which are extensions to “state aid roads”, as that term is defined in § 27-72-301.  (b) Such extensions shall not be included in the county's allocated state aid system mileage total. Provided, further, such approval may be granted only on a project-by-project basis.
AR Code § 27-72-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 5 - State Aid Bridges|§ 27-72-503. Maintenance

 Maintenance of such facilities, utility adjustments, and right-of-way acquisitions shall be the responsibility of the incorporated town.
AR Code § 27-73-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 73 - Highway Safety|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-73-101. Powers and duties of Governor

 (a) The Governor, in addition to other duties and responsibilities conferred upon him or her by the Constitution and laws of this state, is empowered to contract and to do all of the things necessary in behalf of this state to secure the full benefits available to this state under the federal Highway Safety Act of 1966. In so doing, he or she shall cooperate with the federal and state agencies, private and public agencies, interested organizations, and with individuals to effectuate the purposes of that enactment and any and all subsequent amendments thereto.  (b) The Governor shall be the official of this state having the ultimate responsibility for dealing with the federal government with respect to programs and activities pursuant to the federal Highway Safety Act of 1966 and any amendments thereto.  (c) To that end, he or she shall coordinate the activities of any and all departments and agencies of this state and its subdivisions, relating thereto.
AR Code § 27-73-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 73 - Highway Safety|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 27-73-102. Coordinator of public safety

 The Governor may administer this state's highway safety programs through appropriate instrumentalities, departments, or agencies of the state or through a coordinator of public safety to be appointed by the Governor.
AR Code § 27-73-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 73 - Highway Safety|Subchapter 2 - Flashing Lights Near Highways|§ 27-73-201. Intent

 It is the intent of this subchapter:   (1) To enhance the safety of the public highways, roads, and streets and to safeguard the health, comfort, and convenience of motorists by restricting hazardous, distracting, and confusing devices along and immediately adjacent to the roadway; and  (2) To prohibit in particular the use of all oscillating, rotating, or flashing lights or devices of the type of, or which simulate or give the impression of being, an emergency vehicle, such as a police vehicle, fire truck, or ambulance, within a distance of two hundred feet (200') of a state highway, which is not involved in the regulation and operation of the traffic thereon in accordance with recognized and approved traffic engineering principles.
AR Code § 27-73-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 73 - Highway Safety|Subchapter 2 - Flashing Lights Near Highways|§ 27-73-202. Definition

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “oscillating, rotating, or flashing light or device” means any light of the type used on, or which simulates or gives the impression of being, an emergency vehicle such as a police car or vehicle, fire truck, ambulance, or other lawful emergency vehicle.