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AR Code § 14-284-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-284-115. Street and road maintenance

 (a) The board of commissioners may make the necessary repairs upon the streets or roads within the district.  (b)  (1) It is realized that the fire fighting apparatus must rush with great speed to the place of the fire and that holes or ruts in the streets or roads which it traverses may result in injury or death to fire fighters and in wrecking the fire fighting apparatus.  (2) Therefore, any district organized pursuant to this subchapter is authorized to spend a sum not exceeding two hundred fifty dollars ($250) per annum in maintaining the streets or roads in a safe condition.  (3) It is realized that the expenditure would be a benefit to all the real property in the district.  (4) The petition for and the court order creating the district shall designate the maximum amount that may be expended for labor and material in any year in maintaining the public thoroughfares of the district, but in no case shall the amount exceed two hundred fifty dollars ($250) annual expenditure.
AR Code § 14-284-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-284-116. Awarding of contracts

 (a)  (1) All contractors shall be required to give bond for the faithful performance of contracts as may be awarded them, with good and sufficient sureties in an amount to be fixed by the board of commissioners.  (2) The board shall not remit or excuse the:  (A) Penalty or forfeiture of the bond; or  (B) Breaches of the bond.      (b)  (1) The board may appoint all necessary agents for carrying on the work and may fix their pay.  (2) The board shall pay a reasonable fee for legal services in organizing the district.    (c)  (1) The board may sell all unnecessary material and implements that may be on hand and which may not be necessary for the completion of the improvement under way or for its operation.  (2) The board may in general make all contracts in the conduct of the affairs of the district as may best serve the public interest.    (d)  (1) The board shall make no contract for the purchase of material or equipment costing ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or more except upon sealed bids opened in public.  (2) It shall be the duty of the secretary of the district to deliver a news item notice of intention to receive bids on certain equipment to the daily papers in the county and at least one (1) weekly paper.
AR Code § 14-284-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-284-117. Issuance of notes

 (a)  (1) In order to acquire and maintain equipment and facilities and do the work of the fire protection district, the board of commissioners may issue the negotiable notes of the fire protection district signed by the members of the board and bearing a rate of interest not exceeding the maximum rate of interest under § 4-57-104, and the board may pledge and mortgage a portion of the future annual benefit assessments as collected for payment.  (2) The petition for the creation of a fire protection district in the court order creating the fire protection district shall limit the total amount of notes that may be outstanding at any time, but the limits may be increased to the maximum prescribed in subdivision (a)(3) of this section.  (3) Subject to Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 78, if applicable, a fire protection district created under this subchapter shall not have notes outstanding at any one time:  (A) In excess of one hundred fifty thousand dollars ($150,000); or  (B) With an annual amortized amount that exceeds two (2) times the available cash reserves of the fire protection district.      (b) A fire protection district shall not issue bonds.
AR Code § 14-284-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-284-118. Dissolution

 (a) The district shall not cease to exist upon the completion of the improvement, but it shall continue to exist for the purpose of operating the fire fighting equipment and keeping it in repair until such time as the owners of a majority in value of the real property within the district petition the county court for dissolution of the district.  (b) Publication of the petition for dissolution, as provided for in creating the district, shall be made, and, if the county court finds that a majority in value of the real property in the district have petitioned for the dissolving of the district, the district shall be dissolved.  (c) Parties for or against the dissolution shall have the same right of appeal as in the creation of the district.
AR Code § 14-284-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-284-119. Certain suits in public interest

 (a) All cases involving the validity of such districts or the annual benefit assessments and all suits to foreclose the lien of annual benefit assessments shall be deemed matters of public interest and shall be advanced and disposed of at the earliest possible moment.  (b) All appeals therefrom must be taken and perfected within thirty (30) days.
AR Code § 14-284-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-284-120. Alteration of plans and specifications

 (a) The commissioners may at any time alter the plans and specifications, which shall be filed with the county court. Notice of the filing shall be given by publication for two (2) weeks in some newspaper issued and having a bona fide circulation in the county.  (b) If by reason of a change of plans the board of commissioners deems that the assessment of benefits has become inequitable, it shall direct the assessors to make a reassessment. If any property owner deems that by reason of the change of plans his assessment has become inequitable, he may, within two (2) weeks after the last publication of the notice, petition the board to order a reassessment. The decision of the board upon his petition shall be final unless an appeal is taken within ten (10) days to the county court. In case of a reassessment, the reassessment shall be filed, advertised, and equalized as provided for in the original assessment.
AR Code § 14-284-121 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-284-121. Fee of collector and county clerk

 The collector of taxes in any county, in collecting annual benefit assessments in any district created under this subchapter or in collecting taxes in any improvement district created under Acts 1921, No. 660 [repealed] or Acts 1923, No. 126 [superseded], shall deduct one percent (1%) of the annual benefit assessments or taxes so collected, retain one-half of one percent (½ of 1%) as the fee of the collector for collecting the assessments or taxes, and pay over the remaining one-half of one percent (½ of 1%) of the assessments or taxes collected to the county clerk of the county as the fee of the county clerk for extending on the assessment records of the county the annual benefit assessments or taxes.
AR Code § 14-284-122 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-284-122. Authority to contract with other governmental entities to provide fire protection services

 Fire protection improvement districts or fire protection districts organized under this subchapter are authorized to contract with a city, town, county, the state, the federal government, or an existing fire protection improvement district or fire protection district for the provision of fire protection services.
AR Code § 14-284-123 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-284-123. Formation in certain towns

 (a) The real property owners in any incorporated town in this state having a population of not less than four hundred twenty-five (425) persons nor more than four hundred thirty-five (435) persons according to the 1970 Federal Decennial Census are authorized to form a fire protection district under the provisions of this subchapter for the purpose of acquiring, maintaining, and operating fire fighting equipment and facilities to provide fire protection to the residents of the incorporated town.  (b) A fire protection district formed pursuant to the authority granted in this section shall be formed in the manner and for the purposes prescribed in this subchapter and shall have all powers, authority, and responsibility of other fire protection districts created under it.
AR Code § 14-284-125 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-284-125. Boundaries of overlapping districts

 The State Forestry Commission shall have authority to adjust the boundaries of fire protection districts having overlapping boundaries. The commission shall adjust the boundaries of overlapping fire districts upon the request of either district. The commission shall adjust the boundaries so that each district receives approximately fifty percent (50%) of the area that is within the boundaries of both districts.
AR Code § 14-284-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-201. Applicability

 (a)  (1) Fire protection districts established under this subchapter shall cover only territory within the county, or within the defined district, outside the corporate limits of cities and towns.  (2)  (A) However, if any city or town within the district does not have an organized or volunteer fire department and desires to be included within the fire protection district, upon the adoption of an ordinance by the governing body of the city or town, addressed to the county judge and quorum court, the area covered by the fire protection district shall be extended to provide fire protection within the city limits of the city or town by ordinance adopted by the quorum court.  (B) A limited fire protection district shall be established by county ordinance upon the petition adopted by ordinance addressed to the county judge and quorum court from a city or town fire department that serves an area outside the city or town for the purpose of contracting for the collection of assessments under this subchapter.      (b) A fire protection district under this subchapter shall be established for fire protection in rural areas for buildings, structures, and other man-made improvements and may provide other emergency services, including hazardous and toxic materials response, search and rescue services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, patient transport services, and other functions as may be assigned.  (c) This subchapter does not relieve the Arkansas Forestry Commission of responsibility for providing fire protection for forest lands.
AR Code § 14-284-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-202. Provisions supplemental

 The provisions of this subchapter are supplemental to any other laws and procedures for the establishment, funding, and operation of fire protection districts and shall not be construed to modify, amend, supersede, or otherwise affect other laws and procedures.
AR Code § 14-284-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-203. Methods of establishment

 Fire protection districts may be established to serve all or any defined portion of any county in any of the following ways:   (1) By ten percent (10%) of the qualified electors in the proposed district's petitioning the quorum court to hold a public hearing and to form a district, and by the quorum court's adopting an ordinance calling for notice and a public hearing within the district;  (2) By the county court pursuant to an election of the qualified electors of the proposed district initiated, called, and conducted as provided in this subchapter; or  (3) By the county court pursuant to a resolution of a suburban improvement district, approved by unanimous vote of its board of commissioners, to convert to a fire protection district to be administered under this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-284-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-205. Establishment by election

 (a) When petitions are filed with the county court of any county wherein the fire protection district to be established is located in a single county or if the fire protection district is to be located in more than one (1) county and the petitions are filed with the county courts of all counties wherein the fire protection district is to be established, and the petitions contain the signatures of ten percent (10%) or more of the qualified electors within the proposed fire protection district boundaries, as determined by the number of votes cast by the qualified electors within the proposed fire protection district boundaries for all candidates for Governor at the last preceding general election, requesting the establishment of a fire protection district in the county or a designated portion thereof and requesting that assessments be made on the property or assessments be made on the landowners, or assessments be made both on the property and the landowners located in the district to finance the operation of the district, the county court, or county courts if the fire protection district is located in more than one (1) county, shall call a special election in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq. within the proposed fire protection district to determine whether a fire protection district shall be established for the area.  (b)  (1) The county court or county courts, if the proposed fire protection district is located in more than one (1) county, shall call a special election in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq. to submit the question of the establishment and financing of a fire protection district to the electors of a proposed district.  (2) The special election shall be held within ninety (90) days after the filing of the petitions requesting the election.  (3) If the proposed fire protection district is located within more than one (1) county, the county courts shall set the date of the election on the same date and set the places of the election within the proposed fire protection district boundaries.  (4) At the election, the question of establishing and financing the district shall be placed on the ballot in substantially the following form:      “FOR the establishment of a fire protection district in (county), (designated area), and the levy of assessed benefits on real property in the district to finance the district   AGAINST the establishment of a fire protection district in (county), (designated area), and the levy of assessed benefits on real property in the district to finance the district
AR Code § 14-284-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-206. Definition of area in petition

 (a) Petitions filed under § 14-284-203 shall specifically define the area proposed to be included in a fire protection district and shall specify the maximum assessed benefits that may be levied against property within the district for the support of the district.  (b) The maximum assessed benefits may be reassessed using the procedures under this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-284-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-207. Quorum court to establish fire protection service area — Furnishing of maps

 (a)  (1) The quorum court of each county wherein is located a fire protection district formed for fire protection purposes shall establish the service area of the fire protection districts to not exceed a radius of five (5) miles from each fire station.  (2) For the purpose of this subsection, five (5) miles means a distance of five (5) miles by straight line, not road or highway miles.    (b) The quorum courts shall furnish the fire protection organizations with a map indicating their service area.
AR Code § 14-284-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-209. Board of commissioners — Officers and employees

 (a) The board shall annually choose from among its members a chairman and a secretary-treasurer. The chairman and secretary-treasurer shall furnish bonds, conditioned upon faithful performance of their duties, in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) each. The cost of securing and maintaining the bonds shall be paid from funds of the district.  (b) The board may employ a director and such other employees as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of the district. Employees of the board shall have such responsibilities and receive such compensation, if any, as may be prescribed by the board.
AR Code § 14-284-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-210. Board of commissioners — Proceedings — Meeting and office space

 (a) The county in which any district is located shall cooperate with and assist the board by providing suitable office space and meeting facilities for the board and its staff if facilities and space are available.  (b) The board shall meet at least quarterly and at such other times as it may deem necessary to properly carry out its responsibilities.  (c) Meetings shall be called by the chairman or a majority of the members of the board.  (d) Three (3) members of the board shall constitute a quorum, and any substantive action of the board shall require an affirmative vote of at least three (3) members.
AR Code § 14-284-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-211. Board of commissioners — Power and authority

 The board of commissioners of any district created pursuant to this subchapter shall have the power and authority to:   (1) Execute contracts and other instruments for and in behalf of the district;  (2) Cooperate with any other fire protection district, municipal fire department, or any political subdivision or agency of this state or the United States in carrying out the purposes of the district;  (3) Establish rules and regulations for the transaction of the district's business and for carrying out the purposes of the district;  (4) Make assessments of benefits against real property in the district benefited by fire protection services of the district and provide for the collection of the assessments;  (5) Issue bonds as provided in this subchapter to finance the district and its purposes. However, districts established by ordinance of the quorum court shall have no authority to issue bonds unless the question is first submitted to and approved by the electors of the district as provided in §§ 14-284-204 and 14-284-205; and  (6) Do any and all other actions necessary or desirable to enable the board to carry out its responsibilities and to accomplish the purposes of the district.
AR Code § 14-284-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-213. Assessments — Notice and hearing

 (a) The assessment or reassessment shall be filed with the county clerk of the county, and the secretary of the board shall thereupon give notice of its filing by publication once a week for two (2) weeks in a newspaper having a bona fide circulation in the county. This notice may be in the following form:  (b) On the day named by the notice, it shall be the duty of the assessors to meet as a board of assessors at the place named to hear all complaints against the assessment or reassessment and to equalize and adjust the same. Their determination shall be final unless suit is brought in the chancery court within thirty (30) days to review it. If the board is unable to hear all complaints between the hours designated, they shall adjourn over from day to day until all parties have been heard.    “Notice is hereby given that the assessment of annual benefits of District Number has been filed in the office of the County Clerk of County, where it is open for inspection. All persons wishing to be heard on said assessment will be heard by the assessors of said district in the office of the County Clerk between the hours of 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., at , on the day of , 19 ”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 14-284-214 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 284 - Fire Protection Districts|Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns|§ 14-284-214. Assessments — Annual reassessments

 (a) The board of commissioners shall once a year order the assessors to reassess the annual benefits of protected property in the fire protection district if there have been improvements made or improvements destroyed or removed from one (1) or more tracts of land in the fire protection district, making it necessary to have the annual benefits revised.  (b)  (1)  (A) Whereupon, it shall be the duty of the assessors to reassess the benefits of the fire protection district, and the annual benefits assessed may be raised or lowered as fire protection services benefiting the property change.  (B) If the annual benefits assessed exceed one hundred dollars ($100) per parcel, the quorum court of the county in which the fire protection district lies shall review and approve or disapprove the reassessment.    (2) If the board of commissioners determines that there have been no significant changes in improvements on the lands in the fire protection district, the board of commissioners may direct that assessed benefits remain the same as the benefits assessed the preceding year.