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AR Code § 14-282-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-101. Purpose

 It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to:   (1) Authorize the establishment and prescribe the procedure for the establishment of improvement districts for the purpose of providing ambulance services to residents of the districts;  (2) Prescribe the procedure for assessing the property in the ambulance service improvement district to finance the services; and  (3) Support emergency medical services and ambulance operations that are necessary to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the ambulance service improvement district.
AR Code § 14-282-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-103. Notice of petition

 (a) It shall be the duty of the county clerk to give notice of the filing of the petition describing the territory to be affected and calling upon all persons who wish to be heard upon the question of the establishment of the district to appear before the county court on a day to be fixed in the notice.  (b) The notice shall be published one (1) time a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in some newspaper published and having a bona fide circulation in the county where the lands affected are situated.  (c) This notice may be in the following form:    “Notice is hereby given that a petition has been filed praying for the formation of an improvement district for the purpose of Said petition is on file at the office of the County Clerk of County, where it is open to inspection. All persons desiring to be heard on the question of formation of said district will be heard by the County Court at ..m., on the day of , 19 The following lands are affected: (Here give description of lands affected; the same may be described by using the largest subdivisions possible.) County Clerk”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 14-282-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-104. Hearing and appeal — Appointment of board of commissioners — Purpose of petition

 (a) On the day named in the notice, it shall be the duty of the county court to meet and to hear the petition and to determine whether those signing the petition constitute the majority in value and area.  (b)  (1) If the county court determines that a majority in value and area have petitioned for the establishment of the district, it shall enter its judgment laying off the district as defined in the petition and appointing the commissioners who are resident property holders in the district, all of whom shall be citizens of integrity and good business ability.  (2) If it finds that a majority has not signed the petition, it shall enter its order denying it.    (c)  (1) The commissioners shall serve without compensation and shall be appointed to serve for terms of one (1), two (2), and three (3) years, respectively, and for five-member commissions, terms of one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), and five (5) years.  (2) The length of the term of each commissioner shall be stated in the order of the county court making the appointment.  (3) As the terms of the commissioners expire, the county court shall appoint successors to hold office for a term of three (3) years.  (4) The county court may reappoint a commissioner whose term is expiring.  (5) In case of vacancy on the board of commissioners after the commissioners have organized, the county court shall appoint some resident property holder as his or her successor, who shall qualify in like manner and within a like time.  (6) The commissioners shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified.    (d) Any petitioner or any opponents of the petition may appeal from the judgment of the county court creating or refusing to create the district, but the appeal must be taken and perfected within thirty (30) days. If no appeal is taken within that time, the judgment creating the district shall be final and conclusive upon all persons.  (e) The commissioners are authorized to acquire such vehicles, equipment, and other facilities and to employ such personnel as they deem necessary to provide adequate ambulance services to the residents of the district.  (f) The purpose for which the district is to be formed shall be stated in the petition, and the judgment establishing the district shall give it a name which shall be descriptive of the purpose. The district shall also receive a number to prevent its being confused with other districts for similar purposes.
AR Code § 14-282-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-105. Board of commissioners — Organization

 (a) Within thirty (30) days after their appointment, the commissioners shall take and file their oaths of office with the county clerk, in which they shall swear to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, to faithfully discharge their duties as commissioners and that they will not be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract let by the board. Any commissioner failing to file the oath within the period shall be deemed to have declined the office, and the county court shall appoint some resident property holder as his successor who shall qualify in like manner within a like time.  (b) The board shall organize by electing one (1) of its members chairman, and it shall select a secretary.  (c) The board may also employ such personnel as it deems best and fix their compensation.  (d) Each improvement district shall be a body corporate, with power to sue and be sued, and it shall have a corporate seal.  (e) The board shall also select some solvent bank or trust company as the depository of its funds, exacting of the depository a bond in an amount equal to the amount of money likely to come into its hands.
AR Code § 14-282-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-106. Board of commissioners — Liability

 No member of the board of improvement shall be liable for any damages unless it shall be made to appear that he acted with a corrupt and malicious intent.
AR Code § 14-282-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-107. Formation of plans — Assessment generally

 (a) Upon the qualification of the commissioners, they shall form plans for the providing of ambulance improvements they intend to make and the property and equipment they intend to purchase.  (b) They shall thereupon appoint three (3) assessors to assess the annual benefits which will accrue to the real property within the district from the providing of ambulance services and shall fix their compensation. The assessors shall take an oath that they will well and truly assess all annual benefits that will accrue to the landowners of the improvement district by the providing of ambulance services.  (c) The assessors shall thereupon proceed to assess the annual benefits to the lands within the improvement district. They shall inscribe in a book each tract of land and shall extend opposite each tract of land the amount of annual benefits that will accrue each year to the land by reason of the services.  (d) In case of any reassessment, the reassessment shall be advertised and equalized in the same manner as provided in this section for making the original assessment. The owners of all property whose assessment has been raised shall have the right to be heard and to appeal from the decision of the assessors, as in the original assessment.  (e) The assessors shall place opposite each tract the name of the supposed owner, as shown by the last county assessment, but a mistake in the name shall not void the assessment, and the assessors shall correct errors which occur in the county assessment list.  (f) The commissioners shall have the authority to fill any vacancy in the position of assessor and the assessors shall hold their office at the pleasure of the board.
AR Code § 14-282-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-108. Assessment — Notice and hearing of assessment

 (a) The assessment 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 one (1) time a week for two (2) weeks in a newspaper published and 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 at the place named as a board of assessors and to hear all complaints against the assessment and to equalize and adjust the assessment. 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 § 14-282-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-109. Assessment — Annual reassessment

 (a) The commissioners shall one (1) time a year order the assessors to reassess the annual benefits of the district, provided there have been improvements made or improvements destroyed or removed from one (1) or more tracts of land in the district, making it necessary to have the annual benefits revised.  (b) Whereupon, it shall be the duty of the assessors to reassess the benefits of the district, and the annual benefits assessed may be raised or lowered as conditions of the property change.  (c) However, the annual benefits extended against any piece of property shall not be increased from the annual benefits originally extended unless improvements are made to the land that will be benefited by the ambulance services provided by the improvement district.
AR Code § 14-282-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-110. Assessment — Entry upon board records — Lien

 (a) The board of commissioners of the improvement district shall at the time that the annual benefit assessment is equalized, or at any time thereafter, enter upon its records an order which shall have all the force of a judgment, providing that there shall be assessed upon the real property of the district and collected annually, the annual benefit assessment set opposite each tract of land described. The annual benefit is to be paid by the owner of the real property in the improvement district, payable as provided in the order.  (b) The uncollected annual benefit assessment as extended shall be a lien upon the real property in the district against which it is extended from the time the assessment is levied. This lien shall be entitled to preference over all demands, executions, encumbrances, or liens whensoever created and shall continue until the assessment, with any penalty and costs that may accrue thereon, shall have been paid.  (c) Notice of the amount due shall be given to each landowner, if he fails to pay his assessment on or before the third Monday in April, at his last known address by mail.  (d)  (1) The remedy against the annual benefit assessment shall be by suit in chancery, and the suits must be brought within thirty (30) days from the time that the notice is mailed.  (2) On the appeal, the presumption shall be in favor of the legality of the annual benefit assessment.
AR Code § 14-282-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-111. Assessment — Filing and collection

 (a) The original assessment record or any reassessment record shall be filed with the county clerk, whose duty it shall be to extend the annual benefit assessment annually upon the tax books of the county until the improvement district is dissolved. It shall then be the duty of the collector to collect each year the annual benefit assessment extended upon the book along with the other taxes, and the taxes shall be paid by the collector over to the depository of the improvement district at the same time that he pays over the county funds.  (b)  (1) If there is any change in the annual benefits assessed, a certified copy of the revised assessment shall be filed with the county clerk who shall extend the revised assessment annually upon the tax books until a new assessment is made, which shall be extended upon the tax books in like manner. The power to reassess and extend the assessment upon the tax books shall be a continuing power as long as the district continues to exist. It shall be the duty of the county collector to collect the taxes so extended.  (2) In lieu of filing the reassessment, the assessors may make the changes in the assessments in red ink on the assessment already on file, or the assessment record may contain many columns at the head of which the year shall be designated and, in the column the new annual benefits may be shown in red ink which will indicate any increase or decrease in the original annual benefits extended. When the change is made, a red ink line shall be drawn through the figures showing the original annual benefits extended.
AR Code § 14-282-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-112. Assessment — Time for payment — Failure to pay

 (a) All annual benefits extended and levied under the terms of this chapter shall be payable between the third Monday in February and the third Monday in April of each year.  (b)  (1) If any annual benefit assessments levied by the board pursuant to this chapter are not paid at maturity, the collector shall not embrace the assessments in the taxes for which he shall sell the lands, but he shall report the delinquencies to the board of commissioners of the improvement district, who shall add to the amount of the annual benefit assessment a penalty of ten percent (10%).  (2) The board of commissioners shall enforce the collection by chancery proceedings in the chancery court of the county in the manner provided by §§ 14-121-426 — 14-121-432.  (3) The owner of property sold for taxes thereunder shall have the right to redeem it at any time within two (2) years from the time when his lands have been stricken off by the commissioner making the sale.
AR Code § 14-282-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-113. Payments by district — Public proceedings and transactions — Filing of report

 (a) The depository shall pay out no money except upon the order of the board and upon a voucher check signed by at least two (2) of the commissioners. Every voucher check shall state upon its face to whom payable, the amount, and the purpose for which it is used. All voucher checks shall be dated and shall be numbered consecutively in a record to be kept by the board of the number and amount of each.  (b) All proceedings and transactions of the board shall be a matter of public record and shall be open to the inspection of the public.  (c) The board of commissioners shall file with the county clerk in January of each year a certified itemized report showing all moneys received, the date of receipt, the source from which received, all moneys paid out, date paid, to whom paid, and for what purpose during the preceding year, together with an itemized list of all delinquent taxes showing owner, description of property, years for which the tax is delinquent, and amount of total delinquency.
AR Code § 14-282-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-114. Issuance of negotiable notes

 (a) In order to acquire equipment and to do the work, the board may issue the negotiable notes of the improvement district signed by the members of the board and bearing a rate of interest not exceeding six percent (6%) per annum and may pledge and mortgage a portion of future annual benefit assessments as collected for the payment thereof.  (b) Any petitions for the creation of a district and the court order creating a district, shall limit the total amount of notes that may be outstanding at any one (1) time to twenty thousand dollars ($20,000).  (c) The improvement district shall have no authority to issue bonds.
AR Code § 14-282-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-115. Dissolution of district

 (a) The improvement district shall continue to exist for the purpose of operating and maintaining ambulance services until such time as the owners of a two-thirds (2/3) majority in value of the real property within the district petition the county court for dissolution of the improvement district.  (b) Publication of the petition for dissolution, as provided for in creating the improvement district, shall be made. If the county court finds that a two-thirds (2/3) 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 § 14-282-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-116. Advancement on docket — Appeals

 (a) All cases involving the validity of the 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 § 14-282-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 282 - Ambulance Service Improvement Districts|§ 14-282-117. Fees of county collector and county clerk

 The collector of taxes in any county, in collecting annual benefit assessments in any district created under this chapter, shall deduct one percent (1%) of the annual benefit assessments or taxes so collected and retain one-half of the one percent (½ of 1%) as the fee of the collector for collecting the assessments or taxes and pay over the remaining one-half (½) of the one percent (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 § 14-283-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-101. Petition for special election

 (a) When petitions are filed with the county court of any county containing the signatures of ten percent (10%) or more of the qualified electors of all or any defined part of any county or all or any defined part of any city, as determined by the number of votes cast by the qualified electors of the county, city, or designated portion thereof, for all candidates for Governor at the last preceding general election, requesting the establishment of a mosquito abatement district in the county or a designated portion of the county or in the city or designated portion of the city and requesting that assessed benefits be made on the property located in the district to finance the operation of the district, the county court shall call a special election in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq. in the county, city, or designated area of the city to determine whether a mosquito abatement district shall be established for the area.  (b) Petitions filed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall specifically define the area proposed to be included in a mosquito abatement district and shall specify the maximum assessed benefits or taxes which may be levied against property within the district for the support of the district. In no event shall the assessed benefits in any district exceed an amount equal to one percent (1%) of the assessed valuation of real property in the district.  (c) The quorum court of the county may on its own motion enact an ordinance directing the county court to call a special election in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq. in the county, city, or designated area of the city to determine whether a mosquito abatement district shall be established for the area.
AR Code § 14-283-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-102. Procedures for special elections

 (a) The special election called by the county court to submit the question of the establishment and financing of a mosquito abatement district to the electors of the proposed district shall be held in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq. within ninety (90) days after the proclamation calling the election.  (b) 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 mosquito abatement district in (county), (city), (designated area) and the establishment of assessed benefits on real property in the district in an amount not to exceed ten percent (10%) of the assessed valuation of real property in the district, to finance the district AGAINST the establishment of a mosquito abatement district in (county), (city), (designated area) and the establishment of assessed benefits on real property in the district in an amount not to exceed ten percent (10%) of the assessed valuation of real property in the district to finance the district   Click to view form.