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AR Code § 14-283-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-103. Board of commissioners — Appointment

 (a) If at such election a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question vote “FOR” the establishment of the proposed mosquito abatement district and the levy of assessed benefits to support the district, the county court shall enter an order establishing the district as described in the petitions and shall appoint five (5) qualified electors of the district as a board of commissioners for the district. Two (2) members of the commission shall be appointed for terms of two (2) years and three (3) members shall be appointed for terms of three (3) years.  (b) All successor members shall be appointed by the county court for terms of three (3) years.  (c) Vacancies occurring on the board because of resignation or otherwise shall be filled by the county court for the unexpired term.  (d) The members of the board shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to actual expenses incurred in attending meetings in an amount not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) per month for each member of the board.
AR Code § 14-283-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-104. Board of commissioners — Power and authority

 The board of commissioners of any district created pursuant to this chapter 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 mosquito abatement district 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 and provide for the collection of the assessments and issue bonds as provided in this chapter to finance the district and its purposes; and  (5) 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 § 14-283-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-105. Board of commissioners — Proceedings — Offices

 (a)  (1) The board shall annually choose from among its members a chairman and a secretary-treasurer.  (2) The chairman and secretary-treasurer shall furnish bond 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)  (1) The board shall employ a director who shall have such training, experience, and qualifications as may be prescribed by the State Board of Health. The board may employ such other employees as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of the district.  (2) Employees of the board shall have such responsibilities and receive such compensation as may be prescribed by the board.    (c) 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.  (d) The board shall meet at least quarterly and at such other times as it may deem necessary to properly carry out its responsibilities.  (1) Meetings shall be called by the chairman or a majority of the members of the board.  (2) 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 of the board.    (e) The Director of the Department of Health shall be an ex officio member of the board and shall serve without compensation. He or his representative shall cooperate with and assist the board by furnishing the board with such surveys, maps, information, and advice as may be helpful to the board in carrying out its responsibilities and to assist in such other manner as may be reasonably requested by the board.
AR Code § 14-283-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-106. Preparation of plans — Assessors and assessments generally

 (a) As soon as is practical after its establishment, the board shall prepare plans for providing mosquito abatement services and for acquiring the property and equipment necessary to carry out the purposes of the district.  (b) The county assessors shall assess the annual benefits which will accrue to the real property within the district from the providing of mosquito abatement services.  (c) The original assessment of benefits and any reassessment shall be advertised and equalized in the same manner as provided in this chapter, and owners of all property whose assessment has been raised shall have the right to be heard and to appeal from the decision of the assessor, as provided in this chapter.  (d) The assessor 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 assessor shall correct errors which occur in the county assessment list.  (e) The assessments levied under this chapter shall be collected by the county collector in the same manner as property taxes.
AR Code § 14-283-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-107. Assessment — Notice and hearing

 (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, to hear all complaints against the assessment, and to equalize and adjust the assessments. 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 § 14-283-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-108. Assessments — Annual reassessments

 (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)  (1) 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.  (2) 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 mosquito abatement services provided by the district.
AR Code § 14-283-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-109. 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 district is dissolved.  (b) 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 over by the collector to the depository of the district at the same time that he pays over the county funds.  (c)  (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 a similar 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 § 14-283-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-110. Assessment — Time for payment — Failure to pay

 (a) All annual benefits extended and levied under the terms of this chapter shall be payable at the time ad valorem taxes are payable, and if any annual benefit assessments levied by the board pursuant to this chapter are not paid when due, 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 district. The board shall add to the amount of the annual benefit assessment a penalty of ten percent (10%).  (b) 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.  (c) 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 § 14-283-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-111. Expenditures — Public proceedings and transactions — Filing of report

 (a) Funds of the district shall be expended only upon the order of the board and upon a voucher check signed by the chairman and secretary-treasurer of the board.  (1) Every voucher check shall state upon its face to whom payable, the amount, and the purpose for which it is used.  (2) 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 shall file with the county clerk in January of each year a certified itemized report showing all moneys received, the date of receipt, and the source from which received; and 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 § 14-283-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-113. Bonds — Security — Liability of board for bonds and contracts

 (a)  (1) It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it has been issued under the provisions of this chapter, that the bonds shall be obligations only of the district, and that in no event shall they constitute any indebtedness for which the faith and credit of the state or any county or municipality or any of the revenues of the state or any county or municipality are pledged.  (2) No member of the board shall be personally liable on the bonds or for any damages sustained by anyone in connection with any contracts entered into in carrying out the purpose and intent of this chapter unless he shall have acted with corrupt intent.    (b)  (1) The principal of, interest on, and paying agent's fees in connection with the bonds shall be secured by a lien on, and pledge of, and shall be payable from the assessments levied against the real property within the district.  (2) The right to issue subsequent issues of bonds can, if the district so determines, be reserved in any authorizing resolution or trust indenture on either a parity or subordinate lien basis and upon such terms and conditions as the district may determine and specify in the particular authorizing resolution or trust indenture.
AR Code § 14-283-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-114. Bonds — Refunding

 (a) Bonds may be issued for the purpose of refunding any bonds issued under this chapter.  (b) Refunding bonds may be either sold or delivered in exchange for the bonds being refunded. If sold, the proceeds may be either applied to the payment of the bonds being refunded or deposited in trust and there maintained in cash or investments for the retirement of the bonds being refunded, as shall be specified by the district in the resolution or trust indenture securing the bonds.  (c) The resolution or trust indenture securing the refunding bonds may provide that the refunding bonds shall have the same priority on assessments or revenues pledged for their payment as was enjoyed by the bonds refunded.  (d) Refunding bonds shall be sold and secured in accordance with the provisions of this chapter pertaining to the sale and security of the bonds initially issued.
AR Code § 14-283-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-115. Bonds — Tax exemption

 Bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, and the interest thereon, shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxes. This exemption shall include income, inheritance, and estate taxes.
AR Code § 14-283-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 283 - Mosquito Abatement Districts|§ 14-283-116. Dissolution of district

 (a) A mosquito abatement district created pursuant to this chapter may be dissolved upon a vote of a majority of qualified electors of the district, and the question of dissolution of the district may be submitted to the electors in the same manner as is prescribed in this chapter for submitting the question of the establishment of the district.  (b) If any district having outstanding bonds or other indebtedness is dissolved, the assessed benefits being levied at the time of dissolution shall continue to be levied and collected until the outstanding bonds or other indebtedness are paid.  (c) No election on the question of dissolution of a mosquito abatement district may be held within the first three (3) years after the establishment of the district.
AR Code § 14-285-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 285 - Municipal Recreation Improvement Districts|§ 14-285-101. Definition

 For the purposes of this act, “municipal recreation improvement district” means a municipal improvement district formed under Acts 1881, No. 84, as amended, or Acts 1929, No. 64, as amended, for the sole purpose of acquiring, constructing, operating, or maintaining a recreational facility.
AR Code § 14-285-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 285 - Municipal Recreation Improvement Districts|§ 14-285-102. Time and manner of payment of annual installments

 (a) Payment of the annual installments of the assessments of benefits by municipal recreation improvement districts located within second class cities shall be due on the same dates as ad valorem real property taxes and the annual installments shall be collected by the county collector at the same time and in the same manner as the collection of ad valorem real property taxes.  (b) If the annual installments are delinquent at the time the realty subject to a lien for delinquent annual installments is sold for delinquent taxes, the State Land Commissioner shall recover the delinquent annual installments at the time of the sale thereby relieving the district of the requirement of instituting a civil action for foreclosure.  (c) Therefore, any questions arising regarding the interpretation of any provision of this act shall be resolved in such manner as will result in the implementation of the legislative intent expressed above.
AR Code § 14-285-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 285 - Municipal Recreation Improvement Districts|§ 14-285-103. Collection of annual installments

 (a) The county collector of each county wherein is located all or part of a municipal recreation improvement district formed in a second class city shall collect the annual installments of the assessment of benefits by the district and the amount shall be collected along with and at the same time as ad valorem real property taxes.  (b) The county collector shall not accept payment of ad valorem real property taxes unless accompanied by payment of annual installments of the assessments by the municipal recreation improvement districts.  (c) All municipal recreation improvement districts shall report their assessments of benefits to the county collectors at such time and in such manner as required by the county collectors.  (d) A municipal recreation improvement district may enforce collection of a delinquent assessment by a proceeding in the circuit court of the county in the manner as provided for municipal property owners' improvement districts under § 14-94-122.
AR Code § 14-285-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 285 - Municipal Recreation Improvement Districts|§ 14-285-104. Withdrawal

 (a) If a municipal recreation improvement district is composed of two (2) noncontiguous areas, one (1) of which lies outside the boundaries of the municipality, then the separate area which is located outside the boundaries of the municipality may withdraw from the district if no recreational facilities have been installed in the area.  (b)  (1) The area may withdraw from the district by a petition filed with the municipal clerk. The petition shall be signed by both a majority of the landholders in the area to be removed and the owners of a majority of the land in the area.  (2) The area shall be removed from the district and the boundaries of the district revised accordingly, upon the clerk determining the sufficiency of the petition.    (c) The landowners in an area that withdraws from a municipal recreation district pursuant to this section shall continue to pay the assessments of the district until all bonds existing at the time the petition is filed are repaid.  (d) The landowners in an area that withdraws pursuant to this section shall pay all assessments made prior to the withdrawal from the district.
AR Code § 14-285-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 285 - Municipal Recreation Improvement Districts|§ 14-285-105. Release

 (a) In a municipal recreation improvement district which is composed of two (2) noncontiguous areas, one (1) of which lies outside the boundaries of the municipality, the separate area which is located outside the boundaries of the municipality shall be deemed to be released from the municipal recreation district if the area meets the criteria of this section. The release shall become effective October 13, 1993. However, if, before the release becomes effective, a majority of the landholders in the separate area file a petition with the district seeking to remain in the district, then the area shall not be released from the district.  (b) To be eligible for release from the district, the following criteria must be met:  (1) The area lies at least one (1) mile outside the boundaries of the municipality;  (2) The municipal recreation improvement district has been in existence for at least ten (10) years; and  (3) The municipal recreation improvement district does not have recreation facilities located in the area.    (c) Upon the release of an area, any unpaid taxes assessed shall be forgiven. This section shall not be construed to require any municipal recreation improvement district to refund any taxes paid on property located in areas released from the district in accordance with this section.
AR Code § 14-286-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-101. Definitions

 For purposes of this subchapter:   (1) “Red Imported Fire Ant” means solenopsis invicta.  (2) “Board” means the board of commissioners of each red imported fire ant abatement district.
AR Code § 14-286-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-102. Elections — Calling elections

 (a) The county board of commissioners shall call a special election in the county, city, or designated area of the city to determine whether a red imported fire ant abatement district shall be established for the area upon the filing of petitions 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 total number of votes cast for Governor at the last general election by the qualified electors of the county, city, or designated portion thereof, requesting the establishment of a red imported fire ant 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.  (b) Petitions filed pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall specifically define the area proposed to be included in the red imported fire ant abatement district and shall specify the maximum assessed benefits 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 the county, city, or designated area of the city to determine whether a red imported fire ant abatement district shall be established for the area.