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AR Code § 14-272-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 272 - Rural Fire Departments|Subchapter 3 - Fire Department Services Agreements|§ 14-272-303. Firefighting services entitlement

 (a) Beneficiaries shall be entitled to receive all firefighting services specified in the services agreement.  (b)  (1) Should a fire department provide firefighting services to a nonbeneficiary, then the nonbeneficiary shall pay to the fire department a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) as consideration for the provision of firefighting services, with its being understood that the exact amount of the sum shall be specified by written resolution of the fire department in the services agreement.  (2) If any nonbeneficiary owing such a debt to a fire department fails to pay the debt in full within thirty (30) days after receipt of a written request for payment delivered by certified mail from the fire department, the fire department may initiate litigation against that nonbeneficiary to collect the amount owed to the fire department.
AR Code § 14-272-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 272 - Rural Fire Departments|Subchapter 3 - Fire Department Services Agreements|§ 14-272-304. Payment of service availability fees

 (a) A fire department shall adopt written procedures pursuant to which the department's service availability fees shall be paid.  (b) If not paid within thirty (30) days after a due date, then a fire department shall have the right to initiate collection litigation against a delinquent beneficiary and shall have the right to receive a judgment in the amount of the delinquent service availability fee, plus all reasonable costs and fees.  (c) A fire department shall have the right to contract with third parties for the provision of accounting, invoicing, servicing, and related and unrelated services associated with the assessment, collection, and administration of service availability fees.
AR Code § 14-284-101 (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|§ 14-284-101. Definitions

 (a) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, wherever the words “majority in value” are used, it shall be construed to mean a majority in assessed value as shown by the latest county assessment records for general taxes.  (b) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “contractor” means any person, firm, partnership, copartnership, association, corporation, or other organization, or any combination thereof, who, for a fixed price, commission, fee, or wage, attempts to or submits a bid to construct, or contracts or undertakes to construct, or assumes charge, in a supervisory capacity or otherwise, or manages the construction, erection, alteration or repair, or has or have constructed, erected, altered, or repaired, under his, their, or its direction, any fire station, building, or any other improvement or structure for the benefit or use of a district created under this chapter.
AR Code § 14-284-102 (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|§ 14-284-102. Purpose of district

 The purpose of the district shall be the building, equipping, and operating of a fire station or stations equipped with a fire truck or fire trucks, fire hose, chemical fire extinguishers, and other equipment for extinguishing fires. The district may provide other emergency services, like hazardous and toxic materials response, search and rescue, emergency medical, ambulance, and patient transport services, and such other functions as may be assigned to or reasonably expected of a local fire services agency and which it is trained and qualified to perform.
AR Code § 14-284-103 (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|§ 14-284-103. Petition generally

 (a) Upon the petition of majority in value of the owners of real property in any designated area, no part of which is more than three (3) miles, except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, from a lot or plot of ground not exceeding a square acre in area on which the fire station is located or is to be located, the location of which lot or plot of ground must be definitely fixed in the petition, and which area defined in the petition contains not less than one hundred (100) residences, exclusive of garages and other buildings, it shall be the duty of the county court to lay off into an improvement district the territory described in the petition and to name five (5) commissioners of the district who are resident property holders in the district.  (b) Portions of incorporated towns may be included in the districts, provided the town has no equipped fire fighting station.  (c) If any part of the district, as defined in the petition therefor or the court order establishing the district, shall be found to be more than three (3) miles from the designated location of the fire station, it shall not affect the validity of the district, but the portion of the district in excess of three (3) miles from the designated location of the fire station shall be excluded.  (d) However, any tract of land not exceeding three hundred thirty square feet (330 sq. ft.) which equals one-sixteenth (1/16) of a section in length and breadth, any part of which shall be within three (3) miles of the fire station of the district, may be included in the district.  (e) A fire protection district having a radius of five (5) miles may be created in any county having a population of not less than fifteen thousand three hundred (15,300) and not more than fifteen thousand five hundred (15,500) according to the 1970 Federal Decennial Census in the same manner and for the same purposes as provided in this subchapter for a fire protection district having a three-mile radius.  (f) The petition shall state the purpose or purposes for which the district is to be formed, 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 § 14-284-104 (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|§ 14-284-104. Petition — Notice and hearing

 (a) Upon the filing of the petition, it shall be the duty of the county clerk to give notice of the filing thereof, 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.  (1) The notice shall be published one (1) time a week for two (2) weeks in some newspaper published and having a bona fide circulation in the county where the lands affected are situated.  (2) This notice may be in the following form:    (b) Any number of identical petitions may be circulated, and identical petitions with additional names may be filed at any time until the county court acts.  (c) 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 ascertain whether those signing the petition constitute a majority in value.  (1) If the county court determines that a majority in value have petitioned for the improvement, it shall enter its judgment laying off the district as defined in the petition and appointing the commissioners.  (2) If it finds that a majority has not signed the petition, the county court shall enter its order denying the petition.    (d) Any petitioner or any opponent 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.    “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 the 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 § 14-284-105 (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|§ 14-284-105. Board of commissioners — Appointment — Qualifications

 (a) The board of commissioners shall be resident property holders in the district and shall be citizens of integrity and good business ability.  (b)  (1) The commissioners shall be appointed to serve for terms of one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), and five (5) years respectively, and the length of the term of each commissioner shall be stated in the order of the county court making the appointment.  (2) As the terms of the commissioners expire, the county court shall appoint successors to hold office for a term of five (5) years. The county court may reappoint a commissioner whose term is expiring.    (c) In case of a vacancy on the board of commissioners after the commissioners have organized, the county court shall appoint some resident property holder as his successor who shall qualify in like manner and within a like time.  (d) The commissioners shall serve without compensation and until their successors are appointed and qualified.
AR Code § 14-284-106 (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|§ 14-284-106. Board of commissioners — Proceedings — Officers — Employees — Selection of depository

 (a)  (1) Within thirty (30) days after their appointment, the commissioners shall take and file with the county clerk their oaths of office in which they shall swear to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, to discharge faithfully their duties as commissioners, and that they will not be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract let by the board.  (2) Any commissioner failing to file the oath within that period shall be deemed to have declined the office. 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 fire fighters and organize a voluntary fire department, as it deems best, and fix the compensation for paid fire fighters.  (d) Each 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.
AR Code § 14-284-107 (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|§ 14-284-107. 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 had acted with a corrupt and malicious intent.
AR Code § 14-284-108 (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|§ 14-284-108. Plans for improvement — Assessors and assessments generally

 (a) Immediately after their qualification, the commissioners shall form plans for the improvements they intend to make and the equipment they intend to purchase. To that end, they may employ an architect, if a fire station is to be built, and shall file a copy of the plans or specifications with the county clerk.  (b) They shall appoint three (3) assessors to assess the annual benefits which will accrue to the real property within the district from making the improvement and operation of the fire fighting equipment, and 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 district by the making of the proposed improvement and the acquisition and operation of the fire fighting equipment.  (c) The assessors shall proceed to assess the annual benefits to the lands within the district, and 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 building and equipping the fire station and operating the fire equipment for the extinguishing of fires, and the keeping in repair of the streets or roads liable to be traversed by the fire fighting equipment.  (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. However, a mistake in the name shall not vitiate the assessment, and the assessors shall correct errors which occur in the county assessment list.  (f) The assessors shall hold their office at the pleasure of the board, which can fill any vacancy in the position of assessors.
AR Code § 14-284-109 (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|§ 14-284-109. Assessment — Notice and hearing

 (a) The assessment shall be filed with the county clerk of the county, and the secretary of the board shall 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 circuit 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.  (c)  (1) However, in cities of the first class that have two (2) or more full-time volunteer fire protection districts, the assessment is not final until reviewed by the governing body of the city and a resolution is passed that states the assessments have been reviewed.  (2) The city's governing body may return the assessments to the assessors with a request for further review of the assessments by the assessors.      “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 , 20 ”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 14-284-110 (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|§ 14-284-110. 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)  (1) 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 or as requirements of the fire department change.  (2) However, the annual benefits extended against any piece of property shall not be increased from the annual benefits originally extended unless the original benefits were uniformly assessed against all classes of land in the amount of one dollar ($1.00) per parcel of vacant land and ten dollars ($10.00) per parcel of improved land and providing there have been material changes in value or character made from one (1) or more tracts of land in the district since the original assessment of benefits, making it necessary for the assessors to equitably reassess the annual benefits.
AR Code § 14-284-111 (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|§ 14-284-111. Assessment — Order of levy — Lien

 (a)  (1) The board of commissioners of the district shall, at the same time that the annual benefit assessment is equalized or at any time thereafter, enter upon its records an order. This order 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, which annual benefit is to be paid by the owner of the real property in the district, payable as provided in the order.  (2) However, the commissioners shall, promptly after an entry of an order of levy of annual benefit assessment, publish one (1) time a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in some newspaper having general circulation in the district a notice setting forth the order of levy and warning all persons affected that the order of levy shall become final unless suit is brought to contest it within thirty (30) days of the date of first publication of the notice. No property owner shall be barred from contest of the levy within the thirty-day publication period.    (b)  (1) 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 same is levied, shall be entitled to preference over all demands, executions, encumbrances, or liens whenever created, and shall continue until the assessment, with any penalty and costs that may accrue thereon, shall have been paid.  (2) Notice of the amount due shall be given, by mail at his last known address to each landowner who fails to pay his assessment on or before the third Monday in April.  (3) 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. On the appeal, the presumption shall be in favor of the legality of the annual benefit assessment.
AR Code § 14-284-112 (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|§ 14-284-112. 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 by the collector over 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 § 14-284-113 (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|§ 14-284-113. Assessment — Time for payment — Failure to pay — Redemption

 (a)  (1) All annual benefits extended and levied under the terms of this subchapter shall be payable between the third Monday in February and the third Monday in April of each year.  (2) If any annual benefit assessments levied by the board in pursuance to this subchapter 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 district who 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 § 14-284-114 (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|§ 14-284-114. Expenditures — Filing of report

 (a) The depository shall pay out no money save 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 issued. 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)  (1) 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, and the source from which received. The report shall further show all moneys paid out, the date paid, to whom paid, and for what purpose during the preceding year, together with an itemized list of all delinquent taxes showing the owner, a description of the property, the years for which taxes are delinquent, and the amount of total delinquency.  (2) Copies of the report shall be made and furnished to the chief of the fire department, who shall keep the reports at the fire station to be handed out on request by property holders of the district.