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AR Code § 27-68-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 68 - Controlled-access Facilities|§ 27-68-109. Agreements with other highway authorities and federal government

 The highway authorities of the state, cities, counties, towns, or villages are authorized to enter into agreements with each other or with the federal government respecting the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use, regulation, or vacation of controlled-access facilities or other public ways in their respective jurisdictions, to facilitate the purposes of this chapter.
AR Code § 27-68-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 68 - Controlled-access Facilities|§ 27-68-110. Jurisdiction over service roads

 (a) In connection with the development of any controlled-access facility, the state, county, city, town, or village highway authorities are authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets or to designate as local service roads and streets any existing road or street and to exercise jurisdiction over service roads in the same manner as authorized over controlled-access facilities under the terms of this chapter, if, in their opinion, local service roads and streets are necessary or desirable.  (b) Local service roads or streets shall be of appropriate design and shall be separated from the controlled-access facility property by means of all devices designated as necessary or desirable by the proper authority.
AR Code § 27-68-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 68 - Controlled-access Facilities|§ 27-68-111. Service stations and commercial establishments prohibited

 No automotive service station or other commercial establishment for serving motor vehicle users shall be constructed or located within the right-of-way of or on publicly owned or publicly leased land acquired or used for or in connection with a controlled-access highway facility.
AR Code § 27-75-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 75 - Highway Construction Compact|§ 27-75-102. Powers

 There is hereby granted to the Governor and to the members of the authority for Arkansas all the powers provided for in the compact. All officers of the State of Arkansas are hereby authorized and directed to do all things falling within their respective jurisdictions which are necessary or incidental to carrying out the purpose of the compact.
AR Code § 27-75-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 75 - Highway Construction Compact|§ 27-75-103. Authority — Members

 The representatives from the State of Arkansas who shall be members of the U.S. Highway 82 Four Lane Construction Authority shall be the five (5) members of the State Highway Commission who are each duly serving in the capacity as such a commissioner. During the course and extent of the compact, any newly appointed commissioner, or one appointed to fill the unexpired term of a commissioner, shall be a member of the authority and the replaced commissioner shall cease to be a member of the authority.
AR Code § 27-75-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 75 - Highway Construction Compact|§ 27-75-104. Consent of United States Congress

 The authority shall have the power to apply to the Congress of the United States for its consent and approval of the compact; but, in the absence of the consent of Congress and until such consent is secured, the compact shall be binding upon the State of Arkansas in all respects permitted by law for the party states, without the consent of Congress, to cooperate for the purpose enumerated in the compact and in the manner provided therein.
AR Code § 27-85-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 85 - General Provisions|§ 27-85-101. Conservation of bridges

 It is directed that the administrators of the various public highway, road, and street systems shall make every effort to conserve the safe function of the bridges under their jurisdiction pursuant to the findings and recommendations of the bridge safety inspections by the bridge inspection teams of the Arkansas Department of Transportation in accord with the national bridge inspection standards published in the Federal Register.
AR Code § 27-88-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-101. Liberal construction

 This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes thereof.
AR Code § 27-88-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-102. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Commission” means the State Highway Commission of the State of Arkansas;  (2) “Construction” and “constructing” when said with reference to ferries include the terms “purchase” and “purchasing”, respectively;  (3) “General Bridge Authority Act” has reference to 33 U.S.C. § 525 et seq.; and  (4) “Revenue” means revenue or income derived solely from tolls, rents, fees, and other charges imposed by the commission for services rendered by a bridge constructed or reconstructed, or by a ferry constructed under the provisions of this chapter, and shall not be deemed in any event to include any revenues or funds of the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 27-88-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-103. Scope of authority

 (a) This chapter shall be deemed, without reference to any other statute, full authority for:  (1) The construction or reconstruction of any bridge or ferry;  (2) The acquisition, construction, and reconstruction of approaches thereto;  (3) The operation and maintenance thereof; and  (4) The issuance and sale of the bonds authorized by this chapter.    (b) This chapter shall be construed as an additional and alternative method for the aforementioned activities and for the financing thereof.  (c) No petition or election or other or further proceeding in respect to construction, reconstruction, and acquisition or to the issuance or sale of bonds under this chapter and no publication of any resolution, notice, or proceeding relating to the construction, reconstruction, or acquisition or sale of the bonds shall be required except such as are prescribed by this chapter, any provision of other statutes of the state to the contrary notwithstanding.
AR Code § 27-88-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-104. Authority to issue bonds — Use of funds

 (a) Whenever the State Highway Commission shall determine on the basis of a traffic and engineering survey that the public convenience and necessity require the construction or reconstruction of a bridge or the construction of a ferry to facilitate interstate or intrastate traffic and the construction or reconstruction of the bridge or the construction of the ferry will entail expense in an amount found by the commission to hinder and retard highway construction within the state, the commission is authorized to issue bonds to be known as “State Highway River Bridge (Ferry) Revenue Construction Bonds”.  (b) The proceeds from the sale of revenue construction bonds shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the State Highway Bridge Revenue Construction Fund, which fund is created, to the credit of the State Highway River Bridge (Ferry), and shall be used, in addition to any other available funds, for paying the cost of construction and reconstruction of any bridge and the acquisition, construction, and reconstruction of approaches thereto or for paying the costs of constructing any ferry and the acquisition and construction of approaches to the ferry, except that the accrued interest paid when the bonds are delivered shall be credited to the sinking fund provided by the commission for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds and the fiscal agency charges in connection therewith.  (c) Costs of construction and reconstruction and acquisition of approaches shall be deemed to include:  (1) Costs of construction, reconstruction, and acquisition;  (2) Costs of all property, rights, easements, and franchises deemed necessary or convenient therefor;  (3) Interest upon the bonds prior to and during the construction, reconstruction, or acquisition and for twelve (12) months after completion thereof;  (4) Engineering and legal expenses;  (5) Expenses for estimates of costs and revenues;  (6) Expenses for plans, specifications, and surveys;  (7) Other expenses necessary or incidental to determining the feasibility or practicability of the construction, reconstruction, or acquisition, and administrative expenses; and  (8) Other expenses as may be necessary or incidental to the financing herein authorized.
AR Code § 27-88-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-105. Form of bonds

 (a) The bonds shall be in such form and denomination, have such dates and maturities not exceeding forty (40) years from their date, bear interest payable at such times and rates, be payable at such places within or without the state, and contain such provisions as to registration of ownership if the commission thinks registration is desirable, all as the State Highway Commission shall determine.  (b) The bonds shall be signed with the facsimile or lithographed signature of the Chair of the State Highway Commission and with the manual signature of the secretary of the commission.  (c) The coupons attached thereto shall be signed with the facsimile or lithographed signature of the chair of the commission.  (d) The delivery of the bonds so executed shall be valid, notwithstanding any change in the officers occurring after their execution.
AR Code § 27-88-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-106. Redemption before maturity

 All bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, maturing on and after ten (10) years from their date, in the discretion of the State Highway Commission, may contain a provision authorizing their redemption before maturity at the option of the commission in a manner as it may elect at par plus accrued interest upon notice published for one (1) insertion not more than sixty (60) days and not later than thirty (30) days before the date of such redemption in a newspaper of general circulation published in Little Rock and in a financial journal published in the Borough of Manhattan, New York, New York.
AR Code § 27-88-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-107. Seal

 The State Highway Commission is authorized to adopt and use a seal in the execution and issuance of bonds authorized under the provisions of this chapter.
AR Code § 27-88-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-108. Sale

 (a) The State Highway Commission is authorized to sell all the bonds of each issue issuable under this chapter at one (1) time, or it may from time to time sell installments of the bonds of each issue in principal amounts to be determined by the commission. The bonds of each issue may be delivered all at one (1) time or from time to time.  (b) All bond sales shall be public on sealed bids, after notice published by the commission's secretary for one (1) insertion not more than thirty (30) days nor less than fifteen (15) days before the date of the sale, in the news media specified in § 27-88-106. This requirement shall not apply to a sale of bonds made to an agent or instrumentality of the United States Government, including corporations, the capital stock of which is subscribed by the United States Government.  (c) Bonds may be sold at less than par, and the bonds of each issue, as sold, may be converted into an issue of bonds bearing a lower rate or rates of interest, but only on the condition that the commission receive no less and pay no more than it would have received and paid if the bonds had not been converted and on the condition that the conversion is approved by the commission.  (d) In no event, however, shall the commission be required to pay more than six percent (6%) interest on the amount received for bonds sold under the provisions of this chapter, computed with relation to the absolute maturity of the bonds in accordance with standard tables of bond values.  (e) The commission shall have the right to refuse any and all bids.  (f) The commission may employ one (1) or more fiscal agents for the sale of the bonds and pay a reasonable fee for the services of the agent or agents.
AR Code § 27-88-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-109. No right arises until issuance and sale

 This chapter shall not create any right of any character, and no right of any character shall arise under or pursuant to it unless and until the bonds authorized by this chapter have been issued and actually sold by the State Highway Commission.
AR Code § 27-88-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-110. Investment of proceeds from sale

 The State Highway Commission is further authorized to invest portions of the proceeds from the sale of such bonds as in its judgment may not be required for immediate use in direct general obligations of the United States or of the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 27-88-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-111. Temporary notes or bonds

 Temporary notes or bonds conforming to this chapter, exchangeable for definitive bonds, may be issued in the discretion of the State Highway Commission.
AR Code § 27-88-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-112. Notes and bonds as negotiable instruments

 All bonds and notes issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be, and shall have, all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under the negotiable instruments law of this state.
AR Code § 27-88-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-113. Tax exemption

 The bonds issued under this chapter shall be exempt from the state income taxes.
AR Code § 27-88-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-114. Sinking fund for payment of bonds

 At or before the issuance of any bonds, the State Highway Commission shall:   (1) By resolution provide for a sinking fund for the payment of the principal of the bonds and the interest thereon and for the payment of the charges of banks or trust companies for making payment of the principal and interest; and  (2) Set aside and pledge a sufficient amount of the gross revenues of the bridge or ferry to be paid by the commission into the sinking fund at intervals to be determined by the resolution of the commission prior to the issuance of the bonds for:  (A) The interest upon such bonds as the interest shall fall due;  (B) The necessary fiscal agency charges for paying principal and interest;  (C) The payment of the bonds as they fall due, or if all bonds mature at one (1) time, the proper maintenance of a sinking fund sufficient for the payment thereof at that time; and  (D) A margin for safety.
AR Code § 27-88-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-115. Operation and maintenance fund

 (a) All revenues of the bridge or ferry not required under the provisions of this chapter to be paid into the sinking fund provided in the resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds shall be paid into an operation and maintenance fund and be used by the State Highway Commission in the operation and maintenance of the bridge or ferry.  (b) However, all moneys in any operation and maintenance fund in excess of an amount deemed by the commission sufficient for operation and maintenance for an ensuing period of not less than twelve (12) months shall be paid into the sinking fund.
AR Code § 27-88-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-116. Tolls, rates, and fees

 (a) The State Highway Commission is authorized, and it shall be its duty, by resolution to establish, maintain, and collect just and equitable tolls, rates, fees, and other charges for the use of and the services rendered by the bridge or ferry.  (b) The commission may change and readjust the tolls, rates, fees, and other charges from time to time to such extent as will not render insecure the rights of the holders of revenue bonds or violate any sinking fund agreement or other lawful agreements with bondholders.  (c) Tolls, rates, fees, and other charges shall be sufficient in each year for the payment of the sums herein required to be paid into the sinking fund and for the payment of the proper and reasonable expenses of operation and maintenance of the bridge or ferry and of the approaches thereto.  (d) Revenues collected pursuant to this section shall be deemed the revenues of the bridge or ferry.  (e) The aggregate of tolls, rents, fees, and other charges shall always be sufficient for sinking fund payments, and for expenses of operation and maintenance.  (f) If there is default in the payment of the principal of or interest upon any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, any court having jurisdiction in any proper action may appoint a receiver to operate and manage the bridge or ferry on behalf of the commission, with power to charge and collect tolls, rents, fees, and other charges sufficient to provide for the payment of the bonds and interest thereon, and for the payment of the operating expenses and to apply the income and the revenues in conformity with this chapter and the resolution providing for the issuance of the bonds.
AR Code § 27-88-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-117. Bonds payable solely from bridge or ferry revenues

 (a) Bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be payable solely from the revenues derived from the bridge or ferry. These bonds shall not in any event constitute an indebtedness of the State of Arkansas within the meaning of the constitutional provisions or limitations.  (b) It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that the bond has been issued under the provisions of this chapter and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the State of Arkansas within any constitutional or statutory limitation.
AR Code § 27-88-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-118. Additional bond issues — Equality

 (a) The State Highway Commission may provide in its resolution authorizing the issuance of the bonds or in the trust indenture executed in connection therewith that additional bonds may thereafter be authorized and issued, at one (1) time or from time to time, when necessary for the completion of the construction or reconstruction of any bridge and the acquisition, construction, and reconstruction of approaches thereto, or for the completion of the construction of any ferry and the acquisition and construction of approaches thereto.  (b) Additional bonds will be secured and be payable from the revenues of the bridge or ferry equally with all other bonds issued pursuant to the resolution, without preference or distinction between any one bond and any other bond by reason of priority of issuance or otherwise.
AR Code § 27-88-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-119. Contracts with United States or other states

 For the purpose of carrying into effect the objects and purposes of this chapter, the State Highway Commission shall have full power and authority to negotiate and enter into contracts with the United States and any of its agencies and with the state highway commission or other comparable authority of any adjoining state where a bridge or ferry, or the approaches thereto may be located and to contract for the joint ownership of any bridge or ferry and the approaches thereto and the means and manner of operating and maintaining the bridge or ferry and the approaches thereto.
AR Code § 27-88-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-120. Conformity to federal law

 All interstate bridges constructed or reconstructed under the terms of this chapter and all tolls, rents, fees, and other charges established for services rendered by the bridge or ferry shall be subject and conform to the terms and provisions of the Act of Congress known as the “General Bridge Authority Act”, approved August 2, 1946, and any act amendatory thereto.
AR Code § 27-88-121 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 6 - Bridges And Ferries|Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation|§ 27-88-121. Right of eminent domain

 For the purpose of acquiring any land, rights, easements, franchises, or other real or personal property deemed to be necessary or convenient for the construction and reconstruction of any bridge or ferry, or for the acquisition of the approaches thereto, the State Highway Commission shall have the right of eminent domain, as is provided in §§ 27-64-104 and 27-67-316.
AR Code § 27-102-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 7 - Watercourses And Navigation|Chapter 102 - Salvage From Waterways|§ 27-102-101. Right to take up property lost or wrecked on river

 When any boat, vessel, raft, or other property shall be lost or wrecked and in a perishable condition upon any river in this state, or any river making a boundary of the state, any person may take up and secure it at or near the place where found.
AR Code § 27-102-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 7 - Watercourses And Navigation|Chapter 102 - Salvage From Waterways|§ 27-102-102. Owner's right to recover

 When any person shall set up a claim to salvaged property and shall prove his or her title to it by competent testimony before any justice of the peace of the proper county, the taker up shall restore the property to the owner if he or she pays the taker up a premium for salvage, at the rate of not exceeding ten percent (10%) of the value of all the property, to be adjudged by a justice of the peace of the county.
AR Code § 27-102-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 7 - Watercourses And Navigation|Chapter 102 - Salvage From Waterways|§ 27-102-103. Right to salvage payment

 The taker up of a boat, vessel, raft, or other property shall be entitled to retain it against the rightful owner until salvage be paid, or he or she may have and maintain a civil action against the owner for the amount of salvage due in accordance with this chapter.