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AR Code § 14-39-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-101. Authority generally

 (a) The charters, and all the amendments thereto, of all municipal corporations within this state designated as cities of the second class and incorporated towns may be surrendered, all offices held thereunto abolished, and the territory and inhabitants thereof remanded to the government of this state in the manner provided in this chapter.  (b) Before a municipal corporation undertakes a surrender of charter under this chapter, the municipal corporation shall coordinate with the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office for preparation of legal descriptions and digital mapping of the relevant territory.
AR Code § 14-39-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-102. Revocation due to inactivity

 (a)  (1) The charter of any incorporated town or city of the second class that has been inactive as an incorporated place for five (5) years or longer shall be revoked by order of the county court of the county in which the incorporated town or city of the second class is located.  (2) Upon petition by the prosecuting attorney of the county, the county court of the county may make and enter an order revoking any charter of an incorporated town or city of the second class upon a finding that the town or city will no longer be in existence.    (b) When the county court revokes the charter of any incorporated town or city of the second class, the court shall order the clerk of the court to make out and certify under the official seal of the clerk, a transcript of the order, which the clerk shall forward to the Secretary of State, to be kept on file in the office of the Secretary of State. The clerk shall also forward a copy to the Arkansas State Archives.
AR Code § 14-39-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-103. Surrender and repeal of charter

 (a)  (1) When the county court shall have made the order mentioned in § 14-39-102, the charter, and all amendments thereto, of any such municipal corporation shall be deemed to be surrendered and repealed and shall then cease to exist.  (2) The population and territory thereof theretofore governed under and by virtue of the charter and the amendments thereto shall then be resolved back into the body of the state.  (3) All offices theretofore held under, and by force of, the charter and the amendments thereof shall be abolished.  (4) All power of taxation, in any form whatever, theretofore vested in, or exercised by, the authorities of the municipal corporation by virtue of its charter and the amendments thereto shall then be forever withdrawn and reserved to the General Assembly.  (5)  (A) The public buildings, squares, promenades, wharves, streets, alleys, parks, fire engines, hose and carriages, horses and wagons, engine houses, engineer instruments, and all other real, personal, or mixed property theretofore used or held by the municipal corporation for municipal purposes shall be transferred to the custody and control of the state, to remain public property as it has always been for the uses to which the property has been applied.  (B) The county court of the counties, in which the extinct municipal corporations, respectively, were situated, shall take immediate possession of and control the same until otherwise provided by law.      (b) From and after the surrender and repeal of the charter as provided in this section, no person holding office under and by virtue of the charter of the municipal corporation shall exercise or attempt to exercise any of the powers or functions of that office.
AR Code § 14-39-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-104. Appointment of receiver and back-tax collector

 (a) As to all municipal corporations in this state whose charters may be surrendered and repealed under the provisions of this chapter, the Governor shall appoint an officer for the extinct corporations, respectively, to be known as a receiver and back-tax collector.  (b) The receiver and back-tax collector shall take the oath required of other collectors of the public revenue and shall give bond with good sureties, to be approved by the county court of the county in which the extinct corporations were situated, in such sum as the court may prescribe.
AR Code § 14-39-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-105. Duties of receiver, etc

 (a) As soon as appointed and qualified, the receiver and back-tax collector shall enter upon the duties of his or her office.  (b) It shall be the receiver and back-tax collector's duty, and he or she is empowered, to take possession of all books, papers, and documents pertaining to the assessment and collection of taxes embraced by this chapter. He or she shall also take possession of all the private property, if any, belonging to the extinct corporation, respectively.
AR Code § 14-39-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-106. Reports and collections by receiver, etc

 (a) Every six (6) months the receiver and back-tax collector shall make to the circuit court, in the county in which the extinct corporation was situated, a full, clear, and complete statement showing all taxes collected and settled, and all in his or her hands that remain to be collected and settled.  (b)  (1) The receiver and back-tax collector, at the end of each month, shall pay into the State Treasury the whole sum collected or received by him or her, less his or her compensation.  (2) He or she shall distinguish, in making such payments, the respective sources from which the moneys paid in are derived, showing what is collected from taxes for general purposes and what is collected for special purposes, and designating the particular or special purpose, so that the moneys may be kept separate in the State Treasury in order that the Treasurer of State may pay them according to any lien, priority or equity, which may be declared by any court touching any of the funds in favor of any creditor or class of creditors.
AR Code § 14-39-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-107. Compensation of receiver, etc

 The receiver and back-tax collector shall receive such compensation for his or her services as shall be fixed by the county court of the county in which the extinct corporation was situated.
AR Code § 14-39-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-108. Proceedings to collect revenue due

 (a) For the purpose of collecting the revenue embraced in the provisions of this chapter, the receiver and back-tax collector is empowered and authorized to file a general creditors' bill in the name of the state, in behalf of all creditors, against all the delinquent taxpayers who owed taxes to the extinct corporation at the time of the surrender or repeal of its charter, which shall be filed in the circuit court, held in and for the county in which the extinct corporation was situated.  (b)  (1) All the delinquents in any one (1) county shall be embraced in one (1) summons to answer.  (2) For the issuance of the summons, the clerk shall receive a fee of five cents (5¢) for each defendant named in the summons, except for the first, and for that the fee allowed by law in other cases. However, he or she shall not receive a fee exceeding twenty dollars ($20.00) for the summons.  (3) The sheriff, for serving the summons, shall receive for each defendant ten cents (10¢), except for the first, and for that the fee allowed for like services in other cases.    (c) Publication for nonresidents shall embrace in the same publication, if practicable, all nonresident defendants, the object being to make one (1) proceeding embrace the whole taxes of any one of the extinct corporations.  (d) All pending suits in favor of any of the extinct corporations are to be revived in the name of the state and consolidated with the general proceedings provided for in this chapter and when so consolidated shall form part of the general proceeding.  (e)  (1) The court in which the proceeding may be instituted shall have power to settle and adjust all equities, priorities, and liens and to give all relief, both to the defendants and creditors, that might be given if there were as many separate suits as there are creditors and delinquent taxpayers.  (2)  (A) The court shall have power to enforce all liens upon property for the payment of the taxes and to order and make all sales of property necessary to the collection of the taxes.  (B) The taxes embraced by this chapter, and which it provides for, are all taxes imposed by extinct municipal corporations up to the time of the surrender or repeal of their respective charters, and none other.
AR Code § 14-39-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-109. Filing of claims — Appeals

 (a) Publication shall make all creditors parties, with the right to relief as fully as if especially named. At any time, they may file with the clerks of the courts their claims, or attested copies, retaining the original, if they desire. However, the court may order that the original be produced and placed in the custody of the clerk.  (b)  (1) The simple filing of claims, respectively, attested by the affidavit of the owner or his or her agent or attorney shall be proof of the claims in common form and, if not contested, entitles him or her to payment pro rata.  (2) For administering the oath in proving the claims, in common form and, filing them, the clerk shall receive the sum of ten cents (10¢) to be paid at the time of making the oath and filing the claim.    (c)  (1) If any creditor or receiver and back-tax collector shall desire to contest the validity, in whole or in part, of any claim filed in common form, he or she may do so in a summary way, in the progress of the cause.  (2)  (A) The opposing parties in these contests shall reduce to writing the facts that are necessary to their determination and file them.  (B) When filed, they shall become part of the record, and the court shall have power, upon motion and in a summary way, to hear and determine all questions of priority of payment in the progress of the cause.      (d)  (1) When any party is dissatisfied with the decision of any litigated question, he or she may have the question reheard, upon appeal or writ of error in the Supreme Court. However, only so much of the record as pertains to that particular litigation shall form the transcript and record for the appellate court.  (2) The costs shall be paid by the parties to such appeal as the appellate court may direct unless the receiver and back-tax collector is a party to the litigation on behalf of creditors generally. In that case, if the appellate court thinks proper, the costs may be charged to the whole or to some particular fund, as right and justice may require.
AR Code § 14-39-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-110. Payment of funds collected

 Funds collected under this chapter shall be paid out by the Treasurer of State from time to time to those entitled thereto and in such manner as the circuit court may adjudge and decree, on the warrant of the receiver and back-tax collector, countersigned by the judge of the court.
AR Code § 14-39-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 39 - Surrender of Charter by City of the Second Class or Incorporated Town|§ 14-39-111. Disposition of private property

 (a) The receiver and back-tax collector shall make to the circuit court a full and complete statement of all the private property, if any, belonging to the extinct corporations, respectively. All such property shall be considered by the court as a part of the subject matter of the creditor's bill.  (b) The court shall make all orders and decrees as may be deemed necessary and proper for the sale thereof and shall decree the application of the proceeds of the sale to the payment of the debts of the extinct corporations, respectively.
AR Code § 14-44-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-101. Creation of wards

 (a) As soon as practicable after an incorporated town becomes a city of the second class, the city council shall form the city into the number of wards that, to it, will seem to best serve the interests of the city.  (b) It shall be the duty of the council to see that each ward has as nearly an equal population to each of the other wards as would best serve the interests of the taxpayers of the city.
AR Code § 14-44-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-102. Redistricting of wards

 (a) City councils in cities of the second class shall have the authority to redistrict the wards of their cities when they determine that the people can best be served by adding wards, combining wards, or changing ward boundary lines to equalize the populations in the various wards.  (b)  (1) Within ninety (90) days after redistricting, if fifty (50) or more qualified electors in the city are dissatisfied with the division of the city into wards, they shall have the authority to petition the circuit court.  (2) The court, after due hearing, shall have authority to redistrict the city into such wards as it shall deem best if it finds that the redistricting action by the council was arbitrary and capricious.
AR Code § 14-44-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-104. Vacancy in council member's office

 (a) If a vacancy occurs in the office of council member in any city of the second class, at the first regular meeting after the occurrence of the vacancy, the city council shall proceed to elect, by a majority vote of the council, a council member to serve for the unexpired term.  (b) The election to fill the vacancy under subsection (a) of this section is not subject to veto by the mayor.
AR Code § 14-44-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-105. Election of mayor

 The qualified voters of cities of the second class shall elect a mayor for a term of four (4) years on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November 1966 and every four (4) years thereafter.
AR Code § 14-44-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-106. Vacancy in mayor's office

 If a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor in any city of the second class, at the first regular meeting after the occurrence of the vacancy, the city council shall proceed to either elect by a majority vote of the council members a mayor to serve the unexpired term or call for a special election to be held in accordance with § 7-11-101 et seq. to fill the vacancy. At this election, a mayor shall be elected to serve the unexpired term.
AR Code § 14-44-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-107. Powers of mayor generally

 (a) The mayor in cities of the second class shall be ex officio president of the city council, shall preside at its meetings, and shall have a vote to establish a quorum of the council, or when the mayor's vote is needed to pass any ordinance, bylaw, resolution, order, or motion.  (b)  (1) The mayor in these cities shall have the power to veto, within five (5) days, Sundays excepted, after the action of the council thereon, any ordinance, resolution, or order adopted or made by the council, or any part thereof, which in his or her judgment is contrary to the public interest.  (2)  (A) In case of a veto, before the next regular meeting of the council, the mayor shall file in the office of the city recorder, to be laid before the meeting, a written statement of his or her reasons for so doing.  (B) An ordinance, resolution, or order, or part thereof, vetoed by the mayor shall not have any force or validity unless, after the written statement is laid before it, the council passes it over the veto by a vote of two-thirds (2/3) of all the council members elected thereto.      (c) If the mayor is unable to perform the duties of office or cannot be located, one (1) of the following may perform all functions of a mayor during the disability or absence of the mayor:  (1) The recorder;  (2) Another elected official of the city if designated by the mayor; or  (3) An unelected employee or resident of the city if designated by the mayor and approved by the city council.
AR Code § 14-44-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-108. Mayor of city of the second class

 The mayor of a city of the second class shall perform all duties required by the ordinances of the city and shall give bond and security in any amount to be determined and approved by the city council.
AR Code § 14-44-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-109. City marshal, recorder, and treasurer generally

 (a)  (1)  (A) At the time prescribed in this subtitle, the qualified voters of each city of the second class shall elect a city marshal, a city recorder, and a city treasurer.  (B) Each city marshal, city recorder, or city treasurer shall continue in office until his or her successor is elected and qualified.    (2)  (A) The city council may provide by ordinance for the appointment of the city treasurer.  (B) An ordinance under subdivision (a)(2)(A) of this section shall be passed before the filing period begins for an election for the office of city treasurer, but no later than the February preceding the beginning of the early filing period.      (b) These officers shall have such powers and perform such duties as are prescribed in this subtitle, or as may be prescribed by any ordinance of the city, consistent with the provisions of this subtitle.
AR Code § 14-44-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-110. Residency of appointed marshals

 Cities of the second class shall have the authority to require their appointed marshals to reside within their corporate limits, and they shall have the authority to permit their appointed marshals to reside outside their corporate limits.
AR Code § 14-44-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-111. Election or appointment of marshal

 The city marshal of cities of the second class shall be elected by the voters as provided by law. However, the city council of any such city, if the council deems it to be in the best interests of the city, and upon passage of an ordinance by the majority of the council, may provide that the marshal shall be appointed or removed by the mayor unless the council shall vote by a two-thirds majority of the total membership of the council to override the mayor's action.
AR Code § 14-44-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-112. Vacancy in marshal's office

 If a vacancy occurs in the office of marshal in any city of the second class, at the first regular meeting after the occurrence of the vacancy, the city council shall proceed to elect by a majority vote of all the council members a marshal to serve for the unexpired term.
AR Code § 14-44-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-113. Powers and duties of marshals

 (a) The marshal of cities of the second class shall execute and return all writs and process directed to him or her by the mayor. In criminal cases or cases of a violation of the city ordinance, he or she may serve them in any part of the county.  (b) It shall be the marshal's duty to:  (1) Suppress all riots and disturbances and breaches of the peace;  (2) Apprehend all disorderly persons in the city;  (3) Pursue and arrest any person fleeing from justice in any part of the state; and  (4) Apprehend any person in the act of committing any offense against the laws of the state or ordinances of the city and forthwith to bring such persons before the mayor, or other competent authority, for examination or trial.    (c) The marshal shall have power to appoint one (1) or more deputies, for whose official acts he or she shall be responsible.  (d) In the discharge of his or her proper duties, the marshal shall have like powers, be subject to like responsibilities, and receive the like fees as sheriffs and constables in similar cases.
AR Code § 14-44-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-114. Recorder-treasurer offices combined

 (a)  (1) The city council of any city of the second class, if the city council deems it to be in the best interests of the city, and upon passage of an ordinance by a majority vote of the city council, may combine the offices of city recorder and city treasurer, authorizing one (1) person to hold this position.  (2) The city council may combine the offices of city recorder and city treasurer to take effect at the next election under § 14-44-109 or when the offices are vacant.    (b) When combined, the office shall be known as “city recorder-treasurer”.  (c) When one (1) person assumes the duties of both recorder and treasurer, the position shall not be separated during the elected city recorder-treasurer's term unless the position is vacant.
AR Code § 14-44-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 44 - Government of Cities of the Second Class|§ 14-44-115. Election of recorder, treasurer, or recorder-treasurer

 (a) On the Tuesday following the first Monday in November, 1972, and every four (4) years thereafter, the qualified voters of cities of the second class shall elect a recorder, a treasurer, or a recorder-treasurer, as the case may be, for a term of four (4) years.  (b)  (1) The city council may provide by ordinance for the appointment of the city treasurer.  (2) An ordinance under subdivision (b)(1) of this section shall be passed before the filing period begins for an election for the office of city treasurer, but no later than the February preceding the beginning of the early filing period.