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AR Code § 14-91-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 6 - Continuance of Districts for Maintenance and Repair|§ 14-91-601. Procedure generally

 (a)  (1) All improvement districts in cities and towns organized under §§ 14-88-203 — 14-88-205, 14-88-207 — 14-88-210, 14-88-301 — 14-88-303, 14-88-305, 14-88-306, 14-88-308, and 14-88-407 may be prolonged or continued after the completion of the improvement for which they were organized for the purpose of maintaining and keeping those improvements in a good state of repair, upon a petition of a majority in value of the owners of real property within the district adjoining the locality to be affected, to the city or town council, requesting that the life of the district be prolonged or continued for that purpose.  (2) The petition shall designate the time during which the maintenance and repair shall be undertaken, and the manner and estimated cost thereof, requesting that the cost be assessed and charged upon the real property situated within the district.    (b)  (1) Thereupon, the council shall provide by ordinance for the prolongation or continuation of the district as requested, and the board of assessors shall thereupon assess the value of all benefits to be received by the land owned by reason of the maintenance and keeping in repair of the improvement as affecting each of the blocks, lots, or parcels of land within the district.  (2) The board shall at once proceed to inscribe in the assessment book of the district the value of the benefits to accrue to each of the blocks, lots, or parcels of land.
AR Code § 14-91-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 6 - Continuance of Districts for Maintenance and Repair|§ 14-91-602. Levy of assessment

 (a) The city or town council shall provide, by ordinance, for the levy of the assessment of the benefits as made by the assessors under § 14-91-601 and shall fix the day in the year when the assessment shall be paid.  (b) The assessment shall be a charge and lien against all the real property in the district from the date of the ordinance and shall be entitled to preference over all judgments, executions, encumbrances, or liens whensoever created, except the lien for original assessment, and shall continue until the assessments, with any penalty and costs that may accrue, shall be paid.  (c) As between grantor and grantee, all payments not due at the date of the transfer of the real property shall be payable by the grantee.
AR Code § 14-91-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 6 - Continuance of Districts for Maintenance and Repair|§ 14-91-603. Limitations on assessment

 The assessments for maintenance and repair made pursuant to § 14-91-601 may be in addition to the twenty percent (20%) maximum assessment permitted for the original cost of the improvement by § 14-90-801, but no additional assessment shall be made in excess of five percent (5%) of the value of the real property in the district as shown by the last county assessment, and not more than ten percent (10%) of the additional assessment of benefits shall be collected in any one (1) year.
AR Code § 14-91-604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 6 - Continuance of Districts for Maintenance and Repair|§ 14-91-604. Readjustment of assessment

 The assessment made pursuant to § 14-91-601 may be annually readjusted according to additional improvements upon the lands by board of assessors. Immediately upon the recording of the assessment, notice thereof shall be inserted in some newspaper, and appeals may be filed and shall be heard and disposed of all in the same manner as provided by law for publishing notice of and protesting against the original assessment for the improvement.
AR Code § 14-91-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 6 - Continuance of Districts for Maintenance and Repair|§ 14-91-605. Law controlling assessments

 Under this subchapter, the publication of a copy of the ordinance, the infliction of a penalty for nonpayment, and the enforcement and foreclosure of the lien shall all be had and done in the same manner as is provided in reference to the original assessment.
AR Code § 14-91-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 7 - New Districts to Enlarge or Reconstruct Existing Works|§ 14-91-701. Formation generally

 (a) It shall be lawful for an improvement district in a city or town to be formed for the purpose of enlarging or reconstructing waterworks and electric light plants previously constructed by other improvement districts or owned or controlled by the city or town council, and extending the pipes, wires, and other equipment for it.  (b) The district shall be organized and all the proceedings in it had in pursuance of the provisions of the laws governing improvement districts in cities and towns.  (c) The council, the commissioners of the improvement district board, and assessors shall have the powers and duties prescribed thereby.  (d) When the improvement districts are organized, possession and control of the waterworks and electric light plants shall be taken by the commissioners in the districts.  (e) When the work of the improvement is finished and all debts of the preceding districts have been paid, the control of the waterworks and electric light plants shall pass to the council, as provided by § 14-91-402.  (f) The commissioners may secure the payment of any borrowed money by a mortgage on the plant and a first lien pledge and mortgage of the assessment of benefits made on the reconstruction.
AR Code § 14-91-801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 8 - Improvement of Water Plants for Veterans' Hospitals|§ 14-91-801. Authority generally

 All water improvement districts in any and all of the cities of the first and second class of the State of Arkansas that may be designated as sites for United States Veterans' Hospitals and their respective boards of managers and boards of improvements, or any of them, are authorized to extend, develop, and improve water plants and systems, and to acquire real estate as to them may seem necessary and advisable for this purpose. They may issue their certain negotiable promissory obligations in payment thereof, payable out of the surplus, from year to year, of the revenue arising from the operation of any such plant of the district, after all operating expenses have been paid or provided for, and to sell and negotiate such obligations for the purpose of securing cash funds with which to so extend, develop, and improve the plant and to acquire real estate.
AR Code § 14-91-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 8 - Improvement of Water Plants for Veterans' Hospitals|§ 14-91-802. Assistance by city

 All cities of the first and second class in this state are authorized, by ordinance, in consideration of the benefits to be received by the cities by reason of the matters set out in § 14-91-801, to obligate itself to aid or assume the obligations of the improvement districts, or of its board of managers or board of improvement, payable out of the surplus revenues of the city, after the necessary expenses of the city have been paid or provided for. They shall be paid out of such surplus, from year to year, until the obligations assumed shall have been fully paid.
AR Code § 14-91-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 9 - Sewer Connections to Lands Outside District|§ 14-91-901. Authority to connect

 All municipal sewer improvement districts shall have authority to permit lands outside the boundaries of the district to connect sewer lines serving the lands with the sewer lines and mains of the district and to make a charge for this privilege.
AR Code § 14-91-902 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 9 - Sewer Connections to Lands Outside District|§ 14-91-902. Terms of connection

 (a) The commissioners on the board of a municipal sewer improvement district shall have the right to consent to or refuse to allow connections within their discretion.  (b)  (1) The connections shall be made on such terms as the commissioners may dictate. However, no lands outside of the district shall be permitted to connect with the sewer line of the district except upon payment to the district of a sum equal to the charge made against similarly benefited lands within the district.  (2) In case such connections have been made without the payment of a charge for the connection, the district may refuse to allow sewer service to the lands until permission for the connection is granted and the charge for the service is paid to the district.
AR Code § 14-91-903 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 9 - Sewer Connections to Lands Outside District|§ 14-91-903. Recording required

 (a) In any instance where a municipal sewer improvement district has contracted for the furnishing of sanitary sewer service to lands lying outside the boundaries of the district, that district shall cause to be recorded, in the land records of the county in which the land is located, an instrument containing:  (1) A full and complete description of the lands which are subject to the contract;  (2) A fair summary of the terms and provisions of the contract; and  (3) Such other information as might be pertinent to the transaction.    (b) If the instrument referred to in subsection (a) of this section is not recorded as there required, a subsequent purchaser of all, or any part, of the land covered by the contract shall have the right to connect improvements located on the lands to the sanitary sewer lines of the district without charge for the connections, unless the purchaser had actual notice of the contract and the terms thereof concerning connection charges.
AR Code § 14-91-1001 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 10 - Sale of Waterworks|§ 14-91-1001. Authority to sell

 (a) Wherever in any city or incorporated town in this state a waterworks plant and a sewer system have been constructed by the same improvement district as part of a single improvement, the city or town council shall have authority to sell the waterworks.  (b)  (1) To that end, the council shall select a competent engineer familiar with the waterworks plants, who shall appraise the waterworks and file with the clerk or recorder of the city or town his appraisement in writing.  (2)  (A)  (i) Thereupon, it shall be the duty of the clerk or recorder of the city or town to publish a notice.  (ii) The notice may be in the following form:    (B) The notice shall be published once a week for four (4) weeks.      (c)  (1) Unless some property owner of the city or town brings suit in the chancery court within thirty (30) days from the first publication of the notice to review the appraisal, the appraisal shall stand and be conclusive upon all parties.  (2) If such a suit is brought, it shall be treated as a matter of public interest and advanced in all courts, and all appeals therein must be taken and perfected within thirty (30) days.  (3) If at the end of the period of thirty (30) days no suit has been brought to set aside the appraisal, the appraisement shall be conclusive of the value of the property.      “NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the appraiser appointed by the City (or Town) Council of the City (or Town) of has appraised the value of the waterworks system constructed by said City (or Town; or by Improvement District No ) at the sum of Dollars ($ ). City Clerk (or Recorder).”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 14-91-1002 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 10 - Sale of Waterworks|§ 14-91-1002. Proceedings to approve sale

 (a) The council of any municipal corporation may sell its system of waterworks, together with the right to operate it, when they shall determine, by resolution adopted by a majority vote of the council, that it would be for the best interest of the town or city that the sale be consummated.  (b)  (1) Before any such sale shall be consummated, there shall be filed, within one (1) year after the adoption of the resolution, with the council a petition signed by a majority in value as shown by the last county assessment of the owners of real property within the town or city proposing to make the sale, asking that the sale be made and stating the minimum price at which the sale shall be made, which shall in no event be a sum less than the appraised value thereof.  (2)  (A) Upon the filing of this petition, the council of the city or town shall give notice by publication once a week for two (2) weeks in some newspaper published in the county in which the city or town is located, advising the owners of real property within the city or town that on a day therein named the council of the city or town will hear the petition and determine whether those signing it constitute a majority in value of the owners of real property.  (B)  (i) At the meeting named in the notice, the owners of real property within the city or town shall be heard before the council, which shall determine whether the signers of the petition constitute a majority in value.  (ii) The finding of the council shall be conclusive unless, within thirty (30) days thereafter, suit is brought to review its action in the chancery court of the county in which the city or town lies.    (C) In determining whether those signing the petition constitute a majority in value of the owners of the real property within the city or town, the council and the chancery court shall be guided by the records of deeds in the office of the recorder of the county and shall not consider any unrecorded instruments.
AR Code § 14-91-1003 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 10 - Sale of Waterworks|§ 14-91-1003. Purchase of waterworks

 (a)  (1) The purchaser of the water system in any city or town in this state shall pay at least the appraised value for the plant.  (2)  (A) If the purchaser desires to assume an amount of bonds equal to the purchase price outstanding against the plant, he shall give to the city or town an indemnifying bond in some good surety company, conditioned for the payment of the interest and the retiring of the bonds, so assumed by the purchaser, as they may become due and payable.  (B) Should the purchaser desire to take up the amount of bonds that may be adjudged against the waterworks, as shown by the purchase price, he may do so by making the necessary arrangements for retiring them with the holders of the bonds.      (b)  (1)  (A) The transfer of the properties shall be evidenced by a deed of conveyance in the usual form and with the usual covenants of warranty.  (B) A lien against the property sold shall be retained in the deed for all of the unpaid sale price with the right upon default of payment of any interest or indebtedness when it falls due to declare all of the unpaid sale price due and payable and to proceed with a foreclosure of the lien so retained.    (2) The deed of conveyance shall be executed on behalf of the city or town by the clerk or recorder, when authorized by the city or town council.  (3) A receipt duly executed by the treasurer of the city or town shall release the purchaser from further liability for the payment of the amount of money received.  (4) If payment is made in cash, it shall be applied only to the retirement of the bonds of the district.    (c) Upon the payment of all indebtedness for which a lien may be retained in a deed of conveyance, the mayor, or recorder, or clerk of the town or city is authorized and directed to satisfy the lien by a deed of release, or by marginal entry upon the deed record where it may be recorded.
AR Code § 14-91-1004 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 10 - Sale of Waterworks|§ 14-91-1004. Effect of sale

 The sale of the property as mentioned in this subchapter shall not work a forfeiture of the corporate entity of the improvement district. Rather, it shall be maintained for the operating of the sewer system which is to be retained by the district and the town and city.
AR Code § 14-91-1005 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 10 - Sale of Waterworks|§ 14-91-1005. Outstanding bonds

 The remainder of the outstanding bonds issued by a municipal waterworks improvement district shall remain as an indebtedness against it and shall be paid by a levy on the assessment of benefits of the district in force at the time of a sale.
AR Code § 14-91-1006 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 10 - Sale of Waterworks|§ 14-91-1006. Priority of suits

 All suits in reference to the sale of municipal waterworks shall be deemed matters of public interest and shall be advanced in all courts and heard at the earliest possible moment, and appeals therein must be taken and perfected within thirty (30) days.
AR Code § 14-91-1101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 11 - Change of Plans in Cities with a Population Exceeding 60,000|§ 14-91-1101. Applicability

 This subchapter shall apply only to improvement districts created in cities having a population exceeding sixty thousand (60,000) inhabitants, as shown by the federal census immediately preceding the proceedings authorized by this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-91-1102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 11 - Change of Plans in Cities with a Population Exceeding 60,000|§ 14-91-1102. Authority generally

 The commissioners on the boards of improvement districts formed in cities having more than sixty thousand (60,000) inhabitants are authorized and empowered to change the plans for the improvement either before or after the assessments of benefits are made in their districts and to make and complete the improvement in them according to the changed plans.
AR Code § 14-91-1103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 11 - Change of Plans in Cities with a Population Exceeding 60,000|§ 14-91-1103. Revised plans

 (a) At any time before the completion of the improvements in the improvement districts, the commissioners on the boards of improvement may make revised plans for the improvements involving changes in the original plans and complete the improvements according to the changed plans.  (b) As soon as the commissioners have formed the revised plans for the improvements, they shall file a report thereof with the city clerk, together with an estimate of the cost of completing the improvements according to the changed plans.
AR Code § 14-91-1104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 91 - Construction, Operation, Repair, and Sale of Municipal Improvements|Subchapter 11 - Change of Plans in Cities with a Population Exceeding 60,000|§ 14-91-1104. Plans not exceeding cost limit

 (a) If the estimate of cost of making and completing the improvements according to the changed plans does not exceed the limit of cost to be borne by the landowners in the improvement district as limited by the statute in force at the time the second or majority petition is filed, or by a majority petition, the assessors shall immediately proceed to make a reassessment of benefits to be derived from the making of the improvements according to the changed plans.  (b) The reassessment shall be filed, advertised, and heard, and the time for any complaints against it shall be limited, as is provided for on the original assessment in the district.