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AR Code § 18-15-1203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 12 - Railroad, Telegraph, and Telephone Companies|§ 18-15-1203. Appointment of guardian ad litem

 In all cases of infants or persons with mental illness, when no legal representative or guardian appears in their behalf at the hearing, it shall be the duty of the court to appoint a guardian ad litem, who shall represent their interests for all purposes.
AR Code § 18-15-1204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 12 - Railroad, Telegraph, and Telephone Companies|§ 18-15-1204. Assessment of damages by jury

 (a) It shall be the duty of the court to impanel a jury of twelve (12) persons, as in other civil cases, to ascertain the amount of compensation which the company shall pay. The matter shall proceed and be determined as other civil causes.  (b) The amount of damages to be paid the owner of the lands for the right-of-way for the use of the company shall be determined and assessed irrespective of any benefit the owner may receive from any improvement proposed by the company.
AR Code § 18-15-1205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 12 - Railroad, Telegraph, and Telephone Companies|§ 18-15-1205. Payment or deposit of damages and costs

 (a) In all cases in which damages for the right-of-way for the use of any railroad company have been assessed in the manner provided in this subchapter, it shall be the duty of the railroad company to deposit with the court or pay to the owners the amount so assessed and pay such costs as, in the discretion of the court, may be adjudged against it, within thirty (30) days after the assessment.  (b) After payment, it shall be lawful for the railroad company to enter upon, use, and have the right-of-way over the lands forever.
AR Code § 18-15-1206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 12 - Railroad, Telegraph, and Telephone Companies|§ 18-15-1206. Deposit upon controversy

 (a) In cases in which the determination of questions in controversy in the proceedings is likely to retard the progress of work on or the business of the railroad company, the court, or judge in vacation, shall designate an amount of money to be deposited by the company, subject to the order of the court, for the purpose of making the compensation, when the amount thereof has been assessed and the judge shall designate the place of the deposit.  (b) Whenever the deposit has been made, in compliance with the order of the court or judge, it shall be lawful for the company to enter upon the lands and proceed with the company's work through and over the lands in controversy prior to the assessment and payment of damages for the use and right.
AR Code § 18-15-1207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 12 - Railroad, Telegraph, and Telephone Companies|§ 18-15-1207. Failure to pay or deposit

 In all cases in which the company shall not pay or deposit the amount of damages assessed within thirty (30) days after the assessment the company shall forfeit all rights in the premises.
AR Code § 18-15-1301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 13 - Mineral Oil, Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Lumber Companies|§ 18-15-1301. Pipelines and logging and tram roads

 (a) Any corporation organized by virtue of the laws of this state for the purpose of developing and producing mineral oil, petroleum, or natural gas in this state, and marketing it, or transporting or conveying it by means of pipes from the point of production to any other point, either to refine or to market the oil or to conduct the gas to any point to be used for heat or lights and any corporation organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of manufacturing lumber, and which may find it necessary or expedient to lay out and build a logging railroad or tram road at least five (5) miles in length in order to reach its timber may:  (1) Construct, operate, and maintain a line of pipe for that purpose along and under the public highways and streets of cities and towns with the consent of the authorities thereof; and  (2) Construct logging roads or tramways over and across the lands of any individual or corporation, or across and under the waters and over any lands of the state and on the lands of individuals, and along, under, or parallel with the rights-of-way of railroads and the turnpikes of this state.    (b) The ordinary use of the highways, turnpikes, and railroad rights-of-way shall not be obstructed thereby, nor the navigation of any waters impeded. Just compensation shall be paid to the owners of the land, railroad rights-of-way, or turnpikes, by reason of the occupation of the lands, railroads rights-of-ways, or turnpikes by the pipeline or by the log roads.  (c) The right-of-way for any logging railroad or tram road shall not exceed in width fifty feet (50').
AR Code § 18-15-1302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 13 - Mineral Oil, Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Lumber Companies|§ 18-15-1302. Right to enter, survey, etc. — Plat or map

 (a)  (1) Whenever a corporation desires to construct a pipeline or build a logging railway upon or under the lands of individuals, or right-of-way of any railroad, or any turnpike, the corporation, by its agents, shall have the right to enter peacefully upon the lands or rights-of-way and survey, locate, and lay out its pipeline, thereon, or tram road or logging road.  (2) However, the corporation shall be liable for any damages that may result by reason of such acts.    (b) The corporation shall designate on a plat or map to be made and filed with the county clerk of the county the width of the strip of land needed to be condemned for its purposes, the land's location, and the depth to which the pipes are to be laid.
AR Code § 18-15-1303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 13 - Mineral Oil, Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Lumber Companies|§ 18-15-1303. Procedure for condemnation

 In the event any company fails, upon application to individuals, railroads, or turnpike companies, to secure the right-of-way by consent, contract, or agreement, then the corporation shall have the right to proceed to procure the condemnation of the property, lands, rights, privileges, and easements in the manner provided by law for taking private property for right-of-way for railroads as provided by §§ 18-15-1201 — 18-15-1207, including the procedure for providing notice by publication and by certified mail in § 18-15-1202.
AR Code § 18-15-1304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 13 - Mineral Oil, Petroleum, Natural Gas, and Lumber Companies|§ 18-15-1304. Abandonment of logging railroad or tram road

 When a logging railroad or tram road is abandoned, the right-of-way shall revert to the owners of the lands over which it crosses.
AR Code § 18-15-1401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 14 - Cemeteries|§ 18-15-1401. Right of eminent domain to take land for burial purposes

 (a) All cities of the first class and cities of the second class and incorporated towns, cemetery or burial associations, and persons owning land used for public burial purposes in the State of Arkansas are given and granted the right of eminent domain to condemn, take, and use land for public burial purposes.  (b) Power of eminent domain granted by this section may also be used to acquire land for the burial of veterans of the United States Armed Forces and their dependents, and the land may be transferred to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, any other agency of the federal government, or to any other entity for use as a cemetery for veterans of the United States Armed Forces and their dependents.  (c) All entities granted the power of eminent domain under this section may accept donations from individuals or other legal entities for the purpose of compensating landowners for property acquired by eminent domain.  (d) The right of eminent domain granted by this section shall be exercised as provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 18-15-1402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 14 - Cemeteries|§ 18-15-1402. Consent of two-thirds of members or owners required

 No property shall be condemned and taken for public burial purposes by any city of the first class or city of the second class or incorporated town, cemetery or burial association, or persons owning land used for public burial purposes without the concurrence in the bylaws, resolutions, or ordinances directing the same of two-thirds (2/3) of the whole number of members elected to the council of the city or town, or without the consent of two-thirds (2/3) of the members of the cemetery or burial association, and persons owning land used for public burial purposes.
AR Code § 18-15-1403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 14 - Cemeteries|§ 18-15-1403. Application

 (a) When it shall be deemed necessary by the city or town, cemetery or burial association, or persons owning land used for public burial purposes to take private property for burial purposes, an application in writing shall be made to the circuit court of the proper county or the judge thereof in vacation, describing as correctly as may be, the property to be taken and the name of the owner of the land proposed to be condemned and taken.  (b)  (1) Notice of the time and place of the application shall be given, either personally in the ordinary manner of serving process on the owner of the property or by publishing a copy of the application with a statement of the time and place at which it is to be made for three (3) weeks next preceding the time of application in some newspaper of general circulation in the county.  (2) The personal service as provided for in this section shall be made at least ten (10) days before the time of application when the owner is a resident of the county where the property is situated.  (3) The publishing of the notice of application in some newspaper of general circulation in the county where the property is situated shall be legal notice to the owner of the property when the owner is not a resident of the county where the property is situated.
AR Code § 18-15-1404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 14 - Cemeteries|§ 18-15-1404. Setting of time for inquiry

 If it shall appear to the court or judge that notice has been served ten (10) days before the time of application, or has been published, and that the notice is reasonably specific and certain, then the court or judge shall set a time for the inquiry into the assessment of compensation by a jury before the court or judge.
AR Code § 18-15-1405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 14 - Cemeteries|§ 18-15-1405. Summoning of jury for inquiry

 (a) A jury shall be summoned for the purpose of making the inquiry in the same manner that petit jurors are summoned in the circuit court for other purposes when the circuit court is regularly in session. If the hearing is before the judge out of term time, then the jury shall be summoned on order of the judge by the sheriff of the county.  (b) The inquiry and assessment shall be made at the time appointed unless for good cause it is continued to another day to be specified.
AR Code § 18-15-1406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 14 - Cemeteries|§ 18-15-1406. Determination of compensation — Dispute

 (a) The jury shall hear the evidence and determine the amount of compensation to be paid to the owners of the property so condemned.  (b)  (1) In case of dispute as to the ownership, title, or interest of the property condemned, the amount of compensation determined by the jury may be paid into the court by the city or town, cemetery or burial association, or persons owning land used for public burial purposes.  (2) The right to the funds so paid in may be determined between the parties making claim thereto and the city or town, cemetery or burial association, or persons owning land used for public burial purposes may proceed to actually take the property after the payment into court as provided in this section.
AR Code § 18-15-1407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 14 - Cemeteries|§ 18-15-1407. Costs

 The cost of the condemnation proceedings provided for in this subchapter shall be paid by the city or town, cemetery or burial association, or persons owning land used for public burial purposes instituting the condemnation proceeding, except costs of review or appeal or any other proceeding taken by the owner of the property after the assessment of compensation is made by the jury as provided for in this subchapter.
AR Code § 18-15-1408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 14 - Cemeteries|§ 18-15-1408. Public property

 (a) If a cemetery located on land of a private landowner has been open to public use for a period of at least fifty (50) years, then the cemetery shall be deemed to be public property unless:  (1) The property has been enclosed by the landowner for at least one (1) year prior to an order of the quorum court providing for the care and management of the cemetery as provided for under subsection (b) of this section; or  (2) The cemetery has been operated by the landowner for at least one (1) year prior to an order of the quorum court providing for the care and management of the cemetery as provided for under subsection (b) of this section.    (b)  (1) If, upon the petition of any person, the quorum court determines that a cemetery is public property under this section, the quorum court may issue an order providing for the management and care of the cemetery. The county may manage and care for the cemetery or may enter into an agreement allowing a nonprofit association or corporation to provide for the management and care of the cemetery.  (2) Upon issuing an order for the management and care of the public property, the quorum court shall notify the landowner of its order, based on the quorum court's finding that the property has become public property, and shall include a copy of the provisions of this section. The notice shall be by certified mail.  (3) No person or his or her heirs shall have, sue, or maintain any action or suit, either in law or equity, for any cemetery lands more than six (6) months after the person receives the notice required under this section.    (c) The rights of the public to cemetery property under this section shall be in the nature of an adverse possession. No additional conditions for adverse possession shall be imposed in addition to those provided by this section.
AR Code § 18-15-1501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 15 - Housing and Urban Renewal|§ 18-15-1501. Federal housing projects — Legislative declarations

 (a) It is declared that:  (1) Unsanitary and unsafe dwelling accommodations exist in various areas of the state and that consequently many persons of low income are forced to reside in such dwelling accommodations;  (2) These conditions cause an increase in, and spread of, disease and crime and constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals, and welfare of the citizens of the state and impair economic values;  (3) The clearance, replanning, and reconstruction of the areas in which unsanitary or unsafe housing conditions exist and the providing of safe and sanitary dwelling accommodations for persons of low income are public uses and purposes for which private property may be acquired; and  (4) It is in the public interest that work on the projects be instituted as soon as possible in order to relieve unemployment which now constitutes an emergency.    (b) The necessity in the public interest for the provisions of this subchapter is declared as a matter of legislative determination.
AR Code § 18-15-1502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 15 - Housing and Urban Renewal|§ 18-15-1502. Federal housing projects — Definition

 (a) The term “housing project” whenever used in this section, § 18-15-1501, and § 18-15-1503 shall mean any undertaking:  (1) To demolish, clear, remove, alter, or repair unsafe or unsanitary housing; or  (2) To provide dwelling accommodations for persons of low income.    (b) The term may also include such buildings and equipment for recreational or social assemblies for educational, health, or welfare purposes and such necessary utilities as are designed primarily for the benefit and use of the occupants of the dwelling accommodations.
AR Code § 18-15-1503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 15 - Housing and Urban Renewal|§ 18-15-1503. Federal housing projects — Right of eminent domain

 (a)  (1) Any corporation which is an agency of the United States of America shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including improvements and fixtures thereon, which it may deem necessary for a housing project being constructed, operated, or aided by it or the United States of America.  (2) Any corporation borrowing money or receiving other financial assistance from the United States of America, or any agency thereof, for the purpose of financing the construction or operation of any housing project, the operation of which will be subject to public supervision or regulation, shall have the right to acquire by eminent domain any real property, including fixtures and improvements thereon, which it may deem necessary for the project.  (3) A housing project shall be deemed to be subject to public supervision or regulation within the meaning of this section, § 18-15-1501, and § 18-15-1502 if the rents to be charged are in any way subject to the supervision, regulation, or approval of the United States of America, the state or any of their subdivisions or agencies, or by a housing authority, city, municipality, or county, whether the right to supervise, regulate, or approve is by virtue of any law, statute, contract, or otherwise.    (b) Any corporate agency of the United States of America or any such corporation, upon the adoption of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the property described therein is in the public interest and necessary for public use, may exercise the power of eminent domain:  (1) In the manner now provided for taking private property for rights-of-way for railroads as provided by §§ 18-15-1202 — 18-15-1207;  (2) In the manner provided for condemnation by municipal corporations and counties as provided by §§ 18-15-301 — 18-15-307; or  (3) Pursuant to any other applicable statutory provision enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain.
AR Code § 18-15-1504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 15 - Housing and Urban Renewal|§ 18-15-1504. Housing authorities — Power of eminent domain

 (a) A housing authority shall have the right to acquire by the exercise of the power of eminent domain any real property which it may deem necessary for its purposes under this subchapter after the adoption by it of a resolution declaring that the acquisition of the real property described in it is necessary for those purposes.  (b) An authority may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner prescribed in §§ 18-15-1202 — 18-15-1207 for condemnation by railroad corporations in this state, or it may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by any other applicable statutory provisions for the exercise of the power of eminent domain.  (c)  (1) Property already devoted to a public use may be acquired in like manner.  (2) However, no real property belonging to the city, the county, the state, or any political subdivision thereof may be acquired without its consent.
AR Code § 18-15-1505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 15 - Housing and Urban Renewal|§ 18-15-1505. Urban renewal agencies

 (a)  (1)  (A) From and after the passage of this act, any urban renewal agency in this state created pursuant to the provisions of §§ 14-169-601 — 14-169-609, 14-169-701 — 14-169-713, and 14-169-801 shall have the power of eminent domain to carry out urban renewal plan objectives.  (B) The procedure to be followed by the urban renewal agency to acquire property by eminent domain shall be that the board of commissioners shall, by resolution, declare that:  (i) The acquisition of certain real property is necessary for urban renewal plan objectives which have been approved by the governing body of the municipal government after a public hearing;  (ii) Negotiations for acquisition have been unsuccessful; and  (iii) Suit is authorized to condemn the property.      (2)  (A) An urban renewal agency may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner prescribed by law for condemnation by railroad corporations in this state as prescribed by §§ 18-15-1202 — 18-15-1207 and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto.  (B) The urban renewal agency may exercise the power of eminent domain in the manner provided by any other applicable statutory provisions for the exercise of the power of eminent domain.      (b) It is the intent of this section to affirm the power of urban renewal agencies to exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire real property to carry out urban renewal plan objectives.
AR Code § 18-15-1601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 16 - Traction Companies|§ 18-15-1601. Authority to condemn

 (a)  (1) Every traction company shall have the right to survey its lines, lay out its road, acquire its right-of-way not exceeding two hundred feet (200') in width, and, where necessary to acquire the right-of-way, shall have the power to enter upon, condemn, and appropriate the lands, rights-of-way, easements, and property of persons, firms, or corporations.  (2) The method and manner of making the traction company's surveys, laying out its railways, or acquiring its right-of-way, either by contract or condemnation, shall be the same as provided by law in case of the exercise of the right of eminent domain by telegraph, telephone, and railroad companies, under §§ 18-15-1201 — 18-15-1207, and it shall be subject to the same duties and liabilities and have the same rights as prescribed in those sections with reference to railroads.    (b) However, this section shall not be construed so as to authorize the condemnation of public streets or highways.
AR Code § 18-15-1701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 18 - Property|Subtitle 2 - Real Property|Chapter 15 - Eminent Domain|Subchapter 17 - Private Property Protection Act|§ 18-15-1701. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Private Property Protection Act”.