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AR Code § 14-269-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 269 - Parks And Recreational Facilities|Subchapter 2 - Operation and Management of Parks|§ 14-269-202. Commission — Creation — Members

 (a) Any city of the first or second class desiring to avail itself of the benefits of this subchapter, by a majority vote of the elected and qualified members of the city council, may enact an ordinance creating a recreation commission to be composed of five (5) citizens who are qualified electors of the municipality and, by affirmative vote of three-fourths (¾) of the elected and qualified members of the city council, may repeal the ordinance creating the commission.  (b) The commissioners shall be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by a majority vote of the duly elected and qualified members of the city council and shall hold office for a term of five (5) years; however, the first commissioners to be appointed and confirmed shall serve for terms of one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), and five (5) years, respectively, to be designated by the mayor and city council. Thereafter, upon the expiration of their respective terms, commissioners appointed by the mayor and approved by a majority vote of the city council shall each be appointed for a term of five (5) years.  (c) In the event of a vacancy occurring on the commission, it shall be filled by appointment by the mayor, subject to the approval of a majority vote of the duly elected and qualified members of the city council.  (d) Each commissioner shall file the oath required by law in the State of Arkansas of public officials.  (e)  (1) Any city of the first or second class which has previously created or which may create a city recreation commission, as authorized in this subchapter, is authorized, by ordinance of the governing body of the city, to increase the membership of the commission from five (5) members to seven (7) members. The ordinance enlarging the commission may provide that the two (2) additional members of the commission are not required to be qualified electors of the municipality.  (2) When any city enacts an ordinance increasing the membership of the city recreation commission from five (5) members to seven (7) members, as authorized in this subsection, one (1) of the additional members first appointed shall serve for a term of four (4) years and one (1) shall serve for a term of five (5) years, and their successors shall be appointed for terms of five (5) years.    (f) Upon the appointment of the commissioners as provided in this section, the mayor and city council shall execute such instruments and enact such measures as may be necessary to vest complete charge of the municipally owned recreational park in the commissioners.  (g) Any commissioner appointed by the provisions of this section may be removed for cause upon a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the duly elected and qualified members of the city council.
AR Code § 14-269-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 269 - Parks And Recreational Facilities|Subchapter 2 - Operation and Management of Parks|§ 14-269-203. Commissioners — Powers and duties

 (a) The commissioners appointed pursuant to this subchapter shall have full and complete authority to build, manage, operate, maintain, and keep in a good state of repair any municipal buildings deemed necessary to carry on a recreation park for the municipality including the building of swimming pools, field houses, stadiums, zoos, or other buildings necessary to carry on the recreational park.  (b) The commissioners shall have full and complete charge of the buildings and grounds, including the right to control and permit, or refuse to permit, such public gatherings or other meetings or affairs, as the commissioners shall see fit and deem to be in the best interests of the city.  (c) The commissioners shall have the right to employ or remove managers, janitors, and other employees of whatsoever nature, kind, or character and to fix, regulate, and pay their salaries since it is the intention of this subchapter to vest in the commissioners the authority to build, operate, manage, maintain, and control the municipal recreational park and to have full and complete charge thereof.  (d) The commissioners shall not have the authority or power to sell, mortgage, or encumber the property unless otherwise authorized by the statutes of Arkansas.  (e) The commissioners shall have the exclusive right and power to make purchases of all supplies, apparatus, and other property and things requisite and necessary for the management and operation of the recreational park, including the construction thereof and repairs and additions thereto.  (f) The commissioners shall have the authority to enter into contracts with persons, firms, corporations, or organizations for the use of recreational park buildings or parts thereof.
AR Code § 14-269-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 269 - Parks And Recreational Facilities|Subchapter 2 - Operation and Management of Parks|§ 14-269-204. Commissioners — Rules and regulations

 The commissioners shall adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary and expedient for the proper operation and management of the municipal recreational park, and they shall have the authority to alter, change, or amend the rules and regulations at their discretion.
AR Code § 14-269-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 269 - Parks And Recreational Facilities|Subchapter 2 - Operation and Management of Parks|§ 14-269-205. Commissioners — Park fund

 (a) The commissioners appointed pursuant to this subchapter shall have the authority to utilize all revenues derived from the operation of the recreational park in the operation of the recreational park.  (b)  (1) All funds derived from the use of the recreational park shall be segregated into a park fund, which fund shall be used exclusively in the operation of the recreational park by the commissioners.  (2) Moneys in the fund shall not be mingled with other funds of the city and shall be handled exclusively by the commissioners.    (c)  (1) The commissioners shall each furnish to the city a five thousand dollar ($5,000) surety bond that will serve to insure the city against any misappropriation or mishandling of funds.  (2) The surety on the bonds shall be a reputable surety corporation.  (3) The premium on the bonds shall be paid from moneys in the park fund.    (d)  (1) The commissioners shall receive no salary for their services but shall be reimbursed from the park fund for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.  (2) The park fund may also be expended by the commissioners, as they deem best, for the purpose of obtaining attractions to meet on the park.
AR Code § 14-269-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 269 - Parks And Recreational Facilities|Subchapter 2 - Operation and Management of Parks|§ 14-269-206. Commissioners — Reports — Appropriations

 (a)  (1) The commissioners shall submit quarterly reports, beginning three (3) months after they take their oath of office and each three (3) months thereafter, reporting in full on the operations, including an accounting of receipts and disbursements, to the mayor and city council, and furnish such other and further reports, data, and information as may be requested by the mayor or city council.  (2) The quarterly report to the mayor and city council, with respect to receipts and disbursements, shall be certified by the commissioners as correct.  (3) The commissioners shall further submit an annual audit of the operations of the recreational park to the mayor and city council.    (b)  (1) Upon each quarterly report being made to the mayor and city council by the commissioners, the city council may appropriate funds from the general revenue fund of the city, or from such other funds as the city may have available, to make up any deficits or to provide such funds as may be necessary to carry on the operations of the recreational park.  (2) The city council, at any time other than when the quarterly report is filed, may appropriate such funds as it deems necessary from the general revenue fund, or from such other funds as the city may have available, for the purpose of maintaining and operating the recreational park.
AR Code § 14-269-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 269 - Parks And Recreational Facilities|Subchapter 3 - Operation and Management of Parks and Recreation Programs|§ 14-269-301. Authority for creation of commission in cities of the first and second class

 Any city of the first or second class that may desire to set up a parks and recreation program for the municipality, by appropriate action of the city council, may create a commission for the purpose of operating and managing the program within the municipality.
AR Code § 14-269-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 269 - Parks And Recreational Facilities|Subchapter 3 - Operation and Management of Parks and Recreation Programs|§ 14-269-303. Commissioners — Powers and duties — Selection of employees

 (a) The commissioners appointed pursuant to this subchapter shall have full and complete authority to build, manage, operate, maintain, and keep in a good state of repair any municipal buildings deemed necessary to carry on a parks and recreation program for the municipality including the building of swimming pools, field houses, stadia, zoos, or other buildings necessary to carry on a parks and recreation program.  (b) The commissioners shall have full and complete charge of the buildings and grounds including the right to control and permit, or refuse to permit, such public gatherings or other meetings or affairs as the commissioners shall see fit and deem to be in the best interests of the city.  (c)  (1) The commissioners shall have the exclusive right and power to make purchases of all supplies, apparatus, and other property and things requisite and necessary for the management and operation of the parks and recreation program including the construction of facilities and repairs and additions thereto.  (2) The commissioners shall not have authority or power to sell, mortgage, or encumber the property unless otherwise authorized by the statutes of Arkansas.    (d) The commissioners shall have the authority to enter into contracts with persons, firms, corporations, or organizations for the use of buildings, or parts thereof, of the parks and recreation program.  (e) The employees necessary in the operation of the parks and recreation program, as well as their salaries and classifications, shall be selected and determined as prescribed by law through competitive examination and certification by the civil service commission.
AR Code § 14-269-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 269 - Parks And Recreational Facilities|Subchapter 3 - Operation and Management of Parks and Recreation Programs|§ 14-269-304. Commissioners — Rules and regulations

 The commissioners shall adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary and expedient for the proper operation and management of the municipal parks and recreation program, and they shall have the authority to alter, change, or amend the rules and regulations at their discretion.
AR Code § 14-269-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 269 - Parks And Recreational Facilities|Subchapter 3 - Operation and Management of Parks and Recreation Programs|§ 14-269-305. Commissioners — Park fund

 (a) The commissioners appointed pursuant to this subchapter shall have the authority to utilize all revenues derived from the operation of the parks and recreation program in the operation of the parks and recreation program.  (b)  (1) All funds derived from the use of the parks and recreation program shall be segregated into a park fund, which fund shall be used exclusively in the operation of the parks and recreation program by the commissioners.  (2) Moneys in the fund shall not be mingled with other funds of the city and shall be handled exclusively by the commissioners.    (c)  (1) The commissioners shall furnish the city a five thousand dollar ($5,000) surety bond that will serve to insure the city against any misappropriation or mishandling of funds.  (2) The surety on the bond shall be a reputable surety corporation.  (3) The premium on the bond shall be paid from moneys from the park fund.    (d)  (1) The commissioners shall receive no salary for their services but shall be reimbursed from the park fund for actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.  (2) The park fund may also be expended by the commissioners, as they deem best, for the purpose of obtaining attractions to be staged as a part of the parks and recreation program.
AR Code § 14-269-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 269 - Parks And Recreational Facilities|Subchapter 3 - Operation and Management of Parks and Recreation Programs|§ 14-269-306. Commissioners — Reports — Appropriations

 (a)  (1) The commissioners shall submit quarterly reports, beginning three (3) months after they take their oath of office and each three (3) months thereafter, reporting in full on the operations including an accounting of receipts and disbursements, to the mayor and city council and shall furnish such other and further reports, data, and information as may be requested by the mayor and city council.  (2) The quarterly report to the mayor and city council, with respect to receipts and disbursements, shall be certified by the commissioners as correct.  (3) The commissioners shall further submit an annual audit of the operations of the parks and recreation program to the mayor and city council.    (b)  (1) Upon each quarterly report being made to the mayor and city council by the commissioners, the city council may appropriate funds from the general revenue fund of the city or from such other funds as the city may have available to make up any deficits or to provide such funds as may be necessary to carry on the operations of the parks and recreation program.  (2) At any time other than when the quarterly report is filed, the city council may appropriate such funds as it deems necessary from the general revenue fund or from such other funds as the city may have available for the purpose of maintaining and operating the parks and recreation program.
AR Code § 14-270-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 270 - Rural Community Projects|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-270-101. Purpose

 (a) The General Assembly recognizes that there are numerous unincorporated rural communities and small incorporated rural cities and towns in this state which do not have adequate fire protection or social, recreational, cultural, or other facilities available for the benefit of their citizens or comparable to the facilities available in larger cities of this state. Many of these rural communities and rural small cities and towns lack the resources to develop and implement programs to enhance their viability.  (b) The General Assembly further recognizes the need to establish a program whereby, through the participation of local citizens and by the use of state incentive funds, unincorporated rural communities and small incorporated rural cities and towns in this state will be provided opportunities for the construction, development, and improvement of fire protection and construction projects benefiting the citizens. The program will provide matching grants to rural communities to alleviate this problem and encourage rural communities to develop programs designed to meet their uniquely rural needs.
AR Code § 14-270-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 270 - Rural Community Projects|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-270-102. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Community, city, or town projects” means, but shall not be limited to, parks, playgrounds, community meeting halls, community cultural facilities, picnic grounds, community recreation facilities, firefighting equipment and facilities, and similar projects to be available to the members of the unincorporated community or citizens of the small city or town in the rural areas of the state for their use, benefit, and enjoyment;  (2) “Rural area” or “rural community” means all the territory of the State of Arkansas that is not within the outer boundary of any city or town having a population of twenty thousand (20,000) or more according to the latest federal decennial census or within such a city's or town's neighboring urbanized areas;  (3) “Small city or town” means a city or a town incorporated under the laws of the State of Arkansas with a population of less than three thousand (3,000) persons according to the latest federal decennial census;  (4) “State” shall mean the State of Arkansas;  (5) “Unincorporated community” means an unincorporated community in a rural area of the state;  (6) “Urbanized area” means the areas of dense settlement and suburbanization contiguous to the central city of a metropolitan area;  (7) “Property in kind” means real or personal property.
AR Code § 14-270-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 270 - Rural Community Projects|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-270-104. Funding upon exhaustion of state funds

 (a) In the event sufficient state funds have not been appropriated to provide the state's matching share of all eligible approved community, city, or town projects certified to the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State by the respective county judges or mayors of this state, the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, with the advice of the Arkansas Rural Development Commission, shall approve payments for projects in the order in which each project application is filed with his office until all funds available during each fiscal year have been exhausted, shall defer until the next fiscal year the various projects for which adequate funds are not available during the preceding fiscal year, and shall give those projects priority in the order in which filed with the Office of Rural Advocacy of the Arkansas Rural Development Commission for funding from moneys appropriated by the General Assembly for that fiscal year.  (b)  (1) However, in the event project applications for the state's matching share of community, city, or town projects in any county are not submitted for the use of the funds available for community, city, or town projects in that county during any fiscal biennium, and application therefor has not been filed with the Office of Rural Advocacy within thirty (30) days prior to the end of the fiscal biennium, the Arkansas Rural Development Commission shall make the funds remaining for projects in that county available for approved community, city, or town projects in other counties which have applied for more project matching funds than were available.  (2) The Arkansas Rural Development Commission shall give priority in the allocation of the unused project funds to approved projects in other counties in the order in which applications were received for the projects.
AR Code § 14-270-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 270 - Rural Community Projects|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-270-105. Audit of funds

 All state and county funds made available for community, city, or town projects under the provisions of this chapter shall be audited by the Division of Legislative Audit in connection with the annual audit of each county or city or town to assure that the funds have been used for the purposes for which they were made available under the provisions of this chapter.
AR Code § 14-270-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 270 - Rural Community Projects|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Recreational Facilities|§ 14-270-201. Legislative intent

 The General Assembly recognizes outdoor recreation as an important element to the quality of life in Arkansas. Outdoor recreation is interlocked to the emotional and economic well being of the state's citizens. Therefore, it is the desire of the General Assembly to establish a new outdoor grants program that shall assist small communities and rural areas of Arkansas with outdoor recreational facilities.
AR Code § 14-270-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 270 - Rural Community Projects|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Recreational Facilities|§ 14-270-202. Elements of grants program

 There is hereby established the FUN Parks Grants Program to be administered by the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism. The purpose of the FUN Parks Grants Program is to provide basic outdoor recreation facilities including baseball and softball fields, basketball courts, picnic tables and pavilions, and playground equipment to residents of small Arkansas communities. The goal of this program is to build two hundred (200) new outdoor parks statewide in communities of two thousand five hundred (2,500) or less as established by the 1990 census. Up to fifty (50) new FUN parks may be constructed each year in each of the next four (4) years at a cost not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each FUN park.
AR Code § 14-270-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 270 - Rural Community Projects|Subchapter 2 - Outdoor Recreational Facilities|§ 14-270-203. Authorization

 The Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism is herein authorized to promulgate procedures, rules, or guidelines necessary for the administration of the FUN Parks Grants Program.
AR Code § 14-272-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 272 - Rural Fire Departments|Subchapter 3 - Fire Department Services Agreements|§ 14-272-302. Services agreements, authority, pledge, and assignment

 (a) Any fire department may enter into services agreements with its beneficiaries.  (b)  (1) Fire departments are authorized and empowered to enter into loans, lease-purchase agreements, and other extensions of credit from lenders and are empowered to pledge and assign services agreements to lenders in order to collateralize and secure repayment of loans, lease-purchase agreements, and other extensions of credit that might be advanced by lenders to fire departments for the purpose of acquiring, improving, accessing, or otherwise gaining the use of fire equipment.  (2)  (A) Fire departments may additionally grant to lenders all mortgages, security interests, and other liens to secure and collateralize repayment of credit extended by lenders to fire departments.  (B) Notwithstanding any other applicable statute, rule, or regulation, the pledging and collateral assignment of services agreements, the encumbering of all other fire department assets, and the execution of all other debt-evidencing and debt-securing documents shall occur by means of a resolution which is duly adopted by the governing board or body of the fire department.