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AR Code § 14-54-1603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 16 - The Affordable Housing Accessibility Act|§ 14-54-1603. Municipal construction and installation standards

 (a) Municipalities shall not establish or continue in effect any ordinance or regulation that sets standards for manufactured home construction or safety that are not identical to the federal standards.  (b) Municipalities shall not establish or continue in effect any ordinance or regulation that sets standards for manufactured home installation that are inconsistent with the state standards for installation set forth under § 20-25-106 and the design of the manufacturer.
AR Code § 14-54-1604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 16 - The Affordable Housing Accessibility Act|§ 14-54-1604. Municipal regulation of manufactured homes

 (a)  (1) Municipalities that have zoning ordinances shall allow the placement of manufactured homes on individually owned lots in at least one (1) or more residential districts or zones within the municipality.  (2) Municipalities shall not establish or continue in effect any ordinance or regulation that restricts the placement of manufactured homes only in mobile home parks, subdivisions, or land-lease communities.    (b) Municipalities may establish reasonable regulations or conditions for the placement of manufactured homes within the jurisdiction, including, but not limited to:  (1) Perimeter foundation enclosures;  (2) Connection to utilities;  (3) Building setbacks;  (4) Side or rear yard offsets;  (5) Off-street parking;  (6) Construction of carports, garages, and other outbuildings;  (7) Entries and exits, porches, decks, and stairs; and  (8) Other regulations or conditions that are applicable to other single-family dwellings in the same residential district or zone.    (c) Municipalities shall not impose regulations or conditions on manufactured homes that prohibit the placement of manufactured homes or that are inconsistent with the regulations or conditions imposed on other single-family dwellings permitted in the same residential district or zone.
AR Code § 14-54-1605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 16 - The Affordable Housing Accessibility Act|§ 14-54-1605. Regulation of mobile homes

 Municipalities may prohibit the placement of mobile homes in all residential districts or zones or may restrict the placement of mobile homes to designated mobile home parks, subdivisions, or land-lease communities.
AR Code § 14-54-1606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 16 - The Affordable Housing Accessibility Act|§ 14-54-1606. Exceptions

 (a) This subchapter shall not supersede, prevent, or preempt any valid covenants or bills of assurance.  (b) This subchapter shall not require that manufactured homes be permitted in historic districts.
AR Code § 14-54-1701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards|§ 14-54-1701. Legislative intent

 It is the intent of the General Assembly to promote, protect, and improve the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the municipalities of this state by authorizing the creation of criminal nuisance abatement boards with authority to impose remedies, administrative fines, and other noncriminal penalties in order to provide an equitable, expeditious, effective, and inexpensive method of abating public nuisance as defined by state law.
AR Code § 14-54-1702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards|§ 14-54-1702. Creation of criminal nuisance abatement board

 (a) Any city of the first class or city of the second class by ordinance may create a quasi-judicial board to hear complaints regarding places or premises used as public or common nuisance as defined by §§ 5-74-109, 14-54-1502, and 16-105-402 or that are used for prostitution as defined by § 5-70-102.  (b) A criminal nuisance abatement board created under this subchapter shall be composed of five (5) citizens of the creating city who shall be appointed by the governing body of the city.  (c) The governing body of the city shall select one (1) of the members of the board to call the first meeting and serve as chair at the first meeting.  (d)  (1) At the first meeting, members of the board shall draw lots so that:  (A) One (1) member shall serve a three-year term;  (B) Two (2) members shall serve a four-year term; and  (C) Two (2) members shall serve a five-year term.    (2) All successors appointed to the board shall serve one (1) five-year term.    (e) The members shall elect a chair and any other officers needed to conduct the business of the board.  (f) The governing body of the city shall provide necessary staff for the board.  (g) The board may promulgate rules and regulations needed to conduct the hearings on the complaints concerning places and premises used as public or common nuisances.
AR Code § 14-54-1703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards|§ 14-54-1703. Filing of complaint with board

 (a)  (1) Any employee, officer, or resident of the city may bring a sworn complaint before the criminal nuisance abatement board against the owner of a place or premises that may constitute a nuisance.  (2) A hearing shall be conducted after the owner of the place or premises has been given ten (10) calendar days' notice of the hearing.    (b) The notice shall:  (1) Be provided to the owner of the place or premises according to Rule 4(d) of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure; and  (2) Include a copy of the complaint and a copy of the ordinance creating the board.    (c) If notice of the hearing is made by personal service, the notice may be served by a certified law enforcement officer or a certified court process server.
AR Code § 14-54-1704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards|§ 14-54-1704. Hearing and board findings

 (a) At a hearing:  (1) A criminal nuisance abatement board may consider any evidence, including evidence of the general reputation of the place or premises; and  (2) The owner of the premises shall have an opportunity to present evidence in his or her defense.    (b) All witnesses at a hearing shall be sworn.  (c)  (1) After the hearing, the board may declare the place or premises to be:  (A) A public nuisance as defined by §§ 5-74-109, 14-54-1502, and 16-105-402; or  (B) Used for prostitution as defined by § 5-70-102.    (2) After declaring a place or premises a nuisance, the board shall make a factual determination as to the reasons why the board finds that a public nuisance exists.    (d) The sworn testimony and the board's findings shall become a part of the record.
AR Code § 14-54-1705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards|§ 14-54-1705. Order of abatement

 (a) If the criminal nuisance abatement board declares a place or premises to be a public nuisance, it may enter an order requiring the owner of the place or premises to adopt such procedure as may be appropriate under the circumstances to abate any such nuisance.  (b) The order may include, but is not limited to, the following:  (1) Prohibiting the maintenance of the nuisance;  (2) Prohibiting the operation or maintenance of the place or premises, including the closure of the place or premises or any part of the premises for a period no longer than the effective date of the order;  (3) Prohibiting the conduct, operation, or maintenance of any business or activity on the premises which is conducive to the nuisance;  (4) Ordering the eviction of tenants of the place or premises who are responsible for the criminal conduct or who allow or permit another to commit the criminal conduct;  (5) Ordering the owner of the place or premises or the owner's agents to perform criminal background checks of tenants before renting the property; or  (6) Ordering the owner to bring the place or premises into compliance with state and local safety codes before allowing the reoccupation of the property.    (c) The order must include a statement stating that violations of this order may be punishable by a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for each day that violations of the order continue or that the public nuisance continues to exist.
AR Code § 14-54-1706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards|§ 14-54-1706. Effective date of an order

 (a) A finding or order entered pursuant to this subchapter shall become effective seven (7) calendar days after the order has been posted on the subject premises and mailed to the owner's last known address by first class mail.  (b) The order shall expire after one (1) year after the effective date or at such earlier time as is stated in the order.  (c) The order may be stayed pending appeal to circuit court pursuant to § 14-54-1707.
AR Code § 14-54-1707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards|§ 14-54-1707. Appeals to circuit court

 (a) Within thirty (30) days after an order or decision has been entered by the criminal nuisance abatement board according to the provisions in this subchapter, any party may appeal to a circuit court for a de novo review on the record.  (b) If an appeal is filed, the decision or order of the board shall remain in effect unless stayed by the circuit court.
AR Code § 14-54-1708 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards|§ 14-54-1708. Violations of orders or continuations of nuisance

 (a) If an order that has been entered is violated, the criminal nuisance abatement board on its own or pursuant to a complaint may hold a hearing on whether the order has been violated or whether or not a public nuisance continues to exist.  (b) If the board finds that the public nuisance continues to exist or that the order has been violated, the board may impose a civil penalty of not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for each day that the order is violated or that the nuisance continues to exist.  (c) Before such a hearing may be held, the owner must be given ten (10) calendar days' notice in writing of the hearing according to methods stated in Rule 4(d) of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure.  (d) The notice must state that if the board finds that the nuisance continues to exist or that the order has been violated, the board may impose a fine of not more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) for each day that the order has been violated or that the nuisance has continued to exist.  (e) The maximum amount of a civil penalty that may be imposed is ten thousand dollars ($10,000).  (f) In addition to a civil penalty, the board may award costs of a successful complainant not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).  (g) All civil penalties imposed shall be used by the local police department for nuisance abatement purposes.  (h) Any civil penalty or costs awarded by the board may be appealed to the circuit court within thirty (30) days.  (i) Any order imposing costs or civil penalties not appealed to circuit court may be filed with the circuit clerk's office and constitutes a judgment of record and a lien against the nuisance property.
AR Code § 14-54-1709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards|§ 14-54-1709. Supplemental measure

 (a) This subchapter does not restrict the right of any person or government official from proceeding against a public nuisance by any other means.  (b) This subchapter is supplemental to all other laws and any other powers of a city of the first class or city of the second class.
AR Code § 14-54-1710 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 17 - Criminal Nuisance Abatement Boards|§ 14-54-1710. Immunity

 (a) The criminal nuisance abatement board, its individual members, and city employees assisting the board are immune from suit or action for their activities in discharge of their duties under this subchapter to the full extent of judicial immunity.  (b) Except for perjury and false swearing, complainants and witnesses are absolutely immune from suit or action for all communications with the board and all statements made within the nuisance abatement process.
AR Code § 14-55-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-55-101. Authority to enact

 Municipal corporations shall have the power to make and publish from time to time bylaws or ordinances, not inconsistent with the laws of the state, for carrying into effect or discharging the powers or duties conferred by the provisions of this subtitle.
AR Code § 14-55-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-55-102. Purposes generally

 Municipal corporations shall have power to make and publish bylaws and ordinances, not inconsistent with the laws of this state, which, as to them, shall seem necessary to provide for the safety, preserve the health, promote the prosperity, and improve the morals, order, comfort, and convenience of such corporations and the inhabitants thereof.
AR Code § 14-55-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-55-103. Duty to enact

 It is the duty of municipal corporations to publish such bylaws and ordinances as shall be necessary to:   (1) Secure such corporations and their inhabitants against injuries by fire, thieves, robbers, burglars, and other persons violating the public peace;  (2) Suppress riots, gambling, and indecent and disorderly conduct; and  (3) Punish all lewd and lascivious behavior in the streets and other public places.
AR Code § 14-55-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 2 - Procedures for Adoption|§ 14-55-201. Only one subject

 No bylaw or ordinance shall contain more than one (1) subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title.
AR Code § 14-55-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 2 - Procedures for Adoption|§ 14-55-202. Reading requirement

 (a) All bylaws and ordinances of a general or permanent nature shall be fully and distinctly read on three (3) different days unless two-thirds (2/3) of the members composing the municipal council shall dispense with the rule.  (b) In a city with a population of less than fifteen thousand (15,000) persons in the most recent federal decennial census, if the ordinance under consideration has been submitted to and approved by the electors of the municipality and is being amended, repealed, or otherwise altered by the municipal council, then the ordinance shall be fully and distinctly read on three (3) different days not less than twenty-eight (28) days apart.
AR Code § 14-55-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 2 - Procedures for Adoption|§ 14-55-203. Voting requirements for passage — Effective dates

 (a) On the passage of every bylaw, ordinance, resolution, or order to enter into a contract by the council of any municipal corporation, the yeas and nays shall be called and recorded.  (b) To pass any bylaw, ordinance, resolution, or order, a concurrence of a majority of a whole number of members elected to the council shall be required.  (c)  (1)  (A) The effective dates for ordinances of a general or permanent nature and other local measures of a general or permanent nature of cities of the first class, cities of the second class, and incorporated towns shall be upon publication or posting as is otherwise required by law, but not before ninety-one (91) days after passage by the governing body of the city or town.  (B) In the event that the governing body of the city or town has by ordinance fixed the deadline for filing referendum petitions upon ordinances or other local measures at not less than thirty (30) days nor more than ninety (90) days after passage of an ordinance or measure, then the effective date shall be the day next following the deadline fixed in the ordinance.  (C) An ordinance containing an emergency clause shall go into effect immediately upon passage or at the time specified by the emergency clause, regardless of publication or posting, but an emergency clause shall not be effective to impose any fine, penalty, forfeiture, or deprivation of liberty or property until after the ordinance has been published or posted as is otherwise required by law.    (2) The effective date of an ordinance that is not of a general or permanent nature of a city of the first class, city of the second class, or incorporated town is the date of passage of the ordinance unless a later effective date is provided in the ordinance.
AR Code § 14-55-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 2 - Procedures for Adoption|§ 14-55-204. Approval of appropriations

 All bylaws, ordinances, resolutions, or orders for the appropriation of money shall require for their passage or adoption the concurrence of a majority of the council members of any municipal corporation.
AR Code § 14-55-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 2 - Procedures for Adoption|§ 14-55-205. Recording and authentication

 All bylaws or ordinances after their passage shall be recorded in a book kept for that purpose and shall be authenticated by the signature of the presiding officer of the governing body and the clerk or recorder.
AR Code § 14-55-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 2 - Procedures for Adoption|§ 14-55-206. Publishing or posting requirements

 (a)  (1)  (A) All bylaws or ordinances of a general or permanent nature and all those imposing any fine, penalty, or forfeiture shall be published in some newspaper published in the municipality.  (B) In municipalities in which no newspaper is published, written or printed notice posted in five (5) of the most public places designated by the governing body in an ordinance or minutes of the governing body shall be deemed a sufficient publication of any law or ordinance.    (2) It shall be deemed a sufficient defense to any suit or prosecution of such fine, penalty, or forfeiture to show that no notice was given as provided herein.    (b) As to ordinances establishing rules and regulations for zoning, construction of buildings, the installation of plumbing, the installation of electric wiring, or other similar work, where such rules and regulations have been printed as a code in book form, the code or provisions thereof may be published by the municipality by reference to title of the code without further publication or posting thereof. However, no fewer than three (3) copies of the code shall be filed for use and examination by the public in the office of the clerk or recorder of the municipality after the adoption thereof if there is no electronic form of the code available for examination by the public.
AR Code § 14-55-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 2 - Procedures for Adoption|§ 14-55-207. Adoption of technical codes by reference

 (a) Every municipality in the State of Arkansas is authorized by the passage of a municipal ordinance to adopt by reference technical codes, regulations, or standards, without setting forth the provisions of the code or parts thereof, if three (3) copies of the code, or the pertinent parts thereof, and any related documents are filed either electronically or by hard copy in the office of the clerk of the municipality for inspection and view by the public before the passage of the ordinance.  (b) The term “technical codes” shall include any building, zoning, health, electrical, or plumbing codes, and the term “regulations” shall include any criminal code of the State of Arkansas.  (c) It is the duty of the municipality to give a notice to the public, by publication in a paper of general circulation within the municipality, stating that copies of the code, or the pertinent parts thereof, and the related documents are open to public examination either electronically or by hard copy before the passage of the ordinance adopting the code.
AR Code § 14-55-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 3 - Referral to Electors|§ 14-55-301. Proposed or adopted ordinances

 (a) The city council or governing body of any municipality, by a majority vote of its members, may refer any proposed ordinance to the people for adoption or rejection.  (b) The city council, or governing body, may at the time of, or within thirty (30) days of, the adoption of any ordinance refer the ordinance to the electors for their acceptance or rejection by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the members of the council.  (c) The action of the city council shall constitute a referral to the people, and from that point the procedure shall be that as required by Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 7.
AR Code § 14-55-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 55 - Ordinances of Municipalities|Subchapter 3 - Referral to Electors|§ 14-55-302. Enacted ordinances

 Any ordinance enacted by the governing body of any city or town in the state may be referred to a vote of the electors of the city or town for approval or rejection in the manner and procedure prescribed in Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 7, and laws enacted pursuant thereto for exercising the local initiative and referendum, and the manner and procedure prescribed therein shall be the exclusive method of exercising the initiative and referendum regarding these local measures.