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AR Code § 27-67-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-209. Priority of native resources used in construction and maintenance

 (a) It is declared to be the policy of the state to encourage, in every way possible, the development of natural resources of the state, which resources are suitable for use in highway construction.  (b) Whenever upon investigation the commission shall find that suitable materials produced, mined, or manufactured in the State of Arkansas can be obtained as cheaply and are of as good quality as materials produced, mined, or manufactured in other states, the commission is empowered and authorized to specify that the materials produced, mined, or manufactured in Arkansas shall be used in the construction or maintenance of the roads of this state.
AR Code § 27-67-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-210. Sales and severance tax exemption — Sand and gravel

 When the Arkansas Department of Transportation, by lease or by oral or written agreement with the landowner, enters upon the land and severs sand and gravel for the purpose of using the sand and gravel in the repair, maintenance, or construction of state highways, then the department as the producer and the owner of the land shall not be liable for, nor shall they pay to the State of Arkansas, any sales or gross receipts taxes or severance taxes upon the sand and gravel.
AR Code § 27-67-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-211. Interference with traffic control devices or barricades — Definition

 (a) As used in this section, “traffic control device” means a sign, signal, marking, or device placed or erected for the purpose of regulating, warning, or guiding traffic.  (b) If a traffic control device or barricade is placed or erected to close a public highway under the authority of the Arkansas Department of Transportation or local authorities on public highways, it is unlawful for a person to:  (1) Drive a vehicle through, under, over, or around the traffic control device or barricade; or  (2) Remove the traffic control device or barricade and enter the closed area.    (c) A violation of this section is punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100).  (d) A person convicted under this section shall:  (1) Pay restitution in an amount equal to the actual cost of the emergency response and the replacement of any damaged or lost emergency equipment; and  (2) Be liable for damage to property, or injury or death to a person caused by the violation.
AR Code § 27-67-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-212. Changing or widening roads — Role of county court

 (a) The State Highway Commission may call upon the county court to change or widen, in the manner provided by § 14-298-121, any state highway in the county where the state highway engineer deems it necessary for the purpose of constructing, improving, or maintaining the road.  (b) In the event the county court should refuse to widen the road as requested, the commission may refuse to construct, improve, or maintain that portion of the road until a suitable right-of-way is provided.  (c) This section and § 14-298-120 shall be cumulative to all existing laws and parts of laws and shall not be construed as to repeal any existing laws or part of laws unless they are in conflict herewith, and then only to the extent of the conflict.
AR Code § 27-67-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-213. Fog lines — White stripes on road edges

 (a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall paint and maintain white stripes not less than four inches (4") in width on both edges of all hard-surfaced primary and secondary state roads with a pavement width of twenty feet (20') or more and carrying one thousand (1,000) or more vehicles daily, which roads are constructed in this state.  (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to any noncontrolled-access roads in urban areas and any other state highway determined by an engineering study not to warrant such striping.
AR Code § 27-67-214 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-214. Construction and maintenance of railroad crossings

 (a) It shall be the duty of the members of the State Highway Commission and of the state highway engineers, on all trips in the state, to particularly observe crossings of railroads on state highways.  (b) It shall be the duty of all railroad companies and the owners of tramroads whose lines intersect or cross any of the highways of the state to improve that part of the roadway between their tracks and to the end of the cross ties on each side with the same material, whatever practicable, with the same foundation and surface as that in the adjoining portions of the roadway and to maintain such crossings in a good state of repair.  (c) The commission shall have power and authority to require any and all railway companies to build and construct roads under their tracks at such crossings as, in the judgment of the commission, will be for the best and safest interest of the traveling public.  (d) The commission may join with any railroad company in construction or paying not exceeding fifty percent (50%) of the cost of constructing any overhead or undergrade railroad crossing on a state highway or on an extension or continuation of any state highway through a town or city.
AR Code § 27-67-215 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-215. Maintenance of detour roads

 (a)  (1) When the Arkansas Department of Transportation has been forced to bar traffic from a flooded section of a state highway by putting up signs directing the traffic from the state highway or by stationing state highway employees on the state highway to direct traffic from the state highway over a road surfaced with gravel, crushed stone, or other type of surfacing or pavement, and when it appears that the detour road will continue to be needed, the department shall have authority, as it deems right and proper, to do any repair to the surfacing of the road over which traffic is diverted by the department, as may equal, in the judgment of the department, the amount of wear and tear that is caused to the road by the traffic diverted over it.  (2) However, the department shall only do such maintenance work on the surface of the road as in the judgment of the department it feels that it has caused wear to the surface of the road by reason of the traffic diverted over it from time to time.    (b) In order that this maintenance work may be legally done on such surfaced road, the road used for this purpose shall henceforth be a part of the state highway system.  (c) It is distinctly understood that this section shall not force any maintenance of a road on the department but will merely make it legal for the department to do the amount of maintenance on the surfaced road that it feels it has caused to be needed to the surface of the road by traffic diverted over it by action of the department through its employees.
AR Code § 27-67-216 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-216. Repair of county roads damaged in construction or maintenance of state highway

 The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized to make any necessary repairs to a county road to restore the road to its former condition of repair in those instances where damages to the county road may have been occasioned by the department in connection with the construction or maintenance of a state highway or by any contractor performing work upon any state highway under contract with the department.
AR Code § 27-67-217 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-217. Direction signs to institutions of higher education

 The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall design, erect, and maintain signs at the closest and all other proper exits and intersections of state and federal highways designating exits to any and all institutions of higher education and postsecondary vocational and technical schools, whether public or private, upon the request of the institution.
AR Code § 27-67-218 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-218. Digging up highways without authorization

 (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to dig up any portion of the state highways or to otherwise disturb them for the purpose of laying pipelines, sewers, poles, wires, ditches, railways, or for any other purpose, except as authorized by an order of the State Highway Commission.  (b)  (1) All work shall be done in accordance with the rules that may be prescribed by the commission.  (2) The work shall be done under the supervision of and to the satisfaction of the state highway engineer.  (3) All cost of replacing the highway in as good a condition as it was before being disturbed shall be paid by the person, firm, or corporation to whom or in whose behalf authority is given.    (c)  (1) Before the work is done, a check certified by a solvent bank and payable to the commission in an amount to be fixed by the state highway engineer shall be deposited with the commission, to be used by the commission in restoring the road to its former condition if the person who disturbs the road fails to do so.  (2) The check is to be returned if the road is restored to its former condition by the person doing the work.  (3) Otherwise, the commission shall so restore the highway.  (4) Any balance remaining after the work is paid for by the commission shall be remitted to the person depositing the check.
AR Code § 27-67-219 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-219. John Paul Hammerschmidt Highway

 (a) U.S. 71 from the I-40 intersection to the Missouri line shall be designated as the “John Paul Hammerschmidt Highway” within the State of Arkansas.  (b) In addition to that portion of U.S. 71 designated the “John Paul Hammerschmidt Highway” under subsection (a) of this section, that portion of U.S. 71 from its intersection with I-540 in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to the State Highway 10 exit near Greenwood, Arkansas, is hereby designated a part of the John Paul Hammerschmidt Highway.  (c) It shall be the responsibility of the Arkansas Department of Transportation to place appropriate highway identifying signs on the highway.  (d) The department shall erect appropriate signs along the section of the highway designated herein, indicating that the highway has been designated the “John Paul Hammerschmidt Highway”.
AR Code § 27-67-220 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-220. The Highway of Hope

 (a) The route along U.S. 67 and State 7 between Hope and Hot Springs regularly traveled by the Honorable Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the United States, during his childhood, is hereby designated “The Highway of Hope”.  (b) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall erect appropriate signs along U.S. 67 and State 7 between Hope and Hot Springs designating the route as “The Highway of Hope”.
AR Code § 27-67-221 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-221. Authority of Arkansas Department of Transportation to inform amateur radio operators of high frequency radio repeaters

 (a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized to post signs along the public streets and highways of Arkansas to inform persons who are licensed amateur radio operators of the existence of a high frequency radio repeater within a specific local area, provided such signs do not conflict with any rules or regulations of the United States Department of Transportation or the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices.  (b)  (1) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized to develop and adopt the appropriate signs showing “TWO-METER RADIO REPEATER AREA” or “AMATEUR RADIO FREQUENCY MONITORED” for use in the designated areas along the public streets and highways under its jurisdiction.  (2) The signs may include the radio frequency of these local repeaters or the frequency being monitored by local radios.  (3)  (A) Any local amateur radio operators or any amateur radio club wishing to participate in this program shall be responsible for the costs of preparing and purchasing these signs.  (B)  (i) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized to enter into an agreement with the participants to recover those costs.  (ii) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized to prepare and furnish the signs to the local participating radio clubs or operators at cost.  (iii) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is further authorized to erect and maintain the signs at no cost to the local radio clubs or operators.        (c)  (1) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized to contact all local amateur radio operators and any amateur radio clubs in Arkansas to inform them of this service.  (2) Any amateur radio operator or radio club that wishes to participate in this program shall notify the Arkansas Department of Transportation of its interest and shall inform the Arkansas Department of Transportation of the radio frequencies which are monitored in its immediate area and the time periods during which they are monitored.    (d)  (1) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall ensure the signs correlate with and, so far as possible, conform to the system of traffic-control devices that are currently in use by the Arkansas Department of Transportation.  (2) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized to erect the signs and review, at least biennially, all areas with signs within its jurisdiction to ensure the area still qualifies for having the signs posted.    (e) The Director of State Highways and Transportation shall have the authority to promulgate any necessary rules to implement this section and establish any conditions and guidelines for participation by any local amateur radio operators or clubs.
AR Code § 27-67-222 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-222. State police officer highway dedication program — Definition

 (a)  (1) “State police officer” means any employee of the Division of Arkansas State Police who holds the rank of state trooper or higher rank, including the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police.  (2) The term “state police officer” does not include any:  (A) Civilian employee of the division; or  (B) Person who is temporarily employed as a state trooper during an emergency.      (b) A state police officer who has been killed on active duty within the State of Arkansas shall have a one-mile portion of a highway dedicated to him or her at or near the location of his or her death.  (c) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall designate a one-mile portion of a highway as the “Trooper Memorial Highway” by placing and maintaining appropriate identifying signs with a blue background and reflective silver lettering on the highway.
AR Code § 27-67-223 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-223. Rock ‘n’ Roll Highway 67

 (a) The route along Highway 67 through Jackson County, Lawrence County, Randolph County, and White County regularly traveled by the great legends of early rock ‘n’ roll is hereby designated “Rock ‘n’ Roll Highway 67”.  (b) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall erect appropriate signs along Highway 67 through Jackson County, Lawrence County, Randolph County, and White County designating the route as “Rock ‘n’ Roll Highway 67”.
AR Code § 27-67-224 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-224. The Arkansas Wine Country Trail

 (a)  (1) To provide more detailed directions on highways, roads, and streets to agritourism vineyards and wineries in the State of Arkansas, the Arkansas Wine Country Trail is established.  (2)  (A) The Arkansas Wine Country Trail shall include the highways, roads, and streets that lead to the wineries permitted by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division of the Department of Finance and Administration that produce wine from Arkansas-grown fruits and vegetables.  (B) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall determine the location of the Arkansas Wine Country Trail in consultation with the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism.    (3) A winery is eligible to have signs near its facility if it:  (A) Is a winery permitted by the division; and  (B) Offers tours.    (4) The signs shall be of size and shape and of materials designated by the Arkansas Department of Transportation in consultation with the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism.    (b)  (1) The sign for the Arkansas Wine Country Trail shall have on it a cluster of grapes in front of a classic bottle of Bordeaux wine with a statement approved by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, a directional arrow, and one (1) of the following phrases:  (A) “Winery Tours”;  (B) “Winery and Vineyard Tours”;  (C) “Wine Cellar Tours”; or  (D) “Wine Cellar and Vineyard Tours”.    (2) Information for proper placement will be made available by the Arkansas Department of Transportation.  (3) This sign, but on a smaller scale, shall be used as the symbol on the state highway map and in all tourism literature published by the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism to indicate the Arkansas Wine Country Trail or individual vineyards, wineries, or cellars that are part of the Arkansas Wine Country Trail.
AR Code § 27-67-225 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-225. The Gold Star Families Highway

 (a) To honor Arkansas's fallen service members, who have served this great country in the United States Armed Forces, and their families, each of the following routes is designated as a “Gold Star Families Highway”:  (1) The route along Highway 163 North from its intersection with Highway 42 to its intersection with Highway 310; and  (2) The route along Wilbur D. Mills Freeway, also known as “I-630”, from its intersection with I-30 to its intersection with I-430.    (b) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall erect appropriate signs designating each route as a “Gold Star Families Highway” along:  (1) Highway 163 North from its intersection with Highway 42 to its intersection with Highway 310; and  (2) I-630 from its intersection with I-30 to its intersection with I-430.
AR Code § 27-67-226 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 2 - Highway Designation, Construction, and Maintenance|§ 27-67-226. Delta Rhythm & Bayous Highway

 (a) The route along U.S. Highway 65 South from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to the border between Arkansas and Louisiana is designated the “Delta Rhythm & Bayous Highway”.  (b) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall erect appropriate signs along U.S. Highway 65 South from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to the border between Arkansas and Louisiana designating the route as the “Delta Rhythm & Bayous Highway”, including without limitation a sign in or near each of the following cities:  (1) Dermott;  (2) Dumas;  (3) Gould;  (4) Lake Village;  (5) Pine Bluff; and  (6) Tillar.    (c) If the Arkansas Department of Transportation does not have the funds available to erect the signs required under subsection (b) of this section, the Arkansas Department of Transportation may accept and use gifts, grants, and donations received from private, public, and nonprofit sources, including without limitation a city street department or a county road department for:  (1) Acquiring and installing the signs required under subsection (b) of this section; and  (2) Maintaining, replacing, or reconstructing the signs required under subsection (b) of this section.