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AR Code § 14-286-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-103. Elections — Time — Ballots

 (a) The special election called by the county court to submit the question of the establishment and financing of a red imported fire ant abatement district to the electors of the proposed district shall be held in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq. no later than ninety (90) days after the proclamation of the election.  (b) At the election, the question of establishing and financing the district shall be placed on the ballot in substantially the following form:    “FOR the establishment of a Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) abatement district in County, (city), (designated area) and the establishment of assessed benefits on real property in the district in an amount not to exceed one percent (1%) of the assessed valuation of real property in the district to finance the district   AGAINST the establishment of a Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) abatement district in County, (city), (designated area) and the establishment of assessed benefits on real property in the district in an amount not to exceed one percent (1%) of the assessed valuation of real property in the district to finance the district
AR Code § 14-286-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-104. Boards — District established — Members

 (a) Upon approval by the voters of the red imported fire ant abatement district and the levy of assessed benefits to support the district, the county court shall enter an order establishing the district as described in the petitions and shall appoint five (5) qualified electors of the district as a board of commissioners for the district. Two (2) members of the commission shall be appointed for terms of two (2) years and three (3) members shall be appointed for terms of three (3) years.  (b) All successor members shall be appointed by the county court for terms of three (3) years.  (c) Vacancies occurring on the board for reasons other than the expiration of a term shall be filled by the county court for the unexpired term.  (d) The members of the board shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to actual expenses incurred in attending meetings in an amount not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) per day for each member of the board.
AR Code § 14-286-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-105. Boards — Officers — Director — Employees — Functions — Cooperation of county

 (a)  (1) The board shall annually choose from among its members a chairman and a secretary-treasurer.  (2) The chairman and secretary-treasurer shall furnish bonds conditioned upon faithful performance of their duties in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) each. The cost of securing and maintaining the bonds shall be paid from funds of the district.    (b)  (1) The board shall employ a director who shall have such training, experience, and qualifications as may be prescribed by the Cooperative Extension Service, and an entomologist associated with the University of Arkansas system. The board may employ such other employees as it deems necessary to carry out the purposes of the district.  (2) Employees of the board shall have such responsibilities and receive such compensation as may be prescribed by the board.    (c) The county in which any district is located shall cooperate with and assist the board by providing suitable office space and meeting facilities for the board and its staff.  (d) The board shall meet at least quarterly and at such other times as it may deem necessary to properly carry out its responsibilities.  (1) Meetings shall be called by the chairman or a majority of the members of the board.  (2) Three (3) members of the board shall constitute a quorum and any substantive action of the board shall require an affirmative vote of at least three (3) members of the board.    (e) A Cooperative Extension Services specialist involved in fire ant education and/or the county agent chairman shall serve as ex officio members of the board and shall serve without compensation. The Cooperative Extension Services specialist, the county agent or their representatives shall cooperate with and assist the board by furnishing the board with such surveys, maps, information, and advice as may be helpful to the board in carrying out its responsibilities and to assist in such other manner as may be reasonably requested by the board.  (f) The board shall be responsible for approving materials used in the red imported fire ant abatement district and shall be responsible for certifying applicators using those materials.
AR Code § 14-286-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-106. Boards — Annual report

 Any county or city creating a red imported fire ant abatement district will be responsible to the Fire Ant Advisory Board. The board of commissioners of each red imported fire ant abatement district shall submit to the Fire Ant Advisory Board an annual report of any abatement program initiated including information regarding the techniques used, their effectiveness, and any problems encountered in the program, the cost of such techniques, and moneys collected.
AR Code § 14-286-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-107. Boards — Plans for abatement — Appointment of assessors — Assessments

 (a) As soon as is practical after its establishment, the board shall prepare plans for providing red imported fire ant abatement services and for acquiring the property and equipment necessary to carry out the purposes of the district.  (b) The board shall thereupon appoint three (3) assessors to assess the annual benefits which will accrue to the real property within the district as a result of the red imported fire ant abatement services and shall fix their compensation.  (1) The assessors shall take an oath that they will assess all annual benefits that will accrue to the landowners of the district as a result of the red imported fire ant abatement services.  (2) The assessors shall thereupon proceed to assess the annual benefits to the lands within the district. They shall inscribe in a book each tract of land and shall extend opposite each tract of land the amount of annual benefits that will accrue each year to the land by reason of the services.    (c) The original assessment of benefits and any reassessment shall be advertised and equalized in the manner provided in this subchapter, and owners of all property whose assessments have been raised shall have the right to be heard and to appeal from the decision of the assessors, as provided in this subchapter.  (d) The assessors shall place opposite each tract the name of the owner, as shown by the last county assessment, but a mistake in the name shall not void the assessment, and the assessors shall correct errors which occur in the county or district assessment list.  (e) The commissioners shall have the authority to fill any vacancy in the position of assessor, and the assessors shall hold their office at the pleasure of the board.
AR Code § 14-286-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-108. Assessments — Filing — Notice — Complaints

 (a) The assessment shall be filed with the county clerk of the county in which the property is located, and the secretary of the board shall thereupon give notice of its filing by publication one (1) time a week for two (2) weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county. The notice shall be in the following form:  (b) On the day named by the notice, it shall be the duty of the assessors to meet, at the place named, as a board of assessors, to hear all complaints against the assessment, and to equalize and adjust the assessments. The determination shall be final unless suit is brought in the chancery court within thirty (30) days after the original determination by the assessors. If the board is unable to hear all complaints submitted between the hours designated in this subsection, the assessors shall adjourn over from day to day until all parties have been heard.    “Notice is hereby given that the assessment of annual benefits of District Number has been filed in the office of the County Clerk of where it is open for inspection. All persons wishing to be heard regarding the assessment will be heard by the assessors of the district in the office of the county clerk between the hours of one (1:00) p.m. and four (4:00) p.m., at on the , 19
AR Code § 14-286-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-109. Assessments — Reassessments

 (a) The commissioners shall one (1) time a year order the assessors to reassess the annual benefits of the district, provided there have been improvements made or improvements destroyed or removed from one (1) or more tracts of land in the district, making it necessary to have the annual benefits revised.  (b)  (1) Whereupon, it shall be the duty of the assessors to reassess the benefits of the district, and the annual benefits assessed may be raised or lowered as conditions of the property change.  (2) However, the annual benefits extended against any piece of property shall not be increased from the annual benefits originally extended unless improvements are made to the land that will be benefited by the red imported fire ant abatement services provided by the district.
AR Code § 14-286-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-110. Assessments — Duties of county clerk and county collector

 (a) The original assessment record or any reassessment record shall be filed with the county clerk, whose duty it shall be to extend the annual benefit assessment annually upon the tax books of the county until the district is dissolved.  (b) It shall then be the duty of the county collector to collect each year the annual benefit assessment extended upon the book along with the other taxes, and the taxes shall be paid over by the collector to the depository of the district at the same time the collector pays over the county funds.  (c)  (1) If there is any change in the annual benefits assessed, a certified copy of the revised assessment shall be filed with the county clerk who shall extend the revised assessment annually upon the tax books until a new assessment is made, which shall be extended upon the tax books in a similar manner. The power to reassess and extend the assessment upon the tax books shall be a continuing power as long as the district continues to exist. It shall be the duty of the county collector to collect the taxes so extended.  (2) In lieu of filing the reassessment, the assessors may make the changes in the assessment in red ink on the assessment already on file, or the assessment record may contain many columns at the head of which the year shall be designated and, in the column, the new annual benefits may be shown in red ink which will indicate any increase or decrease in the original annual benefits extended. When the change is made, a red ink line shall be drawn through the figures showing the original annual benefits extended.
AR Code § 14-286-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-111. Expenditures — Public records

 (a) Funds of the district shall be expended only upon the order of the board and upon a voucher check signed by the chairman and secretary/treasurer of the board.  (1) Every voucher check shall state upon its face to whom the amount is payable, and the purpose for which it is issued.  (2) All voucher checks shall be dated and shall be numbered consecutively in a record to be kept by the board of the number and amount of the check.    (b) All proceedings and transactions of the board shall be a matter of public record and shall be open to the inspection of the public.  (c) The board shall file with the county clerk in January of each year a certified itemized report showing all moneys received, the date of receipt, and the source from which received; and all moneys paid out, date paid, to whom paid, and for what purpose, during the preceding year, together with an itemized list of all delinquent assessments showing owner, description of property, years for which the assessment is delinquent, and the amount of the total delinquency.
AR Code § 14-286-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-113. Bonds — Limits on liability — Payment

 (a)  (1) It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it has been issued under the provisions of this subchapter, that the bonds shall be obligations only of the district, and that in no event shall they constitute any indebtedness for which the faith and credit of the state or any county or municipality or any of the revenues of the state or any county or municipality are pledged.  (2) No member of the board shall be personally liable on the bonds or for any damages sustained by anyone in connection with any contracts entered into in carrying out the purpose and intent of this subchapter, unless the board member has not acted as a reasonably prudent person would.    (b)  (1) The principal of, interest on, and paying agent's fees in connection with the bonds shall be secured by a lien on, and pledge of, and shall be payable from the assessments levied against the real property within the district.  (2) The right to issue subsequent issues of bonds can, if the district so determines, be reserved in any authorizing resolution or trust indenture on either a parity or subordinate lien basis and upon such terms and conditions as the district may determine and specify in the particular authorizing resolution or trust indenture.
AR Code § 14-286-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-114. Bonds — Refunding bonds

 (a) Bonds may be issued for the purpose of refunding any bonds issued under this subchapter.  (b) Refunding bonds may be either sold or delivered in exchange for the bonds being refunded. If sold, the proceeds may be either applied to the payment of the bonds being refunded or deposited in trust and there be maintained in cash or investments for the retirement of the bonds being refunded, as shall be specified by the district in the resolution or trust indenture securing the bonds.  (c) The resolution or trust indenture securing the refunding bonds may provide that the refunding bonds shall have the same priority on assessments or revenues pledged for their payment as possessed by the bonds refunded.  (d) Refunding bonds shall be sold and secured in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter pertaining to the sale and security bonds.
AR Code § 14-286-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-115. Bonds — Tax exemptions

 Bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter, and the interest thereon, shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxes. This exemption shall include income, inheritance, and estate taxes.
AR Code § 14-286-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 286 - Fire Ant Abatement Districts|§ 14-286-116. Dissolution of district

 (a) A red imported fire ant abatement district created under this subchapter may be dissolved upon a vote of a majority of the qualified electors of the district, and the question of dissolution of the district may be submitted to the electors in the same manner as is prescribed in this subchapter submitting the question of the establishment of the district.  (b) If any district having outstanding bonds or other indebtedness is dissolved, the assessed benefits being levied at the time of dissolution shall continue to be levied and collected until the outstanding bonds or their indebtedness are paid.  (c) No election on the question of dissolution of a red imported fire ant abatement district may be held within the first three (3) years after the establishment of the district.
AR Code § 14-287-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 287 - Municipal Management Districts|§ 14-287-101. Authority to create

 Cities may enact by ordinance a process to create a municipal management district to manage, develop, construct, and maintain public works and enhancement projects in areas of municipalities.
AR Code § 14-287-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 287 - Municipal Management Districts|§ 14-287-102. Petition to create

 Before a municipal management district can be created, a petition must be submitted to the governing body of the municipality that includes the following:   (1) A resolution to the governing body in support of the creation of the district and signed by at least ninety percent (90%) of the property owners within the district representing at least ninety percent (90%) of the appraised property value within the district and at least ninety percent (90%) of the privately held land area within the district;  (2) The boundaries of the proposed district;  (3) The specific purposes for which the district will be created;  (4) The general nature of the work, projects, or services proposed to be provided;  (5) The method of establishing assessments for the district;  (6) A project cost estimate which shall not exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000); and  (7) A budget for operating and paying for improvements.
AR Code § 14-287-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 287 - Municipal Management Districts|§ 14-287-103. Maximum size of district

 The municipal management district will be limited to a maximum of one (1) square mile.
AR Code § 14-287-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 287 - Municipal Management Districts|§ 14-287-104. Municipal management district commission

 (a) The mayor will appoint two (2) members of the governing authority and three (3) residents or owners of property in the district to serve on the municipal management district commission.  (b) Terms of the commissioners will be decided by local ordinance, not to exceed five (5) years.  (c) No commission member shall receive compensation.  (d) The commission may retain legal counsel and staff assistance may be provided by the municipality.  (e) Upon termination of the district, the municipality shall accept maintenance responsibility for the improvements.  (f) The life of the district shall not exceed ten (10) years, at which time all improvements, debts, and charges will be paid in full.
AR Code § 14-287-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 17 - Public Health And Welfare Improvement Districts|Chapter 287 - Municipal Management Districts|§ 14-287-105. Rates and other fees — Annual audit

 (a) Municipal management districts may establish and maintain reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates, fares, tolls, charges, assessments, rents, or other fees or compensation for the use of the improvements constructed, operated, or maintained by the district.  (b) The district shall be audited by a certified public accountant each year with the audit findings being published in a daily newspaper with a circulation which includes the district.
AR Code § 14-296-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 296 - General Provisions|§ 14-296-101. Maintenance of roads where public use acquired through adverse possession

 If the public obtains the right to use a road through adverse possession, the municipality or county in which the road is located shall have the authority to maintain the road.
AR Code § 14-298-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 298 - Establishment, Alteration, And Vacation Of County Roads|§ 14-298-101. Powers of county court

 All public roads and highways shall be laid out, opened, and repaired agreeably to the provisions of this chapter. The county court of each county in this state shall have full power and authority to make and enforce all orders necessary as well for establishing and opening new roads as for changing and vacating any public road or part thereof.
AR Code § 14-298-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 298 - Establishment, Alteration, And Vacation Of County Roads|§ 14-298-102. Notice prerequisite to petition for county road

 (a) Previous to any petition being presented for a county road, or for the alteration or vacation of a county road, notice thereof shall be given by publication in some newspaper, published in the county, if one exists.  (b) If there is no newspaper published in the county, then notice shall be given by advertisements set up in three (3) public places in each township through or into which any part of the road is designed to be laid out, altered, or vacated, stating the time when the petition is to be presented and the substance thereof. Notice shall be duly authenticated and presented with the petition to the county court.
AR Code § 14-298-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 18 - Roadways, Bridges, And Parking Generally|Chapter 298 - Establishment, Alteration, And Vacation Of County Roads|§ 14-298-103. Application by petition — Bond

 (a) All applications for laying out, viewing, reviewing, altering, or vacating any county road shall be by petition to the county court, signed by at least ten (10) freeholders of the county.  (b) One (1) or more of the signers to the petition shall enter into bond, with sufficient security, payable to the State of Arkansas for the use of the county. This bond shall be conditioned that the persons making the application for a view, review, alteration, or vacation of any road shall pay into the treasury of the county the amount of all costs and expenses accruing on the view, review, alteration, or vacation. In case the prayer of the petitioners shall not be granted, or when the proceedings had in pursuance thereof shall not be finally confirmed and established, and, on neglect or refusal of the persons so bound, after a liability shall have accrued, to pay into the treasury, according to the tenor of the bond, all costs and expenses that shall have accrued, the county clerk shall deliver the bond to the prosecuting attorney of the circuit, whose duty it shall be to collect and pay over the bond to the county treasury.  (c) In all cases of contest, the court having jurisdiction of the case shall have power to render judgment for costs, according to justice, between the parties.