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AR Code § 27-72-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 2 - Violations of Federal-Aid Agreements|§ 27-72-204. Project maintenance — Commission's discretion

 When the State Highway Commission finds the agreements relative to the various projects have been violated, the commission may, at its discretion, commence and cease to maintain the projects, subject to reimbursement as set out in § 27-72-203.
AR Code § 27-72-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 2 - Violations of Federal-Aid Agreements|§ 27-72-205. Priority of charge against funds

 Upon determination by the State Highway Commission that the agreement has been violated, and commencing on the date of notice to the Treasurer of State, there shall be a charge upon funds set out in this subchapter which shall take priority over any other obligations on the funds.
AR Code § 27-72-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-301. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Betterment” means any construction or reconstruction on a state aid-designated road which results in an improvement which exceeds or equals any previous improvement whether or not the previous improvement was financed in part or in whole through the provisions of this subchapter;  (2) “Construction”, “reconstruction”, or “improvement” means any proposal submitted by a county court which meets the definition of betterment as opposed to maintenance;  (3) “Maintenance” means any act of work which maintains the improvement in serviceable condition;  (4) “State aid”, by way of funds to be expended on state aid roads, means any sum or sums provided by the General Assembly to supplement funds furnished by the several counties for the purpose of constructing, improving, widening, straightening, surfacing, or reconstructing roads on the state aid system and shall be available to the several counties in a proportion to be fixed and determined by law; and  (5) “State aid roads” means that classification of county roads, including bridges and ferries, composing the major collector and minor collector routes feeding into local trade areas or into the state highway system, which are not designated as state highways, and particularly those essential to the conservation and development of natural resources, of economic and social value and encouraging desirable land utilization, having in addition one (1) or more of the following characteristics:  (A) They extend to the larger communities, including all incorporated towns;  (B) They connect with roads of major importance in adjoining counties;  (C) They connect with the state highways to form a complete network of main feeder roads;  (D) They carry heavy volumes of traffic serving major business and agricultural interests of the county; and  (E) They collect traffic at reasonable intervals from several local roads.
AR Code § 27-72-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-302. Establishment — Scope

 (a) There is established a system of state aid roads in each county consisting of the major collector and minor collector routes not on the state highway system feeding into local trade areas or into the state highway system and providing a program for the construction and improvement of state aid roads.  (b) There is set up for designation by cooperative action of the state and counties a state aid system of roads, as classified and defined in this subchapter, which system shall be designated by the several county judges of their respective counties with the consent and approval of the state aid engineer and the State Highway Commission to a total mileage not in excess of fifteen thousand (15,000) miles, including any municipal streets, and initially established at five thousand (5,000) miles, which five thousand (5,000) miles shall include all county roads on the federal-aid secondary road system. The system will periodically be expanded in one thousand-mile increments after the initial five thousand-mile system has been established.  (c) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to deprive or diminish the powers and duties of the county judge of any county in the exercise of his constitutional control over county roads.
AR Code § 27-72-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-303. Division of State Aid Road Construction

 There is created within the Arkansas Department of Transportation a division to be called the Division of State Aid Road Construction.
AR Code § 27-72-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-305. State Aid Road Fund

 (a)  (1) There is created in the State Treasury a fund to be known as the State Aid Road Fund, to which the Treasurer of State shall transfer one hundred percent (100%) of the revenues credited to the State Highway Special Construction Account of the State Highway and Transportation Department Fund each month until an aggregate total of thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000) each fiscal year is so transferred, there to be used for construction, reconstruction, and improvements of the state aid road system.  (2)  (A) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2000, the limitation on the transfer of funds in this subsection (a) shall be increased to fifteen million dollars ($15,000,000);  (B) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2001, the limitation on the transfer of funds in this subsection (a) shall be increased to seventeen million dollars ($17,000,000);  (C) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2002, the limitation on the transfer of funds in this subsection (a) shall be increased to nineteen million dollars ($19,000,000); and  (D) For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003, and for all fiscal years thereafter, there shall be no limitation on the transfer of funds to the State Aid Road Fund.      (b)  (1) All revenues deposited in the State Aid Road Fund shall be apportioned to each county as prescribed in § 27-72-309 for the distribution of mileage on the state aid road system among the various counties.  (2) The apportioned funds shall remain for a period of two (2) years from the date they are apportioned.  (3) Any unused funds shall be returned to the State Aid Road Fund for redistribution in accordance with the above formula.  (4) For a county to receive these funds, they must be matched in the ratio of ninety percent (90%) state aid road funds to not less than ten percent (10%) county matching funds, and the county must comply with all provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 27-72-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-306. County Supplement Fund Account

 In the event that any county desires to provide funds in excess of the minimum matching requirements as provided in § 27-72-305, the Treasurer of State shall credit the amount above matching requirements to the County Supplement Fund Account of the State Aid Road Fund, there to be used as provided by law.
AR Code § 27-72-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-307. Expenses paid prior to allocation

 The salaries of the state aid engineer, his or her assistants, and all other employees of the Division of State Aid Road Construction, as well as all other expenses incurred by the Division of State Aid Road Construction in carrying out the provisions of this subchapter, shall be paid from the State Aid Road Fund in the State Treasury prior to allocation to the several counties.
AR Code § 27-72-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-308. Eligibility for state aid — Notice

 (a) Before any county shall be eligible to receive the benefits of the provisions of this subchapter, the county, through its county judge, shall agree to comply with the terms, provisions, and limitations of this subchapter.  (b) When any county shall have met the requirements of this subchapter and shall have become eligible for state aid, the state aid engineer, as soon as practicable, shall notify such county in writing of such eligibility and that its proportionate part of any state funds allocated to the county for state aid may be utilized for construction on the state aid system in the manner provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 27-72-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-309. Allocation of state aid

 (a) State aid roads in the several counties shall receive state aid in the manner and under the terms and conditions set out in this subchapter.  (b) The state aid system shall be allocated to the several counties of the state on a mileage basis in the following proportions:  (1) Fifty percent (50%) to be divided equally among the seventy-five (75) counties;  (2) Twenty-five percent (25%) to be divided in the proportion that the area of each county bears to the area of the state; and  (3) Twenty-five percent (25%) to be divided in the proportion that the rural population of each county bears to the rural population of the state as shown by the most recent federal decennial census.
AR Code § 27-72-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-310. Contracts for work to be performed

 (a) All proposals covering work to be performed on state aid roads in each county in this state shall be under contract let and approved by the State Highway Commission upon a request from the county judge of the county and in accordance with the procedures prescribed in § 27-67-206, and other laws of this state pertaining to contracts for the construction of state highways, which laws shall be equally applicable to all contracts let by the commission for the construction of state aid roads under this subchapter.  (b) The county judge of any county is authorized to submit bids for work to be performed on state aid roads under the provisions of this subchapter, and nothing contained herein shall be construed to limit or restrict the right of a county judge to submit bids for work to be performed by county forces so long as the bids are in accordance with procedures prescribed in § 27-67-206, and the aggregate cost thereof does not exceed two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000).
AR Code § 27-72-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-311. Conditions for use of state aid

 Any county shall be entitled to receive state aid and to expend state aid moneys in conjunction with moneys furnished by said county on state aid roads in such county on projects approved for construction in such county provided:   (1) The state aid system in the county has been designated and approved as provided in this subchapter;  (2)  (A) The county has employed a county engineer who is a professional engineer as defined in § 17-30-101 to act on behalf of the county as a whole.  (B) If a county judge is a professional engineer as defined in § 17-30-101, the county judge may perform the duties provided in this section for the county engineer.  (C) A county may contract with the Arkansas Department of Transportation for engineering services instead of employing a county engineer.  (D) The cost of employing a county engineer or contracting with the department for engineering services is paid from the county road funds of the county and is not payable from the County Aid Fund.  (E) Engineering costs on federal-aid projects may be included as a cost item of the projects;    (3) An annual program shall have been filed by the county with the Division of State Aid Road Construction and approved by the state aid engineer and in accordance with the uniform design standards and specifications set up by the state aid engineer. However, the program may be modified or revised in whole or in part by the state aid engineer, with the agreement of the county involved; and  (4) The county has complied with all rules and regulations promulgated by the state aid engineer.
AR Code § 27-72-312 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-312. Use of state aid

 (a) Funds deposited in the State Aid Road Fund shall be used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction, and improvements of roads on the state aid road system, except as otherwise provided in this subchapter.  (b) Not more than twenty-five percent (25%) of a county's allotment from the fund shall be used for the purposes of resealing.  (c) No funds shall be spent hereunder on any project which shall not culminate directly in a paved hard-surfaced road.  (d) No such funds shall be used for maintenance of state aid roads.  (e) All fund expenditures hereunder shall be made after publication of notice to bidders of the date for final reception of bids and the address at which specifications can be acquired. After a public opening of the bids thereon, all contracts shall be awarded to the lowest and best bidder.
AR Code § 27-72-313 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-313. Use of federal-aid secondary road funds

 (a) Each year, fifty percent (50%) of all federal-aid secondary road funds allocated to this state shall be set aside by the State Highway Commission for use on county secondary road projects on the federal-aid secondary roads that are included in the state aid road system.  (b) County funds are to be matched in accordance with the applicable federal law relative thereto.  (c) No federal-aid secondary funds shall be used to match any revenue-sharing funds appropriated hereunder.  (d) Federal-aid secondary road funds that are not committed for use on county secondary federal-aid road projects during any current two-year period shall revert to, and may be used by, the Arkansas Department of Transportation on state secondary highways.
AR Code § 27-72-314 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-314. Disaster counties

 (a)  (1) It is the intent and purpose of this section to make available moneys in the State Aid Road Fund to the credit of disaster counties to be used to restore and repair county bridges or roads which are destroyed or which have suffered extensive damage as a result of tornadoes, heavy rainfall, flooding conditions, or other natural disasters occurring after December 1, 2002, and to provide, together with county funds, the necessary matching moneys required to enable the disaster counties to obtain federal disaster relief funds for the projects.  (2) Only counties designated by the appropriate federal or state official as disaster counties for public assistance shall be authorized to use moneys in the fund under the matching provisions and for the purposes set forth in this section.  (3) All other moneys deposited in the fund shall be used solely on the matching basis and for the purposes set forth in §§ 27-72-301, 27-72-305, 27-72-312, 27-72-313, and 27-72-315.    (b)  (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of §§ 27-72-301, 27-72-305, 27-72-312, 27-72-313, and 27-72-315, a county that has been determined by the appropriate federal or state official as being a disaster county for public assistance due to tornadoes, excessive rainfall, flooding conditions, or other natural disasters occurring after December 1, 2002, shall be eligible to receive state aid road funds credited to the account of the disaster county on a basis of ninety percent (90%) state aid road funds to not less than ten percent (10%) county matching funds.  (2) Funds distributed to a disaster county under the special matching provisions of this subsection shall be used solely for the restoration or repair of county bridges or roads destroyed or which suffered extensive damage as a result of tornadoes, heavy rainfall, flooding conditions, or other natural disasters occurring after December 1, 2002, regardless of whether the roads or bridges are a part of the state aid system of county roads.    (c) In addition to the uses provided for in subsection (b) of this section, funds distributed to a disaster county under the matching provisions of this section may be used to provide the necessary matching funds required to match federal disaster relief funds available for the restoration or repair of county bridges or roads which are destroyed or extensively damaged as a result of tornadoes, heavy rainfall, flooding conditions, or other natural disasters occurring after December 1, 2002, regardless of whether the roads or bridges are a part of the state aid system of county roads.
AR Code § 27-72-315 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-315. Rights-of-way — Exception

 (a) All rights-of-way required on state aid road projects shall be acquired by the county, and any cost of rights-of-way shall not be considered a part of the cost of any project contemplated by this subchapter.  (b) The costs of reconstructing fencing, and the construction of property access passages shall not be considered as rights-of-way costs but shall be considered as a component of project cost.
AR Code § 27-72-316 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-316. Road maintenance by county — Failure to maintain

 (a) It shall be the duty of each county to properly maintain all state aid roads in their respective counties after construction of any such roads with state aid moneys.  (b)  (1) If essential maintenance is not properly and regularly carried on, in the opinion of the state aid engineer, then notice thereof shall be given in writing to the county judge in default.  (2) If maintenance is not done and continued within sixty (60) days from date of notice, then the state aid engineer may proceed to have done the necessary maintenance and repair work on the road and charge the work to any funds in the State Aid Road Fund in the State Treasury allocated to the county.  (3) If failure to maintain continues, then the county shall be no longer eligible for state aid until proper maintenance is resumed by it. Notice of withdrawal of state aid shall be duly given the Auditor of State and Treasurer of State. However, such ineligibility shall not affect payment from the State Aid Road Fund of progress and final estimates on contracts awarded prior to notice of ineligibility.    (c) When any county road, or sections of county roads constructed under the provisions of this subchapter, as amended, is within an area annexed to any first or second-class city or incorporated town, the county shall thereafter be relieved of the responsibility for maintaining the road or sections of roads as required in this subchapter, and the responsibility for maintenance thereof shall be transferred, at the time of annexation, to the annexing city or incorporated town.  (d) Whenever any county is ineligible for state aid under the provisions of this subchapter for a continuous period of five (5) years, then the county shall forfeit and no longer be entitled to any part of the funds in the State Aid Road Fund theretofore allocated to it. The balance of such funds as theretofore allocated to it shall be reallocated pro rata among all other eligible counties in the same relative proportions as those specified for distribution of funds to the respective counties.
AR Code § 27-72-317 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-317. County Road Construction and Maintenance Revolving Fund

 (a) There is created and established on the books of the Treasurer of State, Auditor of State, and Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, in the State Treasury, a fund to be designated and known as the County Road Construction and Maintenance Revolving Fund, the exclusive jurisdiction for the administration of which is vested in the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, subject, however, to the limitations, conditions, uses, and purposes hereinafter prescribed.  (b) For each fiscal year, the Treasurer of State and Auditor of State, from time to time shall transfer upon their books of record, upon certification by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, from the Budget Stabilization Trust Fund to the County Road Construction and Maintenance Revolving Fund, sums of money as may be required to accomplish the purposes of this act. In no event and at no time shall the accumulative transfers in the total exceed the sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000).
AR Code § 27-72-319 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 72 - Highway Revenues for Local Aid|Subchapter 3 - State Aid Roads|§ 27-72-319. Advance transfers from revolving fund — In general

 (a) Moneys at any time in the County Road Construction and Maintenance Revolving Fund shall be available to the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State only for the purposes of making advance transfers to the several county highway funds, state aid road funds, federal-aid secondary road funds, and all other provisions of county road construction assistance which may be enacted by the General Assembly and governed by the Revenue Stabilization Law, § 19-5-101 et seq.  (b) The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall be guided by §§ 27-72-320 and 27-72-321, with respect to the making of advance transfers of moneys from the County Road Construction and Maintenance Revolving Fund to other State Treasury funds or fund accounts which, under the provisions of this section, are eligible to receive advances.