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AR Code § 27-67-227 (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|§ 27-67-227. Arkansas Delta highway designations — Legislative findings

 (a) The General Assembly finds that:  (1) Eastern Arkansas, commonly referred to as the “Arkansas Delta”, is known for its rich musical heritage;  (2) Some of the most influential musicians in the development of blues, soul, country, rockabilly, rhythm and blues, gospel, and prison music were from, or achieved musical milestones in, the Arkansas Delta, including:  (A) Johnny Cash;  (B) Levon Helm:  (C) Louis Jordan; and  (D) Sister Rosetta Tharpe;    (3) The Arkansas Delta includes a portion of the Americana Music Triangle, which was a particularly fertile region during the development of American popular music in the middle decades of the twentieth century; and  (4) The designation of certain highways in the Arkansas Delta is essential to preserve the region's history, promote music heritage tourism in the area, and provide a highway travel route for the music enthusiast.    (b) The route along Highway 17 from Dyess, Arkansas, to Wilson, Arkansas, where the boyhood home of Johnny Cash is located, is designated the “Johnny Cash Memorial Highway”.  (c) The route along U.S. Highway 49 from Marvell, Arkansas, to Helena, Arkansas, where the boyhood home of Levon Helm is located, is designated the “Levon Helm Memorial Highway”.  (d) The route along U.S. Highway 49 from Brinkley, Arkansas, the birthplace of Louis Jordan, to Marvell, Arkansas, is designated the “Louis Jordan Memorial Highway”.  (e) The route along Highway 17 from Cotton Plant, Arkansas, the birthplace of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, to Brinkley, Arkansas, is designated the “Sister Rosetta Tharpe Memorial Highway”.  (f) The route along U.S. Highway 61 from West Memphis, Arkansas, to Blytheville, Arkansas, a region recognized for its role in the development of Americana music, is designated the “Americana Music Highway”.  (g) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall erect appropriate signs along:  (1) Highway 17 from Dyess, Arkansas, to Wilson, Arkansas, designating the route as the “Johnny Cash Memorial Highway”;  (2) U.S. Highway 49 from Marvell, Arkansas, to Helena, Arkansas, designating the route as the “Levon Helm Memorial Highway”;  (3) U.S. Highway 49 from Brinkley, Arkansas, to Marvell, Arkansas, designating the route as the “Louis Jordan Memorial Highway”;  (4) Highway 17 from Cotton Plant, Arkansas, to Brinkley, Arkansas, designating the route as the “Sister Rosetta Tharpe Memorial Highway”; and  (5) U.S. Highway 61 from West Memphis, Arkansas, to Blytheville, Arkansas, designating the route as the “Americana Music Highway”.
AR Code § 27-67-228 (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|§ 27-67-228. Construction project information signs — Definitions

 (a) As used in this section:  (1) “Construction project information sign” means temporary signs placed at the beginning and end of a public road construction project informing motorists of the:  (A) Public road construction project start date and estimated date of completion; and  (B) Job number assigned to the public road construction project; and    (2) “Public road construction project” means the construction, restoration, reconstruction, renovation, or repair of a road, highway, bridge, overpass, interchange, or right-of-way in which the construction, restoration, reconstruction, renovation, or repair is to be performed or is initiated by the Arkansas Department of Transportation or the State Highway Commission.    (b) The department shall erect appropriate construction project information signs:  (1) At least thirty (30) days before the first day of the public road construction project start date;  (2) For each public road construction project of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) or more; and  (3) In accordance with the rules governing informational signs placed on the highway by the department.    (c) The department, using the job number listed on the construction project information sign erected under subsection (b) of this section, shall post on the department's website specific public road construction project details, including without limitation the:  (1) Start date and estimated date of completion;  (2) Total cost of the contract awarded;  (3) Name of each contractor performing the public road construction project; and  (4) The number of days the contractor is ahead of or behind schedule.    (d) The department may promulgate rules for the administration and implementation of this section.
AR Code § 27-67-229 (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|§ 27-67-229. True Grit Trail

 (a) The General Assembly finds that:  (1) True Grit, a novel written by native Arkansan Charles Portis, is considered by some critics to be one of the great American novels;  (2) The novel follows the story of a tenacious young girl as she travels in Arkansas from the Dardanelle area to Fort Smith where she hires a United States Marshal to help her avenge her father's death;  (3) The novel has been adapted into screenplays for two (2) popular movies of the same name; and  (4) The popularity of the tale and the attention it brings to the state make a compelling case for renaming the portion of Arkansas Highway 22 between Dardanelle and Fort Smith the “True Grit Trail”.    (b) The route along Arkansas Highway 22 between Dardanelle, Arkansas, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, is designated the “True Grit Trail”.  (c) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall erect appropriate signs along Arkansas Highway 22 between Dardanelle, Arkansas, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, designating the route as the “True Grit Trail”.  (d) If the Arkansas Department of Transportation does not have the funds available to erect the signs required under subsection (c) 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 (c) of this section; and  (2) Maintaining, replacing, or reconstructing the signs required under subsection (c) of this section.
AR Code § 27-67-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-301. Authority to acquire property

 (a) The State Highway Commission is authorized to acquire real or personal property, or any interest therein, deemed to be necessary or desirable for state highway purposes, by gift, devise, purchase, exchange, condemnation, or otherwise.  (b) These lands or real property may be acquired in fee simple or in any lesser estate.
AR Code § 27-67-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-302. State highway purposes

 State highway purposes shall include, but are not limited to, the following:   (1) For present and future rights-of-way, including those necessary for urban extensions of state highways within municipalities;  (2) For exchanging them for other property to be used for rights-of-way if the best interest of the state will be served and right-of-way costs reduced thereby;  (3) For rock quarries, gravel pits, sand or earth borrow pits, or related purposes, not being commercially operated;  (4) For offices, shops, storage yards, or other necessary or auxiliary facilities;  (5) For roadside areas or parks adjacent or adjoining or near any state highway;  (6) For the culture and support of trees and shrubbery which benefit any state highway by aiding in the maintenance and preservation of the roadbed or trees and shrubbery which aid in the maintenance and promote the attractiveness of the scenic beauty associated with any state highways;  (7) For drainage in connection with any state highway, or for cuts and fills, or channel changes or maintenance thereof;  (8) For the maintenance of an unobstructed view of any portion of a state highway so as to promote the safety of the traveling public;  (9) For the construction and maintenance of stock trails and cattle passes;  (10) For the elimination of public or private crossings or intersections at grade, or any state highway; and  (11) For the protection of the state highway system from both physical and functional encroachments of any kind.
AR Code § 27-67-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-303. Entry for suitability studies

 (a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation and its agents and employees may enter upon real property and make surveys, examinations, photographs, tests, and samplings, or engage in other activities for the purpose of appraising the property or determining whether it is suitable and within the power of the condemnor to take for public use, if the entry is:  (1) Preceded by reasonable efforts to notify the owner, and any other person known to be in actual physical occupancy of the property, of the time, purpose, and scope of the planned entry and activities;  (2) Undertaken during reasonable daylight hours;  (3) Accomplished peaceably and without inflicting substantial injury; and  (4) Not in violation of any other statute.    (b) The entry and activities authorized by this section do not constitute a trespass in the absence of unnecessary damage occurring in effecting the survey or examination.
AR Code § 27-67-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-304. Use of right-of-way

 (a) The rights-of-way provided for all state highways shall be held inviolate for state highway purposes, except as provided in subsections (b) and (c) of this section. No physical or functional encroachments, installations, signs other than traffic signs or signals, posters, billboards, roadside stands, gasoline pumps, or other structures or uses shall be permitted within the right-of-way limits of state highways.  (b) Political subdivisions, rural electric cooperatives, rural telephone cooperatives, private television cables, and public utilities of the state may use any right-of-way or land, property, or interest therein, the property of the State Highway Commission, for the purpose of laying or erecting pipelines, sewers, wires, poles, ditches, railways, or any other purpose, under existing agreements or permits or such agreements or permits hereinafter made by the commission or under existing laws, provided that such use does not interfere with the public use of the property for highway purposes.  (c) No private television cable shall be placed upon the right-of-way limit of any state highway until such person, firm, association, partnership, or corporation first executes a bond payable to the commission in an amount to be determined by the district engineer located in the district in which such cable is to be located.
AR Code § 27-67-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-305. Commission discretion as to quantity of property acquired

 In connection with the acquisition of lands, property, or interests therein for state highway purposes, the State Highway Commission, in its discretion, may acquire an entire lot, block, or tract of land or property, if by so doing the interests of the public will be best served, even though the entire lot, block, or tract is not immediately needed for state highway purposes.
AR Code § 27-67-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-306. Leases

 (a) The State Highway Commission, as lessor, may execute lease or rental agreements covering real property, and any interest in that property, including without limitation the right-of-way of any state highway, owned or held by the commission, the use of which for highway purposes is not immediately contemplated, for periods not to exceed five (5) years, upon reasonable terms and conditions.  (b) Any building or other erection remaining on the real property at the expiration of the agreement shall be subject to removal upon thirty (30) days' notice at no expense to the state.
AR Code § 27-67-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-307. Temporary easements

 (a) Temporary easements for temporary uses by the State Highway Commission in connection with the establishment and construction of state highways may be acquired or condemned in the same manner as fee simple estates.  (b) After a temporary easement has served its intended purpose, the commission shall execute a release which shall be recorded in the recorder's office of the county wherein the affected lands or property are situated.
AR Code § 27-67-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-308. Authority to compensate — Source of revenue

 (a) The State Highway Commission is authorized to make payment for any land or other real property acquired under the provisions of this act out of any appropriation made for state highway construction.  (b) With respect to the costs of acquiring lands and real property for state highway purposes, the commission shall assess counties in which the land or property is located no part of the cost with respect to highways in the primary system and fifty percent (50%) of the cost with respect to highways in the secondary system. The county portion shall be deducted from the next payment due any county by reason of any appropriation out of the State Highway and Transportation Department Fund or state revenue from gasoline as motor vehicle fuel or automobile license tax to the county or county highway fund of the county.  (c) The cost of removing man-made obstructions from the right-of-way shall be borne by the state, except that any such obstructions which shall have been erected upon a dedicated or condemned highway right-of-way after it shall have been so dedicated or condemned shall be removed by the owner or at the owner's expense.
AR Code § 27-67-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-309. Venue for condemnation actions

 Actions by the commission to condemn a right-of-way shall be brought in the county where the land is situated.
AR Code § 27-67-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-310. Precedence of condemnation proceedings

 Court proceedings necessary to acquire land, property, or property rights for state highway purposes shall take precedence over all other causes not involving the public interest, to the end that an improved system of state highways is expedited.
AR Code § 27-67-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-311. Condemnation petition — Notice

 (a) The State Highway Commission may exercise its power of eminent domain by filing an appropriate petition in condemnation in the circuit court of the county in which the property sought to be taken is situated, to have the compensation for right-of-way determined, giving the owner of the property to be taken at least ten (10) days' notice in writing of the time and place where the petition will be heard.  (b) If the property sought to be condemned is located in more than one (1) county, the petition may be filed in any circuit court having jurisdiction in any county in which the whole or part of the property may be located. The proceedings had in the circuit court will apply to all such property described in the petition.  (c)  (1) If the owner of the property sought to be taken is a nonresident of the state, notice shall be by publication in any newspaper in the county which is authorized by law to publish legal notices. This notice shall be published for the same length of time as may be required in other civil causes.  (2) If there is no such newspaper published in the county, then publication shall be made in a newspaper designated by the circuit clerk, and one (1) written or printed notice thereof posted on the door of the county courthouse.    (d) The condemnation petition shall describe the lands and property sought to be acquired for state highway right-of-way purposes and shall be sworn to.  (e) Where the immediate possession of lands and property is sought to be obtained, the Arkansas Department of Transportation may file a declaration of taking, as provided by § 27-67-312, at any time before judgment or together with the condemnation petition.
AR Code § 27-67-312 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-312. Declaration of taking

 (a) In any proceeding instituted by and in the name of the State of Arkansas, involving the acquisition of any real property or any interest therein or any easements for public highway purposes, the petitioner may file a declaration of taking at any time before judgment signed by the Director of State Highways and Transportation, or with the condemnation petition, declaring that the real property or any interest therein or any easement is thereby taken for the use of the State of Arkansas.  (b) The declaration of taking shall contain or have annexed thereto the following:  (1) A statement of the authority under which the property or any interest therein or any easement is taken;  (2) A statement of the public use for which such property or any interest therein or any easement is taken;  (3) A description of the property taken or any interest therein or an easement, sufficient for the identification thereof;  (4) A plat showing the property taken or any interest therein or any easement; and  (5) A statement of the amount of money estimated by the acquiring agency to be just compensation for the property taken, or any interest therein or any easement.
AR Code § 27-67-313 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-313. Motion to strike declaration of taking

 (a) In any case in which a declaration of taking has been filed as provided in § 27-67-312, any defendant desiring to raise any question with respect to the validity of the taking shall do so by filing a motion to strike the declaration of taking and dismiss the suit.  (b) The motion shall be made on or before the return day mentioned in the summons or notice of publication, or within twenty (20) days after the filing of the declaration of taking, whichever is later.  (c) Failure to file such motion within the time herein provided shall constitute a waiver of the right of any defendant to challenge the validity of the taking.
AR Code § 27-67-314 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-314. Right of entry

 (a) Upon the filing of the declaration of taking and the deposit with the clerk of the circuit court of the estimated compensation, the State of Arkansas shall thereupon have the right of entry and the parties in possession shall be required to surrender possession to the petitioner, upon such terms as shall be fixed by the court.  (b) If, for any reason, the right of entry is postponed by the court in any case where the party in possession has withdrawn any part of the award, the court may fix a reasonable rental for the premises to be paid by the party to the State of Arkansas during such occupancy.  (c) The court shall also have the power to direct the payment of delinquent taxes and special assessments out of the amount determined to be just compensation, and to make such orders with respect to encumbrances, liens, rents, insurance, and other charges, as shall be just and equitable.  (d) The right to take possession and title in advance of final judgment in condemnation proceedings as provided in §§ 27-67-312 — 27-67-315, 27-67-316(a)-(e), and 27-67-317 — 27-67-319 shall be in addition to any right, power, or authority conferred by the laws of this state under which such proceedings may be conducted and shall not be construed as abrogating, limiting, or modifying any such right, power, or authority.
AR Code § 27-67-315 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets|Chapter 67 - State Highway System|Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property|§ 27-67-315. Title vests upon deposit

 Immediately upon the making of the deposit provided for in § 27-67-314, title to the lands in fee simple, or a conditional fee if mineral rights are sought to be preserved to the property owner, or a lesser estate or interest therein as is specified in the declaration, shall vest in the persons entitled thereto.