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AR Code § 14-90-1005 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 10 - Suits to Enforce Payment|§ 14-90-1005. Joinder of parties

 It shall be no objection to any suit brought for the purpose of collecting delinquent municipal improvement district assessments that the lands of two (2) or more owners are joined in the same proceeding, and these suits may be brought against one (1) or more owners.
AR Code § 14-90-1006 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 10 - Suits to Enforce Payment|§ 14-90-1006. Decree

 Under this subchapter, if the decree is in favor of the municipal board of improvement and for the condemnation of the land, it shall be for the penalty and costs of suit, as well as for the amount of the assessment.
AR Code § 14-90-1101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 11 - Sale of Property|§ 14-90-1101. Court order

 (a) In a suit to collect delinquent municipal improvement district assessments brought in the name of the board of improvement, the chancery court shall order, in its decree of condemnation, that if the sum adjudged shall not be paid within ten (10) days, the property shall be sold by a commissioner, appointed for that purpose, upon twenty (20) days' notice.  (b) Only so much of the property shall be sold as will pay the assessment, costs, and penalty, and no more.
AR Code § 14-90-1102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 11 - Sale of Property|§ 14-90-1102. Rules for sales

 (a) All sales under this subchapter shall be for cash and to the highest legal bidder.  (b) If the sales are not completed on the first day, the commissioner shall continue the sales from day to day until completed.  (c) In other respects, these sales shall be governed by the rules and laws regulating other sales of land made under decrees in chancery, and with like notice.
AR Code § 14-90-1103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 11 - Sale of Property|§ 14-90-1103. Payment

 (a) An amount bid at the sale of lands under this subchapter equal to the assessment, penalty, and costs shall be paid at the time of the sale, and the residue of the purchase money shall be paid into the chancery court.  (b) Within twenty (20) days after the period of redemption shall have expired, the court shall cause the assessment and penalty to be paid over to the municipal board of improvement.
AR Code § 14-90-1104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 11 - Sale of Property|§ 14-90-1104. Certificate of purchase

 Upon a sale under this subchapter, the commissioner shall execute to the purchaser a certificate of purchase, in which shall be stated the whole sum paid by the purchaser.
AR Code § 14-90-1105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 11 - Sale of Property|§ 14-90-1105. Failure to pay bid

 In making sales under this subchapter, if any bidder to whom any parcel of land shall be sold shall fail to pay his bid, the commissioner shall at once offer it again, and the bid of the delinquent bidder shall not be taken again at a sale.
AR Code § 14-90-1106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 11 - Sale of Property|§ 14-90-1106. Failure to sell

 Should any of the lands fail to be sold under this subchapter for any reason, the chancery court may, from time to time, order them to be offered again for sale.
AR Code § 14-90-1107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 11 - Sale of Property|§ 14-90-1107. Sale to improvement district

 (a) Municipal improvement districts may purchase lands sold under foreclosure decrees when there are no other bids equal to the delinquent installments, penalties, and costs.  (b) In the absence of bids, the commissioner making the sale, without bidding on the part of the district or its agent, shall sell the lands to the district for the full amount chargeable against the lands by the terms of the decree.  (c) The district may hold, sell, and convey all lands purchased at foreclosure sales.
AR Code § 14-90-1108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 11 - Sale of Property|§ 14-90-1108. Compensation of commissioner

 For a sale of property under this subchapter, no allowance to the commissioner for his services shall exceed five dollars ($5.00) for each lot, block, or part of a block of land sold and certificate made by him.
AR Code § 14-90-1201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 12 - Appeal from Decree of Sale|§ 14-90-1201. Advancement of cause

 If any appeal is taken from any decree ordering the sale of property to collect delinquent municipal improvement district assessments, the Supreme Court shall advance the cause on its docket and shall hear and decide the cause at as early a day as practicable.
AR Code § 14-90-1202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 12 - Appeal from Decree of Sale|§ 14-90-1202. Time to prosecute

 No appeal shall be prosecuted from any decree after the expiration of the twenty (20) days granted in § 14-90-1203 for filing the transcript in the clerk's office of the Supreme Court.
AR Code § 14-90-1203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 12 - Appeal from Decree of Sale|§ 14-90-1203. Filing of transcript

 (a) In an appeal under this subchapter, the transcript shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the Supreme Court within twenty (20) days after the rendering of the decree appealed from.  (b) In taking an appeal, the appellant shall only include in the transcript so much of the record as relates to his own lands.
AR Code § 14-90-1204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 12 - Appeal from Decree of Sale|§ 14-90-1204. Decision of court

 In an appeal under this subchapter, the Supreme Court shall either affirm or reverse the decree appealed from, shall render such a decree as should have been rendered by the lower court, or shall remand the cause to the inferior court without delay.
AR Code § 14-90-1301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 13 - Redemption of Property|§ 14-90-1301. Right to redeem

 The owner or person having an interest in any real property sold for delinquent assessment installments due municipal improvement districts shall have the right to redeem the property by paying to the purchaser or his assignee the sale price plus interest from the date of sale to the date of redemption at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum within the periods that follow:   (1) In the case of foreclosure proceedings commenced after May 1, 1995, two (2) years following the foreclosure sale; or  (2)  (A) In all other cases, the later of:  (i) Two (2) years after the date of foreclosure; or  (ii) December 1, 1996.    (B) Provided, however, in the case of the redemption periods in subdivision (2) (A) of this section, the period shall not be less than one (1) year following notice sent by registered or certified mail to the owner and the holder of any interest of record in such real property, at the address set forth in the real property records or tax records with respect to such real property, advising the owner and holder of the date of expiration of the applicable redemption period.
AR Code § 14-90-1302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 13 - Redemption of Property|§ 14-90-1302. Waiver of right

 (a)  (1) If the owner of property sold to collect delinquent municipal improvement district assessments shall come into court at any time within the period allowed for redemption and shall waive his right of redemption, the court shall order the purchaser to pay the amount that may be going to him within twenty (20) days after service of a copy of the order made on him to that effect.  (2) The payment shall be made into court for the benefit of the owner.    (b) On failure of the purchaser to make the payment, the court shall make an order setting aside the sale and restoring the property to the owner free from all claims of the purchaser, upon payment into court for his use of the amount of the assessment, penalty, and costs, and twenty percent (20%) thereon, which shall be paid over to the purchaser on his application.  (c)  (1) In case the certificate of purchase shall have been assigned, the notice provided for in this section may be served on the assignee holding it.  (2) In case the owner of the certificate of purchase shall not be known and that fact shall be made apparent to the court, the court shall cause publication to be made of a copy of the order in some newspaper published in the city for two (2) insertions. The last insertion shall be at least two (2) weeks before the making of the order contemplated in this section.
AR Code § 14-90-1303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 13 - Redemption of Property|§ 14-90-1303. Deed after expiration of redemption period

 (a)  (1) If any lands sold under this act shall not be redeemed within the time allowed in it, the court in which the suit is brought for the condemnation thereof shall direct a commissioner to execute a deed to the purchaser or his assignee, which may be in the following words:  (2) The deed shall be executed by the commissioner in the same manner as other deeds are required to be executed in cases of sale made under decrees of courts of chancery.    (b)  (1) The deed shall be prima facie evidence that all things were done that were necessary to make good the sale and conveyance for the transfer of an estate in fee simple.  (2)  (A) Unless the tax has in fact been paid, irregularities which could have been corrected by appeal shall not suffice to impair the validity of the commissioner's deed.  (B) If the name of the owner of record is used, failure to use the name of the true owner shall not impair the validity of the proceeding of the commissioner's deed.      (c) The deed mentioned in this section shall only be made on the filing of the certificate of purchase in the court unless proof of the loss of that certificate shall be made to the satisfaction of the court.    “Know all men by these presents, That whereas, a decree was rendered in the court of the county on the day of , 19 , condemning to be sold for the nonpayment of assessment for local improvement, certain lots (or blocks, as the case may be), which are described as follows: , lying in the city of , and whereas, they were duly sold by a commissioner appointed by said court for that purpose in said cause in which the board of improvement No. , for the purpose of , was plaintiff and was defendant, and were bought by for the following sums respectively, which sums were by him duly paid; and whereas, the time allowed for the redemption of said lands has expired, and I, , as commissioner, appointed by said court in said cause, am directed by said court to execute a deed, conveying said lands to him; therefore, in consideration of the premises, I, the said , do hereby grant and convey unto the said , the lands above described. Witness my hand this day of , 19 ”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 14-90-1401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1401. Purpose

 This subchapter is intended to supplement existing laws relative to foreclosure of assessment liens in municipal improvement districts.
AR Code § 14-90-1402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1402. Construction

 This subchapter is to be cumulative and shall repeal only those statutes in direct conflict with it.
AR Code § 14-90-1403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1403. List of delinquent property

 If any assessment, or annual installment thereof, levied by a municipal improvement district shall not be paid within the time provided by the city ordinance approving the assessment, the county tax collector shall add thereto a penalty of ten percent (10%) and shall at once return a list of all the property within the district on which the assessment or installment has not been paid to the board of improvement as delinquent.
AR Code § 14-90-1404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1404. Permanent record of delinquencies

 (a)  (1) When the suit with the delinquent list is filed with the county tax collector under this subchapter, the delinquent list of property shall be copied into a permanent record of delinquent lands.  (2) The collector shall receive, as part of his costs, the sum of ten cents (10¢) for each separate line of description of property. This amount shall be paid by the plaintiff when the suit is filed and shall be taxed and collected as part of the cost and refunded to the plaintiff.    (b)  (1) On the record of delinquent lands, the collector shall note all redemptions made prior to the date of sale.  (2) The collector shall also note on the record the redemption of lands after the sale, first recording after the description of each piece of property to whom it was sold or if sold to the plaintiff.
AR Code § 14-90-1405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1405. Jurisdiction of court

 (a) Under this subchapter, the chancery court shall have the jurisdiction of suits brought to collect delinquent installments.  (b)  (1) The court shall enter a decree against the lots, blocks, or parcels of land for the amount of the delinquent installments, together with penalty, attorney's fee, and costs.  (2) The decree shall provide for the sale of the delinquent lands by a commissioner, for cash, after advertisement, as specified in § 14-90-1408.
AR Code § 14-90-1406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1406. Proceedings in rem

 (a) Under this subchapter, proceedings shall in nature be in rem, and insofar as the rights of the purchaser are concerned, it shall be immaterial that the ownership of the lots, blocks, or parcels of land is incorrectly alleged in the proceedings.  (b) The decree shall be enforceable only against the delinquent property and not against any other property or estate of the defendants or the true owners of the delinquent property.  (c) In listing the lots, blocks, and parcels of land, they may be combined where they are constituent parts of a single improvement.
AR Code § 14-90-1407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1407. Property included in suit

 In proceedings under this subchapter, all of the delinquent property in a municipal improvement district may and should be included in one (1) suit, and the suit may cover more than one (1) past due installment.
AR Code § 14-90-1408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1408. Publication of notice

 (a)  (1) The warning order or notice of the pendency of a suit under this subchapter shall be given by publication weekly for two (2) weeks before judgment is entered for the sale of the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way in some newspaper published in the county where the suits may be pending.  (2) The warning order or notice may be in the following terms:    (b) The service by notice as provided in this section shall be just as effective and binding on the property as though service was had under § 14-90-1003.    “Board of Commissioners, (and name of improvement district), Plaintiff, vs. Delinquent Lands, Lots, Blocks or Parcels of Land, and railroad tracks and right-of-way, in said district , Defendants. “All persons, firms, or corporations having or claiming an interest in any of the following described lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way, are hereby notified and warned that suit is pending in the Chancery Court of County, Arkansas, to enforce the collection of certain taxes or assessments on the subjoined list of lands, each supposed owner having been set opposite his or her or its lands, together with the amounts severally due from each, to-wit: “(Then shall follow a list of supposed owners, with a description of each separate property that is delinquent, and amount due thereon respectively as aforesaid), and said warning order or notice may conclude in the following form: “All persons, firms and corporations interested in any of said property are hereby warned and notified that they are required by law to appear within four weeks and make defense to said suit, or the same will be taken for confessed and final judgment will be entered directing the sale of said lands for the purpose of collecting said taxes or assessments, together with the payment of interest, penalty, attorney's fee, and costs adjudged against each tract. Clerk of said Court.”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 14-90-1409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1409. Trial, decree, and sale generally

 (a)  (1) Under this subchapter, a suit shall stand for trial at the first term of court, or adjourned day of court, after the complaint is filed, if the four (4) weeks shall expire either before the first day of the term or during the term of court to which the suits are brought, respectively, unless a continuance is granted for good cause shown, within the discretion of the court.  (2) A continuance for good cause shown may be granted as to a part of the lands or defendants without affecting the duty of the court to dispose finally of the others as to whom no continuance may be granted.    (b)  (1) In all cases where notice has been properly given as prescribed in § 14-90-1408 and where no answer has been filed, or, if filed, and the cause decided for the plaintiff, the court, by its decree, shall grant the relief as requested in the complaint and shall direct the commissioner to sell the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way described in the complaint at the courthouse door of the county where the decree is entered, at public outcry, to the highest and best bidder, for cash in hand, after having first advertised the sale. This advertisement may include all the different properties described in the decree. It shall be published weekly for two (2) weeks, consecutively, in some newspaper published in the county, or, if there is no such newspaper, the advertisement may be published in some newspaper published in an adjoining county.  (2) If all the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, or railroad tracks and rights-of-way are not sold on the day as advertised, the sale shall continue, from day to day, until completed.    (c) The commissioner shall, by proper deed, convey to the purchaser the lands, lots, blocks, or parcels of land, and railroad tracks and rights-of-way so sold, and the title to the property shall thereupon become vested in the purchaser as against all others whomsoever, saving to infants and to insane persons having no guardian or curators the right they now have by law to appear and contest the proceedings within three (3) years after their disabilities are removed.
AR Code § 14-90-1410 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1410. Sale to plaintiff

 At a sale under the provisions of this subchapter, if there be no purchaser offering as much as the total tax or assessment, plus penalty, interest, and all costs and attorney fees allowed, the property shall be sold to the plaintiff.
AR Code § 14-90-1411 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 90 - Assessments by Municipal Improvement Districts|Subchapter 14 - Supplementary Foreclosure Proceedings|§ 14-90-1411. Redemption of property

 Any person, firm, or corporation having an interest in any property sold under the provisions of this subchapter may redeem it as required by law. However, the chancery clerk, in writing up the certificate of redemption, shall not charge and receive more than fifty cents (50¢) for one (1) separate call of property as listed and sold, and the sum of twenty-five cents (25¢) for each additional call or description of property which the person, firm, or corporation so redeeming may require to be redeemed and placed on the certificate.