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AR Code § 14-54-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 5 - Areas Adjacent to Shopping Centers|§ 14-54-503. Posting of signs, etc. — Penalty

 (a) When an ordinance has been passed, the owner or lessee of the area to be controlled shall, at his expense, post the signs, paint the lines, arrows, and curbings in the required colors, and install the devices and signals to apprise the public of the existence of the ordinance.  (b) Thereafter, persons who violate these ordinances shall be punished as provided in the ordinances. However, no fine shall be less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00).
AR Code § 14-54-504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 5 - Areas Adjacent to Shopping Centers|§ 14-54-504. Policing of area

 (a) No municipality shall be required to patrol the area which is controlled as provided in this subchapter, but, upon being called, law enforcement officers shall come to the scene of the alleged violation and, where warranted by law or ordinance, issue citations or make arrests.  (b) This section is cumulative to other laws on this subject and specifically does not repeal § 16-81-108.
AR Code § 14-54-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 5 - Areas Adjacent to Shopping Centers|§ 14-54-505. Tort liability unchanged

 Nothing in this subchapter shall limit or extend the law of this state with reference to tort liability of any person, firm, or corporation.
AR Code § 14-54-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 6 - Public Improvements|§ 14-54-601. Authority generally

 Municipal corporations shall have power to:   (1) In regard to streets, alleys, public grounds, wharves, landing places, and marketplaces, lay off, open, widen, straighten, and establish them; improve and keep them in order and repair; and light;  (2) Open, construct, keep in order, and repair sewers and drains; and  (3) Enter upon, or take, for such of the above purposes as may be required, land or material, and to assess and collect a charge on the owners of lots or lands, or on lots or lands through or by which a street, alley, or public highway shall pass, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of constructing, improving, repairing, or lighting the street, alley, or public highway, to be in proportion to the value of the lot or land as assessed for taxation under the general law of the state.
AR Code § 14-54-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 6 - Public Improvements|§ 14-54-602. Drainage of property

 Municipal corporations shall have power to cause any lot of land within their limits to be raised up or drained on which or on part of which water shall at any time become stagnant, and to cause all putrid substance, whether animal or vegetable, to be removed from any lot or lots.
AR Code § 14-54-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 6 - Public Improvements|§ 14-54-603. Assessment of property

 (a) Each municipal corporation may prescribe, either by general or special bylaws or ordinance, the mode in which the charge on the respective owners of lots or lands and on the lots or lands shall be assessed and determined for the purpose authorized by the provisions of this subchapter.  (b) A charge, when assessed, shall be payable by the owners at the time of the assessment, personally, and shall also be a lien on the respective lots or parcels of land in the possession of any owner from the time of assessment.
AR Code § 14-54-604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 6 - Public Improvements|§ 14-54-604. Collection of liens

 (a) The amount of the lien provided for in §§ 14-54-601 — 14-54-603 may be determined by action against the owner of any lot.  (b) The amount ascertained, with cost of suit and five percent (5%) penalty for collection, shall be certified by the mayor to the clerk of the county, and placed by him on the taxbook as delinquent taxes, and collected accordingly.  (c) The amount, when so collected, shall be paid to the city by the county collector.
AR Code § 14-54-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 7 - Public Utilities|§ 14-54-701. Authority generally

 (a)  (1) Municipal corporations shall have power to provide for, or construct, or acquire works for lighting the streets, alleys, parks, and other public places by gas, electricity, or otherwise; to furnish power to consumers; or to purchase power, gas, or electricity for these purposes from any individual, company, or corporation manufacturing it.  (2) In connection therewith, they may furnish lights and power to private consumers upon just compensation therefor and authorize construction of gas or electric works and street railroads.    (b)  (1) Improvement districts created within municipal corporations, or that embrace or include territory therein, which are organized for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, and selling either gas or electricity shall have the same right granted to municipal corporations to purchase power, gas, or electricity from any individual, company, or corporation manufacturing or distributing it for use in any of their plants or for resale or distribution to their customers or patrons.  (2) The exercise of this right shall not be construed in any way to impair or affect the validity of any bond issue or any other indebtedness of an improvement district.
AR Code § 14-54-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 7 - Public Utilities|§ 14-54-702. Construction or acquisition of waterworks

 (a) Municipal corporations shall have power to:  (1) Provide a supply of water by constructing or acquiring, by purchase or otherwise, wells, pumps, cisterns, reservoirs, or other waterworks and to regulate them;  (2) Prevent unnecessary waste of water; and  (3) Prevent pollution of water or injury to waterworks.    (b) For the purpose of establishing and supplying waterworks, any municipal corporation may go beyond its territorial limits. Its jurisdiction to prevent or punish any pollution or injury to the stream or source of water, or to the waterworks, shall extend five (5) miles beyond the corporate limits.
AR Code § 14-54-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 7 - Public Utilities|§ 14-54-703. Municipal ice plants

 (a) Cities of the first and second class shall have the authority, in addition to the powers now granted by law, to construct, maintain, and operate municipal ice plants.  (b)  (1) Funds may be used for the construction, maintenance, and operation of ice plants derived from the operation of any other public utility owned or operated by the city.  (2) This subsection shall not apply to public utilities constructed, owned, or operated by an improvement district.
AR Code § 14-54-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 7 - Public Utilities|§ 14-54-704. Contracts for utility services

 (a) For the purpose of providing water, gas, electric lights, heat, power, cold storage, street railroads, emergency medical services, and other public utility necessities for itself and for the inhabitants of any municipality, the mayor and city council, or the other governing bodies of municipalities having a commission, administrator, or city manager form of government, may contract on its own behalf, and on behalf of the inhabitants of the municipality, with any person or company to construct and operate the utility and may grant to the person or company, whether municipally owned and operated or otherwise, for a time which may be agreed on, for the privilege, exclusive or otherwise, of using the streets, alleys, and public grounds of the municipality for such purposes, on such rates, charges, and terms as may be agreed upon.  (b) The mayor and council or other governing body may authorize the person or company to assign the contract or privileges and to transfer the utility to any other person, or company having authority to conduct any such business in the municipality, with full authority to assignee or transferee to enjoy and use them, in like manner and to the same extent, as the assignor could have done.
AR Code § 14-54-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 8 - Public Health|§ 14-54-802. Regulation of burials generally

 (a) Municipal corporations shall have the power to:  (1) Regulate the burial of the dead;  (2) Provide, outside the corporate limits of the corporation, places for the interment of the dead; and  (3) Prevent any such interment within any such limits, except in public burying grounds established before the adoption of this section.    (b) Municipal corporations may not only impose proper fines and penalties but shall also have power to cause any body interred contrary to this prohibition to be taken up and buried outside the limits of the municipality.
AR Code § 14-54-803 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 8 - Public Health|§ 14-54-803. Power to require burial outside municipal limits

 (a) Cities of the first and second class and incorporated towns shall have the power to prohibit the burial of the dead within their limits.  (b)  (1) Where old and abandoned burial grounds which are no longer kept up or used as such are situated within the limits of any such city or incorporated town, it may, by suitable ordinance, require persons having dead buried therein to cause them, within some reasonable time, to be removed and buried beyond the limits of the city or incorporated town.  (2) In the event the bodies are not removed within the time specified in the ordinance of the city or incorporated town, after the ordinance has been published in the mode and manner prescribed by law, then the city or incorporated town may itself have the remains of all such persons as can be found removed and buried, as provided in this section. It may then and not before, by proper ordinance, vacate the cemetery or burial ground and declare that it is not any longer a cemetery exclusively used as such. Thereafter, the property shall become subject to taxation like other property.
AR Code § 14-54-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 9 - Regulation of Unsanitary Conditions|§ 14-54-901. Municipal authority

 Incorporated towns and cities of the first and second class are empowered to order the owner of lots and other real property within their towns or cities to cut weeds; to remove garbage, rubbish, and other unsightly and unsanitary articles and things upon the property; and to eliminate, fill up, or remove stagnant pools of water or any other unsanitary thing, place, or condition which might become a breeding place for mosquitoes, flies, and germs harmful to the health of the community, after the town or city has provided therefor by an ordinance to that effect.
AR Code § 14-54-902 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 9 - Regulation of Unsanitary Conditions|§ 14-54-902. Notice to unknown or nonresident owners

 (a)  (1) In case the owner of any lot or other real property is unknown or his or her whereabouts is not known or he or she is a nonresident of this state, then a copy of the written notice under § 14-54-903 shall be posted upon the premises.  (2) Before any action to enforce the lien, the municipal recorder or the city clerk shall make an affidavit setting out the facts as to unknown address or whereabouts of nonresidents.    (b)  (1) Thereupon, service of the publication as provided for by law against nonresident defendants may be had.  (2) An attorney ad litem shall be appointed to notify the defendant by certified letter addressed to his or her last known place of residence if it can be found.    (c) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, notices required by this subchapter shall be published, mailed, or delivered by the municipal recorder or the city clerk or other person as designated by the governing body of the municipality.  (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, after a notice has been issued for a specific violation of an order under § 14-54-901 directing an owner to eliminate a condition on the owner's property, an additional notice for a subsequent violation of that specific violation within the same calendar year shall not be required before the issuance of a citation.
AR Code § 14-54-904 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 9 - Regulation of Unsanitary Conditions|§ 14-54-904. Enforcement of lien for clearance by municipality

 (a) The liens provided for in § 14-54-903 may be enforced and collected at any time within ten (10) years after a lien has been filed in either one (1) of the following manners:  (1) By an action for foreclosure in the circuit court by the city or town, or if the city or town has established a land bank, by a land bank that has been assigned the lien; or  (2)  (A) The amount so determined at the hearing, plus ten percent (10%) penalty for collection, shall be certified by the governing body of the municipality to the tax collector of the county where the municipality is located and placed by him or her on the tax books as delinquent taxes and collected accordingly.  (B) The amount, less three percent (3%) thereof, when so collected shall be paid to the municipality by the county tax collector.      (b)  (1)  (A) In any situation in which a city of the first class or city of the second class issues an order for the removal, repair to return the structure to compliance with minimum building code standards, or razing of a building or house under the provisions of § 14-56-203 and such order is not complied with by the owner of the building or house and the city then removes, repairs, or razes the building or house, a lien is granted and given against the real property for the cost of the removal, repair, or razing.  (B) If the city determines to repair the building or house to meet the minimum building code standards, the city shall comply with all necessary requirements under § 14-58-303 for competitive bidding for purchases of supplies and materials or for contracts for work or labor needed to complete the repairs on the building or house.    (2) The lien granted by this subsection shall also be enforced pursuant to the lien enforcement procedures set forth in subsection (a) of this section.    (c) In all suits brought to enforce the liens described in this section, the reimbursement of costs, including title search fees and reasonable attorney's fees, shall be awarded to the municipality.
AR Code § 14-54-905 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 9 - Regulation of Unsanitary Conditions|§ 14-54-905. Federal programs

 An owner of an abandoned home or residential property that is located in a designated neighborhood stabilization or revitalization area may voluntarily participate in a United States Department of Housing and Urban Development's housing program if federal funds are available.
AR Code § 14-54-1101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 11 - Regulation of Animals|§ 14-54-1101. Livestock running at large

 (a) Cities of the first and second class and incorporated towns are empowered to prevent the running at large within their corporate limits of cattle, horses, mules, asses, swine, sheep, goats, and other animals of the kind. These cities and towns are authorized and empowered to restrain and impound any such animals so found running at large within their corporate limits, in violation of any ordinance passed by the cities and towns in conformity with this section.  (b)  (1)  (A) Whenever any person or officer of any city or incorporated town in this state under the law of this state, or under an ordinance of any city or incorporated town, shall take charge of any horse, cow, ass, sheep, goat, or hog for the purpose of impounding it, the persons so impounding the stock found to be running at large in the city or town shall at once notify the owner of the animal, if known to the person or officer, that the animal has been taken possession of.  (B) If the owner of the animal shall, within twenty-four (24) hours after being notified, appear and claim his stock, it shall be delivered to the owner.    (2)  (A) If the owner of the stock is unknown to the person or officer taking up or impounding, then that person or officer shall post written notices in at least three (3) public places in the incorporated towns, and by notice in some newspaper in cities of the first and second class. This notice shall give a description of the animal, set out therein the marks, brands, and flesh marks of the animals so impounded, and call upon the owner of the animal to prove his ownership or interest therein to such person or officer having it in his possession or custody, within ten (10) days after the publication of the notice.  (B) Upon proof being made to the satisfaction of the person or officer and the payment of actual expenses incurred in the taking care of the animal, the person or officer having it in his possession shall at once deliver the animal to the owner.      (c) If the pound master, his agent or employee, or any employee of any city shall drive or entice any of the stock enumerated in this section from outside the city into the city, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, he shall be fined in any sum not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
AR Code § 14-54-1102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 11 - Regulation of Animals|§ 14-54-1102. Dogs running at large

 (a) Municipal corporations shall have the power to prevent the running at large of dogs, and injuries and annoyances therefrom, and to authorize the destruction of them, when at large contrary to any prohibition to that effect.  (b)  (1)  (A) Municipalities may impound and destroy any dog running at large within the municipality.  (B)  (i) Prior to destroying the dog, the municipality shall give the dog's owner at least five (5) days' notice of the date of the proposed destruction of the dog.  (ii) The notice shall be by certified letter, return receipt requested. Dog owners may claim their dogs at the municipal pound by reimbursing the municipality for the cost of the notice plus other costs and requirements which may be established by ordinance of the municipal governing body prior to the date set for destruction of the dogs.      (2) This subsection shall apply only in instances where the dog carries its owner's address.
AR Code § 14-54-1103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 11 - Regulation of Animals|§ 14-54-1103. Taxation

 The city council of any municipal corporation shall have the power whenever, in their opinion, the interest of the corporation requires it, to levy and collect a tax on dogs and other domestic animals not included in the list of taxable property, for state and county purposes.
AR Code § 14-54-1104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 11 - Regulation of Animals|§ 14-54-1104. Auctions

 Municipal corporations shall have power to regulate or prohibit the sale of all horses or other domestic animals at auctions in the streets, alleys, or highways.
AR Code § 14-54-1201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 12 - Milk Production and Sale|§ 14-54-1201. Authority to regulate

 Municipalities are authorized to regulate, in accordance with the terms of the 1939 edition of the United States Public Health Service milk ordinance, the production, transportation, processing, handling, sampling, examination, grading, labeling, and sale of all milk and milk products sold for ultimate consumption within municipalities.
AR Code § 14-54-1202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 12 - Milk Production and Sale|§ 14-54-1202. Form of ordinance

 Authority for the regulation authorized in § 14-54-1201 may be had by the passage of an ordinance in the following form:   “An ordinance to regulate the production, transportation, processing, handling, sampling, examination, grading, labeling, regrading, and sale of milk and milk products; the inspection of dairy herds, dairies, and milk plants; the issuing and revocation of permits to milk producers and distributors; the placarding of restaurants and other establishments serving milk or milk products; and the fixing of penalties.   “The city of ordains:   “Section 1. The production, transportation, processing, handling, sampling, examination, grading, labeling, regrading, and sale of all milk and milk products sold for ultimate consumption within the city of , or its police jurisdiction, the inspection of dairy herds, dairies, and milk plants, the issuing and revocation of permits to milk producers and distributors, the placarding of restaurants and other establishments serving milk or milk products, and the fixing of penalties, shall be regulated in accordance with the terms of the 1939 edition of the United States Public Health Service Milk Ordinance, a certified copy of which shall be on file in the office of the city clerk: Provided, That the blank spaces following the words “city of” in said Public Health Service Milk Ordinance shall be understood to refer to the city of ; Provided further, That in section 8 of said Public Health Service Milk Ordinance the alternative wording shall apply: Provided further, That sections 16 and 17 of said Public Health Service Milk Ordinance shall be replaced, respectively, by sections 2 and 3 below.   “Section 2. Any person, firm, or corporation violating any provision of this ordinance shall upon conviction be punished by   “Section 3. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed; and this ordinance shall take effect upon its adoption and publication.”