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AR Code § 14-47-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-118. Acting mayor

 If both the mayor and assistant mayor should be absent or disabled from performing their duties, the board may designate by resolution one (1) of its members as acting mayor to serve during the absence or disability and no longer.
AR Code § 14-47-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-119. Employment of city manager

 (a)  (1)  (A) The initial board of directors, as promptly as possible after effecting its organization, shall employ a city manager.  (B) However, in cities with the city manager form of government having a population of more than one hundred thousand (100,000) persons according to the most recent federal decennial census, the mayor may be authorized to employ a city manager. The mayor may be authorized by:  (i) An ordinance of the initial board; or  (ii) An initiated measure, adopted pursuant to Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 7, authorizing the mayor to employ a city manager. If the authority is vested by an initiated measure, the board shall not have the power to rescind the authority.      (2)  (A) The city manager's employment shall be for an indefinite term.  (B) Thereafter, subject only to such interruptions as are unavoidable, a city manager shall be maintained in the employ of the city.    (3) The appointment and continued employment by the board or mayor of a city manager shall be mandatory.    (b)  (1) It shall not be essential that the city manager, at the time of his or her employment, be a qualified elector of the city or of the State of Arkansas or a resident of the city or of the State of Arkansas.  (2) However, the city manager shall be a person found by the board or mayor to have special qualifications in respect to the management of municipal affairs.  (3) During his or her employment, the city manager shall reside in the city and devote his or her full time to the business of the city.  (4) Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (b)(3) of this section regarding the residency requirements for city managers, the city manager of a city with a city manager form of government and with a population of fewer than six thousand (6,000) persons, upon approval of a majority of the board, may reside outside the city during his or her employment as city manager.    (c) A member of the board may not be appointed city manager nor acting city manager during the term for which he or she shall have been elected nor within three (3) years following the expiration of the member's term of office as director or mayor.  (d) The city manager shall receive a salary in such amount as may be fixed by the board.  (e) The board, on the vote of a majority of its elected membership, or the mayor, if authorized pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, may terminate the city manager's employment at any time, either with or without cause.  (f)  (1) The city manager shall furnish a fidelity bond, the premiums on which shall be paid by the city, in such amount, on such form, and with such security as may be approved by the board.  (2) The bond, in no event, shall be less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000).
AR Code § 14-47-121 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-121. Acting city manager

 (a) If the city manager is absent from the city or is unable to perform his or her duties, if the board of directors or the mayor, if authorized, suspends the city manager, or if there is a vacancy in the office of city manager, the board, by resolution, or the mayor, if authorized to employ the city manager pursuant to § 14-47-119(a), may appoint an acting city manager to serve until the city manager returns, until his or her disability or suspension ceases, or until another city manager is appointed and qualifies, as the case may be.  (b) The board or the mayor, if authorized, may suspend or remove an acting city manager at any time.  (c)  (1) The board, in the exercise of its discretion, or the mayor, if authorized, may determine whether the acting city manager shall furnish bond.  (2) If in any instance the board requires the acting city manager to furnish bond, in respect to form, amount, and security it shall be subject to the approval of the board or the mayor.    (d) The acting city manager shall receive a reasonable compensation to be fixed by the board.
AR Code § 14-47-123 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-123. Meetings of board of directors

 (a)  (1) A majority of the elected membership of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.  (2) Except where otherwise provided by law, the concurring vote of a majority of those attending a meeting, provided a quorum is present, shall represent the action of the board.    (b) The board shall meet on days certain to be chosen in advance by the board within the first and third weeks in each calendar month, except when any meeting date falls on a legal holiday, in which event the meeting shall be held on a substituted date fixed by adjournment at the preceding meeting.  (c)  (1) Special meetings may be called at any time by the mayor or by directors representing a majority of the elected membership of the board.  (2) The board may establish by ordinance the procedure for calling and giving notice of special meetings.    (d) All meetings shall be open to the public.  (e) Every motion, resolution, and ordinance adopted by the board shall be signed by the mayor. Each of the foregoing shall be attested by the city clerk, if the municipality is a city of the first class, if otherwise, by the recorder.  (f) All laws not inconsistent with this chapter which immediately prior to its reorganization under this chapter controlled the proceedings of the council of the city, including, without limitation, procedure for the adoption, enactment, and publication of ordinances and resolutions, shall govern the proceedings of its board.
AR Code § 14-47-124 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-124. Initiative and referendum

 (a) The initiative and referendum laws of this state are applicable to cities reorganized under this chapter.  (b) The number of signatures required upon any petition shall be computed upon the highest vote cast at the preceding general election for any position on the board of directors of the municipality.  (c) Except for a municipal referendum petition concerning a municipal bond, a sponsor shall be given sixty (60) days to circulate a municipal referendum petition.
AR Code § 14-47-125 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-125. Budget and appropriations

 (a) The approval by the board of directors of the budget shall amount to an appropriation for the purposes of the budget of the funds which are lawfully applicable to the different items therein contained.  (b) The board may alter or revise the budget from time to time, and unpledged funds appropriated by the board for any specific purpose may be appropriated by subsequent action of the board to another purpose, subject to the following exceptions:  (1) Funds resulting from taxes levied under statute or ordinance for a specific purpose may not be diverted to another purpose; and  (2) Appropriated funds may not be diverted to another purpose where any creditor of the municipality would be prejudiced thereby.
AR Code § 14-47-126 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-126. Annual audit

 The board of directors shall be obligated to have the financial affairs of the city audited annually by the Division of Legislative Audit of the State of Arkansas or by an independent certified public accountant who is not otherwise in the service of the city.
AR Code § 14-47-127 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-127. Civil service plans

 (a) If, on the effective date of the reorganization of any city under this chapter, a civil service plan for any municipal employees or officers shall be in effect in the city, reorganization under this chapter shall not terminate or otherwise impair the civil service plan. That plan shall remain in full force and effect, subject to § 14-47-131, following the reorganization under this chapter.  (b) The municipal civil service plans made available under the provisions of § 14-49-101 et seq., § 14-50-101 et seq., and § 14-51-101 et seq. may be adopted, subject to § 14-47-131, by any city reorganized under this chapter.
AR Code § 14-47-128 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-128. Deferred compensation agreements

 (a) Any city in the State of Arkansas organized and operating under a management form of municipal government is authorized and empowered to enter into a deferred compensation agreement with any employee of the city for the purpose of deferring payment of any portion of the employee's salary or income and to deposit the deferred compensation funds with a third party, agreed to in writing by the employee, in trust, with directions that the funds be paid to the employee as authorized by the deferred compensation agreement.  (b) For the purposes of this section, a “deferred compensation agreement” is any agreement approved by the city for its employees and executed by an employee of the city, the city, and a third party, as trustee, chosen by the employee, where the third party agrees to pay a periodic income to the employee in the event of retirement or disability or to the employee's beneficiary in the event of death.  (c) Deferred compensation funds deposited with a third party trustee as provided for in this section may be invested and reinvested by the trustee in any manner which, in its sole discretion, it deems desirable, notwithstanding legal limitations on the investment of public funds as provided for by the laws of the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 14-47-129 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-129. Dependents of killed police officer or firefighter

 (a) Whenever a police officer or firefighter of the city is killed in the actual performance of his or her official duties, the board of directors shall cause to be set aside for the use and benefit of his or her spouse and children or others necessarily dependent upon him or her for their support, if they survive him or her, the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000).  (b) This sum shall be paid in installments as shall be required and, in the judgment of the boards, as shall be deemed advisable.
AR Code § 14-47-130 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-130. Public health jurisdiction

 (a) The board of directors shall have power to pass such ordinances and to make and enforce such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to promote the public health and to prevent and control disease.  (b) Their jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to health and sanitation, and for purposes of quarantine, shall extend five (5) miles beyond the city limits.
AR Code § 14-47-131 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-131. Creation of new departments, etc

 (a) The board of directors may from time to time by ordinance:  (1) Create any new municipal:  (A) Department;  (B) Office;  (C) Employment;  (D) Board;  (E) Authority;  (F) Commission; or  (G) Agency;    (2)  (A) Appoint the personnel to serve in the department, office, employment, board, authority, commission, or agency.  (B) However, the appointment of personnel shall be by the mayor if the mayor has appointment power pursuant to § 14-47-108(a)(2)(E);    (3) Fix the term of employment and compensation of each appointee; and  (4) Specify whether each appointee shall or shall not be subject to the city's civil service or merit system.    (b)  (1) By ordinance, the board also, in the exercise of its discretion, may consolidate the office of city treasurer with the office of city clerk or such other office or position as the board, by ordinance, may charge with the responsibility of administering the financial affairs of the city.  (2) The board may:  (A) Delegate all of the duties of the city treasurer to the person holding that office or position in the city;  (B) Fill the consolidated office by appointment;  (C) Fix the term and compensation of the appointee; and  (D) Specify whether the appointee shall be subject to the city's civil service or merit system.
AR Code § 14-47-132 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-132. Vacancy on municipal board, etc

 (a) Any vacancy on any municipal board or commission of any city of the first class having a population of fewer than fifty thousand (50,000) and having a city manager form of government shall be filled by a majority vote of the board of directors of the city or by the mayor, if the mayor has appointment power pursuant to § 14-47-108(a)(2)(E).  (b)  (1) The provisions of this section shall apply to all existing boards and commissions and to all boards and commissions hereafter established in which vacancies are filled by the remaining members of the board or commission or by the city manager.  (2) The provisions of this section shall not be applicable to any Arkansas city which is divided by a state line from an incorporated city or town in an adjoining state.
AR Code § 14-47-133 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-133. Appointees generally

 (a) Subject to the exceptions contained in § 14-47-108, every person appointed by the board of directors or by the mayor, if authorized as provided in § 14-47-108(a)(2)(E), to any municipal office, employment, or position or to membership on any board, authority, or commission shall serve for such time and shall receive such compensation as the board of directors may fix and determine by ordinance.  (b) This section is applicable even in respect to offices and employments which, under statutes applicable to the mayor-council form of government, were held for a fixed term or on a salary basis fixed by statute.
AR Code § 14-47-134 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-134. Qualifications of appointees

 (a)  (1)  (A) In the exercise by the board of directors of its authority in respect to the filling of vacancies in executive positions and memberships on municipal boards, authorities, and commissions, only those qualified electors of the city found by the directors to possess the necessary qualifications shall be appointed or confirmed.  (B) Provided, a board of directors may appoint, at its discretion, persons who reside outside the city to museum boards and commissions.      (b)  (1) In filling vacancies on any municipal board, authority, or commission, unless the statute applicable to the position forbids the appointment thereto of a city employee, the city manager, if otherwise qualified, shall be an eligible appointee.  (2) The city manager, however, shall not be, ex officio, a member of any municipal board, authority, or commission.
AR Code § 14-47-135 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-135. Relations barred from employment

 No person shall hold an appointive position or employment in the pay of the city if that person is related by blood or marriage in the third degree either to a member of the board of directors or to the city manager. Provided, however, this prohibition shall not prevent a person who holds an appointive or employment position with the city at the time the person's relative becomes city manager or a member of the board of directors from continuing in that position or employment.
AR Code § 14-47-136 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-136. Bond of officers and employees

 All officers and employees of a city reorganized under this chapter with the exception of the city manager, whose bond requirement is controlled by § 14-47-119, shall be required to make bond in such amount, on such form, and with such security as may meet the approval of the board of directors.
AR Code § 14-47-137 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-137. Prohibited actions by officers or employees

 (a)  (1) An officer or employee elected or appointed in any city shall not be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job for work or materials, or the profits, or service to be furnished or performed for the city unless the board of directors of the city has enacted an ordinance specifically permitting an officer or employee to conduct business with the city and prescribing the extent of this authority.  (2) This prohibition shall not apply to contracts for the furnishing of supplies, equipment, or services to be performed for a municipality by a corporation in which an officer does not hold any executive or managerial office or by a corporation in which a controlling interest is held by stockholders who are not officers or employees.  (3) This prohibition shall not apply to contracts for the furnishing of supplies, equipment, or services to be performed for a municipality by a volunteer who has been appointed to a municipal board, municipal commission, or municipal task force.    (b)  (1) An officer or employee shall not accept or receive, directly or indirectly, any frank, pass, free ticket, or free service from any person, firm, or corporation operating within the territorial limits of the city any public transportation service, gas works, waterworks, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line or telephone exchange, or other business acting or operating under a public franchise of the city; nor shall any officer or employee accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person, firm, or corporation, or its agents, any other service upon terms more favorable than those granted to the public generally.  (2) The prohibition of free transportation shall not apply to police officers or firefighters in uniform, nor shall any free service to city officials heretofore provided by franchise or ordinance be affected by this subsection.    (c) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in a sum of not less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000), and every such contract or agreement shall be void.
AR Code § 14-47-138 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-138. Competitive bidding required

 (a)  (1) Before making a purchase of or contract for supplies, materials, or equipment and before obligating the city under a contract for the performance of services or for the construction of municipal improvements in which the anticipated cost to the city of the transaction exceeds the maximum amount established by the board of directors under the authority of § 14-47-120, opportunity for competitive bidding shall be given under such rules and regulations as the board may prescribe by ordinance, and the contract shall be consummated only on a bid approved by the city manager and by the board.  (2) Competitive bids may be accepted in the form of a written bid or by electronic media.    (b) The board, by ordinance, may waive the requirement of competitive bidding in exceptional situations where this procedure is not feasible, but lacking such exceptional situations, the board may not except any particular contract, purchase, or sale from the requirement of competitive bidding.  (c) All purchase and sale records of the city shall be open to public inspection.
AR Code § 14-47-139 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 47 - City Manager Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-47-139. Public utility franchises, etc

 Every ordinance or resolution granting any public utility franchise, or granting the right to occupy the streets, highways, bridges, or other public places in the city for any purpose shall be completed in the form in which it is finally passed and remain on file with the city clerk for public inspection at least one (1) week before its final passage or adoption.
AR Code § 14-48-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 48 - City Administrator Form of Municipal Government|§ 14-48-101. Applicability

 (a) Any municipality of this state having a population of two thousand five hundred (2,500) or more inhabitants, according to the most recent federal census, or any city of the first class may call and hold an election on the question of becoming organized under, and governed by, the city administrator form of government authorized in this chapter.  (b) Any such election shall be called and conducted in the manner provided in this chapter.