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AR Code § 14-121-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 7 - Annexing Certain Benefited Lands to District|§ 14-121-704. Assessment or reassessment of benefits

 (a) When lands have been annexed, the assessor of the drainage district shall proceed to assess the benefits in the annexed territory.  (b) Where there are no assessors, the board of commissioners shall act as assessors.  (c) The benefits shall be assessed, advertised, and equalized in the manner provided in §§ 14-121-402, 14-121-404, and 14-121-405, and appeals from the proceedings confirming the assessment must be taken within the time therein provided.  (d) If the commissioners of that drainage district deem it best, they may have a reassessment of all the benefits in the entire district, so as to equalize the burden, which reassessment shall be made, advertised, and equalized as above provided.
AR Code § 14-121-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 7 - Annexing Certain Benefited Lands to District|§ 14-121-705. Use of increased revenues

 Any increased revenues by reason of the annexes to a district together with any other revenues of any district not required for bonds and interest payments may be used by the commissioners for the purpose of cleaning, widening, deepening, or maintaining the drainage ditches of the districts.
AR Code § 14-121-706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 7 - Annexing Certain Benefited Lands to District|§ 14-121-706. Legal proceedings

 All proceedings brought under this subchapter and all suits to enjoin such proceedings or questioning the assessment of benefits had hereunder shall be deemed matters of public interest and shall be disposed of at the earliest possible moment. Appeals therefrom must be taken and perfected within thirty (30) days.
AR Code § 14-121-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally|§ 14-121-802. Contractor's bond

 All contractors shall be required to give bond for the faithful performance of the contracts awarded them, with good and sufficient securities, in an amount to be fixed by the board. The board shall not remit or excuse the penalty or forfeiture of the bond or the breaches thereof.
AR Code § 14-121-803 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally|§ 14-121-803. Right to pass over land — Commissioners, engineers, and contractors

 (a) The commissioners, engineers, and contractors engaged in drainage work shall have the right to pass, with their equipment, over all the lands of the district, being liable to the owner for any damage done thereto.  (b) Any owner who shall prevent the passage over his land shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined one hundred dollars ($100) for each day that he prevents the passage.
AR Code § 14-121-804 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally|§ 14-121-804. Landowner ditches draining into public ditches — Crossing lands of another

 (a) Any landowner within the district may build ditches to drain his lands into the public ditches.  (b) If any intervening landowner should refuse permission to cross his lands with such ditch, the landowner seeking to construct the ditch may, by proceedings in the circuit court to be conducted in the same manner as condemnation proceedings instituted by railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies, condemn a right-of-way for the ditch.  (c) In those proceedings, the jury shall deduct from the damages the benefits that will accrue to the intervening landowner by the construction of the ditch, and the intervening landowner shall have the right to use the ditch for the drainage of his own lands.
AR Code § 14-121-805 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally|§ 14-121-805. Ditches across or under highways, railroads, or bridges

 (a) The commissioners shall have the right to carry the ditches across any highway.  (b) Ditches may also be carried under or through any railroad track or tramway, and the owner thereof shall have no claim for damages on that account but shall bridge the ditch at its own expense.
AR Code § 14-121-806 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally|§ 14-121-806. District duty to build highway bridges over ditches

 The district shall build bridges to carry the county highways over the ditches dug by it.
AR Code § 14-121-807 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally|§ 14-121-807. Regulations for district fences, bridges, etc

 (a) In order to prevent damages to drainage systems and to secure the best results from their construction, the board of commissioners of any district may:  (1) Make regulations for and may prescribe the manner of building fences and bridges across any ditch or other construction; and  (2) Prescribe the manner in which branch ditches or tile lines shall enter the ditches of the district, and the means by which crossings shall be made over levees.    (b) The construction of any fences, bridges, or other construction and the digging of any lateral ditches into the ditches of the district in a manner contrary to that specified by the commissioners shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100).  (c) The commissioners shall have authority to enforce the regulations and may remove any construction or may close any opening improperly made.
AR Code § 14-121-808 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally|§ 14-121-808. Construction of ditches beyond district limits

 (a) In case it is necessary to do so in order to obtain a proper outlet for the drainage system or otherwise to perfect the system of improvements, the commissioners may construct ditches or do other work on land beyond the jurisdiction of the county court or which for other reasons cannot be included in the district, so as to secure the object of the improvement.  (b) In that event, they shall have the right to condemn a right-of-way for that drain or other construction.  (c) The proceedings for the right-of-way shall be the same that are now provided by law for the condemnation of the rights-of-way for railroads, telegraphs, and telephones.  (d) The ditch or drain beyond the limits of the districts shall be the property of the district, and no person, corporation, or other drainage district not assessed shall have the right to dig any lateral drain connecting therewith without paying compensation to be fixed by the circuit court.
AR Code § 14-121-809 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally|§ 14-121-809. Construction, reconstruction, replacement, and repair of certain levees and setbacks

 (a) All drainage districts organized under special acts of the General Assembly are given authority to construct, reconstruct, repair, and replace levees and to construct setbacks abutting drainage ditches whenever deemed necessary and proper by the board of directors of the district for the benefit of the lands of the district in securing better drainage for those lands and preventing overflows and destruction of the crops and the erosion of lands within the district. They are given the power of eminent domain over such lands as may be necessary for the purpose.  (b) The drainage districts shall have a further right and authority to obligate the district to maintain and keep in proper repair any levees which may be constructed, reconstructed, repaired, or replaced within the district by the federal government for the benefit of the lands within the district and to further obligate the district to keep its drainage ditches and their outlets free of obstructions.
AR Code § 14-121-810 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally|§ 14-121-810. Ownership of timber on right-of-way

 In case the right-of-way for the improvement is through timber, the ownership of the timber shall pass to the district with the control of the right-of-way, and the board of commissioners may use or dispose of the timber as they deem best.
AR Code § 14-121-811 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally|§ 14-121-811. Authority to obtain and dispose of maintenance equipment — Personnel — Tax

 (a)  (1) Boards of commissioners of drainage districts organized under the laws of Arkansas are authorized upon petition of the majority of the property owners in their districts, or upon petition of the owners of the majority of the property in their district, to purchase, lease, or rent, separately as individual districts or jointly with other districts, machinery, equipment, and material to be used in repairing, deepening, widening, and clearing the ditches of their districts.  (2) The commissioners are further authorized to employ and fix the compensation to be paid such personnel as may be necessary and incidental for the use of the machinery, equipment, and material obtained.  (3)  (A) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section, the drainage districts are authorized to levy a maintenance tax and obtain funds as now provided by law.  (B) The tax may be levied as a flat tax per acre.    (4) Commissioners are further authorized to sell or lease machinery, equipment, or material purchased under the provisions of this section, the proceeds of the sale or lease to be deposited to the credit of the district's maintenance fund in the established depository of the district.    (b) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, “compensation” means all salaries, hourly wages, retirement allowances, group insurance, medical benefits, and anything else of value that the district provides in return for work done by the personnel.  (c) This section is supplemental and does not repeal any existing drainage law.
AR Code § 14-121-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 9 - Cleaning Public Drains|§ 14-121-901. Board

 For the purpose of keeping a small cash fund on hand with which to clean out the public drains of this state, the county judge, county clerk, and sheriff of each county of this state wherein are located any public drains shall be and compose a board, of which the county judge shall be president and the county clerk shall be secretary, whose duty it shall be to ascertain the amount necessary to keep each public drain in their respective counties clean for the next ensuing year and certify the amount to the several quorum courts of the counties at the regular sessions of the courts for the levying of other taxes. It shall then be the duty of the levying court to levy the amount so certified as other taxes are levied, which amount so levied shall be by the county clerk extended as taxes against the lands assessed for the construction of each public drain in the same proportion as the land was originally assessed for the construction of the ditch, and when extended the amount shall be a lien upon the land. The land shall be subject to sale for the nonpayment of the incidental ditch tax and be sold in default of the payment of the tax as in cases of other delinquent taxes.
AR Code § 14-121-902 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 9 - Cleaning Public Drains|§ 14-121-902. Treasurers to keep separate account with drainage district

 The county treasurers of this state shall keep upon their books a separate account with each public drainage district of their county, and no money collected under the provisions of § 14-121-901 shall be paid out only for the purpose of keeping clean the particular public ditch for which it was collected.
AR Code § 14-121-903 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 9 - Cleaning Public Drains|§ 14-121-903. Unpaid amounts considered in making estimate — Extension of overdue amounts

 (a) Whenever there shall remain due and unpaid at the date of the passage of this act any amounts for labor performed in cleaning out any of the public drains of this state, it shall be the duty of the board provided for in this act to take these amounts into consideration in making their estimates of the expenses of keeping the drains clean for the ensuing year. These amounts shall be paid out of the money arising from the amount certified by the board and collected as provided in § 14-121-901.  (b) Where fees have already been paid by the owner of any particular tract of land subject to the tax, no further amount shall be assessed against the land. The amount provided for in this section shall only be extended against the land as has not already been paid on. The county clerk, in extending the overdue amount, shall only extend the amount against the land as has not been previously paid, which amount shall be in addition to the land's share of the necessary amount to keep the drain clean for the ensuing year.
AR Code § 14-121-1001 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 10 - Dissolution or Abolition of Districts|§ 14-121-1001. Applicability

 The provisions of this act shall be applicable to any drainage district of this state which shall meet all the following requirements:   (1) The district shall have been created either by order of the county court or the circuit court on appeal;  (2) All lands within the district shall be within a single county;  (3) No assessment of benefits shall have been confirmed by the county court or the circuit court on appeal;  (4) No bonds shall have been issued by the districts secured by a valid pledge of any assessments, benefits, or betterments;  (5) The district shall have been created without petitions in favor thereof having been filed, signed by a majority either in numbers, in acreage, or in value of the holders of real property within the district.
AR Code § 14-121-1002 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 10 - Dissolution or Abolition of Districts|§ 14-121-1002. Filing petition

 The board of commissioners of any drainage district subject to the provisions of this act and meeting the requirements of § 14-121-1001, or not less than a majority of the property owners in the district determined either in number, in acreage, or in value of the lands of the district, when they deem it inadvisable or impractical and not for the best interest of the property owners of the district to construct the improvements contemplated by the organization of the district, may file a petition in the county court wherein the original petition to create the district was filed praying the court to abolish or dissolve the district. In the petition, the commissioners or landowners filing the petition shall set up their reasons why they are of the opinion the district should be abolished or dissolved.
AR Code § 14-121-1003 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 10 - Dissolution or Abolition of Districts|§ 14-121-1003. Notice and hearing

 (a) Upon the filing of the petition the court shall direct the clerk of the court to give notice by publication in some newspaper in the county in which the property in the district lies for not less than two (2) consecutive weekly publications, which notice shall set out the purpose of the petition and the day set for the hearing thereon. The court shall fix a day for the hearing of the petition and shall hear the evidence thereon, and if it is of the opinion that it is for the best interests of the property owners of the district that the petition be granted, it shall abolish or dissolve the district, but if it is of the opinion that it is for the best interest of the property owners that the organization of the district be continued, then it shall overrule the petition.  (b) The overruling of one petition for the abandonment of a district or a determination of the court in that hearing that the petition is not signed by the requisite number of landowners shall not be a bar to the filing of another petition for that purpose.
AR Code § 14-121-1004 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 10 - Dissolution or Abolition of Districts|§ 14-121-1004. Contracts during pendency of petition

 During the pendency of the petition and prior to the hearing on it, the county court may, in its discretion and by its order, prohibit the commissioners of the district subject to the term of this act at the time of the filing of the petition from the making of contracts, the pledging of assessments or betterments, the incurring of new indebtedness or the issuance of bonds or other obligations of the district.
AR Code § 14-121-1005 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 10 - Dissolution or Abolition of Districts|§ 14-121-1005. Valid indebtedness unimpaired

 No dissolution of a district under the terms of this act shall impair or deny any creditor of the district the right to the collection of its bona fide and valid indebtedness existing against the district, but the creditors of the district shall be subject to the provisions of this act in connection with the presentation, allowance, or other adjudication with reference to their claim.
AR Code § 14-121-1006 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 10 - Dissolution or Abolition of Districts|§ 14-121-1006. Claims against district

 (a) All claims against the district existing at the time the county court shall make an order for the dissolution of the district must be presented to the commissioners duly itemized and verified as is required in actions of account. If not presented to the commissioners of the district within six (6) months from the date of the county court order of dissolution, claims shall forever be barred.  (b) Within ten (10) days from the allowance or disallowance of any claim presented to the commissioners, the claim shall be filed by the commissioners in the county court with an endorsement thereon as their allowance or disallowance of the same, and within thirty (30) days from the filing of the claim or account in the county court, the county court shall make its order either approving, rejecting, or modifying the actions of the commissioners with reference to any such indebtedness. Within the time allowed by law for appeal from orders of the county court, either the district or any landowner therein or any party claiming to be a creditor of the district may either appeal from the order of the county court to the circuit court or any creditor may institute an action against the district in any court of competent jurisdiction for the determination of the determination of the existence and amount of his claim.
AR Code § 14-121-1007 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 10 - Dissolution or Abolition of Districts|§ 14-121-1007. Partial continuance

 (a) All drainage districts which are dissolved or abolished pursuant to the terms of this act shall nevertheless be continued in existence for the purpose of prosecuting and defending suits by or against the district and for the purpose of enabling the district to settle, close its business, to dispose of and convey its property, to levy, receive, and distribute taxes which are levied or collected for the purpose of meeting the obligations of the district, but not for the purpose of constructing the improvements for which the district shall have been established or for the purpose of creating any new indebtedness therefor other than indebtedness incident to the liquidation and settlement of the affairs of the district.  (b) Notwithstanding the order of dissolution, commissioners may be appointed or removed in the same manner as if the order of dissolution had not been made.
AR Code § 14-121-1008 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 10 - Dissolution or Abolition of Districts|§ 14-121-1008. Indebtedness of dissolved districts — Levy and collection of tax

 (a) When the indebtedness owing by a district dissolved under the provisions of this act shall have been determined, it shall be the duty of the commissioners to certify to the county court their determination as to a tax levy upon the real property of the district which is sufficient to pay the indebtedness thereof, including the reasonable expenses of dissolution and settlement of the affairs of the district, which expenses shall be subject to the approval, modification, or rejection by the county court. Upon ascertainment by the county court that the levy is required for the purpose of this act, the county court shall approve the levy by its order and certify the amount of the levy to the quorum court of the county in which the district is located.  (b) The levy shall be upon the assessed value of the real property in the district for the state and county taxation as it appears upon the county assessment records.  (c) The taxes shall be collected and delinquencies shall be enforced in the same manner as if the district had continued in existence for the purpose of making the improvements contemplated by its original organization.