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AR Code § 14-59-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 59 - Arkansas Municipal Accounting Law|§ 14-59-116. Annual publication of financial statement

 (a)  (1) The governing body of each municipality shall publish annually a financial statement of the municipality, including receipts and expenditures for the period and a statement of the indebtedness and financial condition of the municipality. The financial statement shall be published one (1) time in a newspaper published in the municipality.  (2) This financial statement shall be at least as detailed as the minimum record of accounts as provided in this chapter.  (3) This financial statement shall be published by April 1 of the following year.    (b) In municipalities in which no newspaper is published, the financial statement shall be posted in two (2) of the most public places in the municipality.
AR Code § 14-59-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 59 - Arkansas Municipal Accounting Law|§ 14-59-118. Penalty

 (a) Any municipal treasurer who refuses or neglects to maintain the books and records provided in this chapter shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance.  (b) Upon conviction in circuit court, the treasurer shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and shall be removed from office.
AR Code § 14-59-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 59 - Arkansas Municipal Accounting Law|§ 14-59-119. Debit card and credit card payments

 (a) A municipality may accept a legal payment and any associated costs through a debit card or credit card in accordance with applicable state and federal law.  (b)  (1) A municipality may enter into a contract with a credit card or debit card company and pay any fee normally charged by the credit card or debit card company for allowing the municipality to accept the credit card or debit card as payment as authorized under subsection (a) of this section.  (2) When a payment is made through a credit card or debit card, the municipality shall assess a transaction fee equal to the amount charged to the municipality by the credit card or debit card company.  (3) A municipality shall not assess a transaction fee for payments made through a credit card or debit card if the governing body of the municipality determines that the transaction fee is included in the amount charged for the service or product for which a credit card or debit card payment is made.
AR Code § 14-60-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 60 - Workers' Compensation|§ 14-60-101. Requirement generally

 (a) All municipalities shall be required to provide workers' compensation coverage for their officials, employees, and volunteer fire fighters.  (b) Coverages shall be provided for losses incurred while performing work for the municipality.  (c) Individuals convicted of a criminal offense and committed to a municipal detention facility or state correctional facility who are required to perform work for the municipality shall not be considered employees of the municipality.
AR Code § 14-60-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 60 - Workers' Compensation|§ 14-60-102. Date of coverage

 This chapter shall be effective July 1, 1985. Claims incurred prior to July 1, 1985, shall continue to be the responsibility of the state. Claims incurred on or after July 1, 1985, shall be the responsibility of the municipalities.
AR Code § 14-60-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 60 - Workers' Compensation|§ 14-60-103. Responsibility for providing coverage

 (a) Municipal governing bodies shall be responsible for providing the workers' compensation coverage required by this chapter.  (b) Each municipal governing body is authorized to require reimbursement of its general fund on a pro rata basis from the budgets of its various municipal departments and agencies for whom the workers' compensation coverage is provided.  (c) Failure of a municipality to provide the workers' compensation coverage as required in this chapter shall result in loss of the municipality's general revenues turn back from the State of Arkansas for the period for which workers' compensation coverage is not provided.
AR Code § 14-60-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 60 - Workers' Compensation|§ 14-60-104. Coverage through private carrier or self-funding

 (a) Municipalities may provide workers' compensation coverage either through private carriers or through one or more self-funding groups.  (b) Self-funding groups established for this purpose shall meet the following requirements:  (1) Any self-funding group established to provide such coverage for municipalities only shall offer coverage to any municipality in the state that applies for coverage;  (2) Any such group established to provide coverage for both municipalities and counties shall offer coverage to any municipality or county in the state desiring to participate therein;  (3) Any group established to provide workers' compensation coverage to municipalities or to counties and municipalities shall offer such coverage at rates as established and filed with the Workers' Compensation Commission by the organization establishing the self-funding group. Rates for municipalities participating in any such group shall be revised annually based on the cost experience of the particular municipality, or group of municipalities, or group of municipalities and counties; and  (4)  (A)  (i) Any self-funding group of participating municipalities or counties which is governed by a board of trustees of elected municipal or county officials shall be subject to the rules of the Workers' Compensation Commission applicable to self-insured groups or providers. However, cities and counties shall not be required to enter into an indemnity agreement binding them jointly and severally.  (ii) Each board governing a self-funding group shall be permitted to declare dividends or give credits against renewal premiums based on annual loss experience.  (iii) All self-funded groups shall obtain excess reinsurance from an admitted or approved insurance company doing business in Arkansas.    (B) However, in lieu of the reinsurance requirements in subdivision (b)(4)(A) of this section, any self-funded group under this section with one million five hundred thousand dollars ($1,500,000) or more in annually collected premiums may provide excess reserves of twenty percent (20%) of annual premiums by any one (1) of the following ways:  (i) Cash or certificates of deposit in Arkansas banks;  (ii) Letters of credit from an Arkansas bank; or  (iii) Purchase of reinsurance from the National League of Cities' Reinsurance Company or County Reinsurance, Limited, a national reinsurance facility for county governments.
AR Code § 14-60-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 60 - Workers' Compensation|§ 14-60-105. Municipalities over 70,000

 Municipalities with populations over seventy thousand (70,000) citizens are specifically authorized to provide workers' compensation coverage for their officials and employees through either private carriers or by self-funding on either a statewide or an individual basis.
AR Code § 14-60-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 60 - Workers' Compensation|§ 14-60-106. Municipalities over 150,000

 Municipalities with populations over one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) citizens or their sewer committees are specifically authorized to provide workers' compensation coverage for their officials and employees through either private carriers or by self-funding on either a statewide or individual basis.
AR Code § 14-61-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-101. Title

 This chapter shall be known as the “City Manager Enabling Act of 1989”.
AR Code § 14-61-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-102. Applicability

 This chapter shall apply to all cities of the first class that now have, or may hereafter adopt, the management form of government. For purposes of this chapter, the phrase “city affected by this chapter” shall mean a city of the first class that adopts or utilizes the management form of government.
AR Code § 14-61-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-103. Construction

 This chapter shall be liberally construed to provide affected cities with the maximum amount of freedom to structure their own municipal government within the basic constraints of the management form of government. Nothing in this chapter, however, should be read to diminish the powers and authority of the city manager in the management form of government.
AR Code § 14-61-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-104. Ratification of existing procedures

 A city affected by this chapter that is organized under the management form of government on July 3, 1989, shall continue to elect members of the board of directors, or mayor, or both, and to compensate them in the manner used at the time of the general election immediately preceding July 3, 1989, unless the city chooses, at a special election called for that purpose, to exercise one (1) of the options provided in this chapter.
AR Code § 14-61-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-105. Change in size of board of directors

 A city affected by this chapter may choose, by ordinance, to increase or decrease the number of directors, provided that the board of directors, including the office of mayor, shall always be an uneven number and shall never have less than five (5) members.
AR Code § 14-61-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-106. Voting order

 If the city provides for the direct election of the mayor from an at-large position and if permitted to vote, that position shall vote last in board proceedings.
AR Code § 14-61-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-107. Methods of selecting directors

 A city affected by this chapter may choose one (1) of the options included within this chapter as the method by which to select a board of directors. These options are:   (1) All members of the board of directors being elected at-large;  (2) An odd number of directors, including the mayor, with any combination of directors being elected at-large and from wards, whether the position designated as mayor is appointed or directly elected;  (3) An odd number of directors, including the mayor, with any combination of directors being elected from wards and from larger designated districts that overlap wards, whether the position designated as mayor is appointed or directly elected;  (4) All members of the board of directors but one (1) being elected from wards, with one (1) member elected at-large who shall be the mayor; or  (5) All members of the board of directors being elected from wards.
AR Code § 14-61-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-108. Designation of positions

 A city affected by this chapter shall provide for election of the city's directors on the ballot as follows:   (1) If a city chooses to select all members of its board of directors at-large, or chooses to select all of its members by ward, each position shall be numbered sequentially and candidates shall file for a numbered position, e.g., Director Position 1, Director Position 2, etc.;  (2) If a city chooses to select some of its members of the board of directors by ward, each ward position shall be numbered sequentially beginning with the number one (1) and candidates shall file for the numbered position, e.g., in a city with four (4) ward positions Director Ward 1, Director Ward 2, etc.;  (3) If a city chooses to select some members of the board of directors at-large, each at-large position for director shall be numbered sequentially beginning with the first number after the last designated ward position, and candidates shall file for the numbered position, e.g., Director Position 5, Director Position 6, etc.;  (4) If a city chooses to select some members of the board of directors from larger designated districts that overlap wards, each district position for director shall be numbered sequentially, beginning with the number one (1) and candidates shall file for the number position, e.g., in a city with four (4) district positions Director District 1, Director District 2, etc.; and  (5) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the city provides for the direct election of the mayor from an at-large position, candidates for the position of mayor shall file for the position entitled “Mayor”.
AR Code § 14-61-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-109. Determination of ward and district positions

 Ward positions and positions for larger designated districts that overlap wards shall be determined as follows:   (1) If a city affected by this chapter chooses to select some of its members by ward, the governing body shall divide the territory of the city into the number of wards having substantially equal population, according to the most recently published federal decennial census of population in the city, equal to the number of members of the governing body to be elected from wards;  (2) If a city affected by this chapter chooses to select some of its members by larger designated districts that overlap wards, the governing body shall divide the territory of the city into the number of districts having substantially equal population, according to the most recent federal decennial census, equal to the number of members of the governing body to be elected from districts;  (3) The governing body shall complete its apportionment of the respective districts or wards from which members of the governing body of the cities shall be elected and shall file it with the county clerk of the county and with the city clerk of the applicable city;  (4) The districts or wards so established, unless changed or modified by order of a court of competent jurisdiction or by ordinance approved by a two-thirds vote of the governing body of the city under § 14-61-107, shall be the districts or wards of the city from which each of the respective members of the governing body of the city are to be elected;  (5) Following each federal decennial census of population and following any special federal census of population within a particular city, if there has been a substantial change in the population of the districts and wards from the preceding federal census, the governing body shall reapportion the districts and wards in each city in the manner and procedure as provided in this section from which the members of the governing body are to be elected; and  (6)  (A) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other act, candidates for ward positions shall be residents of the ward they wish to represent, and candidates for district positions shall be residents of the district they wish to represent.  (B) Unless the electors choose otherwise, only those qualified electors residing in a ward may vote on a candidate from that ward.  (C) Unless the electors choose otherwise, all qualified electors of the city may vote on candidates for each larger designated district that overlaps a ward.
AR Code § 14-61-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-110. Compensation of directors

 Neither a director nor the mayor of the city shall receive any compensation for his services unless authorized by the voters of the city at a special or general election. Following such authorization, the board of directors, by ordinance, shall set such compensation pursuant to the provisions of Arkansas Constitution Amendment 56, as may be amended, provided that no ordinance setting compensation shall contain an emergency clause.
AR Code § 14-61-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-111. Selection of mayor

 (a) Unless a majority of the qualified electors of the city voting on the issue choose otherwise, the mayor will be selected by a majority vote of the board of directors from among its members.  (b)  (1)  (A) If a majority of the qualified electors of the city voting on the issue vote to do so, the mayor shall be directly elected by the qualified electors of the city.  (B) Any person so elected shall serve as mayor for a term of four (4) years.    (2)  (A) At a special or general election on the question of whether to directly elect the mayor, a majority of the qualified electors voting on the issue may also vote to require that a successful candidate for mayor receive a minimum percentage, less than fifty percent (50%), of the total votes cast for the position of mayor in order to be elected mayor without a runoff.  (B) The minimum percentage necessary for election without a runoff shall be determined by ordinance approved by a two-thirds vote of the governing body or referred to the electors for their approval.    (3)  (A) If it is required that a candidate receive a minimum percentage, less than fifty percent (50%), of the total votes cast for mayor in order to be elected mayor without a runoff, and if no candidate for the position of mayor receives at least the required percentage of the votes cast, then the two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be the nominees for the position of mayor and shall be certified to a special runoff election which shall be held four (4) weeks from the day on which the general election is held.  (B) The special runoff election shall be conducted, and the election results shall be canvassed and certified in the manner prescribed by law for municipal runoff elections.      (c) The question of whether to directly elect the mayor may be voted on at a general or special election held:  (1) At the time the city seeks to organize or reorganize under this chapter;  (2) As the result of a properly presented petition filed pursuant to § 14-61-113; or  (3) As the result of the referral of an ordinance by the board of directors calling for a reorganization under this chapter.    (d) If an election to provide for the direct election of the mayor is unsuccessful, the issue shall not be submitted again for at least two (2) years after the date of the unsuccessful election.
AR Code § 14-61-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-112. Selection of directors and mayor

 (a) Unless special provisions for the position of mayor are implemented pursuant to § 14-61-111, the candidate for mayor, who in any special or general election shall receive a majority of the votes cast in favor of another candidate for the position, shall be deemed to be elected.  (b) If special provisions for the election of the mayor are implemented pursuant to § 14-61-111, then those special provisions will control the election of the mayor, unless those special provisions are amended by ordinance approved by a two-thirds vote of the governing body of the city.  (c)  (1) The candidate for a designated position on the board of directors of a city affected by this chapter who in a special or general election receives votes greater in number than those cast in favor of another candidate for the position and who receives at least forty percent (40%) of the votes cast, shall be deemed elected.  (2) Subdivision (c)(1) of this section may be amended by ordinance approved by a two-thirds vote of the governing body of the city or by the approval of a majority of the qualified electors of the municipality by petition.
AR Code § 14-61-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-116. Reorganization election by city with management form of government

 (a) A city affected by this chapter that is already organized under the management form of government shall hold a special election on petitions calling for a reorganization under this chapter in accordance with the provisions of § 14-61-114 provided that no special election shall be held on the option already being utilized by the city.  (b) A city affected by this chapter that has held a special election on petitions calling for a reorganization under this chapter may, by ordinance approved by a two-thirds vote of the municipal board of directors:  (1) Choose a different method by which to select a municipal board of directors under § 14-61-107; and  (2) Determine the minimum percentage a special candidate for mayor shall receive in order to be elected without a runoff under § 14-61-111.
AR Code § 14-61-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 61 - City Manager Enabling Act of 1989|§ 14-61-120. Limited voting — Cumulative voting

 (a) A majority of the qualified electors voting on the issue may vote to permit limited voting or cumulative voting for directors, other than the mayor, elected at large.  (b) Under a limited voting system, voters are restricted to casting only one (1) vote for any single candidate, but are not given as many votes as there are at-large seats to fill.  (c) Cumulative voting shall be construed as allowing every voter to cast as many votes as there are positions to be filled of the same category, without restricting the voter to casting only one (1) vote for any particular candidate. This system permits voters to aggregate or cumulate their votes. For example, in a three-seat, three-vote election, a voter may provide three (3) candidates with one (1) vote each, or the voter may cast two (2) votes for one (1) candidate and one (1) vote for a second candidate, or the voter may cast all three (3) votes for a single candidate.
AR Code § 14-62-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 62 - Revocation of Charter of a Municipal Corporation|§ 14-62-101. Authority generally

 The charter of a municipal corporation may be revoked, its offices abolished, and the territory and inhabitants returned to the county in which the municipal corporation is located in the manner provided in this chapter, subject to the authority of the receiver appointed under § 14-62-104 and to the interests of creditors.