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AR Code § 14-28-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 28 - Volunteer Public Safety Workers|§ 14-28-101. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Volunteer public safety organization” means:  (A) A county organization for emergency services formed pursuant to the Arkansas Emergency Services Act of 1973, § 12-75-101 et seq.;  (B) A sheriff's auxiliary formed pursuant to § 12-9-301 et seq.;  (C) An ambulance service or rescue squad formed pursuant to § 14-282-101 et seq. or any other improvement district law of this state or formed as a subordinate service district of the county; or  (D) A rural volunteer fire department formed as a subordinate service district of the county or as an improvement district, or a subscription fire service department formed as a nonprofit organization under the laws of this state; and    (2) “Volunteer public safety worker” means an active volunteer member of a volunteer public safety organization.
AR Code § 14-28-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 28 - Volunteer Public Safety Workers|§ 14-28-102. Workers' compensation coverage generally

 (a) The county governments of this state are authorized to provide workers' compensation coverage pursuant to this chapter for personal injury, disability, or death of volunteer public safety workers while actually engaged in performing volunteer public safety duties.  (b) Any volunteer public safety organization desiring workers' compensation coverage for volunteer public safety workers of the organization may petition the quorum court of the county served by the organization for workers' compensation coverage under this chapter. By majority vote, the quorum court may elect to include the volunteer public safety workers as county employees for the sole purpose of workers' compensation coverage under the provisions of this chapter and §§ 14-60-101 — 14-60-104 and subject to the limitations of this chapter. The action by the quorum court shall not entitle the volunteer public safety workers to any benefits from the county other than workers' compensation coverage.  (c) At its discretion, the quorum court may require as a condition for coverage that a volunteer public safety organization requesting workers' compensation coverage under this chapter pay the premium for that coverage from any public funds available to the organization or that the quorum court make a deduction in the amount of the cost of the coverage from any amounts which the county would normally provide to the volunteer public safety organization.  (d) Volunteer public safety workers covered by workers' compensation pursuant to this chapter shall be deemed to have received such wages as will qualify them for minimum benefits applicable with respect to injury, disability, or death.
AR Code § 14-28-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 28 - Volunteer Public Safety Workers|§ 14-28-103. Terms of coverage

 Any insurer or other entity providing workers' compensation coverage to a county shall offer coverage for volunteer public safety workers on the same terms as for county employees.
AR Code § 14-37-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 37 - Classification of Cities and Towns|§ 14-37-103. Population limits

 (a)  (1) All municipal corporations having over two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed cities of the first class.  (2) All cities having five hundred (500) inhabitants or more and fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed cities of the second class.  (3) All others shall be incorporated towns and shall be governed by the provisions of this subtitle.    (b)  (1) Any incorporated towns of fewer than five hundred (500) inhabitants who have voted to be a city of the second class under § 14-37-112 shall continue to be a city of the second class.  (2) Any city having a population of one thousand five hundred (1,500) or more may become a city of the first class upon the enactment of an ordinance therefor, with all powers, authority, and responsibility of other cities of the first class.
AR Code § 14-37-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 37 - Classification of Cities and Towns|§ 14-37-105. Cities of the second class

 (a) Any incorporated town of the State of Arkansas which, at any future federal census, or any census taken under the authority of the State of Arkansas, shall be found to have a population exceeding five hundred (500) persons who shall be inhabitants of the town and less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed in all respects to be a city of the second class. However, this section shall not apply to cities that are now classified as cities of the first class.  (b)  (1) In all counties having two (2) levying courts, in which there is a county seat town of less than five hundred (500) population, according to the last federal census, the county seat towns are made cities of the second class, with all the powers and privileges conferred upon cities of the second class by law.  (2) Any of the towns described in subdivision (b)(1) of this section, through the governing body thereof, shall have the power, by ordinance, to annex to the city or town all heretofore platted additions thereto, so as to make them a part of the city and included within its boundaries and subject to all the rights, duties, and privileges of the original territory of the city.
AR Code § 14-37-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 37 - Classification of Cities and Towns|§ 14-37-106. Board of Municipal Corporations

 The Board of Municipal Corporations shall consist of the Auditor of State, Secretary of State, and Attorney General. The Secretary of State shall be president.
AR Code § 14-37-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 37 - Classification of Cities and Towns|§ 14-37-107. Advancement of cities and towns according to census

 (a)  (1) It shall be the duty of the Governor, the Auditor of State, and the Secretary of State, or any two (2) of them, to ascertain from the federal census and census provided for by law of this state, what cities of the second class are entitled to become cities of the first class and what incorporated towns are entitled to become cities and their proper class.  (2) The Governor shall cause a statement stating the grade to which the city has been advanced to be prepared and transmitted to the mayor of the city or town.    (b) As soon as the statement has been received by the mayor, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, showing that any city or town will be entitled to be organized into a city of the first class or city of the second class at the next regular annual period for the election of municipal officers, it shall be the duty of the proper corporate authority of the city or incorporated town to make and publish bylaws or ordinances necessary to perfect the organization in respect to the election, duties, and compensation of municipal officers, or otherwise.  (c) When a city of the second class becomes a city of the first class, the recorder of the affected city of the second class automatically becomes the city clerk of the city when the change in classification occurs.
AR Code § 14-37-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 37 - Classification of Cities and Towns|§ 14-37-108. Application for advancement between census periods

 (a) The Auditor of State, Secretary of State, and Attorney General may declare incorporated towns cities of the second class, and cities of the second class cities of the first class, between the periods fixed in § 14-37-107(a), upon application from any incorporated town or city of the second class, accompanied by a resolution adopted by the town or city council, asking to be so declared a city of the first or second class, as the case may be.  (b) The application shall be accompanied with satisfactory evidence showing the population of the town or city to be large enough to entitle it to such advancement.
AR Code § 14-37-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 37 - Classification of Cities and Towns|§ 14-37-109. Appointment of enumerators to take census

 (a)  (1) If a city or incorporated town desires to be made a city of the first class or a city of the second class, or if it is deemed necessary to determine the number of inhabitants within the city or incorporated town for any purpose, on petition of ten (10) qualified voters of the city or incorporated town filed with the recorder of the city or incorporated town, the city or town council shall consider the petition at its next regular meeting.  (2) If the city or town council deems the prayer of petitioners well founded and deems that a census of the city or incorporated town should be taken in accordance with the prayer of the petitioners, the city or town council may pass a resolution authorizing and directing the taking of a census of the city or incorporated town, and the mayor shall appoint enumerators to take the census, the appointees to be approved by the city or town council.    (b)  (1) The resolution authorizing the taking of census shall prescribe the duties of the enumerators as to when and how to proceed.  (2)  (A) Not more than one (1) enumerator shall be appointed for each ward.  (B) However, one (1) enumerator may take more than one (1) ward if the city or town council deems it proper.
AR Code § 14-37-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 37 - Classification of Cities and Towns|§ 14-37-110. Return of enumerators

 (a)  (1) Before the enumerators shall enter upon their duties, they shall make and subscribe to an oath to well and faithfully perform their duties, and their return shall be taken as true.  (2)  (A) However, the returns so made by the census enumerators shall be filed in the office of the mayor and shall be subject to examination of the public for thirty (30) days.  (B) Any correction of the returns may be made if proper proof is made before the city or town council to its satisfaction authorizing the correction sought to be made.      (b) The enumerators shall be entitled to and receive two and one-half cents (2 1/2¢) per name for all names found to be authentic by the city or town council, to be paid by the city or incorporated town.
AR Code § 14-37-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 37 - Classification of Cities and Towns|§ 14-37-111. Reduction of city to lower grade — In general

 (a) Whenever the last federal census shows that any city of the first class has fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants and that any city of the second class has fewer than five hundred (500) inhabitants, the city may be reduced to a city of the second class or to an incorporated town, respectively, upon the adoption of a resolution by the council of the municipal corporations requesting that the grade of the corporations be reduced.  (b)  (1) The Board of Municipal Corporations, upon the receipt of a certified copy of the resolution, shall make an order reducing the grade of the municipal corporation.  (2) Upon being advised of the action of the board, the Governor shall cause a statement to be prepared and transmitted to the mayor of the city or town stating the grade to which it has been reduced.    (c) When the grade of a city has been reduced to city of the second class or to incorporated town, all officers of that city or town shall continue in office until the next general election for the city or town.
AR Code § 14-37-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 37 - Classification of Cities and Towns|§ 14-37-112. Incorporated town may become city of the second class

 (a)  (1) Any incorporated town in this state may become a city of the second class by the adoption and publication of an ordinance, duly adopted and published as provided by law, converting the incorporated town into a city of the second class. However, after the adoption and publication of the ordinance, the qualified voters of the town shall vote in any general election or a special election called by the mayor to be held in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq., in favor of the ordinance.  (2) If a majority of the qualified electors voting in the election vote in favor of the ordinance, a certified copy of the ordinance shall be filed with the Secretary of State. Thereupon the incorporated town shall become a city of the second class.    (b)  (1) The officers of the incorporated town, upon filing with the Secretary of State the certified copy of the ordinance, shall immediately become officers of the city of the second class with full authority to proceed, do, and perform any and all things for, and on behalf of, the city of the second class as if elected as officers of the city of the second class. They shall serve as officers for the full period of time for which they were elected or until their successors are elected and qualified.  (2)  (A) At the regular time for holding election of officers of incorporated towns, there shall be an election for the election of officers of the city of the second class, who shall hold office as officers of the city of the second class until the next regular time fixed by law for electing officers of a city of the second class or until their successors are elected and qualified.  (B) However, the mayor of the incorporated town which has been raised to a city of the second class may call a special election by proclamation, to be held in accordance with § 7-11-101 et seq., which shall be published by two (2) insertions in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the city is located. This special election shall be held for the purpose of electing officers for the city of the second class.
AR Code § 14-38-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 38 - Incorporation and Organization of Municipalities|§ 14-38-103. Hearing on petition

 (a)  (1) Every incorporation hearing under this chapter shall be public and may be adjourned from time to time.  (2) Any person interested may appear and contest the granting of the prayer of the petition, and affidavits in support of or against the petition, which may be prepared and submitted, shall be examined by the county court.    (b)  (1) In its discretion, the court may permit the agent named in the original petition to amend or change it.  (2) However, no amendment shall be permitted whereby territory not before embraced shall be added or the character of the proposed city or incorporated town changed from special to general, or from general to special, without appointing another time for a hearing and requiring new notice to be given as provided in § 14-38-101.
AR Code § 14-38-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 38 - Incorporation and Organization of Municipalities|§ 14-38-104. Order of incorporation — Transcript

 (a) The county court shall make out and endorse on the petition an order to the effect that the city or incorporated town as named and described in the petition may be organized if the court shall be satisfied after hearing the petition that:  (1) The greater of either two hundred (200) or a majority of the qualified voters residing within the described territory have signed the petition;  (2) The limits have been accurately described and an accurate map or plat of the limits made and filed;  (3) The name proposed for the city or incorporated town is proper and sufficient to distinguish it from others of like kind in the state; and  (4) Moreover, that it shall be deemed right and proper in the judgment and discretion of the court that the petition shall be granted.    (b)  (1) The order shall be signed and delivered by the court, together with the petition and the map or plat, to the recorder of the county, whose duty it shall be to record it as soon as possible in the proper book or records and to file and preserve in his or her office the original papers, having certified thereon that it has been properly recorded.  (2) It shall also be the duty of the recorder to make out and certify, under his or her official seal, two (2) transcripts of the record. The recorder shall forward one (1) copy to the Secretary of State and deliver one (1) copy to the agent of the petitioners, with a certificate thereon that a similar transcript has been forwarded to the Secretary of State as provided by this section.
AR Code § 14-38-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 38 - Incorporation and Organization of Municipalities|§ 14-38-105. Completion of incorporation

 (a) As soon as the record shall be made and the transcript certified, forwarded, and delivered, the inhabitants within the limits described in the petition shall be deemed a city or incorporated town, to be organized and governed under the provisions of this subtitle in like manner as if specially named therein.  (b) As soon as the city or incorporated town shall be actually organized, by election of its officers as provided in § 14-38-108, notice of its existence as such shall be taken in all judicial proceedings in the state.
AR Code § 14-38-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 38 - Incorporation and Organization of Municipalities|§ 14-38-106. Complaint to prevent organization

 (a) One (1) month shall elapse from the time the transcripts are forwarded and delivered before notice shall be given of an election of officers in the city or incorporated town.  (b) At any time within the one (1) month, any person interested may make complaint in writing, in the nature of an application for an injunction to the circuit court, or the judge in vacation, having given at least five (5) days' notice thereof. He or she shall furnish a copy of the complaint to the agent of the petitioners for the purpose of having the organization of the proposed city or incorporated town prevented.
AR Code § 14-38-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 38 - Incorporation and Organization of Municipalities|§ 14-38-107. Hearing on complaint — Annulment

 (a) It shall be the duty of the court or judge to hear the complaint in a summary manner, receiving answers, affidavits, and proofs, as may be deemed pertinent.  (b) If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court or judge that the proposed city or incorporated town does not contain the requisite number of inhabitants, that a majority of them have not signed the original petition, or that the limits of the proposed city or incorporated town are unreasonably large or small or are not properly and sufficiently described, then the court or judge shall order the record of the incorporated town to be annulled.  (c)  (1) It shall be the duty of the county recorder to endorse on the record the order so made and to certify and transmit to the Secretary of State a copy of the order.  (2) Thereupon, the record shall be of no effect, but the proceeding shall in no manner bar a subsequent petition to the county court, on the same subject, by complying with the provisions of this chapter.
AR Code § 14-38-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 38 - Incorporation and Organization of Municipalities|§ 14-38-108. First election of officers

 (a) Unless the agent of the petitioners, within thirty (30) days after a transcript shall be delivered as provided in § 14-38-104, shall be notified of a complaint having been made to the circuit court of the county, or a judge thereof, then, at the end of the thirty (30) days after the dismissal of the complaint, the agent shall give public notice, by posting a notice at three (3) or more public places within the limits of the city or incorporated town, of the time and place of holding the first election for officers of the city or incorporated town.  (b) The election shall be conducted and the officers elected and qualified in the manner prescribed by law in like cases.  (c) If the election shall be held at any other time than that prescribed by law for the regular election of the officers, the officers elected shall continue in office so long and in like manner as if they had been elected at the preceding period of the regular election.
AR Code § 14-38-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 38 - Incorporation and Organization of Municipalities|§ 14-38-109. City or town lying in more than one county

 (a) Every city and incorporated town presently lying in more than one (1) county and presently exercising the rights, privileges, and powers of a municipal corporation, de facto or de jure, and heretofore incorporated or attempted to have been incorporated under any special act of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, or in any other manner incorporated under color of law, is declared to be a duly incorporated city or incorporated town of that classification which the city or town may presently enjoy as certified by the Secretary of State, as fully to all intents and purposes as though the city or town had been duly incorporated under the general laws of the State of Arkansas.  (b) Each act and deed heretofore done by any officers of the city or incorporated town in their official capacity under color of office for or in behalf of the city or incorporated town is cured, validated, and declared confirmed and shall have the same force and effect as though the city or incorporated town had been lawfully incorporated under the general statutes of the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 14-38-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 38 - Incorporation and Organization of Municipalities|§ 14-38-114. Preservation of papers

 The Secretary of State shall receive and preserve in his or her office all papers transmitted to him or her in relation to the organization, incorporation, or annexation of territory to cities and towns.
AR Code § 14-38-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 38 - Incorporation and Organization of Municipalities|§ 14-38-117. Effective date of incorporation required

 (a)  (1) The county court order of incorporation affecting territory under this chapter shall include the effective date upon which the petition for incorporation is granted and the municipality is considered organized.  (2) County court orders that fail to include a specified effective date in the order shall require using the date of the county clerk's file mark as the effective date for all purposes.    (b) The effective date specified in the order of incorporation issued under § 14-38-104 is the official effective date to be used by any county or state official charged with recording, forwarding, maintaining, or instituting the order of incorporation.  (c)  (1) In the event of a circuit court challenge to the county court order of incorporation, the final order of the circuit court shall specify a change to the effective date, if any.  (2) In the absence of a specific attestation, the county court-ordered effective date is the effective date.