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AR Code § 14-52-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 52 - Municipal Police Departments|Subchapter 3 - Bill of Rights for Law Enforcement Officers|§ 14-52-302. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Complainant” means the person or persons providing the information constituting the basis for official departmental charges alleging improper conduct;  (2) “Formal proceeding” means a proceeding heard before any officer, committee, or other body of city government with the authority to take disciplinary action against a law enforcement officer;  (3) “Law enforcement officer” means any public servant vested by law with a duty to maintain order or to make arrests for offenses; and  (4) “Official departmental charges” means a written document from the chief of police or other lawful authority notifying the accused law enforcement officer that charges of misconduct have been made and setting forth the specifics of the alleged misconduct.
AR Code § 14-52-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 52 - Municipal Police Departments|Subchapter 3 - Bill of Rights for Law Enforcement Officers|§ 14-52-304. Disclosure not required for promotion or assignment

 No law enforcement officer shall be required to disclose for the purposes of promotion or assignment any item of his or her property, income, assets, debts, or expenditures, or those of any member of the officer's household.
AR Code § 14-52-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 52 - Municipal Police Departments|Subchapter 3 - Bill of Rights for Law Enforcement Officers|§ 14-52-305. Notification of personnel action

 Whenever a personnel action may result in any loss of pay or benefits or status, the law enforcement officer shall be notified of the pending action by written official departmental charges a reasonable time before the action is taken except where exigent circumstances otherwise require.
AR Code § 14-52-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 52 - Municipal Police Departments|Subchapter 3 - Bill of Rights for Law Enforcement Officers|§ 14-52-306. Participation in political activities

 Except when on duty or acting in his or her official capacity, no law enforcement officer of a city or incorporated town shall be prohibited from engaging in political activity or be denied the right to refrain from engaging in the activity.
AR Code § 14-52-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 52 - Municipal Police Departments|Subchapter 3 - Bill of Rights for Law Enforcement Officers|§ 14-52-307. No retaliation for exercise of rights — Other legal remedies

 (a) There shall be no penalty nor threat of any penalty for the exercise by a law enforcement officer of his or her rights under this Bill of Rights.  (b) Nothing in this Bill of Rights shall disparage or impair any other legal remedy any law enforcement officer shall have with respect to any rights under this Bill of Rights.
AR Code § 14-54-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-54-101. Body corporate and politic

 Cities or incorporated towns organized under the provisions of this subtitle are declared to be bodies politic and corporate, under the name and style of “The city of ” or “The incorporated town of ,” as the case may be, capable to:   (1) Sue and be sued;  (2) Contract and be contracted with;  (3) Acquire, hold, and possess real and personal property;  (4) Associate with other municipalities for the promotion of their general welfare;  (5) Join with other municipalities in the purchase of equipment, supplies, or services;  (6) Have a common seal and change and alter it at pleasure; and  (7) Exercise such other powers and have such other privileges as are incident to other corporations of like character or degree, not inconsistent with the provisions of this subtitle or the general laws of this state.
AR Code § 14-54-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-54-102. Powers and restrictions prescribed

 All municipal corporations organized under the provisions of this subtitle shall have general powers and privileges and be subject to the rules and restrictions prescribed in this subtitle.
AR Code § 14-54-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-54-103. General powers of cities and towns

 Cities and incorporated towns shall have power to:   (1) Prevent injury or annoyance within the limits of the municipal corporation from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy and cause any nuisance to be abated within the jurisdiction given the board of health in § 14-262-102;  (2) Regulate the keeping and transportation of gunpowder, dynamite, and other combustibles and provide or license magazines for them;  (3) Prevent and punish fast or immoderate riding of horses or driving or propelling of vehicles through the streets;  (4) Establish and regulate markets;  (5) Provide for the measuring or weighing of hay, wood, or any other article for sale;  (6) Regulate the transportation of articles throughout the streets and prevent injury to the streets from overloaded vehicles;  (7) Prevent cruelty to animals;  (8) Prevent any riots, noise, disturbance, or disorderly assemblages;  (9)  (A) Regulate drumming or soliciting persons who arrive on trains or otherwise for hotels, boardinghouses, bathhouses, or doctors, to license these drummers, provide that each shall wear a badge plainly exposed to view, showing for whom and for what he is drumming or soliciting patronage, and punish by fines any violation of this subdivision.  (B) Any bona fide owner or proprietor of any hotel or boardinghouse may solicit patronage to his hotel or boardinghouse without being required to wear a badge or pay license therefor;    (10) License, regulate, tax, or suppress ordinaries, hawkers, peddlers, brokers, pawnbrokers, money changers, intelligence offices, public masquerade balls, street exhibitions, sparring exhibitions, dance houses, fortune tellers, pistol galleries, corn doctors, private-lock venereal hospitals, museums and menageries, equestrian performances, horoscopic views, lung testers, muscle developers, magnifying glasses, billiard tables or other instruments used for gaming, theatricals, or other exhibitions, shows, and amusements, or any gift enterprise;  (11) Suppress prizefighting, dogfights, chicken fights, gaming, or gambling houses; and  (12) Regulate or suppress bawdy or disorderly houses, houses of ill-fame, or houses of assignation.
AR Code § 14-54-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-54-106. Cities and towns on state line

 (a) All cities and towns which are located on the state line between Arkansas and any other state in which it is desired to erect a post office or other public building upon the state line or to create a park or lay out a street or boulevard upon, or adjacent to, the state line shall have power for these purposes to:  (1) Take lands by eminent domain, including the power to take the lands in fee simple as well as to take an easement across them;  (2) Take by eminent domain the title in, and to, lands occupied by streets or alleys and to close the streets and alleys and, where the lands are taken for a post office or other public building or its grounds, to sell and convey the fee simple title of it or of any part thereof to the federal government;  (3) Create improvement districts, including the whole or any part of the city or town in the manner provided by law for the creation of improvement districts in cities and towns, to aid the city or town in acquiring the lands needed for new streets and alleys where relocation of streets and alleys is made necessary or desirable by the improvements and for the purpose of paving the new streets and in relocating sewers and drains.    (b)  (1) The procedure to be followed by the city to acquire property shall be that prescribed in Arkansas Constitution, Article 2, §§ 22, 23, and Article 12, § 9, and in §§ 14-54-601, 14-91-104, 14-262-102, 14-301-104, 14-333-101, 18-15-101 et seq., 23-11-209, and 23-12-303 for the exercise of the right of eminent domain by municipal corporations and counties.  (2) The order condemning lands for these purposes shall be by ordinance of the city council, with concurrence in the order by at least two-thirds (2/3) of the members elected to the council.  (3) The decision of the city council that it is necessary to condemn lands in fee for any of these purposes shall not be subject to review except as provided in the Arkansas Constitution.
AR Code § 14-54-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-54-107. Aid to new industries

 Cities and incorporated towns shall have full power to purchase sites for new factories or industries and to give other favorable grants and privileges for the purpose of establishing new and additional industries in or near their municipality.
AR Code § 14-54-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-54-108. Federal assistance

 (a) Any city or town in this state, acting pursuant to authority of the legislative body thereof, is authorized to apply for and accept assistance or gifts in the form of funds or otherwise from the federal government, or any department, agency, or authority of the federal government, and to utilize these funds for any public purpose in the discretion of the legislative body of the city or town, consistent with restrictions, if any, placed thereon by the federal government.  (b) Any city or town in this state may contract with the federal government or any federal department, agency, or authority for the purpose of accepting assistance or gifts in the form of funds, or otherwise, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon, and may utilize these funds for any public purpose.
AR Code § 14-54-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 2 - Interstate Agreements|§ 14-54-201. Purpose

 It is the purpose of this subchapter to permit any municipality in this state which borders on a state line and which is separated from a municipality in the adjoining state only by the state line to cooperate with the adjoining municipality in the other state in furnishing governmental services and facilities to the inhabitants of the adjoining municipalities to the end that governmental services and facilities may be adequately provided in the most efficient manner.
AR Code § 14-54-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 2 - Interstate Agreements|§ 14-54-202. Authority to enter

 Any municipality in this state which borders on a state line, and which is separated from a municipality in an adjoining state only by the state line, may enter into agreements with the adjoining municipality whereby either of the municipalities agrees to furnish certain services or facilities for the other or whereby the municipalities agree to furnish, jointly or cooperatively, any governmental service or facility or to exercise or enjoy any power or authority which the Arkansas municipalities involved may furnish, exercise, or enjoy under the laws of this state to the extent that the laws of the state in which the adjoining municipality is located permit such joint or cooperative activity.
AR Code § 14-54-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 2 - Interstate Agreements|§ 14-54-203. Contents required

 (a) Every agreement or contract entered into by a municipality of this state as authorized in § 14-54-202 shall specify the following:  (1) Its duration;  (2) The precise organization, composition, and nature of any separate legal or administrative entity created thereby, together with the powers delegated thereto, provided such entity may be legally created;  (3) Its purpose;  (4) The manner of financing the joint or cooperative undertaking and of establishing and maintaining a budget therefor, or in the case of an agreement whereby one (1) municipality agrees to furnish specified services or facilities to the other municipality, the financial arrangement therefor;  (5) The permissible methods to be employed in accomplishing the partial or complete termination of the agreement and for disposing of property upon such partial or complete termination; and  (6) Any other necessary and proper matters.    (b) If the agreement does not establish a separate legal entity to conduct the joint or cooperative undertaking, the agreement shall, in addition to subdivisions (1) through (6) enumerated [sic] subsection (a) of this section, contain the following:  (1) Provision for an administrator or a joint board responsible for administering the joint or cooperative undertaking. In the case of a joint board, municipalities party to the agreement shall be represented;  (2) The manner of acquiring, holding, and disposing of real and personal property used in the joint or cooperative undertaking.
AR Code § 14-54-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 2 - Interstate Agreements|§ 14-54-204. Approval by Attorney General

 (a) Every agreement made under this subchapter, prior to and as a condition precedent to its entry into force, shall be submitted to the Attorney General, who shall determine whether the agreement is in proper form and compatible with the laws of this state.  (b) The Attorney General shall approve any agreement submitted to him under this subchapter unless he shall find that it does not meet the conditions set forth in this subchapter and shall detail in writing addressed to the governing bodies of the municipalities concerned the specific respects in which the proposed agreement fails to meet the requirements of law.  (c) Failure to disapprove an agreement submitted under this subchapter within twenty (20) days of its submission shall constitute approval thereof.
AR Code § 14-54-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 2 - Interstate Agreements|§ 14-54-205. Approval of state officer or agency

 (a) If any agreement made pursuant to this subchapter shall deal, in whole or in part, with the provisions of services or facilities with regard to which an officer or agency of the state government has constitutional or statutory powers of control, the agreement shall, as a condition precedent to its entry into force, be submitted to the state officer or agency having the power of control. The agreement shall be approved or disapproved by him or it, as to all matters within his or its jurisdiction, in the same manner and subject to the same requirements governing the action of the Attorney General as provided in § 14-54-204.  (b) This requirement of submission and approval shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, the requirement of submission to, and approval by, the Attorney General.
AR Code § 14-54-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 2 - Interstate Agreements|§ 14-54-206. Filing requirements

 No agreement entered into pursuant to this subchapter shall be effective until a copy of it has been filed in the office of the recorder of the county in which the affected Arkansas municipality is located and in the office of the Secretary of State.
AR Code § 14-54-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 2 - Interstate Agreements|§ 14-54-207. Satisfaction of obligations

 No agreement made pursuant to this subchapter shall relieve any public agency of any obligation or responsibility imposed upon it by law except that, to the extent of actual and timely performance thereof by an adjoining municipality pursuant to an agreement entered into under this subchapter or by a joint board or other legal or administrative entity created by an agreement made under this subchapter, the performance may be offered in satisfaction of the obligation or responsibility.
AR Code § 14-54-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 2 - Interstate Agreements|§ 14-54-208. Liability and damages

 (a) Every agreement or contract entered into pursuant to this subchapter shall have the status of an interstate compact, but in any case or controversy involving performance or interpretation thereof or liability thereunder, the municipalities involved shall be the real parties in interest. The state may maintain an action to recoup or otherwise make itself whole for any damages or liability which it may incur by reason of being joined as a party therein.  (b) The action shall be maintainable against any municipality whose default, failure of performance, or other conduct caused or contributed to the incurring of damage or liability by the state.
AR Code § 14-54-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 3 - Real and Personal Property|§ 14-54-301. Ownership authorized

 Municipal corporations are authorized and empowered to acquire and hold real estate, tenements, hereditaments, and such other real and personal property as is necessary and proper for the administration of the affairs of municipal corporations.
AR Code § 14-54-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 3 - Real and Personal Property|§ 14-54-303. Authority of incorporated towns

 In order to better provide for the public welfare, safety, comfort, and convenience of their inhabitants, incorporated towns may alter or change the width or extension of streets, sidewalks, alleys, avenues, parks, wharves, and other public grounds, and vacate or lease out such portions thereof as may not for the time being be required for corporation purposes, and, where lands have been acquired or donated to the town for any object or purpose which has become impossible or impracticable to achieve, the lands may be used or devoted for other proper public or corporate purposes or sold by order of the town council and the proceeds applied for public or corporate purposes.
AR Code § 14-54-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 3 - Real and Personal Property|§ 14-54-304. Property exchange by municipalities

 (a) Municipalities may exchange properties, real or personal, with the state and any political subdivision of the state.  (b) An exchange under this section shall be approved by ordinance of the governing body of the municipality and shall be accomplished in accordance with procedures prescribed by the governing body.
AR Code § 14-54-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 4 - Public Property for Processing Crude Biogenic Gases|§ 14-54-401. Authority to lease, etc

 Each city of the first or second class and incorporated town shall have the authority to lease, let, sell, or convey any real property owned or controlled by the city or town for the production, reclamation, and refining of crude biogenic gases pursuant to competitive sealed bidding procedures under this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-54-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 4 - Public Property for Processing Crude Biogenic Gases|§ 14-54-402. Bidding process

 (a)  (1) The mayor, city manager, or city administrator shall publish a notice inviting sealed bids for the leasing, letting, selling, or conveying of real property for the production, reclamation, and refining of crude biogenic gases. This notice shall be published in a legal newspaper in the county where the property is located one (1) time each week for the four (4) weeks immediately prior to the date set for receiving bids.  (2) No bid shall be received, accepted, or considered when received after the date set for the receipt of bids.    (b)  (1) Within thirty (30) days after the date set for the receipt of bids, the bids shall be opened and read at a public meeting of the city council, board of directors, commissioners, or managers.  (2)  (A) At the meeting, the city council, board of directors, commissioners, or managers shall select and award the lease to the property or award the property to the highest, responsible, and best bidder.  (B) The city council, board of directors, commissioners, or managers may reject all bids and begin the bidding process anew.
AR Code § 14-54-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 4 - Public Property for Processing Crude Biogenic Gases|§ 14-54-403. Implementing legislation

 Each city of the first or second class and incorporated town may provide by ordinance for the implementation of, but not contrary to, this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-54-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 4 - Public Property for Processing Crude Biogenic Gases|§ 14-54-404. Authority to issue bonds

 This subchapter shall not limit the authority of any city of the first or second class or incorporated town to lease, let, sell, or convey any real property pursuant to the Constitution and laws of Arkansas concerning the issuance of bonds for the purpose of industrial development and other lawful purposes.
AR Code § 14-54-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 5 - Areas Adjacent to Shopping Centers|§ 14-54-501. Authority to control use

 The governing bodies of the municipalities of this state are delegated the power and authority to enact ordinances to limit and control the use of areas adjacent to shopping centers and other commercial enterprises which are privately owned, but which are maintained for the convenience of the public, so as to provide ingress and egress, loading and unloading areas, fire lanes, parking spaces, parking areas designated for the exclusive use of disabled persons, and other measures for the safety and convenience of the public.
AR Code § 14-54-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 3 - Municipal Government|Chapter 54 - Powers of Municipalities Generally|Subchapter 5 - Areas Adjacent to Shopping Centers|§ 14-54-502. Plat of area

 (a) No ordinance shall be passed unless and until the owner or lessee of an area sought to be regulated has presented to the governing body of the city a plat of the area upon which is shown the proposed limitations and controls.  (b) The plat shall in no way limit the power and authority of the governing body of the municipality but shall be advisory only.