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AR Code § 14-123-411 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-411. Payment of assessments — Effect of delinquency

 (a) When the assessment list is delivered to the treasurer, he shall proceed immediately to collect the assessments.  (b) If the assessments are not paid within thirty (30) days, a penalty of ten percent (10%) shall at once attach for the delinquency. The board of directors shall enforce the collection of the whole by chancery proceedings in a court of the county having chancery jurisdiction in which the lands are situated. The court shall give judgment against the persons claiming to be the owners of the land, if known to the board, for the amount of the assessment, the penalty of ten percent (10%), interest on the assessment from the end of the thirty (30) days allowed for the collection thereof at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum, and all costs of the proceedings.  (c) If the ownership of delinquent lands is unknown to the board, the lands may be proceeded against as set forth in this section for the collection of the assessments, penalty, interests, and costs due thereon, as being owned by unknown owners.  (d) The judgment shall provide for the sale of the delinquent lands for cash, by commissioner of the court, after advertisement as set out in this section.  (e) The proceedings and judgment shall be in the nature of proceeding in rem, and it shall be immaterial that the ownership of the lands may be incorrectly alleged in the proceedings.  (f) The judgment shall be enforced wholly against the land and not against any other property or estate of the defendant.  (g) All or any part of the delinquent lands in any levee district in one (1) county may be included in one (1) suit instituted for the collection of the delinquent assessments, etc., as aforesaid, and all delinquent owners of the land, including those unknown as aforesaid, may be included in the one (1) suit as defendant.
AR Code § 14-123-412 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-412. Notice of pending suit in districts with five counties or less

 (a) In all suits brought by any levee district formed under the general statutes or under any special act of this state to enforce the collection of assessments, the levee district shall give notice of the pendency thereof as against all landowners, whether known or unknown, when the suits may be pending. Notice shall be given by publication weekly for four (4) weeks prior to the date of the term of court on which final judgment may be entered for the sale of land in the levee district on which the assessments are delinquent in some newspaper published in the county where the suit is pending, which public notice may be in the following form:  (b) Where the owners are unknown, that fact shall be so stated in the published notice. Upon the giving of the notice of the pendency of the suit, no further notice shall be necessary to any landowner and personal summons against the landowner need not be served, and the suit shall stand for trial as now provided by law.  (c) All statutory provisions contrary to the terms of this section are amended to conform hereto. However, this section shall not apply to levee districts comprising lands located in more than five (5) counties.    “NOTICE Levee District vs. Delinquent Lands The following named persons and corporations and all others having or claiming an interest in the following described lands are hereby notified that suit is pending in the Chancery Court of County, Arkansas, to enforce the collection of certain levee assessments on the subjoined list of lands, each supposed owner's lands being set opposite his or her or its name, respectively, together with the amount severally due from each, to wit: (Then shall follow a list of supposed owners, with descriptive list of said lands and amounts due thereon, respectively, as aforesaid). Said public notice may be concluded in the following form: Said persons and corporations and all others interested in said lands are hereby notified that they are required by law to appear and make defense to said suit, or the same will be taken for confessed, and final judgment will be entered directing the sale of said lands for the purpose of collecting said levee assessments, together with the payment of interest, penalty, and costs allowed by law. Clerk of said Court.”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 14-123-413 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-413. Notice of pending suit generally

 (a) Notice of the pendency of the suit shall be given as against nonresidents of the county and unknown owners, respectively, when the suits may be pending, by publication weekly for four (4) weeks prior to the day of the term of court on which final judgment may be entered for the sale of the land, in some newspaper published in the county, where the suit may be pending, which public notice may be in the following form:  (b) Where the owners are unknown, that fact shall be so stated in the published notice.  (c) As against any defendant who resides in the county where the suit may be brought and who appears by the lists of land made by the assessors and filed in the county clerk's office to be the owner of any of the land proceeded against, notice of the pending suit shall be given by the service of personal summons of the court at least twenty (20) days before the day on which the defendant is required to answer as set out in the summons.    “NOTICE Levee District vs. Delinquent Lands The following named persons and corporations and all others having or claiming an interest in the following described lands, are hereby notified that suit is pending in the Chancery Court of County, Arkansas, to enforce the collection of certain levee assessments on the subjoined list of lands, each supposed owner's lands being set opposite his or her or its name, respectively, together with the amount severally due from each, to wit: (Then shall follow a list of supposed owners, with descriptive list of said lands and amounts due thereon, respectively, as aforesaid). Said public notice may be concluded in the following form: Said persons and corporations and all others interested in said lands are hereby notified that they are required by law to appear and make defense to said suit, or the same will be taken for confessed, and final judgment will be entered directing the sale of said lands for the purpose of collecting said levee assessments, together with the payment of interest, penalty, and costs allowed by law. Clerk of said Court.”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 14-123-414 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-414. Trial date — Continuance

 (a) The suit shall stand for trial at the first term of the court after complaint may be filed, if four (4) weeks in the case of a nonresident or unknown defendant as set out in § 14-123-413, or twenty (20) days in the case of resident defendants as set out in § 14-123-413, shall expire either before the first day of the term or during the term of the court to which the suits are brought, respectively, unless a continuance is granted for good cause shown within the discretion of the court.  (b) Continuances for good cause shown may be granted as to a part of the lands of defendants without affecting the duty of the court to dispose finally of the others as to whom no such continuances may be granted.
AR Code § 14-123-415 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-415. Decree — Sale of land

 (a) In all cases where notice has been properly given as set out in § 14-123-413 and where no answer has been filed, or, if filed and the cause decided for the plaintiff, the court by its decree shall:  (1) Grant the relief as prayed in the complaint;  (2) Direct the commissioner to sell the land described in the decree at the courthouse door of the county wherein the decree is entered, at public outcry, to the highest bidder for cash in hand, after having first advertised the sale weekly for two (2) weeks, consecutively, in some newspaper published in the county, if there is one. If no newspaper is published in the county, then the advertisement shall be published in some newspaper of an adjoining county. The advertisement may include all the lands described in the decree.    (b) If all of the lands be not sold on the day as advertised, the sale shall be continued from day to day until completed.  (c) The commissioner shall by proper deeds convey to the purchasers the lands so sold, and the titles to the lands shall thereupon become vested in the purchasers as against all others whomsoever, saving to infants and insane persons having no guardians or curators, but who now have the rights by law to appear and except to the proceedings within twelve (12) months after their disabilities are removed.  (d) In any case where lands are offered for sale by the commissioner as provided by this act, and the sum of the assessment due, together with interests, costs, and penalty, is not bid for the lands, the commissioner shall bid the lands off in the name of the plaintiff levee district, bidding therefor the whole amount due as aforesaid, and shall execute his deed therefor, as in all other cases under this act, conveying the lands to the plaintiff levee district. The deed, when duly executed in conformity with the provisions of this act and recorded shall be received as evidence in all cases showing an indefeasible title in the purchasers, unassailable either in law or equity.
AR Code § 14-123-416 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-416. Redemption

 However, at any time within two (2) years after the rendition of the final decree of the chancery court as provided in § 14-123-415, the owner of the lands may file his petition in the court rendering the decree alleging the payment of the assessments on the lands for which they were sold. Upon the establishment of that fact, the court shall vacate and set aside the decree.
AR Code § 14-123-417 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-417. Parties defendant

 All persons having any interest in the lands or recorded liens thereon, known to the directors, shall be made parties defendant to the suit and shall be bound thereby and by the judgment and decree rendered therein.
AR Code § 14-123-418 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-418. Trial procedure

 (a) Suits shall be conducted in accordance with the practice and proceedings of chancery courts in this state, except as herein otherwise provided, and except:  (1) Neither attorneys for nonresident defendants nor guardians ad litem, nor any provision of § 16-65-403 [repealed] shall be required; and  (2) Suits may be disposed of on oral testimony as in ordinary suits at law; and  (3) This law shall be liberally construed to give the assessment lists the effect of bona fide mortgages for a valuable consideration, and a first lien upon the lands as against all persons having any interest therein.    (b) No informality or irregularity in holding the meetings, or in the description or valuation of the lands, or in the names of the owners, or the number of acres therein, shall be valid defense to the action.  (c) This act shall apply to all suits that may be brought for the collection of assessments heretofore levied that may be brought after the passage of this act.
AR Code § 14-123-419 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-419. Annual tax

 For the purpose of paying the expenses mentioned in § 14-123-316, for keeping the levees in each district in repair, and to meet the incidental and contingent expenses of the district, there shall be levied and collected off the lands as reported as benefited by the assessors an annual tax not to exceed five (5) mills on the dollar of the value of the lands as assessed for state and county purposes, to be levied, extended, and collected as state and county taxes are now collected by the officer authorized to levy and collect the tax. The taxes shall be extended on the tax books of the county against the lands so taxable as aforesaid, and to be paid over by the county collector to the treasurer of the levee district in coin or legal tender currency of the United States. The amount of the tax, not exceeding the rate percent aforesaid, shall be voted on at a meeting of the landholders of the district called by notice given as required by § 14-123-403, and the tax so certified to the county court of the county by the directors of the district on or before the day fixed by law for levying county and state taxes and making annual appropriations for the county.
AR Code § 14-123-420 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-420. Protection of persons injured by change of levee location

 (a) In all cases where the board of directors or commissioners of any levee district has, prior or subsequent to the passage of this act, agreed, contracted, or promised, formally or informally, to pay any landowner or landowners for damages to land caused by withdrawal of levee protection therefrom, or by enclosing the land within a loop or circle of the levee, or surrounding the land by the levee, the agreement, contract, promise, or understanding, when evidenced by a writing, whether a formal contract or a resolution of the board or other instrument, shall be valid and enforceable between the parties, except as to the amount of the damages, and amount of the damages which the landowner or landowners will sustain by reason of a change of the levee as provided in this section shall be assessed in the manner provided by Acts 1905, No. 53 [repealed].  (b) Damage shall include all damages which will result from the change in the position of the levee including injuries to natural and artificial drainage, withdrawal of levee protection therefrom, enclosing the lands within a loop or circle of the levees surrounding the lands by the levee, the inconvenience in passing over the levees, injury to crops and houses on the right-of-way injured or destroyed by the reconstruction of the levees, and any other damages which may be caused by the change in the location of the levees.  (c) The damages shall be recoverable, although the change in the levee may have been made upon the request of the federal government under and by virtue of the powers vested in it by the acts of Congress called “Flood Control.”
AR Code § 14-123-421 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-421. Authority to issue remaining bonds

 (a) Any levee district in the State of Arkansas, organized under general or special laws, which has not yet issued and sold all the bonds authorized to be issued by the district or by its board of directors or commissioners, may issue, in its own name or in the name of its board of directors or commissioners, as directed by the laws authorizing their issuance, the remaining bonds authorized in serial form and with such maturities as the board of directors or commissioners may determine to be for the best interests of the district.  (b) The bonds may be made registrable as to principal only at the option of the holder or holders and may be made callable at the option of the board of directors or board of commissioners at any time to be fixed by the board.
AR Code § 14-123-422 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 4 - District Operation|§ 14-123-422. Report of state lands sold by levee districts

 (a) On or before May 1 in each year after the passage of this act, the president and secretary of each of the levee boards created under the laws of this state and holding lands by virtue of any acts passed by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, donating lands to the several levee districts in the state, shall file with the Commissioner of State Lands a list of all lands disposed of by their respective boards the preceding year, showing the sections or parts of sections disposed of, the respective purchasers of each tract, and the date of sale. The first report shall contain a list showing a description of all the lands previously sold and the respective purchasers of each tract.  (b) Upon receipt of the report, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of State Lands to certify down to the clerks of the respective counties, a list of all lands sold, to the end that they may be listed for taxation.  (c) Upon failure of any levee board or boards to comply with subsection (a) of this section, the clerks of the respective counties in which the lands of the district or districts are situated shall list all of the lands of the district or districts for taxation, and the lands shall be taxed as lands of all private individuals, corporations, and companies.
AR Code § 14-123-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 5 - Districts in Four or More Counties|§ 14-123-501. Directors

 (a)  (1) The board of directors of any levee district embracing lands in four (4) or more counties shall consist of one (1) director for every one hundred thousand (100,000) acres, and for a fraction or more than fifty thousand (50,000) acres, of lands on which taxes are assessed by the district in each of the respective counties. However, any county which has more than one hundred thousand (100,000) acres and less than one hundred fifty thousand (150,000) acres embraced in any levee district, subject to a levee tax, shall have two (2) levee directors.  (2) This subsection is not intended to cut short the term of any member of the board of directors of any levee district, but is intended to eliminate the requirement that any county having lands embraced in a levee district under this section of which are not assessed for levee taxes have one (1) levee director, provided that provision is only to be eliminated upon the expiration of the term of the levee director or if a vacancy occurs in that levee director's office prior to the expiration of his term, that position shall then be abolished.    (b)  (1) The Governor shall appoint directors in conformity to this section for existing districts, who shall serve for a term of four (4) years and until their successors are elected and qualified.  (2) On the first Monday in November 1933 and every (4) years thereafter, one (1) director shall be elected from each county or division, as the case may be, in the manner provided by law, who shall serve for a term of four (4) years and until his successor is elected and qualified.    (c) Any resident of a county whose lands are embraced in any levee district and is otherwise eligible to serve as a levee director shall not be required to reside in the land embraced in the levee district division of the county.  (d) The directors shall organize by electing one (1) of their number as president.  (e) They shall also employ other officers and employees as are necessary in the discretion of the board.  (f) The new board shall be the legal successor to the old.
AR Code § 14-123-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 5 - Districts in Four or More Counties|§ 14-123-502. Compensation of officers, employees, etc

 (a) The board of directors or board of commissioners of levee districts embracing land in four (4) or more counties within the state shall have the power to fix the amount of compensation to be paid to all officers, employees, tax collectors, and assessors of the district and to fix the amount of per diem to be paid to members of the board of directors for attendance at all meetings.  (b) “Compensation” means all salaries, retirement allowances, group insurance, medical benefits, work uniforms, meals, housing, and anything else of value that the district provides in return for the work done by its officers and employees.
AR Code § 14-123-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 5 - Districts in Four or More Counties|§ 14-123-503. Tax collectors and assessors generally

 The board of directors or board of commissioners of levee districts embracing lands in four (4) or more counties within the state shall appoint tax collectors and assessors for each county within the district as is now provided by existing laws, but no tax collector or assessor shall be related by blood or marriage within the fourth degree to any member of the board of directors of such levee district.
AR Code § 14-123-504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 5 - Districts in Four or More Counties|§ 14-123-504. Tax collector's bond

 (a) The tax collectors in all levee districts embracing land in four (4) or more counties within the state shall each give bond, payable to the president of the board of levee directors, and his successors in office, in an amount to be fixed by the board of directors of the levee district.  (b) The bond shall be executed by the collector as principal and by some surety company authorized to do business in the State of Arkansas as surety.  (c) The treasurer of the board of directors of the levee district is authorized to pay the premiums on the bonds with funds of the levee district.
AR Code § 14-123-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 123 - Levee Improvement Districts Generally|Subchapter 5 - Districts in Four or More Counties|§ 14-123-505. Remittance by tax collector

 During the period permitted for the collection of levee taxes in levee districts embracing lands in four (4) or more counties within the state, each tax collector shall make remittance of all collections to the treasurer of the board of directors every ten (10) days or more often if required by the board of directors to do so.