The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized, empowered, and required to hear and consider all petitions filed with it for establishment, discontinuance, enlargement, dualization, or modification of railroad train service, spurs, sidetracks, and platforms.
Petitions for establishment, discontinuance, modification, etc., of service — Authority of department
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-12-607 — under Operation and Maintenance of Railroads.
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-12-607