Filing assessments — Notice — Hearing

Ark. Code Ann. § 14-318-116, under Improvement Districts For Acquiring Rights-of-way.

Ark. Code Ann. § 14-318-116

(a) The assessment shall be filed with the county clerk of the county and the secretary of the board shall thereupon give notice of its filing by publication once a week for two (2) weeks in a newspaper published and having a bona fide circulation in the county.

(b) This notice may be in the following form: “Notice is hereby given that the assessment of benefits and damages of . . . . . . . . . . District Number . . . . . . . . . . has been filed in the office of the County Clerk of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . County, and where it is open to inspection. All persons wishing to be heard on the assessment will be heard by the commissioners and the assessor of the district between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m., at . . . . . ., in the City of . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., Arkansas, on the . . . . . . day of . . . . . . . . . ., 19. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Secretary.”

“Notice is hereby given that the assessment of benefits and damages of . . . . . . . . . . District Number . . . . . . . . . . has been filed in the office of the County Clerk of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . County, and where it is open to inspection. All persons wishing to be heard on the assessment will be heard by the commissioners and the assessor of the district between the hours of 10 a. m. and 4 p. m., at . . . . . ., in the City of . . . . . . . . . . . . . ., Arkansas, on the . . . . . . day of . . . . . . . . . ., 19. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Secretary.”

(c) On the day named in the notice, it shall be the duty of the commissioners and assessor to meet together at the place named as a board of equalization and to hear all complaints against the assessment and to equalize and adjust the assessment. Their determination shall be final unless suit is brought in the chancery court within thirty (30) days to review it.