Title 14 — Local Government

This subchapter shall be construed liberally. The enumeration of any object, purpose, power, manner, method, or thing shall not be deemed to exclude like or similar objects, purposes, powers, manners, methods, or things.

(a) Nothing in this subchapter shall invalidate any plans, ordinances, or regulations duly adopted in accordance with the statutes in effect at the time of adoption. (b) No alteration or amendments shall be made to existing plans, ordinances, and regulations unless in conformity …

(a) (1) With the approval of the majority of the members of the county quorum court, the county judge of any county may create a county planning board.(2) The county planning board shall consist of not less than five (5) members nor more than twelve (12) members appointed by the …

(a) The county judge may appoint such employees as he or she may deem necessary for the county planning board's work, whose appointment, promotion, demotion, or removal shall be subject to the same provisions of the law as govern other employees of the county. In the manner provi…

(a) The general purpose of the county planning board is to promote public interest in planning, to prepare or have prepared plans for the county, to receive and make recommendations on public and private proposals for development, to prepare and transmit to the county quorum cour…

(a) The county planning board, by majority vote of its entire membership, may recommend to the county quorum court the adoption, revision, or rescission of an official plan for the county or zoning, subdivision, setback, or entry control ordinances referred to as implementing ord…

(a) The county planning board may prepare and, after approval by the county quorum court, shall administer the ordinance controlling the development of land. The development of land includes, but is not limited to, the provision of access to lots and parcels, the provision of uti…

(a) (1) The county planning board shall have authority to prepare, or to cause to be prepared, a zoning ordinance for all or part of the unincorporated area of the county, which ordinance shall include both a map and a text.(2) The zoning ordinance may regulate:(A) The location, …

The county planning board shall have the exclusive zoning and planning jurisdiction over all unincorporated areas lying within a county and along a navigable stream notwithstanding the fact that such areas may be within five (5) miles of the corporate limits of a city having a pl…

In addition to any remedy provided by law, appeals from final action taken by administrative, quasi-judicial, and legislative agencies concerned in the administration of this subchapter may be taken to the circuit court of the appropriate county where they shall be tried de novo …

(a) The General Assembly finds that:(1) The Fair Housing Act, 42 U.S.C. § 3601 et seq., decisions of the United States Supreme Court, and other provisions of federal law establish the principles and standards in this section;(2) It is difficult and expensive for citizens to readi…

(a) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to remove or limit the powers of the cooperating cities and counties as provided by state law. (b) All legislative power with respect to zoning and other planning legislation shall remain with the governing body of the cooperating…

Any two (2) or more cities of the first class, cities of the second class, incorporated towns, or counties, or other civil subdivisions having adjoining planning jurisdictions, or any counties and cities adjacent to or within the county may jointly cooperate in the exercise and p…

(a) The cooperating cities and counties which join to create a metropolitan or regional planning commission shall determine through joint agreement the number and qualifications of the members of the commission. (b) The joint agreement shall also provide for the manner of coopera…

(a) When two (2) or more cities and counties shall adopt joint planning cooperation by ordinance, resolution, rule, or order, there shall be established a joint planning commission for the metropolitan area or region comprising the area coterminous with the areas of planning juri…

(1) The general purpose of a metropolitan or regional planning commission shall be to make those studies and plans for the development of the metropolitan area or region that will:(1) Guide the unified development of the area;(2) Eliminate planning duplication;(3) Promote economy…

The metropolitan or regional planning commission shall have the duty and function of promoting public interest and understanding of the economic and social necessity for long-term coordinated planning for the metropolitan or regional area, but its official recommendations shall b…

(a) (1) The metropolitan or regional commission shall make plans for development for the area. These plans may include, but shall not be limited to, recommendations for principal highways, bridges, airports, parks and recreational areas, schools and public institutions, and publi…

A metropolitan or regional planning commission established under the provisions of this subchapter is authorized to receive, for its own uses and purposes, any funds or moneys from any participating city or county, from the state or federal government, and from any other source a…

The participating cities and counties, or other public bodies, are authorized to appropriate funds for the expenses and costs required by the metropolitan or regional planning commission in the performance of its purposes and functions.

“Commercial medical waste” means any medical waste transported from a generator to an off-site facility for disposal where such off-site disposal facility is engaged in medical waste disposal for profit.

Notwithstanding any and all laws regarding county planning and zoning, all counties in Arkansas are authorized to establish, by ordinance, zones to limit or to regulate the construction or operation, or both, of commercial medical waste incinerators within their boundaries.

The commercial medical waste incinerator zoning ordinance shall be enforced through the issuance or denial of building and use permits in accordance with the conditions and terms of the limitations and regulations established by the ordinance.

When the county quorum court shall have laid off zones, by ordinance, to limit or to regulate the construction or operation, or both, of commercial medical waste incinerators, it shall be unlawful for anyone to construct or to operate a commercial medical waste incinerator within…

(a) (1) Violation of any provision of an ordinance adopted as authorized by this subchapter shall be considered a misdemeanor.(2) Each day's violation shall be considered a separate offense. (1) Violation of any provision of an ordinance adopted as authorized by this subchapter s…