Title 22, Public Property

(a) The Secretary of the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism on behalf of the War Memorial Stadium Commission may open accounts in the name of the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism in one (1) or more banks and deposit into those bank accounts all moneys received f…

(a) (1) The Building Authority Division may enter into an agreement with the Arkansas Livestock Show Association and make such contracts as are necessary for the purpose of purchasing the permanent site of the association and for the purchase or construction of buildings and faci…

(a) From and after the passage and approval of this section, the Building Authority Division may acquire by eminent domain any real property, including the improvements and fixtures on the property that it may deem necessary to provide a permanent site and show facilities for a s…

(a) The Arkansas Livestock Show Association shall permit organizations and associations to use the Arkansas Livestock Show Association's showgrounds and facilities for the National FFA Organization's State Horse Show and other related livestock and poultry activities without char…

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Public Facilities Finance Act of 1983”.

It has been found by the General Assembly that adequate construction, equipping, maintenance, and operation of facilities for the Division of Correction and the state-supported institutions of higher education are essential to the well-being of this state and that the pledging of…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Agency” or “state agency” means any agency, board, officer, commission, department, division, or institution of the State of Arkansas;(2) (A) “Building” or “buildings” means any and all buildings and related facilities constructed or acquired a…

(a) This subchapter shall be the complete and sole authority for the establishment of the purposes set forth in this subchapter. (b) To the extent that there is a conflict between the purposes of this subchapter and Chapter 2 of this title, the provisions of this subchapter shall…

(a) In addition to the powers, purposes, and authorities set forth elsewhere in this subchapter or in other laws, the Building Authority Division is authorized and empowered to:(1) Acquire, construct, repair, renovate, alter, maintain, and equip existing or new buildings and capi…

(a) Before certificates of indebtedness as authorized by this subchapter may be issued by the Building Authority Division and purchased by the State Board of Finance, the division shall develop a plan for all proposed construction work to be performed, the location at which the w…

(a) (1) For the purpose of providing funds for the construction of buildings as authorized in this subchapter, the Director of the Building Authority Division, with the approval of the Governor and the Secretary of the Department of Shared Administrative Services, is authorized a…

(a) (1) The certificates of indebtedness shall be in such form and denomination, and shall have such dates and maturities, and may be issued in such series, as the Building Authority Division shall determine.(2) The schedule of principal and interest maturities shall be arranged …

(a) The certificates shall be the obligations of the Building Authority Division, and the nontax revenues available to the division under the provisions of § 22-3-1210, as distinguished from any tax moneys which may be made available for the operation of the division, are pledged…

(a) The principal of and interest on the certificates of indebtedness issued under this subchapter shall be secured, except as stated in subdivision (c)(1) of this section, by a lien on and pledge of:(1) All revenue derived from payments by the Arkansas Development Finance Author…

Certificates of indebtedness issued under the provisions of this subchapter, and the interest thereon, shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxes. This exemption shall include income, property, inheritance, and estate taxes.

(a) (1) The state funds which may be used by the State Board of Finance in making the purchases of the certificates of indebtedness are those specifically referred to under the provisions of the State Treasury Management Law, § 19-3-301 et seq.(2) All certificates purchased or re…

(a) In the event it shall be determined that the procedure set forth in § 22-3-1212 for the retirement of the certificates is unconstitutional or invalid for any reason, the Building Authority Division is authorized and directed to establish an account in its name in a bank to be…

(1) Proceeds from the sale of the certificates of indebtedness shall be deposited into the State Treasury as follows:(1) All funds held as a debt service reserve fund in the Public Facilities Debt Service Fund pursuant to the provisions hereof and the earnings thereon shall be ap…

(1) Any authorizing resolution shall, together with this subchapter, constitute a contract between the Building Authority Division, and the State Board of Finance, and the Treasurer of State, which contract and all covenants, agreements, and obligations therein shall be promptly …

(a) (1) Prior to the issuance of certificates of indebtedness as authorized by this subchapter, all moneys collected by the Division of Correction from the sale or disposition of farm products, livestock, or other products produced in connection with agricultural and livestock ac…

(a) (1) Prior to the issuance of certificates of indebtedness as authorized by this subchapter, all moneys collected by the Board of Corrections from the sale or disposition of articles and products manufactured or produced by prison labor shall be forthwith deposited with the Tr…

(a) The Building Authority Division is authorized to employ architects to prepare plans, specifications, and estimates of costs for the construction of any and all facilities authorized by the provisions of this subchapter and to supervise and inspect the construction. (b) After …

(a) (1) The Arkansas Development Finance Authority shall establish in its records a trust fund to be entitled the “Prison Construction Trust Fund”.(2) All moneys derived by or remitted to the Arkansas Development Finance Authority from the sale of annual license plate validation …

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Blind” or “blind person” means a person having not more than 20⁄200 visual acuity in the better eye with correcting lenses, or visual acuity greater than 20⁄200 but with a limitation in the field of vision such that the widest diameter of the v…

(1) This subchapter is not intended to cover the following vending facilities:(1) Vending facilities operated by universities and colleges or the vending facilities provided as an integral part of their services to students or as a training program for students;(2) Food service p…

(a) For the purpose of assisting blind persons to become self-supporting and to further promote employment of the blind in Arkansas, state agency administrators shall assure that preference is given to the licensing agency in authorizing the operation of vending facilities on sta…

No blind person may operate a vending facility, including any vending machine or other coin-operated device, on state property unless licensed to do so by the licensing agency.

(a) The licensing agency shall issue licenses to operate vending facilities on state property to blind persons who are in need of employment and who are capable of efficiently operating the vending facility in a manner resulting in reasonable satisfaction for all parties concerne…

(1) Upon written or verbal request from a state agency administrator that a vending facility is desired on state property, or upon its own initiative, the licensing agency shall:(1) Survey the property, blueprints, plans, or other available information to determine if the install…

(a) The state agency administrators shall cooperate with the licensing agency in the selection of a suitable location for vending facilities and shall provide proper space, plumbing, lighting, and electrical outlets for the vending facility in the original planning and constructi…

(a) State agency administrators of state property where the total number of persons using the property daily would produce insufficient profits, as determined by the licensing agency, to support a vending facility and a living wage for a blind person shall grant a preference to t…

(a) In the design, construction, alteration, or renovation of state property housing or serving fifty (50) persons or more, there shall be included a satisfactory site or sites with space and electrical and plumbing outlets suitable for the location and operation of a vending fac…

(a) On state property where a vending facility is presently being operated by a blind licensed operator and before any additional or different provisions or arrangements are made for the sale or dispensing of articles or services of the type enumerated in § 22-3-1303(b), the lice…

On state property where vending facilities are being operated by those other than the blind, when the present contract or agreement expires or is terminated for any reason or when a change in the present vending facility is imminent, the future planned vending facility for such s…

The Division of State Services for the Blind shall retain a portion of the proceeds derived from the vending stand program to be used for the benefit of maintaining the physical facilities of the vending stand program. The expenditures shall be limited to renovation of existing s…

(a) Should a state agency operate or develop as an integral part of its student program a food service training program, the state agency administrator or governing board of the state-supported facility shall notify the licensing agency of the program change. (b) The licensing ag…

This subchapter shall be known and cited as the “State Agencies Facilities Acquisition Act of 1991”.

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

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Agency” or “state agency” means any agency, board, office, commission, department, division, or institution of the State of Arkansas;(2) “Authority” means the Arkansas Development Finance Authority created pursuant to the Arkansas Development F…

(1) In addition to the purposes, powers, and authority set forth elsewhere in this subchapter or in other laws, the Building Authority Division may:(1) Acquire, construct, and equip buildings or by purchase, exchange, barter, gift, long-term lease, or other means, buildings and f…

(1) In addition to the purposes, powers, and authority set forth elsewhere in this subchapter or in other laws, in connection with the construction and equipping of buildings and facilities in Little Rock, Arkansas, to house state agencies, the Building Authority Division may:(1)…

(a) Pursuant to the intention of the General Assembly expressed in § 15-5-303, the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, in cooperation with the Building Authority Division, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue revenue bonds at one (1) time or from time to time, and to u…

(a) It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it has been issued under the provisions of this subchapter, that the bonds shall be obligations only of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, that in no event shall they constitute indebtedness for which the faith…

(a) The principal of, premiums, if any, interest on, and trustees' and paying agents' fees in connection with all bonds issued under this subchapter shall be secured solely by a lien on and pledge of the gross revenues derived from the leasing or renting to state agencies or othe…

(a) Any authorizing resolution and trust indenture shall, together with this subchapter, constitute a contract between the Arkansas Development Finance Authority and the holders and registered owners of the bonds, which contract, and all covenants, agreements, and obligations the…

Bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter, and the interest thereon, shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxes, and the exemption shall include income, inheritance, and estate taxes.