Title 23 — Public Utilities and Regulated Industries
95 chapters · 4,024 sections in this title.
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-802 Granting of free passes to certain government officials prohibited
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(a) No railroad or transportation company organized or doing business in this state under any act of incorporation or general law of this state shall grant any free pass in the cars or other modes of conveyance over the line of any such railroad or transportation company, for any…
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-803 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 23-4-803Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-804 Exemptions — General Assembly and certain state officers may accept free passes
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(a) Members of the General Assembly within the State of Arkansas are exempted from the provisions of §§ 23-4-801 and 23-4-802. They are permitted to accept and it shall be the duty of all railroad companies doing business in the State of Arkansas to issue passes for free transpor…
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-805 Exemptions — Certain officials permitted to accept and use passes
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(a) Sheriffs are exempt from the provision of § 23-4-803 [repealed], and it shall not be unlawful for railroad companies to furnish free passes to them. (b) The Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Director of the Division of Career and Technical Education a…
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-806 Passes in exchange for advertising space
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Railroad companies operating in the State of Arkansas are authorized and empowered to enter into contracts with newspaper and periodical publishers of the State of Arkansas for the issuance of transportation in exchange for advertising space in the publication. The transportation…
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-807 Free carriage, passage permitted
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(a) Nothing in the law shall prevent carriage, storage, or hauling free or at reduced rates for any city, county, or town government, nor the free carriage of destitute or indigent persons or ministers of the gospel, nor prevent the railroads from giving free transportation or tr…
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-901 Definitions
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(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Board” means the board of directors of a rural electric distribution cooperative;(2) “Commission” means the Arkansas Public Service Commission;(3) “Co-op” means a rural electric distribution cooperative fo…
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-902 Exemption from rate case procedures, etc
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(1) A co-op, as defined in § 23-4-901, shall not be subject to rate case procedures and hearings and other requirements of §§ 23-4-402 — 23-4-405, 23-4-407 — 23-4-418, and 23-4-620 — 23-4-634 and Arkansas Public Service Commission rules implementary thereof, hereafter referred to…
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-903 Notification of proposed rate change
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(1) Each co-op not subject to rate case procedures, at least ninety (90) days before the effective date of any proposed rate change, shall notify the Arkansas Public Service Commission and each of its member-consumers of the proposed rate change. Notice to the commission shall in…
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-904 Petition for relief from rate change — Form
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(1) Form. Petitions provided for in this subchapter shall be prepared as follows:(1) Form. (A) The petition shall be headed by a caption, which shall contain:(i) The heading, “Before the Arkansas Public Service Commission”;(ii) The name of the co-op seeking a change in rates and …
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-905 Petition for relief from rate change — Effect
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If, by the effective date of the proposed change in rates and charges, the Arkansas Public Service Commission has received petitions from fewer than fifteen percent (15%) of the member-consumers requesting that the commission apply rate case procedures, then the commission shall …
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-906 Petition to declare co-op subject to rate case procedures
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In addition to the procedure for petition prior to any proposed change in rates and charges pursuant to §§ 23-4-903 and 23-4-905, the member-consumers of a co-op may at any time petition the Arkansas Public Service Commission to declare the co-op subject to rate case procedures. …
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-907 Commission's jurisdiction not affected
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Sections 23-4-902, 23-4-903, 23-4-905, and 23-4-906 apply only to rates and charges and shall have no effect on the Arkansas Public Service Commission's jurisdiction over a co-op as otherwise provided by law.
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-908 Authority of commission
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The Arkansas Public Service Commission shall have the authority to investigate and determine the reasonableness of the change in rates and charges of each co-op changing its rates and charges pursuant to this subchapter, within one (1) year of the time of the change in rates and …
Ark. Code Ann. § 23-4-909 Apportionment of rates and charges
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When determining how rates and charges established under § 23-4-903 are to be allocated among different rate classes, a co-op shall endeavor to apportion the rates and charges in a manner which reflects, as closely as practicable, the costs of providing service to each class.