Title 27, Transportation

The commissioners of the State Highway Commission, appointed pursuant to Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 42, shall organize by selecting one of their members as Chair of the State Highway Commission and another as vice chair. The vice chair shall have all the powers of the chair…

(a) The State Highway Commission shall meet at least one (1) time every two (2) months and at such other times, on the call of the Chair of the State Highway Commission or of a majority of the members, as may be deemed reasonable and proper to transact such business as may proper…

(a) The State Highway Commission shall be vested with the following powers and shall have the following duties:(1) To divide the state highway system into such maintenance and construction districts as the commission deems reasonable and proper for the performance of its duties h…

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized to enter into agreements with groups or associations for the promotion of highway programs. (b) Such agreements may contain provisions for collection and assessments of dues or contributions.

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized to enter into agreements to exchange or agreements to transfer highways with appropriate county and municipal authorities. (b) County and municipal authorities are authorized to enter into agreements with the commission to exchange o…

(a) The State Highway Commission shall submit annually to the Governor a report of its activities. (b) The commission shall make a biennial report to the General Assembly embodying a clear statement of all the questions that have arisen in that time and setting out such recommend…

(1) The following procedures shall be used by the State Highway Commission in the purchasing of all materials, supplies, and equipment:(1) The commission may at current prices purchase materials, supplies, and equipment where the cost does not exceed the amount of one thousand do…

(a) The State of Arkansas assents to the provisions of the Act of the United States Congress, approved July 11, 1916, 39 Stat. 1, 355, entitled “An Act to Provide That the United States Shall Aid the States in the Construction of Rural Post Roads, and for Other Purposes”, and to …

(a) The State of Arkansas assents to the provisions of 23 U.S.C. § 101 et seq., as it existed on January 1, 2021. (b) The State Highway Commission and the highway, road, and street authorities of the counties and the municipal corporations of Arkansas within their respective juri…

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized to establish and maintain tourist information bureaus and enter into agreements with and lease rights-of-way, land, and other facilities owned by the commission to persons, partnerships, associations, public or private corporations, …

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, the State Highway Commission is hereby authorized, in its discretion, to use any federal-aid highway funds apportioned or allocated to the State of Arkansas by the United States Secretary of Transportation or the Federal Highw…

(a) By a majority vote of the full State Highway Commission, the commission shall appoint a Director of State Highways and Transportation. (b) The director shall be a practical business or professional person. At the time of appointment, the director may be a nonresident of the S…

(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation, with the advice and consent of the State Highway Commission, shall appoint an assistant who shall serve as secretary to the commission. (b) The secretary:(1) Shall keep full and true records of the proceedings of the commission;(2) S…

The State Highway Commission may employ such personnel as may be reasonable and proper and shall prescribe and fix their qualifications, duties, and salaries.

The State Highway Commission may periodically, or whenever it deems advisable, employ expert public accountants to audit its records, books, accounts, and vouchers, or any part of them, so that the commission may always be advised of the exact status of the affairs under its cont…

(a) The State Highway Commission shall have authority to employ a consulting engineer whenever it deems the services of such an engineer to be necessary or advisable, at a compensation to be agreed on by the commission and the engineer, with the amount of the compensation, howeve…

(a) The consulting engineer and the State Geologist shall make such investigations and reports as the State Highway Commission may from time to time require. (b) They shall be especially charged with the study of the road materials of the state, their location, relative value, co…

(a) The members of the State Highway Commission and the Director of State Highways and Transportation, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take oaths that they will faithfully and honestly execute the duties of their offices during their continuance therein.…

(a) Each commissioner of the State Highway Commission shall give bond, as required by law. (b) Upon appointment, the Arkansas Department of Transportation shall execute a bond to the State of Arkansas in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for faithful performance o…

(a) Every person who shall have charge of any supplies, materials, or equipment of any kind, exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) in aggregate value at any time, when deemed expedient by the State Highway Commission, shall furnish a surety bond in an amount equal to the value th…

(a) Engineers, attorneys, or other employees of the State Highway Commission are prohibited from making any contract with that commission, other than their contracts of employment. (b) None shall be pecuniarily interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract made by the commi…

Whoever, being a member of the State Highway Commission or an engineer, agent, or other employee, acting for or on behalf of the commission, shall accept or agree to accept, receive or agree to receive, ask or solicit, either directly or indirectly, and any person who shall give …

(a) Suits against any state officer involving any act done or proposed to be done in the administration of the Arkansas Department of Transportation or of any law pertaining to the state highway system shall be brought only at the seat of government, in Pulaski County. (b) Howeve…

(a) The fiscal year of the Arkansas Department of Transportation shall be from July 1 to June 30 of each year. (b) The State Highway Commission is exempted from the provisions of Acts 1971, No. 585, §§ 9, 10 [superseded].

(a) Within ninety (90) days preceding any primary election, the Arkansas Department of Transportation shall not increase the number of its employees beyond the average number of employees the department employed and supervised during the twelve (12) months prior to the primary el…

(a) Due to his or her exacting and special duties, the Director of State Highways and Transportation is hereby authorized an expense allowance of five hundred dollars ($500) per month upon approval of the State Highway Commission. (b) The commission shall provide for an expense a…

(a) Notwithstanding the provisions of any laws to the contrary, the Arkansas Department of Transportation, acting on behalf of the State Highway Commission, is hereby authorized, on acquiring whole taxable parcels of property upon which real estate taxes or assessments are due an…

(a) (1) The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized to pay from funds appropriated for maintenance and operation a uniform allowance not to exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars ($1,800) per annum for all uniformed personnel of the Arkansas Highway Police Division of th…

(a) The State Highway Commission may pay from funds appropriated for maintenance and operation a tool allowance of five hundred forty dollars ($540) per annum for each mechanic, electrical, plumbing, and mechanical repairer, welder, body repairer, painter, and carpenter employed …

The Arkansas Department of Transportation is hereby authorized to pay amounts not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) per claim for damages to personal property of others resulting from the operation of any motor vehicle or other motorized equipment of the department…

The State Highway Commission is hereby authorized to pay from funds appropriated from maintenance and operation the actual expense of moving the household and personal property of those employees of the Arkansas Department of Transportation who because of their job assignments ar…

(1) When a highway police patrol officer of the Arkansas Highway Police Division of the Arkansas Department of Transportation retires from service or dies while still employed with the Arkansas Department of Transportation, in recognition of and appreciation for the service of th…

(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall analyze all reported wrong-way crashes on interstate highways and other freeways that are a part of the state highway system to determine whether the installation of additional traffic control devices is warranted and feasible i…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Transportation-related research” means the systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions to provide resilient and sustainable logistics, processes, materials, and methods to …

(a) By December 1 of each year immediately preceding a regular session of the General Assembly, the Director of State Highways and Transportation shall present to the State Highway Commission for its approval, by recorded vote, all draft legislation that will be presented for fil…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Congested route” means a street or highway that is part of the state highway system and is:(A) A rural two-lane street or highway with an average daily traffic count of nine thousand (9,000) or more vehicles each day;(B) An urban two-lane street o…

The Arkansas Department of Transportation may pay an intern a housing stipend in the maximum amount authorized by the State Highway Commission from the department's appropriation act.