Title 27 — Transportation

The State Highway Commission is authorized to maintain, in whole or in part, highway toll bridges across rivers or waters bordering the State of Arkansas as a part of the state highway system.

All carriers of the United States mails over a designated route shall, if the route crosses a state-owned toll bridge, be exempt and relieved from the payment of toll for the privilege of using and crossing the bridge. This exemption shall apply only while the operator is engaged…

(a) Provisions are made for the regulation of the number of lights or bulbs and the monthly and annual expenditures for electric lights on all toll bridges in the State of Arkansas. (b) (1) No toll bridge in the State of Arkansas shall have more than four (4) electric lights or b…

(a) The several county courts through whose counties run any watercourse, lake, bay, or swamp which may be too burdensome to bridge and keep in repair by the inhabitants thereof are fully empowered to grant privileges to persons to build toll bridges over or turnpikes or causeway…

(a) The county court shall have a general superintending control of bridges, turnpikes, and causeways mentioned in this subchapter and the rates or tolls to be charged. (b) The county court shall compel the bridges, turnpikes, and causeways to be kept in good repair at all times.…

(a) Upon application being made to the county court for the granting of a franchise or privilege as herein provided, the applicant shall give notice by publication in some newspaper in the county or counties where the toll bridge, turnpike, or causeway is situated, having a bona …

Any interested party or any citizen of the county or counties to be affected may appeal from any order of the county court or courts provided for herein at any time within thirty (30) days from the rendition of the judgment and not thereafter; in the event of an appeal, the case …

(a) After conferring the privileges of this subchapter upon any person, no county court shall again have power to confer the same or like privileges upon any other person to the injury of him or her upon whom the privileges were first conferred. (b) However, privileges or franchi…

(a) The State Highway Commission, with the approval of the Governor and Attorney General of the state, is vested with authority to sue in the name of the state for the condemnation of any bridge, turnpike, or causeway which in their judgment should be acquired by the state. (b) C…

(a) In the event condemnation proceedings are instituted as herein provided by any county, counties, or the state, for the condemnation of property and franchise or privilege, the future value of any privilege or franchise or any prospective profits shall not be considered as an …

(a) Where the watercourse is on the boundary line between counties, the county courts of the counties may act jointly in granting the privileges and exercising the powers conferred by this subchapter. (b) Publication of notice shall be made in each county. (c) The circuit court f…

No franchise shall be granted to any person, firm, or corporation to operate a toll bridge on any road in the state highway system.

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to purchase any or all of the privately owned toll bridges in the State of Arkansas at prices to be fixed by the commission in accordance with rules to be promulgated by the commission. (b) Where it is not possible to p…

(a) The State Highway Commission is empowered to fix and enforce the schedule or rate of tolls to be collected on any privately owned toll bridge located on any road embraced in the state highway system. (b) In fixing schedules or rates, regard shall be had to the interests of th…

(a) It shall be the duty of every person, firm, or corporation owning or operating any toll bridge within or partially within the State of Arkansas to make, maintain, and preserve a record of every bale of cotton or part of a bale of cotton, whether seed cotton or lint cotton, wh…

It is expressly declared that this subchapter shall apply to all toll bridges owned or operated by the State of Arkansas or any of its agencies.

Any person transporting cotton across a toll bridge as specified in this subchapter who shall willfully and knowingly fail or refuse to furnish the information set forth in § 27-86-301 to the owner or operator of the toll bridge or who shall willfully and knowingly furnish false …

(a) Any owner or operator of any toll bridge, except the State of Arkansas, shall be punished as set forth in subsection (b) of this section if he or she shall knowingly and willfully:(1) Fail or refuse to procure the data set forth in § 27-86-301;(2) Fail or refuse to keep and m…

The State Highway Commission or other agency of the state having charge of the operation of any state-owned toll bridge may be compelled to carry out the provisions of this subchapter as to any state-owned toll bridge by mandamus proceedings filed by any citizen of the state in t…

It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of a toll bridge to make any charge against the person so transporting cotton by reason of the provisions of this subchapter.