Title 27 — Transportation

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Navigable streams” includes all lakes within this state that have been meandered in making the public surveys of the United States lands and retained as public property by the United States; and(2) “Public fe…

(a) Any person detained at any public ferry by reason of the ferrykeeper not having sufficient boats or other proper craft and hands to work it, or by neglecting his or her duty in any way, may make application to a justice of the peace in the township where the ferry is located …

(a) Where a public road crosses any private stream which has not been meandered as a navigable stream, the bed of which may belong to any individual, if in the opinion of the county court, the public convenience will be promoted thereby, the court may make an order upon its recor…

(a) Every person owning the land fronting on any public navigable stream shall be entitled to the privilege of keeping a public ferry over or across the navigable stream if that person:(1) Owns the land on both sides or banks; or(2) Shall have possession of both sides or banks by…

The county court shall not permit any ferry to be established within one (1) mile above or below any ferry previously established, except at or near cities and towns where the public convenience may require it and satisfactory proof of the need shall be first adduced.

(a) In all cases hereafter existing in which a privately owned ferry serving traffic upon any state highway is discontinued, leaving no means of crossing available to the public, the State Highway Commission is authorized to establish and maintain ferry service at that point. (b)…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any ferry boat to transport cotton or cottonseed from the shores of the State of Arkansas on the Mississippi River across the river into another state unless the owner or operator of the ferry boat shall keep a record of the vehicle used in the transp…

If any person shall keep any ferry over any navigable stream, for which he or she shall charge any person any money or any other valuable thing, without complying with the provisions of this chapter in relation to obtaining license, he or she shall forfeit and pay to every other …

(a) No person shall keep any ferry over or across any public navigable stream or lake so as to charge any compensation for crossing the stream or lake without first procuring a license from the county court of the county in which the ferry is situated. (b) Any person wishing to e…

If any navigable stream or lake shall form a portion of the boundary of any county, so that one bank is in one county and the other is in a different county at the place where it is proposed to erect a ferry, a license shall be had from the county court for the ferry on the count…

(a) Any person wishing to put into operation any public ferry when the county court is not in session may do so by putting up an advertisement at the ferry, stating that he or she intends to apply at the next county court for a license for the ferry, and he or she may charge and …

(a) Before any ferry shall be established, the court shall determine what tax shall be paid by the applicant for the privilege of the ferry, which shall not be less than one dollar ($1.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100). (b) It shall be the duty of the county courts to …

It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county court, immediately after the assessment of any tax for ferry privileges by the court, to issue a license for the ferrykeeper to whom the privileges were granted and to deliver it to the sheriff and charge him or her with the amount …

(a) It shall be the duty of the sheriff to present the licenses named in § 27-87-206 to the proper ferryman within twenty (20) days after they are issued. (b) If the amount is not paid, the sheriff shall retain the license. (c) Twenty (20) days thereafter, if the amount is still …

The sheriff shall settle for the amount collected by him or her for ferry tax in the manner and at the time that he or she is required to settle for other revenue of the county.

When a navigable stream makes a part of the boundary line of this state, if any tax or charge shall be assessed or collected by any adjoining state for the privilege of a ferry landing on the shore or bank of another state from this state, then the same tax or duty shall be asses…

The county court shall have authority and is required to compel all persons who are authorized to keep a public ferry to give bond and good security in such sum as the court may deem sufficient to the judge of the county court and his or her successors in office. This bond shall …

If any persons sustaining damage by reason of a ferrykeeper not having complied with the conditions of bond, the persons sustaining the damage may bring suit against the ferrykeeper on the bond in the name of the judge of the county court and recover for such nonperformance of th…

In all cases of recoveries against ferrykeepers for violations of this chapter, if after judgment execution shall be returned that there are no goods and chattels of the ferrykeeper whereupon to levy and make the money demanded in the execution, the justice shall issue a scire fa…

(a) The toll of ferries that are established shall at all times be subject to regulation by the county court in which the ferry may be kept. (b) Every keeper of a ferry shall keep constantly posted in some conspicuous place at the ferry the rates of toll allowed to be charged. If…

(a) The court shall state on its record the rates of toll or ferriage which may be demanded for ferrying passengers, vehicles, beasts, and other property usually transported by ferries. (b) The clerk shall make out a copy of ferriage rates under his or her official signature and …

(a) All ferries operating in competition with state-owned toll bridges shall be subject to regulation as to ferry rates by the State Highway Commission and the rates to be charged shall be the same as the traffic rates prevailing upon the state-owned toll bridge with which the fe…