Title 27, Transportation

(a) The Mississippi River Parkway Commission of Arkansas created herein shall be an affiliate of the National Mississippi River Parkway Commission and shall cooperate with and assist the National Mississippi River Parkway Commission in promoting interest in, and the development a…

The Director of State Highways and Transportation shall designate one (1) employee of the Arkansas Department of Transportation who is an engineer or who has engineering experience, and the Secretary of the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism shall appoint one (1) member o…

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized and directed to erect and maintain signs designating the route of the Great River Road through Arkansas. (b) The signs used to designate the route shall be the standard marker developed and approved for the Great River Road by the Na…

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized to:(1) Expend from its regular appropriation for any fiscal year, in addition to the other purposes enumerated in the appropriation act, funds to cover the state's pro rata share, as a participating member, of the costs in the activi…

(a) The designated disbursing officers for the Arkansas Department of Transportation are hereby authorized to complete and sign one (1) certification for each state voucher or other designated document that authorizes the Auditor of State, or other official, to draw a state warra…

(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation, through the Director of State Highways and Transportation, is authorized to certify to the Treasurer of State, Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State any amount that is due the department from a city or county of…

(a) All taxes, penalties, and other amounts collected pursuant to the additional taxes and fees levied in § 26-55-205(b) and § 26-56-201(a)(2) shall be classified as special revenues. (b) After deducting therefrom the three percent (3%) for credit to the Constitutional Officers F…

(a) Should the United States Congress extend an option to the State of Arkansas to collect all or part of the existing excise tax on motor fuels imposed by the Internal Revenue Code, Chapter 31, Retailers Excise Tax, §§ 4041 and 4081, it is declared that the option is executed. (…

This subchapter may be referred to and cited as the “Arkansas Highway Revenue Distribution Law”.

(a) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “highway revenues” means and includes the following special revenues:(1) Fees for the registration and licensing of motor vehicles, levied and collected under §§ 27-14-305, 27-14-601, 27-14-603, 27-14-605, 27-…

All highway revenues shall be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the State Apportionment Fund. After deducting the amount of uncollected checks and reserving the amount as shall be required to liquidate claims for taxes erroneously paid, the Treasurer of State sha…

(a) On the second business day that the State Treasury is open after the twenty-fifth day of the month, the Treasurer of State shall compute the balance of the Arkansas Department of Transportation Fund, including all internal accounts and funds, including, but not limited to, th…

Commencing with the federal funds received by the State of Arkansas under the provisions of the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972, Pub. L. No. 92-512, as amended, commonly and hereinafter referred to as “federal revenue-sharing funds”, all federal revenue sharing fund…

(1) Excluding the interest income classified as special revenue under § 27-70-204(b)(1), all highway revenues which are available for distribution during each fiscal year shall be transferred to the following State Treasury funds, and in the order specified, with transfers to be …

(a) As used in this section, “public transportation” means a conveyance of human passengers by bus, van, or any other ground surface vehicle that is:(1) Provided to the general public or selected groups of the public on a regular or continuing basis; and(2) Operated by a city, co…

The gross receipts taxes levied and collected on gasohol shall be used by the Arkansas Department of Transportation to defray, in whole or in part, the cost of constructing, widening, reconstructing, maintaining, resurfacing, or repairing the public highways, and retiring highway…

(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is authorized and directed to furnish, without cost to counties, all plans and engineering services necessary in connection with all county negotiated contracts for federal-aid secondary road projects in all counties of this state. (b…

Where any political subdivision of the State of Arkansas has entered into an agreement with the United States Government, any agency or subdivision thereof, or the State Highway Commission to maintain projects constructed off the state highway system by the commission, with the u…

(a) The State Highway Commission, upon receipt of written notice from the Federal Highway Administration to the effect that political subdivisions have violated the agreement set out in § 27-72-201, shall immediately proceed to investigate the report and shall make a final determ…

(a) Upon receipt of the warrant or warrants from the Treasurer of State, the State Highway Commission shall apply such funds to the maintenance of the project or projects on which agreements have been violated for the amount or amounts pro rata as the commission shall deem best. …

When the State Highway Commission finds the agreements relative to the various projects have been violated, the commission may, at its discretion, commence and cease to maintain the projects, subject to reimbursement as set out in § 27-72-203.

Upon determination by the State Highway Commission that the agreement has been violated, and commencing on the date of notice to the Treasurer of State, there shall be a charge upon funds set out in this subchapter which shall take priority over any other obligations on the funds…

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Betterment” means any construction or reconstruction on a state aid-designated road which results in an improvement which exceeds or equals any previous improvement whether or not the previous improvement …

(a) There is established a system of state aid roads in each county consisting of the major collector and minor collector routes not on the state highway system feeding into local trade areas or into the state highway system and providing a program for the construction and improv…

There is created within the Arkansas Department of Transportation a division to be called the Division of State Aid Road Construction.

(a) The Division of State Aid Road Construction shall be headed by a state aid engineer. (b) The state aid engineer shall be a registered engineer with at least three (3) years experience as a county road or highway engineer and a thorough knowledge of rural road problems. (c) Th…

(a) (1) There is created in the State Treasury a fund to be known as the State Aid Road Fund, to which the Treasurer of State shall transfer one hundred percent (100%) of the revenues credited to the State Highway Special Construction Account of the Arkansas Department of Transpo…

In the event that any county desires to provide funds in excess of the minimum matching requirements as provided in § 27-72-305, the Treasurer of State shall credit the amount above matching requirements to the County Supplement Fund Account of the State Aid Road Fund, there to b…

The salaries of the state aid engineer, his or her assistants, and all other employees of the Division of State Aid Road Construction, as well as all other expenses incurred by the Division of State Aid Road Construction in carrying out the provisions of this subchapter, shall be…

(a) Before any county shall be eligible to receive the benefits of the provisions of this subchapter, the county, through its county judge, shall agree to comply with the terms, provisions, and limitations of this subchapter. (b) When any county shall have met the requirements of…

(a) State aid roads in the several counties shall receive state aid in the manner and under the terms and conditions set out in this subchapter. (b) The state aid system shall be allocated to the several counties of the state on a mileage basis in the following proportions:(1) Fi…

(a) All proposals covering work to be performed on state aid roads in each county in this state shall be under contract let and approved by the State Highway Commission upon a request from the county judge of the county and in accordance with the procedures prescribed in § 27-67-…

(1) Any county shall be entitled to receive state aid and to expend state aid moneys in conjunction with moneys furnished by said county on state aid roads in such county on projects approved for construction in such county provided:(1) The state aid system in the county has been…

(a) Funds deposited into the State Aid Road Fund shall be used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction, and improvements of roads on the state aid road system, except as otherwise provided in this subchapter. (b) A county's allotment from the fund may be used for the pur…

(a) Each year, fifty percent (50%) of all federal-aid secondary road funds allocated to this state shall be set aside by the State Highway Commission for use on county secondary road projects on the federal-aid secondary roads that are included in the state aid road system. (b) C…

(a) (1) It is the intent and purpose of this section to make available moneys in the State Aid Road Fund to the credit of disaster counties to be used to restore and repair county bridges or roads which are destroyed or which have suffered extensive damage as a result of tornadoe…

(a) All rights-of-way required on state aid road projects shall be acquired by the county, and any cost of rights-of-way shall not be considered a part of the cost of any project contemplated by this subchapter. (b) The costs of reconstructing fencing, and the construction of pro…

(a) It shall be the duty of each county to properly maintain all state aid roads in their respective counties after construction of any such roads with state aid moneys. (b) (1) If essential maintenance is not properly and regularly carried on, in the opinion of the state aid eng…

(a) There is created and established on the books of the Treasurer of State, Auditor of State, and Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, in the State Treasury, a fund to be designated and known as the County Road Construction and Maintenance Revolving Fund, the exclusive jurisdictio…

(a) For each fiscal year, it shall be the duty of the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State to prepare and file quarterly statements setting forth an estimate of the total amount of highway revenues and other state revenues made available by Acts 1973, No. 445, and all other laws pro…

(a) Moneys at any time in the County Road Construction and Maintenance Revolving Fund shall be available to the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State only for the purposes of making advance transfers to the several county highway funds, state aid road funds, federal-aid secondary roa…

(a) (1) Advance transfers may be made to each of the several county highway funds from time to time during the fiscal year in amounts as may be requested by the several county courts and approved by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State.(2) The purpose of advance transfers as her…

(a) (1) Advance transfers may be made from time to time during the fiscal year to each of the several county special purpose road accounts maintained by the Treasurer of State.(2) Special purposes road accounts, as used in this section, shall include any and all county road const…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Betterment” means any construction or reconstruction on a state aid-designated street that results in an improvement that exceeds or equals any previous improvement whether or not the previous improvement was financed in part or in whole throug…

(a) A system of state aid streets in each municipality is established to:(1) Consist of the major and minor arterial and collector routes not on the state highway system feeding into local trade areas or into the state highway system; and(2) Provide a program for the construction…

There is created in the Arkansas Department of Transportation a division to be known as the “State Aid Division”.