Title 27, Transportation

The pro rata salaries of the state aid engineer, his or her assistants, and all other employees of the State Aid Division, as well as all other expenses incurred by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, shall be paid from the State Aid Street Fund prior to allocation to the …

(a) State aid streets in the several municipalities shall receive state aid in the manner and under the terms and conditions set out in this section. (b) The state aid street system shall be allocated to the several municipalities of the state by the State Aid Street Committee. (…

(a) All proposals covering work to be performed on state aid streets in a municipality in this state shall be:(1) Under contract let and approved by the State Highway Commission upon a request from the mayor or chief executive officer of the municipality; and(2) In accordance wit…

(1) A municipality is entitled to receive state aid and to expend state aid moneys in conjunction with moneys furnished by the municipality on state aid streets in the municipality on projects approved for construction in the municipality, provided:(1) The state aid system in the…

(a) Funds deposited into the State Aid Street Fund shall be used exclusively for the construction, reconstruction, and improvements of streets or bridges on the state aid street system, except as otherwise provided in this subchapter. (b) The funds shall not be spent under this s…

(a) (1) All rights-of-way required on state aid street projects shall be acquired by the municipality.(2) Any cost of rights-of-way or utility relocation shall not be considered a part of the cost of a project contemplated by this subchapter. (1) All rights-of-way required on sta…

(a) (1) For each fiscal year, the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall prepare and file quarterly statements setting forth an estimate of the total amount of highway revenues and other state revenues made available by this subchapter and all other laws providing state resource…

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “State Aid Streets Law”.

For the purposes of this subchapter, the term “reconstruction” shall include not only a complete rebuilding or replacement of a bridge, but shall also include major renovations which will extend the service life of an existing bridge.

(a) Upon approval of the State Highway Commission, the quorum court, and the county judge, any county may expend state aid road funds, as deposited into the State Aid Road Fund pursuant to § 27-72-305 and as administered pursuant to the policies of the Division of State Aid Road …

Maintenance of such facilities, utility adjustments, and right-of-way acquisitions shall be the responsibility of the incorporated town.

(a) The Governor, in addition to other duties and responsibilities conferred upon him or her by the Arkansas Constitution and laws of this state, is empowered to contract and to do all of the things necessary in behalf of this state to secure the full benefits available to this s…

The Governor may administer this state's highway safety programs through appropriate instrumentalities, departments, or agencies of the state or through a coordinator of public safety to be appointed by the Governor.

(1) It is the intent of this subchapter:(1) To enhance the safety of the public highways, roads, and streets and to safeguard the health, comfort, and convenience of motorists by restricting hazardous, distracting, and confusing devices along and immediately adjacent to the roadw…

As used in this subchapter, “oscillating, rotating, or flashing light or device” means any light of the type used on, or which simulates or gives the impression of being, an emergency vehicle such as a police car or vehicle, fire truck, ambulance, roadway construction or maintena…

(a) Any person violating the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. That person shall, upon conviction, be fined in an amount of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or be imprisoned in the county jail …

It shall be unlawful for any person to locate within two hundred feet (200′) of the rights-of-way of any public highway, road, or street in this state any advertising sign or device which involves movement of light beams or colored lights such as rotating beams of light, flashing…

(a) Official devices located at airports, designated parking areas, transportation mode interchange points, depots, and similar public service facilities shall be exempt from the provisions of this subchapter. (b) The provisions of this subchapter shall neither apply to any oscil…

This subchapter shall take precedence over any land use zoning statutes concerning devices regulated by this subchapter within the State of Arkansas.

(a) (1) Any person owning or controlling croplands, rangelands, grasslands, pastures, or stubble lands along any Arkansas state primary or secondary highways or along a federal or interstate highway in Arkansas and setting fire to those lands so as to cause smoke to obstruct thos…

In any cause of action for damages resulting from any obstructing smoke along a state or federal highway against any person who owns or controls lands which are burned, a person's compliance or noncompliance with this subchapter shall be admissible in the proceeding.

This chapter may be called the “Arkansas Highway Beautification Act”.

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Information center” means an area or site established, operated, and maintained at a safety rest area for the purpose of informing the public of places of interest within the State of Arkansas and providing such other information as the State High…

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices in areas adjacent to certain sections of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, and federal-aid primary and other state highways desi…

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that outdoor advertising signs, displays, or devices which do not conform to the requirements of this subchapter, including those for which there was a failure to first secure permits for the erection of the signs, are nonconforming adv…

(a) The erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices in areas six hundred sixty feet (660′) in width from the nearest edge of any right-of-way of any interstate, primary, or other state highway designated by the State Highway Commission shall be re…

(a) With the exception of and excluding those highways, or portions of highways, which are designated by the State Highway Commission as scenic byways, nothing contained in this chapter shall prohibit the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising signs, displays, and device…

Any sign, display, or device lawfully erected which does not conform to this subchapter shall be required to be removed by the end of the fifth year after it becomes nonconforming under the provisions hereof.

(a) The State Highway Commission, upon receipt of a declaration, resolution, certified copy of an ordinance, or other clear direction from a community, board of county commissioners, municipality, county, city, a specific region or area of the state, or other governmental or quas…

(a) The State Highway Commission shall give thirty (30) days' notice, by certified mail, to the owner of the land on which an advertising device is located to remove it if it is a prohibited device or cause it to conform to rules if it is an authorized device. (b) If the owner of…

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to require the removal of all outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices not in conformity with this subchapter, which right may be enforced by means of a mandatory injunction or other appropriate remedy. (b) Howe…

As provided by Title 23 of the United States Code, the State Highway Commission is authorized to enter into agreement, which agreement shall reflect customary use in the outdoor advertising industry as determined under § 27-74-211, with the United States Secretary of Transportati…

(a) It is the legislative intent and purpose of this section to specifically define a certain term used in the agreement entered into between the State Highway Commission and the United States Secretary of Transportation pursuant to the authority granted in this chapter, as amend…

(a) After survey to determine existing outdoor advertising structures in this state and after public hearing, the State Highway Commission shall determine customary use in the display of outdoor advertising in this state with regard to size, lighting, and spacing in areas zoned c…

(a) It is the intent and purpose of this section to require the State Highway Commission to act on each application for a permit for the erection and maintenance of outdoor advertising coming within the purview of this chapter within sixty (60) days after such application is file…

In order to provide information in the specific interest of the traveling public, the State Highway Commission is authorized to maintain maps and to permit informational directories and advertising pamphlets to be made available at safety rest areas along the interstate, primary,…

The General Assembly finds and declares that outdoor advertising signs, displays, or devices which are located more than six hundred sixty feet (660′) off the nearest edge of the right-of-way, located outside of urban areas, visible from the main-traveled way of the interstate, p…

(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of § 27-74-203, signs, displays, and devices which are located more than six hundred sixty feet (660′) from the nearest edge of the right-of-way of interstate and primary highways, outside of urban areas, visible from the main-traveled way…

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to require the removal of all outdoor advertising signs, displays, and devices which do not conform to the provisions of this subchapter and which are lawfully erected beyond six hundred sixty feet (660′) from the neare…

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that the establishment and use and maintenance of outdoor junkyards in areas adjacent to certain sections of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways and the primary and other state highways designated by the State Highway…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Automobile graveyard” means any establishment or place of business that is maintained, used, or operated for the storing, keeping, buying, or selling of five (5) or more wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or dismantled motor vehicles;(2) “Junk” means o…

Any person contemplating or planning the establishment of a junkyard is charged with notice of the provisions of this subchapter with respect to screening, relocation, removal, or disposal of such junkyards.

(a) The General Assembly finds and declares that junkyards and automobile graveyards that do not conform to the requirements of this subchapter are public nuisances. (b) The provisions of this subchapter may be enforced by means of restraining order, mandatory injunction, or othe…

(a) Except as otherwise herein provided, no junkyards shall be established, operated, or maintained after June 29, 1967, any portion of which is within one thousand feet (1,000′) of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of any interstate, primary, or other state highway designated…

(1) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall prohibit the establishment, maintenance, and operation of outdoor junkyards, automobile graveyards, and scrap metal processing facilities within one thousand feet (1000′) of the nearest edge of the right-of-way of interstate or prima…

(a) (1) The screening of any junkyard by natural objects, plantings, fences, or other appropriate means, so as not to be visible from the main-traveled way of any interstate or primary state highway, may be required by:(A) The State Highway Commission; or(B) The circuit court of …