Title 27 — Transportation

(a) (1) Utility accommodation rules adopted by the State Highway Commission concerning relocation under § 27-67-325 shall include without limitation the relocation coordination process between the Arkansas Department of Transportation and a utility.(2) Rules concerning the reloca…

The General Assembly finds, determines, and declares that this chapter is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety and for the promotion of the general welfare.

As used in this chapter, “controlled-access facility” means a highway or street especially designed for through traffic over, from, or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement, or only a controlled right of easement of access, light…

(a) It is unlawful for any person:(1) To drive a vehicle over, upon, or across any curb, central dividing section, or other separation or dividing line on controlled-access facilities;(2) To make a left turn or a semicircular or U-turn except through an opening provided for that …

(1) Acting alone or in cooperation with each other or with any federal, state, or local agency or any other state having authority to participate in the construction and maintenance of highways, the highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, towns, and villages are autho…

(a) The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, towns, and villages are authorized to so design any controlled-access facility and to so regulate, restrict, or prohibit access as to best serve the traffic for which such facility is intended. (b) In this connection, hi…

(a) The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, towns, or villages may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish an existing street or highway as included within a controlled-access facility. (b)…

The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, villages, and towns may regulate, restrict, or prohibit the use of controlled-access facilities by the various classes of vehicles or traffic in a manner consistent with § 27-68-102.

(a) The highway authorities of the state, counties, cities, towns, or villages may acquire private or public property and property rights for controlled-access facilities and service roads, including rights of access, air, view, and light. The property and property rights may be …

The highway authorities of the state, cities, counties, towns, or villages are authorized to enter into agreements with each other or with the United States Government respecting the financing, planning, establishment, improvement, maintenance, use, regulation, or vacation of con…

(a) In connection with the development of any controlled-access facility, the state, county, city, town, or village highway authorities are authorized to plan, designate, establish, use, regulate, alter, improve, maintain, and vacate local service roads and streets or to designat…

No automotive service station or other commercial establishment for serving motor vehicle users shall be constructed or located within the right-of-way of or on publicly owned or publicly leased land acquired or used for or in connection with a controlled-access highway facility.

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Parkway” means and includes parkway areas of varying widths principally through rural areas with sightly, landscape, scenic, safety, and wayside development grants and easements, with minimum frontage and private access rights, featuring a parkway…

(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation is designated, authorized, and directed as the state agency of this state to acquire by gift, purchase, or condemnation as a public highway and convey to the United States all parkway lands and easements as and when required by survey…

State agencies owning or controlling various state-owned areas or state-owned easements or interest therein of state agencies are authorized to cooperate in the conveyance of the lands, easements, or interest to and in favor of the United States for this national parkway.

(1) The Arkansas Department of Transportation or other departments of the state are authorized to:(1) Acquire and convey to the United States parkway areas in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter;(2) Allocate necessary funds when appropriations are available therefor…

(a) Directly or indirectly from or through its political subdivisions, this state shall acquire and convey to the United States the necessary areas in fee simple, together with landscape, sightly, safety, or scenic easements, and rights-of-way for connections to the approaches of…

(a) An average right-of-way of not less than one hundred (100) acres per mile in fee simple, plus scenic, landscape, sightly, or safety easement control up to a total average of fifty (50) acres per mile, shall be provided for the gross length of the parkway in this state for par…

(a) When the construction of sections of the parkway road parallel to existing highways will result in unnecessary expense and the United States Secretary of the Interior may, in his or her discretion, use existing or projected sections of streets or highways, bridges, parks, or …

Alternate routes through or around urban areas, along scenic country, or connecting historic sites may be provided or required for acceptance by the United States Secretary of the Interior for parkway purposes.

(a) This state cedes to the United States and current jurisdiction to so regulate that the United States shall exercise concurrent jurisdiction:(1) To regulate use of parkway areas and traffic on the parkway road and protect the areas and property thereon belonging to the United …

There is created and established a commission to be known as the “Mississippi River Parkway Commission of Arkansas”.

(a) (1) The Mississippi River Parkway Commission of Arkansas shall be composed of ten (10) members appointed by the Governor:(A) One (1) member shall be a resident of Mississippi County;(B) One (1) member shall be a resident of Crittenden County;(C) One (1) member shall be a resi…

(a) At the first meeting of the Mississippi River Parkway Commission of Arkansas and annually thereafter, the members shall select a Chair of the Mississippi River Parkway Commission of Arkansas and a secretary from the membership. (b) Meetings of the commission shall be called b…

(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.C.A. § 27-70-209Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(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.