Title 14, Local Government

(a) (1) Before filing suit to collect delinquent municipal improvement district installments, the board of improvement shall obtain from the county tax collector or the officials having the delinquent list a certified list of all lots, blocks, and parcels of lands unredeemed.(2) …

(a) The county tax collector, for his services in filing the delinquent list and extending the taxes, penalty, and costs, and in issuing the certificate of redemption, shall be entitled to the sum of twenty-five cents (25¢) per tract for each delinquency. (b) This sum shall be ad…

(a) For services in extending the annual installments, the municipal improvement district shall pay the county clerk one and one-half percent (1½%) of the total amount extended. (b) For services in collecting the annual installments, the district shall pay to the county tax colle…

(a) County clerks are authorized to employ a deputy to do the additional work imposed by the terms of this act. (b) The clerk may pay the deputy a salary up to the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars ($3,300) per annum. However, the salary shall never exceed the receipts …

(a) County tax collectors are authorized to employ one (1) deputy to do the additional work imposed by the terms of this act. (b) The collector may pay the deputy a salary up to the sum of three thousand three hundred dollars ($3,300) per annum. However, the salary shall never ex…

The county tax collector shall pay over to the county treasurer, on the first day of each month, all moneys received by him, deducting therefrom his commission for his services, which shall not exceed three percent (3%), to be fixed by the board of improvements. He shall take dup…

(a) Wherever in any city or incorporated town in this state a waterworks plant and a sewer system have been constructed by the same improvement district as part of a single improvement, the city or town council shall have authority to sell the waterworks. (b) (1) To that end, the…

(a) The council of any municipal corporation may sell its system of waterworks, together with the right to operate it, when they shall determine, by resolution adopted by a majority vote of the council, that it would be for the best interest of the town or city that the sale be c…

(a) (1) The purchaser of the water system in any city or town in this state shall pay at least the appraised value for the plant.(2) (A) If the purchaser desires to assume an amount of bonds equal to the purchase price outstanding against the plant, he shall give to the city or t…

The sale of the property as mentioned in this subchapter shall not work a forfeiture of the corporate entity of the improvement district. Rather, it shall be maintained for the operating of the sewer system which is to be retained by the district and the town and city.

The remainder of the outstanding bonds issued by a municipal waterworks improvement district shall remain as an indebtedness against it and shall be paid by a levy on the assessment of benefits of the district in force at the time of a sale.

All suits in reference to the sale of municipal waterworks shall be deemed matters of public interest and shall be advanced in all courts and heard at the earliest possible moment, and appeals therein must be taken and perfected within thirty (30) days.

(a) (1) Immediately after their qualification, a municipal board of improvement shall form plans for the improvement as requested in the petition and shall procure estimates of the cost thereof. All improvements shall be made with reference to the grades of streets and alleys as …

(a) In municipal waterworks and sewer improvement districts, the commissioners shall confer with the State Health Officer in forming their plans and specifications and shall not adopt any plans and specifications until they have been approved by the officer in writing. (b) A cert…

(a) (1) Before any street is paved, the commissioners on the board of improvement for a municipal improvement district may give notice to waterworks companies, gas companies, and other public service corporations of their intention to pave the street. They shall, in the notice, f…

(a) (1) A municipal board of improvement shall have power to enter upon any private property for the construction of any designed improvement.(2) Any damages that may be sustained thereby shall be paid out of the improvement fund. (1) A municipal board of improvement shall have p…

No injunction shall issue to restrain the prosecution of any work contemplated by this act. Rather, any person injured shall seek his relief by proceedings at law, within the time provided, or he shall be deemed to have waived it. However, an injunction may issue where an illegal…

Suit may be brought by and in the name of a municipal board of improvement upon any bond given to the board, but the sum recovered shall be for the use of the fund of the improvement district for which the bond was given.

No member of any municipal board of improvement shall be liable for any damages sustained by anyone in the prosecution of the work under his charge, unless it shall be made to appear that the member has acted with a corrupt or malicious intent.

This subchapter shall apply only to improvement districts created in cities having a population exceeding sixty thousand (60,000) inhabitants, as shown by the federal census immediately preceding the proceedings authorized by this subchapter.

The commissioners on the boards of improvement districts formed in cities having more than sixty thousand (60,000) inhabitants are authorized and empowered to change the plans for the improvement either before or after the assessments of benefits are made in their districts and t…

(a) At any time before the completion of the improvements in the improvement districts, the commissioners on the boards of improvement may make revised plans for the improvements involving changes in the original plans and complete the improvements according to the changed plans.…

(a) If the estimate of cost of making and completing the improvements according to the changed plans does not exceed the limit of cost to be borne by the landowners in the improvement district as limited by the statute in force at the time the second or majority petition is filed…

(a) (1) If the estimate of cost in any improvement district on any revised or changed plans shall exceed the amount limited by statute in force at the time the second or majority petition is filed with the city clerk, or the amount limited by the second or majority petition, the …

In order to secure funds for the making and completion of the improvements in the improvement district according to the changed plans, the board of improvement may borrow money not exceeding the full amount of the estimated cost of making and completing the improvements, with ten…

(a) Municipal boards of improvement shall have control of the construction of the improvements in their improvement districts. (b) The boards may advertise for proposals for doing any work by contract and may accept or reject any proposals. (c) All contractors shall be required t…

This subchapter shall apply to any municipal levee or flood control district organized and existing under the laws of the State of Arkansas relative to the formation of improvement districts in cities and towns but shall not apply to any rural improvement district.

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “levees and flood control projects” mean all sumps, drainage structures, and other works reasonably necessary or desirable for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a levee or flood control project.

(a) Any municipal levee or flood control improvement district organized and existing in accordance with the laws of the State of Arkansas relative to the formation of improvement districts in cities or towns may construct and maintain, or cause to be constructed and maintained, l…

(a) A municipal levee or flood control improvement district may enter into contracts with the federal government, or any of its agencies, for the construction of levee or flood control projects and may give such assurances to the federal government, or any of its agencies, as may…

(a) The municipality in which a municipal levee or flood control district is located may enter into contracts with, and give assurances to, the federal government, or any of its agencies, that the municipality, on completion of the project, will operate and maintain it. (b) The m…

The county court in which a municipal levee or flood control district is located may, by its order, authorize the district, without the payment of compensation or damages, to enter upon and use any land belonging to the county which is reasonably required or desirable for the con…

A municipal levee or flood control improvement district may acquire and occupy all lands and rights-of-way reasonably necessary or desirable for the construction, operation, and maintenance of levees and flood control projects.

In the event the district shall fail, upon application to the individuals, corporations, railroads, county, or municipality, to secure the needed right-of-way or lands by consent, contract, or agreement or if the owners of them are unknown, uncertain, nonresidents, or under disab…

(a) (1) (A) The circuit judge of any county in which it becomes necessary or desirable for a municipal levee or flood control improvement district to condemn rights-of-way, lands, or structures shall, upon the written application of the district, appoint three (3) resident landow…

(a) The commissioners on boards of improvement for water and electric light improvement districts in cities of the first class shall control and manage the affairs of the district until the bonds issued to pay therefor and all other indebtedness have been retired. At that time, t…

(a) In case of the construction of waterworks or gas or electric light works by any municipal improvement district, the city or town council, after the works are constructed, shall have full power and authority to operate and maintain them instead of the improvement district boar…

(a) (1) It is realized that waterworks and electric light plants and sewers will wear out and must be repaired and replaced, and that with the growth of our cities and towns, improvement and extensions of these plants and sewers are necessary from time to time.(2) So far as munic…

(a) (1) At the time named in the notice the city or town council shall meet and hear all persons who wish to be heard upon the question whether two-thirds (⅔) in assessed value of the owners of real property within the original district and two-thirds (⅔) of the owners within the…

(a) (1) The city or town council shall also appoint a board of three (3) assessors who shall reassess the benefit that will accrue to the owners of the real property within the improvement district from the making of the original improvements and from the proposed repairs, replac…

(a) (1) All improvement districts in cities and towns organized under §§ 14-88-203 — 14-88-205, 14-88-207 — 14-88-210, 14-88-301 — 14-88-303, 14-88-305, 14-88-306, 14-88-308, and 14-88-407 may be prolonged or continued after the completion of the improvement for which they were o…

(a) The city or town council shall provide, by ordinance, for the levy of the assessment of the benefits as made by the assessors under § 14-91-601 and shall fix the day in the year when the assessment shall be paid. (b) The assessment shall be a charge and lien against all the r…

The assessments for maintenance and repair made pursuant to § 14-91-601 may be in addition to the twenty percent (20%) maximum assessment permitted for the original cost of the improvement by § 14-90-801, but no additional assessment shall be made in excess of five percent (5%) o…

The assessment made pursuant to § 14-91-601 may be annually readjusted according to additional improvements upon the lands by board of assessors. Immediately upon the recording of the assessment, notice thereof shall be inserted in some newspaper, and appeals may be filed and sha…

Under this subchapter, the publication of a copy of the ordinance, the infliction of a penalty for nonpayment, and the enforcement and foreclosure of the lien shall all be had and done in the same manner as is provided in reference to the original assessment.

(a) It shall be lawful for an improvement district in a city or town to be formed for the purpose of enlarging or reconstructing waterworks and electric light plants previously constructed by other improvement districts or owned or controlled by the city or town council, and exte…