Title 27, Transportation

(a) (1) A regional mobility authority and the Arkansas Department of Transportation and the State Highway Commission may agree to allow the department to contribute to the payment of costs of any of the following in regards to a toll road:(A) A financial study;(B) An engineering …

A regional mobility authority may promulgate rules regarding the use and return of transponders.

(a) (1) Except as provided under subdivisions (a)(2) and (3) of this section, the operator of a vehicle that is driven or towed through a toll collection facility of a toll road owned by a regional mobility authority shall pay the proper toll.(2) An authorized emergency vehicle i…

Except as provided under §§ 27-76-711 and 27-76-712, there is a rebuttable presumption that the registered owner of the motor vehicle was the operator of the motor vehicle when the offense occurred.

(a) (1) The regional mobility authority or its designee may attempt to collect an unpaid toll under § 27-76-708 and an administrative fee to recover the cost of collecting the unpaid toll.(2) The administrative fee shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100).(3) The registered ow…

(a) If the registered owner of the motor vehicle is the lessor of a vehicle and the lessor claims it is not liable for an unpaid toll under § 27-76-708 because the vehicle was under a rental contract on the date the offense of nonpayment occurred, then the procedures of this sect…

(a) If the registered owner of a motor vehicle that was mailed notice of nonpayment of a toll under this section transferred ownership of the vehicle to another person before the offense of an unpaid toll under § 27-76-708 occurred, then the procedures of this section apply. (b) …

(a) In the prosecution of a violation of § 27-76-708, the prosecuting attorney shall establish that:(1) The vehicle passed through a toll collection facility without payment of the proper toll; and(2) The defendant was either of the following when the failure to pay the toll occu…

It is directed that the administrators of the various public highway, road, and street systems shall make every effort to conserve the safe function of the bridges under their jurisdiction pursuant to the findings and recommendations of the bridge safety inspections by the bridge…

The State Highway Commission is authorized to maintain, in whole or in part, highway toll bridges across rivers or waters bordering the State of Arkansas as a part of the state highway system.

All carriers of the United States mails over a designated route shall, if the route crosses a state-owned toll bridge, be exempt and relieved from the payment of toll for the privilege of using and crossing the bridge. This exemption shall apply only while the operator is engaged…

(a) Provisions are made for the regulation of the number of lights or bulbs and the monthly and annual expenditures for electric lights on all toll bridges in the State of Arkansas. (b) (1) No toll bridge in the State of Arkansas shall have more than four (4) electric lights or b…

(a) The several county courts through whose counties run any watercourse, lake, bay, or swamp which may be too burdensome to bridge and keep in repair by the inhabitants thereof are fully empowered to grant privileges to persons to build toll bridges over or turnpikes or causeway…

(a) The county court shall have a general superintending control of bridges, turnpikes, and causeways mentioned in this subchapter and the rates or tolls to be charged. (b) The county court shall compel the bridges, turnpikes, and causeways to be kept in good repair at all times.…

(a) Upon application being made to the county court for the granting of a franchise or privilege as herein provided, the applicant shall give notice by publication in some newspaper in the county or counties where the toll bridge, turnpike, or causeway is situated, having a bona …

Any interested party or any citizen of the county or counties to be affected may appeal from any order of the county court or courts provided for herein at any time within thirty (30) days from the rendition of the judgment and not thereafter; in the event of an appeal, the case …

(a) After conferring the privileges of this subchapter upon any person, no county court shall again have power to confer the same or like privileges upon any other person to the injury of him or her upon whom the privileges were first conferred. (b) However, privileges or franchi…

(a) The State Highway Commission, with the approval of the Governor and Attorney General of the state, is vested with authority to sue in the name of the state for the condemnation of any bridge, turnpike, or causeway which in their judgment should be acquired by the state. (b) C…

(a) In the event condemnation proceedings are instituted as herein provided by any county, counties, or the state, for the condemnation of property and franchise or privilege, the future value of any privilege or franchise or any prospective profits shall not be considered as an …

(a) Where the watercourse is on the boundary line between counties, the county courts of the counties may act jointly in granting the privileges and exercising the powers conferred by this subchapter. (b) Publication of notice shall be made in each county. (c) The circuit court f…

No franchise shall be granted to any person, firm, or corporation to operate a toll bridge on any road in the state highway system.

(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to purchase any or all of the privately owned toll bridges in the State of Arkansas at prices to be fixed by the commission in accordance with rules to be promulgated by the commission. (b) Where it is not possible to p…

(a) The State Highway Commission is empowered to fix and enforce the schedule or rate of tolls to be collected on any privately owned toll bridge located on any road embraced in the state highway system. (b) In fixing schedules or rates, regard shall be had to the interests of th…

(a) It shall be the duty of every person, firm, or corporation owning or operating any toll bridge within or partially within the State of Arkansas to make, maintain, and preserve a record of every bale of cotton or part of a bale of cotton, whether seed cotton or lint cotton, wh…

It is expressly declared that this subchapter shall apply to all toll bridges owned or operated by the State of Arkansas or any of its agencies.

Any person transporting cotton across a toll bridge as specified in this subchapter who shall willfully and knowingly fail or refuse to furnish the information set forth in § 27-86-301 to the owner or operator of the toll bridge or who shall willfully and knowingly furnish false …

(a) Any owner or operator of any toll bridge, except the State of Arkansas, shall be punished as set forth in subsection (b) of this section if he or she shall knowingly and willfully:(1) Fail or refuse to procure the data set forth in § 27-86-301;(2) Fail or refuse to keep and m…

The State Highway Commission or other agency of the state having charge of the operation of any state-owned toll bridge may be compelled to carry out the provisions of this subchapter as to any state-owned toll bridge by mandamus proceedings filed by any citizen of the state in t…

It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of a toll bridge to make any charge against the person so transporting cotton by reason of the provisions of this subchapter.

(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 …