Title 14, Local Government

(a) Except as provided in § 14-271-109, no person may engage in excavation or demolition activities without having first notified the One Call Center in accordance with the provisions listed in this section. (b) (1) Each person responsible for any excavation or demolition operati…

(a) (1) Except as provided by subsection (b) of this section, a person responsible for an excavation or demolition that results in damage to an underground facility shall:(A) Immediately upon discovery of the damage, notify the One Call Center of the location and nature of the da…

In addition to the provisions of this chapter, all operators of underground pipeline facilities are required to comply with all applicable federal statutes and regulations pertaining to pipeline safety and damage prevention.

Neither the One Call Center, nor any entity operating the One Call Center, nor any member of the One Call Center shall be responsible for locating nonmember underground utility facilities, or for advising or otherwise warning of the possibility of the existence of underground uti…

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context clearly expresses otherwise:(1) “Beneficiaries” means those persons or entities who have executed services agreements and who have paid and remain current in the payment of services availability fees to a fire department or fire …

(a) Any fire department may enter into services agreements with its beneficiaries. (b) (1) Fire departments are authorized and empowered to enter into loans, lease-purchase agreements, and other extensions of credit from lenders and are empowered to pledge and assign services agr…

(a) Beneficiaries shall be entitled to receive all firefighting services specified in the services agreement. (b) (1) Should a fire department provide firefighting services to a nonbeneficiary, then the nonbeneficiary shall pay to the fire department a sum not to exceed five thou…

(a) A fire department shall adopt written procedures pursuant to which the department's service availability fees shall be paid. (b) If not paid within thirty (30) days after a due date, then a fire department shall have the right to initiate collection litigation against a delin…

(1) It is the purpose and intent of this chapter to:(1) Authorize the establishment and prescribe the procedure for the establishment of improvement districts for the purpose of providing ambulance services to residents of the districts;(2) Prescribe the procedure for assessing t…

(a) Upon the petition of a majority in value and area of the owners of real property in any designated area, it shall be the duty of the county court to lay off into an improvement district the territory described in the petition and to name three (3) or five (5) commissioners of…

(a) It shall be the duty of the county clerk to give notice of the filing of the petition describing the territory to be affected and calling upon all persons who wish to be heard upon the question of the establishment of the district to appear before the county court on a day to…

(a) On the day named in the notice, it shall be the duty of the county court to meet and to hear the petition and to determine whether those signing the petition constitute the majority in value and area. (b) (1) If the county court determines that a majority in value and area ha…

(a) Within thirty (30) days after their appointment, the commissioners shall take and file their oaths of office with the county clerk, in which they shall swear to support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Arkansas, to faithfully discharg…

No member of the board of improvement shall be liable for any damages unless it shall be made to appear that he acted with a corrupt and malicious intent.

(a) Upon the qualification of the commissioners, they shall form plans for the providing of ambulance improvements they intend to make and the property and equipment they intend to purchase. (b) They shall thereupon appoint three (3) assessors to assess the annual benefits which …

(a) The assessment shall be filed with the county clerk of the county, and the secretary of the board shall thereupon give notice of its filing by publication one (1) time a week for two (2) weeks in a newspaper published and having a bona fide circulation in the county. This not…

(a) The commissioners shall one (1) time a year order the assessors to reassess the annual benefits of the district, provided there have been improvements made or improvements destroyed or removed from one (1) or more tracts of land in the district, making it necessary to have th…

(a) The board of commissioners of the improvement district shall at the time that the annual benefit assessment is equalized, or at any time thereafter, enter upon its records an order which shall have all the force of a judgment, providing that there shall be assessed upon the r…

(a) The original assessment record or any reassessment record shall be filed with the county clerk, whose duty it shall be to extend the annual benefit assessment annually upon the tax books of the county until the improvement district is dissolved. It shall then be the duty of t…

(a) All annual benefits extended and levied under the terms of this chapter shall be payable between the third Monday in February and the third Monday in April of each year. (b) (1) If any annual benefit assessments levied by the board pursuant to this chapter are not paid at mat…

(a) The depository shall pay out no money except upon the order of the board and upon a voucher check signed by at least two (2) of the commissioners. Every voucher check shall state upon its face to whom payable, the amount, and the purpose for which it is used. All voucher chec…

(a) In order to acquire equipment and to do the work, the board may issue the negotiable notes of the improvement district signed by the members of the board and bearing a rate of interest not exceeding six percent (6%) per annum and may pledge and mortgage a portion of future an…

(a) The improvement district shall continue to exist for the purpose of operating and maintaining ambulance services until such time as the owners of a two-thirds (⅔) majority in value of the real property within the district petition the county court for dissolution of the impro…

(a) All cases involving the validity of the districts or the annual benefit assessments and all suits to foreclose the lien of annual benefit assessments shall be deemed matters of public interest, and shall be advanced and disposed of at the earliest possible moment. (b) All app…

The collector of taxes in any county, in collecting annual benefit assessments in any district created under this chapter, shall deduct one percent (1%) of the annual benefit assessments or taxes so collected and retain one-half of the one percent (½ of 1%) as the fee of the coll…

(a) When petitions are filed with the county court of any county containing the signatures of ten percent (10%) or more of the qualified electors of all or any defined part of any county or all or any defined part of any city, as determined by the number of votes cast by the qual…

(a) The special election called by the county court to submit the question of the establishment and financing of a mosquito abatement district to the electors of the proposed district shall be held in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq. within ninety (90) days after the proclamati…

(a) If at such election a majority of the qualified electors voting on the question vote “FOR” the establishment of the proposed mosquito abatement district and the levy of assessed benefits to support the district, the county court shall enter an order establishing the district …

(1) The board of commissioners of any district created pursuant to this chapter shall have the power and authority to:(1) Execute contracts and other instruments for and in behalf of the district;(2) Cooperate with any other mosquito abatement district or any political subdivisio…

(a) (1) The board shall annually choose from among its members a chairman and a secretary-treasurer.(2) The chairman and secretary-treasurer shall furnish bond conditioned upon faithful performance of their duties in the amount of five thousand dollars ($5,000) each. The cost of …

(a) As soon as is practical after its establishment, the board shall prepare plans for providing mosquito abatement services and for acquiring the property and equipment necessary to carry out the purposes of the district. (b) The county assessors shall assess the annual benefits…

(a) The assessment shall be filed with the county clerk of the county, and the secretary of the board shall thereupon give notice of its filing by publication one (1) time a week for two (2) weeks in a newspaper published and having a bona fide circulation in the county. This not…

(a) The commissioners shall one (1) time a year order the assessors to reassess the annual benefits of the district, provided there have been improvements made or improvements destroyed or removed from one (1) or more tracts of land in the district, making it necessary to have th…

(a) The original assessment record or any reassessment record shall be filed with the county clerk, whose duty it shall be to extend the annual benefit assessment annually upon the tax books of the county until the district is dissolved. (b) It shall then be the duty of the colle…

(a) All annual benefits extended and levied under the terms of this chapter shall be payable at the time ad valorem taxes are payable, and if any annual benefit assessments levied by the board pursuant to this chapter are not paid when due, the collector shall not embrace the ass…

(a) Funds of the district shall be expended only upon the order of the board and upon a voucher check signed by the chairman and secretary-treasurer of the board.(1) Every voucher check shall state upon its face to whom payable, the amount, and the purpose for which it is used.(2…

(a) The board shall have the authority to issue negotiable bonds or certificates of indebtedness to secure funds for the expenses of the district including office supplies and salaries, the purchase of equipment, facilities, chemicals, and such other items as may be necessary to …

(a) (1) It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it has been issued under the provisions of this chapter, that the bonds shall be obligations only of the district, and that in no event shall they constitute any indebtedness for which the faith and credit of the st…

(a) Bonds may be issued for the purpose of refunding any bonds issued under this chapter. (b) Refunding bonds may be either sold or delivered in exchange for the bonds being refunded. If sold, the proceeds may be either applied to the payment of the bonds being refunded or deposi…

Bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, and the interest thereon, shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxes. This exemption shall include income, inheritance, and estate taxes.

(a) A mosquito abatement district created pursuant to this chapter may be dissolved upon a vote of a majority of qualified electors of the district, and the question of dissolution of the district may be submitted to the electors in the same manner as is prescribed in this chapte…

(a) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, wherever the words “majority in value” are used, it shall be construed to mean a majority in assessed value as shown by the latest county assessment records for general taxes. (b) As used in this chapter, unle…

The purpose of the district shall be the building, equipping, and operating of a fire station or stations equipped with a fire truck or fire trucks, fire hose, chemical fire extinguishers, and other equipment for extinguishing fires. The district may provide other emergency servi…

(a) Upon the petition of majority in value of the owners of real property in any designated area, no part of which is more than three (3) miles, except as provided in subsection (e) of this section, from a lot or plot of ground not exceeding a square acre in area on which the fir…

(a) Upon the filing of the petition, it shall be the duty of the county clerk to give notice of the filing thereof, describing the territory to be affected and calling upon all persons who wish to be heard upon the question of the establishment of the district to appear before th…

(a) The board of commissioners shall be resident property holders in the district and shall be citizens of integrity and good business ability. (b) (1) The commissioners shall be appointed to serve for terms of one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), and five (5) years respectivel…