Title 14, Local Government

(a) The county court, on receiving the reports of the viewers as set out in § 14-298-112, shall cause the report to be available to all parties and shall cause a hearing to be held in which the report is read publicly. (b) If no legal objection is made to the reports by the parti…

After any road has been established and declared a public road, the county court shall issue an order declaring the road to be opened and the order shall be filed of record with the county clerk.

(a) After the viewers of any county road shall have made return in favor of the road and before the road has been established, any citizen of the county whose lands are affected by the road may apply by petition to the county court for a review of the road, as provided in § 14-29…

(a) (1) An appeal from the final decision of the county court for a new county road or for vacating, altering, or reviewing any county road shall be allowed to the circuit court.(2) Notice of the appeal shall be given within thirty (30) days from the date the order of the county …

(a) (1) When any county road or any part of any county road is considered useless, any ten (10) citizens residing in that portion of the county may make application by petition agreeable to § 14-298-124 to the county court to vacate the road, setting forth in the petition the rea…

(a) All persons required to render services under the provisions of this chapter as viewers or reviewers, chain carriers, markers, or surveyors shall be paid reasonable costs and expenses based upon the current market rate out of the registry of the court for each day necessarily…

No part of this chapter shall be so construed as to entitle any person whose lands, or any part thereof, may be appropriated under this chapter to a public highway to any further compensation and damages than the value of property appropriated and damages sustained by the owner t…

(a) (1) The county courts shall have power to:(A) Open new roads;(B) Make changes in old roads, as they deem necessary and proper; and(C) Classify the roads and bridges in their respective counties for the purposes of this section and § 27-67-212.(2) (A) When the change shall be …

(a) (1) The county courts shall have power to:(A) Open new roads;(B) Make changes in old roads as they may deem necessary and proper; and(C) Classify the roads and bridges in their respective counties for the purpose of this chapter.(2) (A) When the change is made or any new road…

(a) The purpose of this section is to establish a rule defining what actions have supplied the requisite notice to affected landowners of the condemnation of their property by county court orders effected pursuant to § 14-298-121. (b) Entry and notice shall mean:(1) Any construct…

(a) When any county road may be injured or destroyed by the washing of any lake, river, or creek, the judge of the county court shall be notified by any witness in writing of the nature and extent of the injury. (b) If the judge shall be satisfied that the road has been injured o…

(a) (1) If any person through whose land a public road is or may be established shall be desirous of turning the road through any other part of his or her land, that person shall apply by petition to the county court to permit him or her to turn the road through any other part of…

(a) The county court of each county in the State of Arkansas is authorized to grant the United States of America the right to close, inundate, destroy, relocate, alter, or appropriate any county highway in the county in connection with the construction, development, operation, or…

All public roads and highways running most centrally through the county and most used by the public shall be designated as first-class roads and all other public roads and highways as second-class roads.

All roads of the first class shall be first worked, and then the second-class roads shall be worked as the court may class and order.

Whenever the landowners of one (1) or more adjoining townships in any county or in a certain described portion thereof, amounting to three-fourths (¾) of the number of landowners in the territory described in the petition, shall file with the county court of the county a written …

If any signer of the agreement fails to pay his part of the costs according to the terms of the agreement, the board of commissioners created in § 14-299-204 is authorized to bring suit against the owner, his successors, and assigns for the recovery of the amount due. Until that …

When any such agreement has been entered of record by the county court as directed in §§ 14-299-201 and 14-299-202, then all the owners of land in the township or in the area affected, whether they have signed the statement and agreement or not, shall become liable to pay their p…

(a) The statement and agreement referred to in §§ 14-299-201 and 14-299-202 must contain the names of three (3) of the signers thereto who shall constitute a board of commissioners to have supervision, direction, and control of the improvement. It shall be their duty to see that …

(a) It is the purpose and intent of this subchapter that:(1) No bonds shall be issued by the board of commissioners;(2) No money shall be borrowed and no interest shall be paid, but the entire cost of the improvement shall be paid by the cash payments from the landowners as provi…

Where a bridge across any stream in this state is owned by private parties and the bridge is, in the opinion of the county court of the county in which it is situated, a public necessity or convenience, the county court is empowered and authorized to purchase the bridge when an a…

(a) As used in this section, “surplus bridge material” means a general contractor's excess or unused bridge steel or other scrap items remaining after completion of a contract for the construction, improvement, rehabilitation, or replacement of a bridge on a state highway or coun…

(1) The bridges on the public roads of this state shall be divided into three (3) classes:(1) Bridges over sixty feet (60′) in length, exclusive of abutments, shall be bridges of the first class;(2) Bridges of not less than thirty feet (30′) nor more than sixty feet (60′) in leng…

(1) The city council shall:(1) Have the care, supervision, and control of all the public highways, bridges, streets, alleys, public squares, and commons within the city; and(2) Cause those public highways, bridges, streets, alleys, public squares, and commons to be kept open and …

No street or alley which shall be dedicated to public use by the proprietor of ground in any city shall be deemed to be a public street or alley, or to be under the care or control of the city council, unless the dedication shall be accepted and confirmed by an ordinance speciall…

Each city of the first and second class and incorporated town in this state shall have the power to build, construct, and keep in repair any bridge within the corporate limits thereof at the exclusive expense of that municipal corporation.

(a) No street or highway shall be opened, straightened, or widened, nor shall any other improvement be made which will require proceedings to condemn private property, without the concurrence in the bylaw, ordinance, or resolution directing the condemnation of two-thirds (⅔) of t…

(a) In all cases where any municipal corporation shall be liable for the payment of damages to the owner or occupant of any lots or grounds, by reason of the grading of any streets or alleys, or public grounds, or part thereof, the damages shall be ascertained and assessed by thr…

(a) In order to better provide for the public welfare, safety, comfort, and convenience of the inhabitants of cities of the first class, the council of any city of the first class, by ordinance, resolution, or order, shall have the power to:(1) Compel the owners of any property a…

(a) In order to better provide for the public welfare, safety, comfort, and convenience of the inhabitants of cities of the first and second class and of incorporated towns, the council of any such city or town, by ordinance, resolution, or order, shall have the power to:(1) Comp…

In any instance where a city of the first class, city of the second class, or incorporated town repairs or constructs a street curb at a corner or intersection in a business district, that city or town shall repair or construct the curb in such manner as to provide access to whee…

The council of any city of the first or second class or of any incorporated town shall have and is vested with authority and power to require by ordinance any railroad company that has or maintains a passenger depot in the city or incorporated town in this state to construct and …

(a) Every city which has a population of more than fifteen thousand (15,000) inhabitants as shown by the last federal census shall have the right in all cases where a street contains offsets and sufficient property is dedicated to the offsets to:(1) Straighten the street and elim…

All suits which involve the right of any city to abandon any such property as a street or the unqualified and absolute fee simple ownership of the property free from the public easement therein for use as a street shall be deemed suits involving the public interest and shall be a…

(a) Whenever the city council of any city of the first class shall find and determine that any alley or other passageway across any particular block within the city is not needed for highway purposes and that the welfare of the city will be enhanced or promoted by the closing and…

(a) No title or right of possession to any alley, street, or public park, or any portion thereof, in any city or incorporated town in this state shall or can be acquired by adverse possession or adverse occupancy thereof. The right of the public or of any city or incorporated tow…

(a) All deeds or conveyances of any street, alley, or public ground, or any portion of streets, alleys, or public grounds, executed by any city of the first class, city of the second class, or incorporated town in the State of Arkansas, conveying all or any portion of the street,…

(a) All deeds or conveyances to any portion of any lands dedicated to public use as a street or thoroughfare to any incorporated town, made by authority of the city council to individuals prior to and during the year 1924, shall be and are confirmed and validated. (b) No such dee…

The procedure prescribed in this subchapter for the construction of street improvements and the financing thereof shall be supplemental to all other laws of this state with respect thereto and shall not be construed to amend, repeal, or otherwise affect those laws.

(a) When the governing body of any city or incorporated town in this state shall deem it desirable to enter into a street improvement program in the city or town or any defined areas thereof, the governing body of the city or town may cause studies to be made of:(1) The needs for…

(a) If, within sixty (60) days after the adoption and publication of the resolution by the governing body of the municipality, petitions are filed with the clerk or recorder of the municipality containing the signatures of a majority in value of the real property owners in the mu…

(a) At the time and place stated in the notice, the governing body of the municipality shall meet and hear all owners of real property of the designated areas in the municipality who wish to be heard on the question of whether the petitions contain the signatures of a majority in…

(a) The assessments on the real property in the district shall be payable to the city or town collector in the manner and within the time prescribed by the governing body of the municipality. (b) Property owners may be given the option to pay the amount of the assessments in one …

(a) The assessment against each lot or parcel of property shall constitute a lien on the property in favor of the municipality. (b) When any annual assessed benefit against any lot or parcel of property has not been paid for two (2) years from the date due, the delinquent assessm…

All funds derived from assessments upon real property under the provisions of this subchapter shall be funds of the municipality, shall at all times be kept separate and apart from other funds of the municipality, and shall be used solely to reimburse the municipality for expense…

(a) Cities of the first and second class and incorporated towns are given power and authority to vacate public streets and alleys within the cities and towns under the conditions and in the manner herein provided. (b) In all cases where the owner of property within a city or town…