Title 14, Local Government

(a) Except as provided in this section, when the principal of, and interest on, all bonds issued under the authority of this chapter in connection with a particular tollway project shall have been paid, or the required provision made for their payment, and upon resolution of the …

(a) An authority and the State Highway Commission are authorized to enter into arrangements or to enter into agreements, as may be determined by them to be necessary or desirable for:(1) The investigation and study of any proposed tollway project;(2) The use of State Highway Comm…

(1) The General Assembly determines and declares that:(1) Excessive curb parking of motor vehicles on roads and streets in the cities and towns of the State of Arkansas and the lack of adequate off-street parking facilities create congestion, obstruct the free circulation of traf…

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Automobile” means and includes any vehicle which is self-propelled, including, but not limited to, passenger cars, trucks, vans, and buses; and(2) “Public off-street automobile parking facilities” means accom…

The city council or other governing body of cities and towns is authorized to create a parking authority within its jurisdiction for the purpose of establishing public off-street automobile parking facilities.

(a) The parking authority shall consist of five (5) members. (b) The members shall be appointed by the mayor and approved by the council or other legislative body of the city creating the authority, and they shall be qualified electors residing in the city or incorporated town. T…

(a) The authority shall have authority to employ such persons as it deems necessary in furtherance of its duties hereunder. (b) The employees authorized by this chapter shall be chosen by the civil service commission of the respective city or town in the manner now required by la…

(a) The parking authority of the cities and towns, acting alone or in cooperation with other parking authorities or with any federal or state agency, is authorized to:(1) Plan, design, locate, finance, acquire, and own property for, and construct, alter, enlarge, use, maintain, o…

(a) Any municipal parking authority created pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, is authorized to enter into contracts with any other public agency or with any private person or firm for the operation, maintenance, and management of any one (1) or more off-street automobil…

(a) The parking authority, after a thorough investigation of the parking problem within its jurisdiction, shall formulate for public presentation a master plan of automobile parking facilities as a guide for the further provision for parking facilities, properly integrated with p…

For the purpose of this chapter, the parking authority is authorized to acquire private or public, real or personal property and property rights, above, at, or below the surface of the earth necessary for off-street automobile parking facilities by purchase, eminent domain, gift,…

(a) The parking authority is authorized to construct or cause to be constructed public off-street automobile parking facilities above, at, or below the surface of the earth including buildings, structures, equipment, entrances, exits, fencing, and all other accessories necessary …

Every parking authority shall maintain proper accounting and financial records of all transactions and provide and file annual financial statements with the city clerk.

This chapter shall be known as the “Arkansas Unpaved Roads Program Act”.

(a) The General Assembly finds that:(1) Unpaved roads in the state are the transportation backbone for rural communities and for many economic sectors in Arkansas, including timber, agriculture, ranching, and energy;(2) Unpaved roads provide access to the public to hunting, fishi…

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Best management practices” means practices for the construction and maintenance of unpaved roads that are broadly accepted by road engineers and maintenance professionals as the most effective approaches to managing unpaved roads that minimize sed…

The Arkansas Unpaved Roads Program is established to help provide funding for unpaved road projects throughout the state using best management practices.

(a) (1) After completing training in best management practices, a county may submit an application to receive funding for an unpaved road project to the Department of Agriculture.(2) The department shall:(A) Determine which of the proposed unpaved road projects to fund based on t…

(a) (1) Donations from private entities and funding or in-kind goods and services committed by the county proposing the unpaved road project shall equal at least fifty percent (50%) of the estimated total costs of the proposed unpaved road project.(2) In-kind goods and services c…

(a) A grant awarded to a county under this chapter shall be applied only to work completed on an unpaved road project after the unpaved road project has been approved for a grant. (b) (1) If an unpaved road project that has been approved for a grant is not completed within one (1…

(1) A county that receives a grant under this chapter shall:(1) Maintain a separate accounting of the grant funds received under this chapter;(2) Maintain all records related to the unpaved road project that is the subject of the grant awarded under this chapter for three (3) yea…

(a) The following agencies and entities have pledged their support for the Arkansas Unpaved Roads Program and are encouraged to provide funding for unpaved road projects under this chapter:(1) The Arkansas Association of Conservation Districts;(2) The Arkansas Forestry Commission…

(1) The Department of Agriculture shall promulgate rules to implement and administer this chapter, including without limitation rules regarding:(1) The application process;(2) The creation and administration of an advisory committee to assist the department in evaluating applicat…

(a) All taxes levied by road improvement districts in this state, whether organized under general or special laws, shall be payable between the first Monday in January and April 10 of each year. (b) This section shall not apply to Greene County.

(a) All acts and proceedings of commissioners of road improvement districts heretofore organized in the State of Arkansas under the general road law, commonly known as the Alexander Road Law, or under special acts, where bonds have been issued for the purpose of paying valid inde…

(a) Any road improvement districts of this state, whether organized and created under general law or by special act of the General Assembly, shall have power to fund and refund its outstanding valid bonded indebtedness or judgments on its bonded indebtedness and accrued matured i…

In those situations where the boundaries of a road improvement district embrace lands in more than one (1) county and any of the counties have available funds, either directly from the State Treasury or by action of the quorum court, to apply on the bonded indebtedness of road im…

(a) Whenever it shall appear to the chancery court of any county, upon the petition of any interested person, that there is of record any unsatisfied lien by virtue of any assessment of benefits or mortgage created under the authority of any general or special road improvement di…

(1) All liens are cancelled when:(1) There is of record an unsatisfied lien by virtue of an assessment, pledge, or mortgage, delinquent record, or decree of foreclosure made or created under a general or special law relating to a road improvement district of this state or bridge …

In the event there has been a sale to the district of any lands for delinquent taxes and some manner of title is still held by the district, the title so acquired is divested out of the district, cancelled, and held for naught. The title shall in no wise constitute a lien on the …

When any road district in the State of Arkansas dissects any school district in this state wherein the lands and property of a majority of the property owners in the school district lie in an adjoining road district but in the same school district, the boundary lines of the road …

(a) In road and highway districts where the act creating the district, and amendments thereto, do not permit a change in plans of the district or where by act of the General Assembly the roads to be built are specifically defined or otherwise limited, and where the road is not co…

(a) Any commissioner, officer, agent, or employee of any district who shall wilfully fail or refuse to comply with, or who shall knowingly violate, any of the provisions of this subchapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hun…

(a) The State Highway Commission:(1) Shall have authority to examine the books, records, and accounts of road districts and to have them audited; and(2) May take any other steps necessary to ascertain the exact status and assets of a road district. (1) Shall have authority to exa…

(a) On or before January 10 of each year, the commissioners of road districts whose roads, exclusive of any portion within the corporate limits of any city or town of more than two thousand five-hundred (2,500) inhabitants, are wholly included in the state highway system shall fi…

(a) When directed by the State Highway Commission, the commissioners of road districts referred to in § 14-316-203 shall remit all funds on hand from any and all sources, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to the bank or trust company named as payee in the deed of trust secu…

With the approval of the county court, the commissioners in each district whose roads are not wholly included in the state highway system may annually, as necessary, levy a tax not to exceed one percent (1%) on the assessed benefits in the district for the purpose of constructing…

(a) The commissioners of districts whose roads are not wholly included in the state highway system shall, with the approval of the county court of the county in which the greater portion of the lands of the district are situated, or with the approval of the State Highway Commissi…

(a) Funds derived from taxes in road improvement districts shall be used by each district to pay its bonds, interest, and other valid and outstanding indebtedness which matured prior to January 1, 1927. The balance, if any, shall be used to pay bonds and interest maturing after J…

Except taxes delinquent on January 1, 1927, no taxes shall be extended or collected by any district whose roads are wholly included in the state highway system except to pay bonds and interest which became due prior to January 1, 1927, or for other liabilities, unless it becomes …

(a) Road districts shall be permitted to use funds that are on hand to pay valid outstanding debts of the district existing at the date of the passage of this subchapter. (b) Any part or portion of the three (3) mill county road tax by authority of law vested in or given to any p…

This subchapter shall be liberally construed to give the assessment and tax list the effect of bona fide mortgages for a valuable consideration, and to give a first lien upon the lands and real property as against all persons, firms, or corporations having an interest therein.

(a) If the assessments of road improvement districts and road maintenance districts as certified by the county tax collector shall not be paid by the time fixed by law for the payment of county taxes, which for the purpose of this subchapter shall be between the first Monday in J…

(a) For two (2) consecutive weeks before judgment is entered for the sale of the lands, weekly notice of the pendency of the suit shall be given by publication in some newspaper in the county having a general circulation therein. (b) Notice may be in the following form: “NOTICE” …

(a) Suits for delinquent assessments shall be conducted in the name of the district and in accordance with the practice and procedure of the chancery courts of this state, except as herein otherwise provided, but neither attorneys ad litem, guardians ad litem, nor any other provi…

(a) At the first regular or adjourned term of the chancery court after the notice has been published for three (3) consecutive weeks and not earlier than five (5) days after the last insertion of the notice, the suit shall stand for trial unless a continuance is granted to a deli…