Title 14, Local Government

(a) (1) The circuit clerk shall maintain all bank accounts and records of bank accounts as prescribed by law in reference to the duties of his or her office. In addition, the circuit clerk shall maintain separate records and separate bank accounts for fee accounts and for account…

(a) (1) The assessor shall maintain a bank account and record of the account for any public funds collected by virtue of his or her office.(2) The bank account shall be maintained as prescribed in § 14-25-102, and the provisions of §§ 14-25-103, 14-25-104, 14-25-107, and 14-25-10…

(a) (1) The county judge shall maintain a bank account and record of the account for any public funds collected by virtue of his or her office.(2) The bank account shall be maintained as prescribed in § 14-25-102, and the provisions of §§ 14-25-103, 14-25-104, 14-25-107, and 14-2…

(a) The county official responsible for the payment of payroll taxes and Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System contributions of county employees shall provide evidence of payment of payroll taxes and retirement system contributions to the:(1) County judge;(2) County clerk;…

(a) As used in this section, “responsible management entity” means a wastewater treatment system service provider organized and operating under this section. (b) A nonprofit corporation formed for the purpose of providing responsible management of wastewater treatment systems whe…

(a) All counties shall be required to provide workers' compensation coverage for their officials, employees, and municipal volunteer fire-fighters. (b) Coverages shall be provided for losses incurred while performing work for the county. (c) Individuals convicted of a criminal of…

(a) This chapter shall be effective July 1, 1985. (b) (1) Claims incurred prior to July 1, 1985, shall continue to be the responsibility of the state.(2) Claims incurred on and after July 1, 1985, shall be the responsibility of the counties. (1) Claims incurred prior to July 1, 1…

(a) County quorum courts shall be responsible for providing the workers' compensation coverage required by this chapter. (b) Each county quorum court is authorized to require reimbursement of its general fund on a pro rata basis from the budgets of its various county departments …

(a) Counties may provide workers' compensation coverage either through private carriers or through one (1) or more self-funding groups. (b) Self-funding groups established for this purpose shall meet the following requirements:(1) Any self-funding group established to provide cov…

(a) It is the purpose of this chapter to require the executives of all political subdivisions of each county to meet on a regular basis for the purpose of encouraging cooperation by the various local government jurisdictions within each county in the most efficient use of their m…

(a) There is established within each county of this state a county intergovernmental cooperation council to facilitate cooperation among all the local government subdivisions of each county, to encourage the efficient use of local government resources, and to eliminate the duplic…

(a) A county intergovernmental cooperation council shall meet at least one (1) time annually. (b) Meetings of the council shall be open to the public and held in a public meeting room. (c) Meetings of the council shall be at the call of the chair unless a majority of the council'…

(a) At least one (1) time annually, the county intergovernmental cooperation council shall review the delivery of services by the various local government subdivisions within the county in the following areas:(1) Law enforcement services;(2) Fire protection services;(3) Jail faci…

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Volunteer public safety organization” means:(A) A county organization for emergency services formed pursuant to the Arkansas Emergency Services Act of 1973, § 12-75-101 et seq.;(B) A sheriff's auxiliary forme…

(a) The county governments of this state are authorized to provide workers' compensation coverage pursuant to this chapter for personal injury, disability, or death of volunteer public safety workers while actually engaged in performing volunteer public safety duties. (b) Any vol…

Any insurer or other entity providing workers' compensation coverage to a county shall offer coverage for volunteer public safety workers on the same terms as for county employees.

All corporations which existed when the Arkansas Constitution of 1874 took effect for the purpose of municipal government, and described or denominated in any law then in force, are organized into cities of the first and second class, as the case may be, and incorporated towns wi…

(1) In respect to the exercise of certain corporate powers and to the number, character, powers, and duties of certain officers, municipal corporations are divided into the following classes:(1) Cities of the first class;(2) Cities of the second class; and(3) Incorporated towns. …

(a) (1) All municipal corporations having over two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed cities of the first class.(2) All cities having five hundred (500) inhabitants or more and fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed cities …

(a) All cities, which at the last federal census had, or now have, a population exceeding two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed cities of the first class. (b) All cities which, at any future federal census, or any census which may be taken in pursuance of …

(a) Any incorporated town of the State of Arkansas which, at any future federal census, or any census taken under the authority of the State of Arkansas, shall be found to have a population exceeding five hundred (500) persons who shall be inhabitants of the town and less than tw…

The Board of Municipal Corporations shall consist of the Auditor of State, Secretary of State, and Attorney General. The Secretary of State shall be president.

(a) (1) It shall be the duty of the Governor, the Auditor of State, and the Secretary of State, or any two (2) of them, to ascertain from the federal census and census provided for by law of this state, what cities of the second class are entitled to become cities of the first cl…

(a) The Auditor of State, Secretary of State, and Attorney General may declare incorporated towns cities of the second class, and cities of the second class cities of the first class, between the periods fixed in § 14-37-107(a), upon application from any incorporated town or city…

(a) (1) If a city or incorporated town desires to be made a city of the first class or a city of the second class, or if it is deemed necessary to determine the number of inhabitants within the city or incorporated town for any purpose, on petition of ten (10) qualified voters of…

(a) (1) Before the enumerators shall enter upon their duties, they shall make and subscribe to an oath to well and faithfully perform their duties, and their return shall be taken as true.(2) (A) However, the returns so made by the census enumerators shall be filed in the office …

(a) Whenever the last federal census shows that any city of the first class has fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants and that any city of the second class has fewer than five hundred (500) inhabitants, the city may be reduced to a city of the second class or t…

(a) (1) Any incorporated town in this state may become a city of the second class by the adoption and publication of an ordinance, duly adopted and published as provided by law, converting the incorporated town into a city of the second class. However, after the adoption and publ…

Whenever any law of this state provides that the provisions of it shall apply to any city within a defined population classification, it is declared to be the intent of the General Assembly that, in the event any city to which the law was applicable at the time of the enactment o…

(a) Whenever the most recent federal decennial census shows that any city of the first class has less than seven thousand five hundred (7,500) inhabitants, the city may be reduced to a city of the second class upon the adoption of an ordinance by the council of the municipal corp…

(a) (1) When the inhabitants of a part of any county not embraced within the limits of any city or incorporated town shall desire to be organized into a city or incorporated town, they may apply, by a petition in writing, signed by the greater of either two hundred (200) or a maj…

(a) (1) Every incorporation hearing under this chapter shall be public and may be adjourned from time to time.(2) Any person interested may appear and contest the granting of the prayer of the petition, and affidavits in support of or against the petition, which may be prepared a…

(a) The county court shall make out and endorse on the petition an order to the effect that the city or incorporated town as named and described in the petition may be organized if the court shall be satisfied after hearing the petition that:(1) The greater of either two hundred …

(a) As soon as the record shall be made and the transcript certified, forwarded, and delivered, the inhabitants within the limits described in the petition shall be deemed a city or incorporated town, to be organized and governed under the provisions of this subtitle in like mann…

(a) One (1) month shall elapse from the time the transcripts are forwarded and delivered before notice shall be given of an election of officers in the city or incorporated town. (b) At any time within the one (1) month, any person interested may make complaint in writing, in the…

(a) It shall be the duty of the court or judge to hear the complaint in a summary manner, receiving answers, affidavits, and proofs, as may be deemed pertinent. (b) If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court or judge that the proposed city or incorporated town does not c…

(a) Unless the agent of the petitioners, within thirty (30) days after a transcript shall be delivered as provided in § 14-38-104, shall be notified of a complaint having been made to the circuit court of the county, or a judge thereof, then, at the end of the thirty (30) days af…

(a) Every city and incorporated town presently lying in more than one (1) county and presently exercising the rights, privileges, and powers of a municipal corporation, de facto or de jure, and heretofore incorporated or attempted to have been incorporated under any special act o…

The Secretary of State shall receive and preserve in his or her office all papers transmitted to him or her in relation to the organization, incorporation, or annexation of territory to cities and towns.

(a) (1) In addition to the procedures for incorporating a city or town under §§ 14-38-101 — 14-38-108, the inhabitants of a part of any county not embraced within the limits of any city or incorporated town may apply to the county judge of the proper county to call for an electio…

Before an entity undertakes an incorporation or disincorporation proceeding under this chapter, the entity shall coordinate with the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office for preparation of legal descriptions and digital mapping for the relevant incorporated or unincorpo…

(a) (1) The county court order of incorporation affecting territory under this chapter shall include the effective date upon which the petition for incorporation is granted and the municipality is considered organized.(2) County court orders that fail to include a specified effec…

(a) The charters, and all the amendments thereto, of all municipal corporations within this state designated as cities of the second class and incorporated towns may be surrendered, all offices held thereunto abolished, and the territory and inhabitants thereof remanded to the go…

(a) (1) The charter of any incorporated town or city of the second class that has been inactive as an incorporated place for five (5) years or longer shall be revoked by order of the county court of the county in which the incorporated town or city of the second class is located.…

(a) (1) When the county court shall have made the order mentioned in § 14-39-102, the charter, and all amendments thereto, of any such municipal corporation shall be deemed to be surrendered and repealed and shall then cease to exist.(2) The population and territory thereof there…

(a) As to all municipal corporations in this state whose charters may be surrendered and repealed under the provisions of this chapter, the Governor shall appoint an officer for the extinct corporations, respectively, to be known as a receiver and back-tax collector. (b) The rece…