Title 14 — Local Government

In a municipal services matter under this subchapter, if a city or incorporated town from which the inhabitants detached determines that the scheduled services are available or became available to the detaching inhabitants by the city or incorporated town to which the inhabitants…

In counties having two (2) levying courts or in counties having a population of not less than thirteen thousand two hundred fifty (13,250) and not more than fourteen thousand (14,000) according to the most recent federal census where territory contiguous to the county seat needs …

(a) In any county in this state in which there is more than one (1) judicial district of its county court with a separate levying or quorum court in and for each of the districts, lands lying in one (1) of the districts may be annexed to a city or incorporated town lying in anoth…

(a) When any territory shall have been annexed to any incorporated town or city, it may be, and it is, the duty of the town or city council of the incorporated town or city to attach and incorporate the annexed territory to and in one (1) or more wards of the incorporated town or…

(a) (1) From and after the passage of this subsection, all city-owned parks and city-owned airports in cities of populations between forty thousand (40,000) and eighty thousand (80,000) in counties whose population is one hundred forty thousand (140,000) or over are annexed to th…

(a) The annexation laws of this state do not apply in the area within one-half mile of the boundaries of a state park located in a county with a population in excess of three hundred fifty thousand (350,000) unless:(1) The annexation is approved by a majority of the voters residi…

If a county had issued a permit or approval for construction, operation, or development before a municipal annexation proceeding begins for a project in the area that the municipality intends to annex, the municipality shall honor and give full effect to county permits and approv…

(a) (1) A property owner who has a building that is currently situated upon the boundary line between two (2) municipalities may choose either one (1) of the municipalities as the legal location of the building.(2) When the expansion of a building will result in the expansion's b…

(a) If a municipality states its intent by resolution or ordinance to annex a specifically defined territory or portion of the territory over which it is exercising territorial jurisdiction under § 14-56-413, the municipality shall initiate annexation proceedings within five (5) …

(a) When the boundaries of two (2) municipalities are contiguous to and adjoining one another, and one (1) municipality desires to detach and annex territory in another municipality, then the governing body of the municipality desiring to detach and annex territory may propose an…

(a) (1) Beginning March 1, 2014, and each successive year thereafter, the mayor or city manager of a city or incorporated town shall file annually with the city clerk or recorder, town recorder, and county clerk a written notice describing any annexation elections that have becom…

(a) In all annexations under § 14-40-303 and in accordance with § 14-40-606, after the territory declared annexed is considered part of a city or incorporated town, the inhabitants residing in the annexed portion shall:(1) Have all the rights and privileges of the inhabitants of …

The provisions of this subchapter shall not be construed to give any municipality the authority to annex any portion of another city or incorporated town.

(a) By vote of two-thirds (⅔) of the total number of members making up its governing body, any municipality may adopt an ordinance to annex lands contiguous to the municipality if the lands are any of the following:(1) Platted and held for sale or use as municipal lots;(2) Whethe…

(a) The annexation ordinance shall:(1) Contain an accurate description of the lands desired to be annexed;(2) Include a schedule of the services of the annexing municipality that will be extended to the area within three (3) years after the date the annexation becomes final;(3) F…

(a) If it is alleged that the area proposed to be annexed does not conform to the requirements and standards prescribed in § 14-40-302, a legal action may be filed in the circuit court of the county where the lands lie within thirty (30) days after the election to nullify the ele…

(a) The General Assembly finds that there are areas within adjoining counties that are so necessary to the satisfactory conducting of a city's business that there is a need to annex land lying in the adjoining county into the city. This law will aid the residents to receive neede…

(a) (1) (A) (i) Whenever the incorporated limits of a municipality have completely surrounded an unincorporated area, the governing body of the municipality may propose an ordinance calling for the annexation of the land surrounded by the municipality.(ii) Subdivision (a)(1)(A)(i…

(a) A public hearing shall be conducted within sixty (60) days of the proposal of the ordinance calling for annexation. (b) At least fifteen (15) days prior to the date of the public hearing, the governing body of the municipality shall publish a legal notice setting out the lega…

(a) (1) (A) Except as provided in subdivision (a)(1)(B) of this section, at the next regularly scheduled meeting following the public hearing, the governing body of the municipality proposing annexation may bring the proposed ordinance up for a vote.(B) An ordinance shall not be …

(a) As used in this section, “enclave” means an unincorporated improved or developed area that is enclosed within and bounded on all sides by a single city or incorporated town. (b) Whenever practicable, a city or incorporated town shall annex lands that are contiguous and in a m…

(a) When a majority of the real estate owners of any part of a county contiguous to and adjoining any city or incorporated town desires to be annexed to the city or town, they may apply by attested petition in writing to the county court of the county in which the city or town is…

(a) (1) When the petition shall be presented to the county court, the clerk shall file it, and the court shall set a date for a hearing on the petition.(2) The date for the hearing shall not be less than thirty (30) days after the filing of the petition. (1) When the petition sha…

(a) After the hearing, if the county court shall be satisfied that the allegations of the petition were sustained by the proof, if the court shall be satisfied that the requirements for signatures under § 14-40-601 have been complied with, and if the court shall be satisfied that…

(a) (1) No further action shall be taken for a period of thirty (30) days after the order for annexation has been entered. Within that time any person interested may institute a proceeding in the circuit court to have the annexation prevented.(2) (A) If the court or judge hearing…

(a) If no notice under § 14-40-604(b) is given within thirty (30) days from the making of the order of annexation by the county court, the proceeding before the court shall in all things be confirmed, if the city or incorporated town council shall accept by ordinance or resolutio…

As soon as the resolution or ordinance declaring the annexation has been adopted or passed, the territory shall be deemed and taken to be a part and parcel of the limits of the city or incorporated town, and the inhabitants residing therein shall have and enjoy all the rights and…

A.C.A. § 14-40-607Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) Within eight (8) years after an annexation proceeding is completed under the provisions of this subchapter and the land remains the boundary of the city or town, the person owning all lands originally annexed into the city or town may be authorized to detach those annexed lan…

(a) As used in this section, “city or town” means:(1) A city of the first class;(2) A city of the second class; and(3) An incorporated town. (1) A city of the first class; (2) A city of the second class; and (3) An incorporated town. (b) (1) Individuals who own property in a coun…

(a) Any person or corporation owning any real estate who shall make any addition of real estate to any incorporated town or city in this state shall be required to file and record a regular plat of it in the office of the circuit clerk and recorder of the county in which the land…

(a) It shall be the duty of the clerk of the circuit court when any map or plat of any addition to any city or incorporated town in the State of Arkansas has been filed in his or her office as required by § 14-41-201(a) to forthwith certify under his or her hand and seal of offic…

(a) It shall be the duty of the county clerk on receiving the certificate provided for in § 14-41-202(a) to file it in his or her office. Thereafter, before he or she shall deliver the tax books to the assessor, he or she shall enter the number of each lot and block on the tax bo…

This subchapter shall not apply to any part of an addition or division less than one-third (⅓) of the whole as shown by the original plat filed in the office of the circuit clerk.

The owner of any addition or division to any city or incorporated town in this state where no lots or blocks, or any part thereof, have been sold and the streets and alleys have not been used by the public for the last seven (7) years prior to the filing of the petition shall hav…

If at any time one (1) person owns, or two (2) or more persons own jointly or as tenants in common, or a corporation owns all the lots and blocks in any addition or division to any city or incorporated town in this state, the streets and alleys of which have not been used by the …

The owners of any part of an addition or division shall have the right to have it reduced to acreage, as in the cases provided in §§ 14-41-302 and 14-41-303. However, the lots and blocks shall be contiguous. No streets and alleys shall be included in the order reducing the parts …

(a) Upon the filing of a petition, the county court shall immediately cause notice to be published for two (2) consecutive weeks by at least two (2) insertions in some newspaper published in the county having a bona fide circulation therein, stating the substance contained in the…

(a) The county court shall hear the petition at the first day of the court held after publication of the notice filed under § 14-41-305 if not continued for cause and upon proper showing shall order that the addition or division, or part thereof, be reduced to acreage. (b) If the…

Any person aggrieved by an order under § 14-41-306 may appeal to the circuit court in the manner provided by law for appeals from the county court.

Any municipal corporation in which, under its former organization prior to March 9, 1875, by any law or charter regulating any literary, charitable, or benevolent institution, vested any power of appointing officers of supervision or control, shall continue to hold and possess th…

The corporate authority of cities that are organized shall be vested in one (1) principal officer, to be called the mayor, and one (1) board of council members, to be called the city council, together with such other officers as are mentioned in this subtitle or may be created un…

(a) A vacancy of a municipal office in a municipality, regardless of the classification or form of government of the municipality, shall be filled according to one (1) of the following methods:(1) (A) At the first council meeting after the declaration of the vacancy, the governin…

A.C.A. § 14-42-104Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) All appointments of officers by any council of a municipal corporation shall be made viva voce, and the concurrence of a like majority shall be required. (b) On the votes resulting in the appointment, the names of those voting and for whom they voted shall be recorded, and al…

(a) All officers elected or appointed in any municipal corporation shall take the oath or affirmation prescribed for officers by the Arkansas Constitution. (b) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (b)(2) of this section, the officers shall take their oaths before:(A) The Secreta…

(a) (1) A council member or elected official of a municipal corporation, during the term for which he or she has been elected or one (1) year thereafter, shall not be appointed to any municipal office that was created or the emoluments of which have been increased during the time…

(a) (1) It is unlawful for any official or employee of any municipal corporation of this state to receive or accept any water, gas, electric current, or other article or service from the municipal corporation, or any public utility operating therein, without paying for it at the …

(a) (1) (A) If the mayor, member of the city council, or any other elective officer of any city of the first class or second class or incorporated town in this state shall wilfully and knowingly fail, refuse, or neglect to execute, or cause to be executed, any of the laws or ordi…

(a) (1) Mayors in cities of the first class and second class and incorporated towns shall have the power to appoint and remove all department heads, including city and town marshals when an ordinance has been passed making city and town marshals appointed, unless the city or town…