(a) The board of directors of the district shall file its complaint, setting out the list of delinquent lands, town lots, suburban lots, rural lots, industrial tracts, blocks, railroads, tramroads, telegraph, telephone, and electric power lines and underground cables, pipelines, and all other real property and interests in real property, each being set opposite the name of the supposed owner, as shown by the delinquent lists, and followed by the total amount of taxes and penalty due upon each separate tract thereof.
(b) Thereupon, the clerk of the court shall cause to be published a notice containing the list of lands, town lots, suburban lots, rural lots, industrial tracts, blocks, railroads, tramroads, telegraph, telephone, and electric power lines and underground cables, pipelines, and all other real property and interests in real property with the names of the supposed owners, as shown by the delinquent lists, and amounts due in a newspaper published in the county for two (2) weekly insertions prior to any day of the next term of the chancery court.
(c) The notice shall call upon the supposed owners named in the complaint, and all other persons claiming any interest whatever in lands, town lots, suburban lots, rural lots, industrial tracts, blocks, railroads, tramroads, telegraph, telephone, and electric power lines and underground cables, pipelines, and all other real property and interests in real property to appear and show cause why a decree should not be rendered condemning property for sale for the delinquent taxes, interest, penalty, and costs.
(d) The notice may be in the following form:
(e) The published notice may conclude in the following form:
“Board of Directors, District vs. Certain Lands Any and all persons or corporations having or claiming an interest in any of the following described lands, town lots, suburban lots, rural lots, industrial tracts, blocks, railroads, tramroads, telegraph, telephone, and electric power lines and underground cables, pipelines, and all other real property and interests in real property, are hereby notified that suit is pending in the Chancery Court of County, Arkansas, to enforce the collection of certain taxes on the subjoined list of property, together with the amounts severally due upon each, to wit:”
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(Then shall follow a descriptive list of the lands, town lots, suburban lots, rural lots, industrial tracts, blocks, railroads, tramroads, telegraph, telephone, and electric power lines and underground cables, pipelines, and all other real property and interests in real property and amounts due thereon respectively as aforesaid.)
“All persons and corporations interested in the lands, town lots, suburban lots, rural lots, industrial tracts, blocks, railroads, tramroads, telegraph, telephone, and electric power lines and underground cables, pipelines, and all other real property and interests in real property, are hereby notified that they are required by law to appear and make defense to the suit or the same will be taken for confessed, and judgment final will be entered directing the sale of the lands, town lots, suburban lots, rural lots, industrial tracts, blocks, railroads, tramroads, telegraph, telephone, and electric power lines and underground cables, pipelines, and all other real property and interests in real property, and for the purpose of collecting said delinquent taxes together with the payment of interest, penalty, and costs allowed by law. Clerk of the Court”
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Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts
Chapter 120 - Drainage and Levee Improvement Districts Generally
Subchapter 3 - Consolidation of District Duties, Obligations, and Purposes
§ 14-120-301. Legislative determination
§ 14-120-304. Subchapter cumulative
§ 14-120-305. Construction of levees and drainage works declared conducive to public welfare
§ 14-120-306. Powers of board of directors
§ 14-120-307. Conveyance of rights-of-way across state lands
§ 14-120-308. Agreements for construction across highways
§ 14-120-309. Eminent domain by the United States
§ 14-120-310. Authority to consolidate
§ 14-120-311. Consolidation procedure
§ 14-120-312. Consolidation and use of assets — Prior liabilities and obligations
§ 14-120-313. Board of assessors
§ 14-120-315. Assessment — Time, certification, and filing
§ 14-120-316. Board of assessment and equalization
§ 14-120-317. Chancery court review of assessment
§ 14-120-318. Annual assessment and levy of tax upon increased value
§ 14-120-319. Alternative method of assessment — Reassessment
§ 14-120-321. Penalty for delinquency — Enforcement proceedings generally
§ 14-120-322. Filing complaint of delinquency — Notice
§ 14-120-323. Trial date — Continuance or dismissal
§ 14-120-325. Decree — Sale of real property by commissioner
§ 14-120-326. Execution of deed
§ 14-120-327. Redemption of property — Vacation of decree
§ 14-120-328. Authority to borrow money and issue bonds — Purpose
§ 14-120-329. Sale of bonds — Interest coupons
§ 14-120-330. Disposition and use of bond proceeds
§ 14-120-331. Lithographing and registration of bonds