Arkansas Code
Subchapter 10 - Dissolution or Abolition of Districts
§ 14-121-1003. Notice and hearing

(a) Upon the filing of the petition the court shall direct the clerk of the court to give notice by publication in some newspaper in the county in which the property in the district lies for not less than two (2) consecutive weekly publications, which notice shall set out the purpose of the petition and the day set for the hearing thereon. The court shall fix a day for the hearing of the petition and shall hear the evidence thereon, and if it is of the opinion that it is for the best interests of the property owners of the district that the petition be granted, it shall abolish or dissolve the district, but if it is of the opinion that it is for the best interest of the property owners that the organization of the district be continued, then it shall overrule the petition.
(b) The overruling of one petition for the abandonment of a district or a determination of the court in that hearing that the petition is not signed by the requisite number of landowners shall not be a bar to the filing of another petition for that purpose.

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