(a) When assessments of benefits have been made in drainage districts organized either under general or special acts, the property owner shall have the right to pay the assessment in full within sixty (60) days after the formation of the district, but if he does not avail himself of this privilege, the assessment of benefits shall bear interest at the rate of six percent (6%) per annum and shall be payable only in installments as levied.
(b) The interest need not be computed until necessary to be sure that the collections have not exceeded the total amount of benefits and interest, or the interest may be first collected.
(c) However, this section shall not apply to districts heretofore organized in which interest on bonds or other borrowed money was calculated as a part of the cost of construction and included in the assessment of benefits.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts
Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally
Subchapter 4 - District Operation Generally
§ 14-121-401. Plans for improvements
§ 14-121-402. Assessment of benefits and damages within district
§ 14-121-403. Assessment of lands outside of district — Hearing — Extension of boundaries
§ 14-121-404. Filing the assessment — Notice
§ 14-121-405. Hearing on complaints — Appeal
§ 14-121-406. Acquiescence to assessment or failure to assess — Effect of demand for assessment
§ 14-121-407. Reassessment of benefits — Appeals
§ 14-121-408. Alteration of plans — Reassessment
§ 14-121-410. Effect of reassessment
§ 14-121-411. Benefits to lands in other districts — Assessments
§ 14-121-412. District continuance — Additional levy
§ 14-121-420. Payment of assessments in drainage districts — Interest
§ 14-121-421. Payment of assessments in improvement districts — Interest
§ 14-121-422. Procedure for levy of tax — Preliminary expenses — Validation of prior levies
§ 14-121-423. Validity of assessment or levy when error appears in description, etc
§ 14-121-424. Insufficiency of tax — Additional levy
§ 14-121-425. Collection of taxes generally — Extension on county tax books
§ 14-121-426. Time for payment of tax — Delinquency
§ 14-121-427. Notice of proceedings for collection of taxes
§ 14-121-428. Trial date — Suit by bondholder
§ 14-121-433. Land subject to improvement district tax lien — Sale and resale
§ 14-121-440. Bonds — Prohibitions
§ 14-121-441. Issuing bonds and evidences of debt to hasten work — Terms of bonds
§ 14-121-442. Security for bonds — Levy and collection of tax — Default in payment of bonds
§ 14-121-443. Tax to pay off bonds issued for preliminary expenses
§ 14-121-444. Issuance of certificates of indebtedness for maintenance — Appeal