Arkansas Code
Subchapter 2 - Multi-County Planning and Development Organizations
§ 14-166-204. Allocation of payments

(a)
(1) The Department of Finance and Administration is authorized to make payments from time to time to officially recognized organizations of planning and development districts from state funds appropriated for that purpose.
(2) Payments shall be scheduled as nearly as possible to begin on July 1 of each fiscal year and on the first day of each calendar quarter thereafter.

(b)
(1) Funds appropriated for payments to recognized organizations of planning and development districts shall be allocated, in equal shares, among the initial eight (8) recognized districts as established in § 14-166-202.
(2) If, in the future, any change occurs in the district boundaries of any of the initial eight (8) districts, as authorized in § 14-166-202, the number one (1) allocation of appropriated funds to the former districts which comprise counties reorganized in the new district shall be apportioned to the new district in accordance with equitable criteria established by the Department of Finance and Administration and published in advance prior to the establishment of the new district.

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