(a) Before passing the ordinance, the city council shall cause the city clerk to give notice by publication one (1) time a week for two (2) weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which the city may lie, advising the property owners within the proposed district that on a day therein named, the council will hear the petition and determine whether those signing the petition are actually owners of real property in such city.
(b) At the meeting named in the notice, the owners of real property within such city shall be heard before the council, which shall determine whether ten (10) persons who actually own real property within the limits of the city actually signed the petition.
(c) The finding of the council shall be conclusive unless within thirty (30) days thereafter suit is brought to review its action in the chancery court of the county where the city lies.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 13 - Public Utility Improvement Districts
Chapter 218 - Consolidated Water And Light Improvement Districts
§ 14-218-101. Scope of chapter — Applicability of general laws
§ 14-218-102. Purpose of districts
§ 14-218-103. Petition for establishment of district
§ 14-218-104. Publication of ordinance establishing district
§ 14-218-105. Hearing on petition — Notice — Review
§ 14-218-106. Petition to take over light and water plant
§ 14-218-107. Appointment of board of improvement — Oath
§ 14-218-108. Plans for improvements
§ 14-218-109. Appointment of assessors — Oath — Compensation
§ 14-218-110. Assessments and corrections
§ 14-218-111. Notice of filing of assessments
§ 14-218-112. Appeal from assessment
§ 14-218-113. Payment of assessments
§ 14-218-114. Form of assessment ordinance — Lien on real property
§ 14-218-116. Copy of assessment delivered to collector — Warrant for collection
§ 14-218-117. Collector's notice — Publication
§ 14-218-118. School property subject to assessment
§ 14-218-119. Vesting of title in consolidated district — Liability of separate districts
§ 14-218-120. Conveyance of property to consolidated district
§ 14-218-121. Retirement of bonds of separate districts before maturity
§ 14-218-122. Annual revision of assessments
§ 14-218-123. Revised assessment list filed with city clerk — Notice
§ 14-218-124. Appeal from reassessment
§ 14-218-125. Computation of tax upon reassessment
§ 14-218-127. Operation of plants by city — Use of income
§ 14-218-128. Use of funds for improvements outside city
§ 14-218-129. Powers of board concerning improvements
§ 14-218-130. Contractors' bonds
§ 14-218-131. Bonds — Issuance