(a) The State Highway Commission is authorized to acquire real or personal property, or any interest therein, deemed to be necessary or desirable for state highway purposes, by gift, devise, purchase, exchange, condemnation, or otherwise.
(b) These lands or real property may be acquired in fee simple or in any lesser estate.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 5 - Highways, Roads, And Streets
Chapter 67 - State Highway System
Subchapter 3 - Acquisition, Condemnation, and Disposition of Property
§ 27-67-301. Authority to acquire property
§ 27-67-302. State highway purposes
§ 27-67-303. Entry for suitability studies
§ 27-67-304. Use of right-of-way
§ 27-67-305. Commission discretion as to quantity of property acquired
§ 27-67-307. Temporary easements
§ 27-67-308. Authority to compensate — Source of revenue
§ 27-67-309. Venue for condemnation actions
§ 27-67-310. Precedence of condemnation proceedings
§ 27-67-311. Condemnation petition — Notice
§ 27-67-312. Declaration of taking
§ 27-67-313. Motion to strike declaration of taking
§ 27-67-315. Title vests upon deposit
§ 27-67-316. Condemnation proceedings and judgment
§ 27-67-318. Hearing on amount of deposit
§ 27-67-319. Appeal not to delay vesting of title
§ 27-67-320. Acquisition when county court fails to grant petition
§ 27-67-321. Sale of surplus highway property
§ 27-67-322. Reacquisition of surplus property by former owner — Definition