Arkansas Code
Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts
Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally

§ 14-121-208. Making districts created by special act into districts governed by general law - All drainage districts created by special acts are made drainage...

Subchapter 3 - Board of Commissioners

§ 14-121-301. Members generally - (a) When the county court has established any such drainage...

§ 14-121-302. Members — Increase in number - (a) Whenever a majority in value of the owners of...

§ 14-121-303. Members — District in more than one county - (a) In case of a district lying in more than...

§ 14-121-304. Organization - The board shall select one (1) of their number as...

§ 14-121-305. Powers and duties - (a) The boards of commissioners mentioned in this chapter shall...

§ 14-121-306. Authority to secure federal aid — Surveys - All drainage districts in the State of Arkansas, whether created...

§ 14-121-307. Cooperation with the United States - (a) If improvements are undertaken in cooperation with the United...

§ 14-121-308. Authority to improve or extend districts, borrow money, and issue bonds - (a) The commissioners of any drainage district organized under the...

§ 14-121-309. Deposit of funds — Bond - (a) If the commissioners deem best, they shall deposit the...

§ 14-121-310. Treasurer — Warrants - (a) The treasurer shall: (1) Pay out no money, save...

§ 14-121-311. Records and reports of financial transactions — Penalty - (a) The commission shall also keep the original itemized bills...

§ 14-121-312. Attorneys - The commissioners of drainage districts appointed under § 14-121-301 shall...

§ 14-121-313. Liability - No member of any board of improvement shall be liable...

§ 14-121-314. Ratification of commissioners' acts - The property owners in a drainage district may: (1) Consent...

Subchapter 4 - District Operation Generally

§ 14-121-401. Plans for improvements - (a) As soon as the board shall have formed its...

§ 14-121-402. Assessment of benefits and damages within district - (a) (1) The commissioners shall proceed to assess the lands...

§ 14-121-403. Assessment of lands outside of district — Hearing — Extension of boundaries - (a) If the commissioners find that other lands not embraced...

§ 14-121-404. Filing the assessment — Notice - (a) When their assessment is completed, the commissioners shall subscribe...

§ 14-121-405. Hearing on complaints — Appeal - (a) Any owner of real property within the district who...

§ 14-121-406. Acquiescence to assessment or failure to assess — Effect of demand for assessment - (a) Any property owner may accept the assessment of damages...

§ 14-121-407. Reassessment of benefits — Appeals - (a) The commissioners of the districts shall have the power...

§ 14-121-408. Alteration of plans — Reassessment - (a) The commissioners may at any time alter the plans...

§ 14-121-409. Petition that improvements and extensions proceed under revised plans — Notice, hearing, and appeal - (a) If the commissioners shall have filed plans for additional...

§ 14-121-410. Effect of reassessment - (a) When any reassessment of benefits has been made and...

§ 14-121-411. Benefits to lands in other districts — Assessments - In case any land in any drainage or other improvement...

§ 14-121-412. District continuance — Additional levy - (a) The district shall not cease to exist upon the...

§ 14-121-420. Payment of assessments in drainage districts — Interest - (a) When assessments of benefits have been made in drainage...

§ 14-121-421. Payment of assessments in improvement districts — Interest - (a) When assessments of benefits are made in drainage and...

§ 14-121-422. Procedure for levy of tax — Preliminary expenses — Validation of prior levies - (a) The county court shall, at the same time that...

§ 14-121-423. Validity of assessment or levy when error appears in description, etc - No error in the names or residences of the owners...

§ 14-121-424. Insufficiency of tax — Additional levy - (a) If the tax first levied shall prove insufficient to...

§ 14-121-425. Collection of taxes generally — Extension on county tax books - (a) The amount of the taxes provided for in this...

§ 14-121-426. Time for payment of tax — Delinquency - (a) All taxes levied under the terms of this act...

§ 14-121-427. Notice of proceedings for collection of taxes - (a) (1) Notice of the pendency of a suit shall...

§ 14-121-428. Trial date — Suit by bondholder - (a) The suit shall stand for trial at the first...

§ 14-121-429. Trial procedure - (a) Suits for collection shall be conducted in the name...

§ 14-121-430. Sale of land - (a) (1) (A) In all cases in which notice has...

§ 14-121-431. Attorney's fees - In all suits brought for collection of delinquent taxes under...

§ 14-121-432. Redemption - (a) At any time within two (2) years after the...

§ 14-121-433. Land subject to improvement district tax lien — Sale and resale - (a) On sales of land condemned to be sold for...

§ 14-121-440. Bonds — Prohibitions - (a) It shall not be lawful for: (1) The board...

§ 14-121-441. Issuing bonds and evidences of debt to hasten work — Terms of bonds - (a) In order to hasten work, the board may borrow...

§ 14-121-442. Security for bonds — Levy and collection of tax — Default in payment of bonds - (a) All bonds issued by commissioners under the terms of...

§ 14-121-443. Tax to pay off bonds issued for preliminary expenses - (a) (1) For the purpose of paying the principal and...

§ 14-121-444. Issuance of certificates of indebtedness for maintenance — Appeal - (a) Any drainage district organized under and pursuant to the...

§ 14-121-445. Refunding bonds - (a) Any drainage district in this state which has issued...

Subchapter 5 - Subdistricts

§ 14-121-501. Applicability of §§ 14-121-204 and 14-121-205 - The provisions of §§ 14-121-204 and 14-121-205 shall apply to...

§ 14-121-502. Formation procedure in county court - (a) (1) When three (3) or more owners of real...

§ 14-121-503. Formation procedure in circuit court - (a) Where the main drainage district, of which the proposed...

§ 14-121-504. Commissioners — Subsequent proceedings - When the county or circuit court has established a subdistrict,...

§ 14-121-505. Authority to do construction for land reclamation - A subdistrict of a drainage district organized under, or made...

Subchapter 6 - Forming Maintenance Districts Within Original Districts

§ 14-121-601. Scope - The terms and provisions of this subchapter shall never at...

§ 14-121-602. Definition - Throughout this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “original district”...

§ 14-121-603. Dividing district land according to county boundaries - Any drainage district in this state not organized for the...

§ 14-121-604. Filing petition for separation — Order - (a) Any five (5) owners of land within the boundaries...

§ 14-121-605. Commissioners of separate districts - (a) The county court shall appoint three (3) owners of...

§ 14-121-606. Commissioners of original district - When the order has been entered by the county court...

§ 14-121-607. Powers of separate districts - The separate districts shall have the power to preserve the...

Subchapter 7 - Annexing Certain Benefited Lands to District

§ 14-121-701. Lands to be annexed - Where any slough, marsh, or lake has been drained into...

§ 14-121-702. Addition of sanitary sewer district — Taxes and bonds - (a) If any sanitary sewer district drains into the ditches...

§ 14-121-703. Annexation procedure - (a) When the commissioners of any such drainage district find...

§ 14-121-704. Assessment or reassessment of benefits - (a) When lands have been annexed, the assessor of the...

§ 14-121-705. Use of increased revenues - Any increased revenues by reason of the annexes to a...

§ 14-121-706. Legal proceedings - All proceedings brought under this subchapter and all suits to...

Subchapter 8 - Construction and Maintenance Generally

§ 14-121-801. Cooperation with the United States - (a) All drainage districts organized under the laws of Arkansas,...

§ 14-121-802. Contractor's bond - All contractors shall be required to give bond for the...

§ 14-121-803. Right to pass over land — Commissioners, engineers, and contractors - (a) The commissioners, engineers, and contractors engaged in drainage work...

§ 14-121-804. Landowner ditches draining into public ditches — Crossing lands of another - (a) Any landowner within the district may build ditches to...

§ 14-121-805. Ditches across or under highways, railroads, or bridges - (a) The commissioners shall have the right to carry the...

§ 14-121-806. District duty to build highway bridges over ditches - The district shall build bridges to carry the county highways...

§ 14-121-807. Regulations for district fences, bridges, etc - (a) In order to prevent damages to drainage systems and...

§ 14-121-808. Construction of ditches beyond district limits - (a) In case it is necessary to do so in...

§ 14-121-809. Construction, reconstruction, replacement, and repair of certain levees and setbacks - (a) All drainage districts organized under special acts of the...

§ 14-121-810. Ownership of timber on right-of-way - In case the right-of-way for the improvement is through timber,...

§ 14-121-811. Authority to obtain and dispose of maintenance equipment — Personnel — Tax - (a) (1) Boards of commissioners of drainage districts organized under...

Subchapter 9 - Cleaning Public Drains

§ 14-121-901. Board - For the purpose of keeping a small cash fund on...

§ 14-121-902. Treasurers to keep separate account with drainage district - The county treasurers of this state shall keep upon their...

§ 14-121-903. Unpaid amounts considered in making estimate — Extension of overdue amounts - (a) Whenever there shall remain due and unpaid at the...

Subchapter 10 - Dissolution or Abolition of Districts

§ 14-121-1001. Applicability - The provisions of this act shall be applicable to any...

§ 14-121-1002. Filing petition - The board of commissioners of any drainage district subject to...

§ 14-121-1003. Notice and hearing - (a) Upon the filing of the petition the court shall...

§ 14-121-1004. Contracts during pendency of petition - During the pendency of the petition and prior to the...

§ 14-121-1005. Valid indebtedness unimpaired - No dissolution of a district under the terms of this...

§ 14-121-1006. Claims against district - (a) All claims against the district existing at the time...

§ 14-121-1007. Partial continuance - (a) All drainage districts which are dissolved or abolished pursuant...

§ 14-121-1008. Indebtedness of dissolved districts — Levy and collection of tax - (a) When the indebtedness owing by a district dissolved under...

§ 14-121-1009. Procedure when construction of improvement abandoned and all indebtedness paid - (a) The board of commissioners of any drainage district in...

§ 14-121-1010. Procedures when improvements are abandoned, no maintenance assurances are given, and all indebtedness is paid - (a) (1) The board of commissioners of any drainage district...

Subchapter 11 - Drainage Districts

§ 14-121-1101. Legislative determination - It is found and declared as a matter of legislative...

§ 14-121-1102. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) In cases where the...

§ 14-121-1103. Subchapter cumulative - This subchapter shall be construed to be cumulative to existing...

§ 14-121-1104. Authority to merge - (a) Any drainage district may merge all its required duties,...

§ 14-121-1105. Merger procedure - (a) No drainage district coming within the provisions of this...

§ 14-121-1106. Board of directors for merged districts - (a) Upon the merger's becoming effective, the new board of...

§ 14-121-1107. Powers of board of directors - (a) In order to discharge the obligations for which the...

§ 14-121-1108. Merger and use of assets — Prior liabilities and obligations - (a) Any drainage district which shall merge the duties, obligations,...

§ 14-121-1109. Valid indebtedness unimpaired - No merger of a district under the terms of this...

§ 14-121-1110. Claims against district - (a) All claims against the district existing at the time...

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Arkansas Code Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally

Arkansas Code
Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts
Chapter 121 - Drainage Improvement Districts Generally