Ask a question on the site
Questions
Lawyers
Blogs
Legislation
Contacts
Become a lawyer
Login Registration
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 14-284-101. Definitions - (a) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise...
§ 14-284-102. Purpose of district - The purpose of the district shall be the building, equipping,...
§ 14-284-103. Petition generally - (a) Upon the petition of majority in value of the...
§ 14-284-104. Petition — Notice and hearing - (a) Upon the filing of the petition, it shall be...
§ 14-284-105. Board of commissioners — Appointment — Qualifications - (a) The board of commissioners shall be resident property holders...
§ 14-284-106. Board of commissioners — Proceedings — Officers — Employees — Selection of depository - (a) (1) Within thirty (30) days after their appointment, the...
§ 14-284-107. Board of commissioners — Liability - No member of the board of improvement shall be liable...
§ 14-284-108. Plans for improvement — Assessors and assessments generally - (a) Immediately after their qualification, the commissioners shall form plans...
§ 14-284-109. Assessment — Notice and hearing - (a) The assessment shall be filed with the county clerk...
§ 14-284-110. Assessment — Annual reassessment - (a) The commissioners shall one (1) time a year order...
§ 14-284-111. Assessment — Order of levy — Lien - (a) (1) The board of commissioners of the district shall,...
§ 14-284-112. Assessment — Filing and collection - (a) The original assessment record, or any reassessment record, shall...
§ 14-284-113. Assessment — Time for payment — Failure to pay — Redemption - (a) (1) All annual benefits extended and levied under the...
§ 14-284-114. Expenditures — Filing of report - (a) The depository shall pay out no money save upon...
§ 14-284-115. Street and road maintenance - (a) The board of commissioners may make the necessary repairs...
§ 14-284-116. Awarding of contracts - (a) (1) All contractors shall be required to give bond...
§ 14-284-117. Issuance of notes - (a) (1) In order to acquire and maintain equipment and...
§ 14-284-118. Dissolution - (a) The district shall not cease to exist upon the...
§ 14-284-119. Certain suits in public interest - (a) All cases involving the validity of such districts or...
§ 14-284-120. Alteration of plans and specifications - (a) The commissioners may at any time alter the plans...
§ 14-284-121. Fee of collector and county clerk - The collector of taxes in any county, in collecting annual...
§ 14-284-122. Authority to contract with other governmental entities to provide fire protection services - Fire protection improvement districts or fire protection districts organized under...
§ 14-284-123. Formation in certain towns - (a) The real property owners in any incorporated town in...
§ 14-284-124. Consolidation — Conditions and procedures - (a) (1) Fire protection districts organized under this subchapter may...
§ 14-284-125. Boundaries of overlapping districts - The State Forestry Commission shall have authority to adjust the...
Subchapter 2 - Fire Protection Districts Outside of Cities and Towns
§ 14-284-201. Applicability - (a) (1) Fire protection districts established under this subchapter shall...
§ 14-284-202. Provisions supplemental - The provisions of this subchapter are supplemental to any other...
§ 14-284-203. Methods of establishment - Fire protection districts may be established to serve all or...
§ 14-284-204. Establishment by petition and adoption of ordinance - (a) (1) (A) If petitions containing a description of the...
§ 14-284-205. Establishment by election - (a) When petitions are filed with the county court of...
§ 14-284-206. Definition of area in petition - (a) Petitions filed under § 14-284-203 shall specifically define the...
§ 14-284-207. Quorum court to establish fire protection service area — Furnishing of maps - (a) (1) The quorum court of each county wherein is...
§ 14-284-208. Order for establishment — Board of commissioners — Appointment — Compensation - (a) (1) If at an election a majority of the...
§ 14-284-209. Board of commissioners — Officers and employees - (a) The board shall annually choose from among its members...
§ 14-284-210. Board of commissioners — Proceedings — Meeting and office space - (a) The county in which any district is located shall...
§ 14-284-211. Board of commissioners — Power and authority - The board of commissioners of any district created pursuant to...
§ 14-284-212. Preparation of plans — Assessors and assessments generally - (a) As soon as is practical after its establishment, the...
§ 14-284-213. Assessments — Notice and hearing - (a) The assessment or reassessment shall be filed with the...
§ 14-284-214. Assessments — Annual reassessments - (a) The board of commissioners shall once a year order...
§ 14-284-215. Assessments — Filing and collection - (a) The original benefit assessment or flat fee assessment or...
§ 14-284-216. Assessments — Time for payment — Failure to pay - (a) (1) (A) All annual assessments extended and levied under...
§ 14-284-217. Expenditures — Public proceedings and transactions — Filing of report - (a) Funds of the district shall be expended only upon...
§ 14-284-218. Bonds and certificates of indebtedness generally - (a) The board of any fire protection district established pursuant...
§ 14-284-219. Bonds — Security — Liability of board for bonds and contracts - (a) It shall be plainly stated on the face of...
§ 14-284-220. Bonds — Refunding of obligations - (a) Bonds may be issued for the purpose of refunding...
§ 14-284-221. Bonds — Tax exemption - Bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter and the...
§ 14-284-222. Dissolution - (a) A fire protection district created pursuant to this subchapter...
§ 14-284-223. Authority to contract with other governmental entities to provide fire protection services - Fire protection improvement districts or fire protection districts organized under...
§ 14-284-224. Petition to annex territory to an existing district — Special election - (a) (1) (A) When petitions are filed with the board...
§ 14-284-225. Assessment — When annexed into a municipality - No property located within the bounds of a municipality shall...
§ 14-284-226. Conversion to fire protection district - (a) The governing body of a fire department that seeks...
Subchapter 3 - Rural Fire Protection Service
§ 14-284-301. Definition - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...
§ 14-284-302. Applicability - The benefits of the provisions of this subchapter shall be...
§ 14-284-303. Establishment - (a) There is established within the Arkansas Forestry Commission a...
§ 14-284-304. Powers and duties - The Rural Fire Protection Service of the Arkansas Forestry Commission...
§ 14-284-305. Rural Fire Protection Revolving Fund generally - (a) There is created and established on the books of...
§ 14-284-306. Acquisition and renovation of equipment - (a) The Arkansas Forestry Commission may provide through existing facilities,...
§ 14-284-307. Loans for purchase of vehicles and equipment - (a) Rural fire protection districts organized under the laws of...
Subchapter 4 - Insurance Premium Taxes
§ 14-284-401. Legislative findings - It is hereby found and determined by the General Assembly...
§ 14-284-402. Construction - The provisions of § 26-57-614 and this subchapter are intended...
§ 14-284-403. Apportionment of funds - (a) (1) These premium tax moneys are assessed for disbursement...
§ 14-284-404. Use of funds - (a) (1) The funds shall be used: (A) To defray...
§ 14-284-405. Payment to rural volunteer fire departments - (a) No rural volunteer fire department or district shall receive...
§ 14-284-406. Areas with no rural volunteer fire department or fire protection district — Areas in two or more counties - (a) (1) Pursuant to § 14-284-201(a)(2)(A), in any area in...
§ 14-284-407. Fire protection services organization of volunteer fire department or district after January 1, 1992 - Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prevent the...
§ 14-284-408. Direct contributions — Provision of water - (a) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prevent...
§ 14-284-409. Maintenance of real property of rural volunteer fire department - The county judge of any county is hereby authorized and...
§ 14-284-410. Certification of fire department required - No fire department shall receive funds under this subchapter after...
§ 14-284-411. Mayor — When member of county intergovernmental cooperation council - For the purposes of this subchapter, the mayor of any...
§ 14-284-412. Washer-extractor requirements - (a) To be eligible for funding under this subchapter, a...