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Chapter 85 - General Provisions
§ 27-85-101. Conservation of bridges - It is directed that the administrators of the various public...
Chapter 86 - Bridges
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 27-86-101. Interstate toll bridges authorized - The State Highway Commission is authorized to maintain, in whole...
§ 27-86-102. Mail carrier toll exemption - All carriers of the United States mails over a designated...
§ 27-86-103. Lights on toll bridges - (a) Provisions are made for the regulation of the number...
Subchapter 2 - Private Franchises
§ 27-86-201. Power to grant - (a) The several county courts through whose counties run any...
§ 27-86-202. Control by county court - (a) The county court shall have a general superintending control...
§ 27-86-203. Application — Notice — Hearing - (a) Upon application being made to the county court for...
§ 27-86-204. Appeal - Any interested party or any citizen of the county or...
§ 27-86-205. Franchise exclusive — Exception - (a) After conferring the privileges of this subchapter upon any...
§ 27-86-206. State's condemnation authority - (a) The State Highway Commission, with the approval of the...
§ 27-86-207. Damages upon condemnation by state - (a) In the event condemnation proceedings are instituted as herein...
§ 27-86-208. Privileges granted jointly by two counties — Appeals - (a) Where the watercourse is on the boundary line between...
§ 27-86-209. No franchise for toll bridge on state highway - No franchise shall be granted to any person, firm, or...
§ 27-86-210. State purchase of private toll bridges — Construction of free bridges - (a) The State Highway Commission is authorized and empowered to...
§ 27-86-211. Toll rates on privately owned bridges in state highway system - (a) The State Highway Commission is empowered to fix and...
Subchapter 3 - Transportation of Cotton over Toll Bridges
§ 27-86-301. Records - (a) It shall be the duty of every person, firm,...
§ 27-86-302. Application to state bridges - It is expressly declared that this subchapter shall apply to...
§ 27-86-303. Transporter's failure to furnish information — Penalty - Any person transporting cotton across a toll bridge as specified...
§ 27-86-304. Operator's failure to keep record — Penalty - (a) Any owner or operator of any toll bridge, except...
§ 27-86-305. Mandamus - The State Highway Commission or other agency of the state...
§ 27-86-306. No charge - It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of...
Chapter 87 - Ferries
§ 27-87-101. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 27-87-102. Ferrykeeper's neglect of duty — Penalties - (a) Any person detained at any public ferry by reason...
§ 27-87-103. Public ferry on private stream - (a) Where a public road crosses any private stream which...
§ 27-87-104. Eligibility to keep ferry - (a) Every person owning the land fronting on any public...
§ 27-87-105. Exclusiveness of privilege - The county court shall not permit any ferry to be...
§ 27-87-106. State establishment and operation - (a) In all cases hereafter existing in which a privately...
§ 27-87-107. Record of cotton shipments - (a) It shall be unlawful for any ferry boat to...
Subchapter 2 - License and Privilege Tax
§ 27-87-201. Taking toll without license — Penalty - If any person shall keep any ferry over any navigable...
§ 27-87-202. License — Navigable waterways generally - (a) No person shall keep any ferry over or across...
§ 27-87-203. License — Stream on county boundary - If any navigable stream or lake shall form a portion...
§ 27-87-204. Operation by advertisement - (a) Any person wishing to put into operation any public...
§ 27-87-205. Tax — Assessment - (a) Before any ferry shall be established, the court shall...
§ 27-87-206. License — Issuance - It shall be the duty of the clerk of the...
§ 27-87-207. Tax — Failure to pay - (a) It shall be the duty of the sheriff to...
§ 27-87-208. Tax — Sheriff's settlement - The sheriff shall settle for the amount collected by him...
§ 27-87-209. Tax or charge — Stream on state boundary - When a navigable stream makes a part of the boundary...
Subchapter 3 - Bonds
§ 27-87-301. Requirement and terms - The county court shall have authority and is required to...
§ 27-87-302. Damages - If any persons sustaining damage by reason of a ferrykeeper...
§ 27-87-303. Liability of sureties - In all cases of recoveries against ferrykeepers for violations of...
Subchapter 4 - Rates
§ 27-87-401. Regulation — Fines - (a) The toll of ferries that are established shall at...
§ 27-87-402. Record — Distribution - (a) The court shall state on its record the rates...
§ 27-87-403. Ferries in competition with state-owned toll bridges - (a) All ferries operating in competition with state-owned toll bridges...
Chapter 88 - Bonds For Construction And Operation
§ 27-88-101. Liberal construction - This chapter shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes...
§ 27-88-102. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 27-88-103. Scope of authority - (a) This chapter shall be deemed, without reference to any...
§ 27-88-104. Authority to issue bonds — Use of funds - (a) Whenever the State Highway Commission shall determine on the...
§ 27-88-105. Form of bonds - (a) The bonds shall be in such form and denomination,...
§ 27-88-106. Redemption before maturity - All bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, maturing...
§ 27-88-107. Seal - The State Highway Commission is authorized to adopt and use...
§ 27-88-108. Sale - (a) The State Highway Commission is authorized to sell all...
§ 27-88-109. No right arises until issuance and sale - This chapter shall not create any right of any character,...
§ 27-88-110. Investment of proceeds from sale - The State Highway Commission is further authorized to invest portions...
§ 27-88-111. Temporary notes or bonds - Temporary notes or bonds conforming to this chapter, exchangeable for...
§ 27-88-112. Notes and bonds as negotiable instruments - All bonds and notes issued under the provisions of this...
§ 27-88-113. Tax exemption - The bonds issued under this chapter shall be exempt from...
§ 27-88-114. Sinking fund for payment of bonds - At or before the issuance of any bonds, the State...
§ 27-88-115. Operation and maintenance fund - (a) All revenues of the bridge or ferry not required...
§ 27-88-116. Tolls, rates, and fees - (a) The State Highway Commission is authorized, and it shall...
§ 27-88-117. Bonds payable solely from bridge or ferry revenues - (a) Bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall...
§ 27-88-118. Additional bond issues — Equality - (a) The State Highway Commission may provide in its resolution...
§ 27-88-119. Contracts with United States or other states - For the purpose of carrying into effect the objects and...
§ 27-88-120. Conformity to federal law - All interstate bridges constructed or reconstructed under the terms of...
§ 27-88-121. Right of eminent domain - For the purpose of acquiring any land, rights, easements, franchises,...
Chapter 89 - Interstate Compacts
Subchapter 2 - Arkansas-Mississippi Bridge Commission Compact
§ 27-89-201. Creation of commission — Members - (a) The Governor, by and with the advice and consent...
§ 27-89-202. Text of compact - COMPACT BETWEEN ARKANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI CREATING AN ARKANSAS-MISSISSIPPI BRIDGE COMMISSION...
§ 27-89-203. Compact binding when signed — Filing - The compact when signed by the signatories of each state...
§ 27-89-204. Consent of Congress — Effect - The commission shall have power to apply to the Congress...
Subchapter 3 - Arkansas-Mississippi Great River Bridge Construction Compact
§ 27-89-301. Text of compact - The Chairman of the State Highway Commission of the State...
§ 27-89-305. Use of state funds — Appropriation necessary for construction funds - The State Highway Commission is authorized to use moneys appropriated...
§ 27-89-306. Application to Congress for consent and approval — Binding effect of compact - The authority shall have power to apply to the Congress...
Chapter 90 - Toll Highways
Subchapter 2 - Turnpike Projects and Tolls
§ 27-90-201. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...