Arkansas Code Title 6, Subtitle 5, Chapter 71 - Improvement Districts for Colleges and Universities

• § 6-71-101 - Definitions.
  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Assessors" means the assessors named by the improvement district commissioners as provided for...
• § 6-71-102 - Applicability.
  Nothing in this chapter shall apply to cities having a commission form of government.
• § 6-71-103 - City of First Class -- Special Improvement District.
  (a) Any city of the first class in this state is created and constituted a special improvement district and shall be a public agency...
• § 6-71-104 - Management Commission.
  (a) The affairs of the district shall be managed and controlled and all improvements authorized shall be made by a commission which shall be...
• § 6-71-105 - Public Notice of Passage of Chapter -- Methods of Approval.
  (a) Immediately upon the organization of the commission, or as soon thereafter as it is convenient, it shall give public notice of the passage...
• § 6-71-106 - Multidistrict Counties.
  In all counties where there are two (2) levying courts, thereby creating separate districts, each district shall be a county for the purpose of...
• § 6-71-107 - Board of Assessors -- Assessment Procedure.
  (a) Immediately after ascertaining the cost of the public improvement contemplated by this chapter, the commission shall appoint three (3) assessors.(b) Each of the...
• § 6-71-108 - Apportionment of Assessments -- Annual Installments.
  (a) As soon as all of the assessments have been equalized and adjusted as aforesaid, the commission, by resolution, shall charge each lot, tract,...
• § 6-71-109 - Assessment As Lien on Real Property.
  The assessment of benefits shall be a charge and a lien against all the real property in the district from the date of the...
• § 6-71-110 - Deferral of Levy.
  (a) The commission is given the authority to defer the levying of assessments for the first five (5) years after the assessments are made...
• § 6-71-111 - Limitation on Assessments.
  The improvements undertaken by this chapter shall not exceed ten percent (10%) of the valuation of the real property in the district, subject to...
• § 6-71-112 - Assessment of Railroads, Tramroads, Etc.
  (a) All railroads, tramroads, right-of-ways, roadbeds, and appurtenances in the district shall be assessed according to the betterments and increase in value in like...
• § 6-71-113 - Maintenance Assessments.
  (a) For the purpose of maintaining and keeping the improvements in good state, when authorized in the petition provided for in § 6-71-105, the...
• § 6-71-114 - Collector and Treasurer.
  (a) The commission shall appoint a collector and a treasurer for the district.(b) These officers shall execute bonds to the commission in sums equal...
• § 6-71-115 - Borrowing of Money -- Bonds.
  (a) In order to hasten the completion of the improvement, the commission is authorized to borrow money not exceeding the estimated cost of improvement,...
• § 6-71-116 - Warrant for Collection of Assessments -- Form.
  (a) Within ten (10) days after the completion of the assessment list and apportionment thereof for the first year, the secretary of the commission...
• § 6-71-117 - Publication of Notice for Collection.
  (a) The collector shall immediately upon receipt of the assessment list cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the district...
• § 6-71-118 - Delinquent Assessment -- Penalty.
  If any assessment made under this chapter is not paid within the time mentioned in the notice published by the collector, the collector shall...
• § 6-71-119 - Suit to Enforce Lien.
  (a) The commission shall straightway cause a complaint in equity to be filed in the court having jurisdiction of suits for the enforcement of...
• § 6-71-120 - Exhibition of Resolutions or Documents Unnecessary.
  It shall not be necessary to exhibit with the complaint any copy of any resolutions or other document or paper connected with the assessment...
• § 6-71-121 - Suits Against Several Owners May Be Joined.
  It shall be no objection to any suit brought for the purpose that the land of two (2) or more owners are joined in...
• § 6-71-122 - Owner As Defendant -- Proceedings in Rem.
  (a) The owner of property assessed shall be made a defendant if known.(b) If he or she is not known, that fact shall be...
• § 6-71-123 - Summons -- Return Day -- Default.
  (a) Summons shall be issued, and the defendant shall be required to appear and respond within five (5) days after service.(b) Upon default a...
• § 6-71-124 - Constructive Service.
  (a) If the sheriff or other officer to whom the writ may be directed shall return that the defendant is not to be found...
• § 6-71-125 - Suits Have Precedence Over Other Cases.
  For the purpose of taking every step in such suits as herein referred to, the court shall be always open. All cases brought under...
• § 6-71-126 - Form of Decree.
  If the decree is in favor of the district and for the condemnation of the land, it shall be for the penalty and costs...
• § 6-71-127 - Suit in Name of District.
  The suit shall be brought in the name of the district.
• § 6-71-128 - Direction for Sale of Property.
  (a) In its decree of condemnation, the court shall direct that if the sum adjudged shall not be paid within ten (10) days, the...
• § 6-71-129 - Correction of Description of Property.
  In the event that the description of any lot, tract, or parcel of property upon the list of the assessment hereinbefore provided to be...
• § 6-71-130 - Commissioner's Deed to Purchaser.
  (a) If any land sold under a decree as herein mentioned is not redeemed within the time allowed herein, the court in which the...
• § 6-71-131 - Sale to Best Bidder or District.
  (a) The property shall be offered to the person who will pay the assessment, penalty, and costs for the least amount of the land.(b)...
• § 6-71-132 - Allowance to Special Commissioner for Sale of Land.
  No allowance to the special commissioner for his or her service shall exceed five dollars ($5.00) for each lot, tract, or parcel of land...
• § 6-71-133 - Certificate of Purchase.
  The special commissioner shall execute to the purchaser a certificate of purchase in which shall be stated the whole sum paid by the purchaser.
• § 6-71-134 - Redemption.
  (a) The owner may redeem from the purchaser any time within one (1) year after the sale by paying the purchaser the amount paid...
• § 6-71-135 - Reimbursement for Assessments Paid by Purchaser.
  If, in the period allowed for redemption, the purchaser pays any other assessment or tax lawfully levied upon the property, the owner, upon making...
• § 6-71-136 - Appeals to Supreme Court.
  (a) If any appeal is taken from any decree mentioned in this chapter, the Supreme Court shall advance the cause on its docket and...
• § 6-71-137 - Notice by Publication.
  If the owners of such property are nonresidents of this state, infants, or persons of unsound mind, notice shall be given by publication in...
• § 6-71-138 - Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem.
  In all cases of infants or persons of unsound mind where no legal representative or guardian appears in their behalf at the hearing, it...
• § 6-71-139 - Power to Hold and Acquire Property.
  (a) The special improvement district created in this chapter shall have the power to acquire and hold real and personal property and may receive...
• § 6-71-140 - Acquisition of Private Property.
  (a) In the event that the special improvement district fails to obtain, by agreement with the owner, property for the improvement or the right...
• § 6-71-141 - Construction and Maintenance of College or University -- Inducing Existing Institutions to Move to District.
  The district shall have power to construct and maintain a college or university within the boundaries of the district and shall have power to...
• § 6-71-142 - Requirements for Receipt of Benefits.
  (a) No college or university shall be established or reestablished under the provisions of this chapter in the district created by this chapter or...

Last modified: November 15, 2016