Arkansas Code Title 14, Subtitle 13, Chapter 218 - Consolidated Water and Light Improvement Districts

• § 14-218-101 - Scope of Chapter -- Applicability of General Laws.
  (a) None of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to any consolidated improvement district or districts consolidated by a special act of the...
• § 14-218-102 - Purpose of Districts.
  Improvement districts may be established in cities of the first and second class in the manner provided in this chapter for the purpose of...
• § 14-218-103 - Petition for Establishment of District.
  Whenever any ten (10) owners of real property in any city shall petition the city council to lay off and establish an improvement district...
• § 14-218-104 - Publication of Ordinance Establishing District.
  Within twenty (20) days after the passage of the ordinance, the clerk of the city shall publish the ordinance of the council laying off...
• § 14-218-105 - Hearing on Petition -- Notice -- Review.
  (a) Before passing the ordinance, the city council shall cause the city clerk to give notice by publication one (1) time a week for...
• § 14-218-106 - Petition to Take Over Light and Water Plant.
  (a) If, within ninety (90) days after the publication of the ordinance creating and establishing the district, persons claiming to be a majority in...
• § 14-218-107 - Appointment of Board of Improvement -- Oath.
  (a) If the city council shall determine after notice and hearing, as provided in § 14-218-106, that the signers of the petition constitute a...
• § 14-218-108 - Plans for Improvements.
  (a) (1) After their qualification, the board shall form plans for the improvements within the consolidated district. (2) These plans shall include the existing...
• § 14-218-109 - Appointment of Assessors -- Oath -- Compensation.
  (a) As soon as the board of improvement shall have filed the plans and the estimated cost of the improvement, the city council shall...
• § 14-218-110 - Assessments and Corrections.
  (a) The assessors shall at once proceed to inscribe in a book to be used for that purpose the description of each of the...
• § 14-218-111 - Notice of Filing of Assessments.
  Immediately on filing of the assessment, the city clerk shall insert the following notice in a newspaper published in the county in which the...
• § 14-218-112 - Appeal From Assessment.
  (a) At any time within ten (10) days from the giving of the notice, anyone whose real estate is embraced in the assessment may...
• § 14-218-113 - Payment of Assessments.
  (a) It shall be provided by ordinance that the local assessment of benefits shall be paid in successive annual installments so that no annual...
• § 14-218-114 - Form of Assessment Ordinance -- Lien on Real Property.
  (a) The ordinance may be in the following form: Click here to view form(b) (1) The local assessment shall be a charge and lien...
• § 14-218-115 - Publication of Assessment Ordinance -- Statute of Limitations for Challenging Assessments.
  (a) Within thirty (30) days after the passage of the ordinance mentioned in § 14-218-114, the city clerk shall publish a copy of it...
• § 14-218-116 - Copy of Assessment Delivered to Collector -- Warrant for Collection.
  (a) Within forty (40) days after the passage of the ordinance, unless the time is extended by the city council, the city clerk shall...
• § 14-218-117 - Collector's Notice -- Publication.
  The collector shall immediately, upon the receipt of the tax list, cause to be published in a newspaper published in the city a notice,...
• § 14-218-118 - School Property Subject to Assessment.
  The property of the public school districts within the limits of a district shall be subject to assessment for the local improvements made by...
• § 14-218-119 - Vesting of Title in Consolidated District -- Liability of Separate Districts.
  (a) As soon as the ordinance levying the assessment is passed, the title to the water system and plant, the title to the electric...
• § 14-218-120 - Conveyance of Property to Consolidated District.
  (a) Upon the passage of the ordinance levying the assessment of the consolidated district, it shall be the duty of the board of improvement...
• § 14-218-121 - Retirement of Bonds of Separate Districts Before Maturity.
  (a) The board of improvement of the consolidated district is authorized to pay any notes or bonds given by either of the separate districts...
• § 14-218-122 - Annual Revision of Assessments.
  (a) The board of assessors of a consolidated district shall annually revise and readjust the assessment of property made by them for the district.(b)...
• § 14-218-123 - Revised Assessment List Filed With City Clerk -- Notice.
  (a) Immediately after making the annual readjustment and revision, the board of assessors shall file with the city clerk a list of the tracts,...
• § 14-218-124 - Appeal From Reassessment.
  (a) Any owner of real estate located in the district, at any time within five (5) days from the giving of the notice, may...
• § 14-218-125 - Computation of Tax Upon Reassessment.
  The annual tax or installment shall be computed and extended upon the assessment as readjusted and revised as hereinbefore provided by the clerk without...
• § 14-218-126 - Delinquency.
  (a) If any assessment made under this chapter shall not be paid within the time mentioned in the notice published by the collector, the...
• § 14-218-127 - Operation of Plants by City -- Use of Income.
  (a) The city in which the consolidated district is located, through its proper officers, shall have full power and authority to operate the consolidated...
• § 14-218-128 - Use of Funds for Improvements Outside City.
  It shall be lawful for money raised by assessment in the district to be expended in the purchase of lands or erection of houses,...
• § 14-218-129 - Powers of Board Concerning Improvements.
  (a) The board of improvement shall have control of the construction of improvements of the district.(b) The board may: (1) Advertise for proposals for...
• § 14-218-130 - Contractors' Bonds.
  All contractors shall be required to give bond for the faithful performance of such contracts as may be awarded them, with good and sufficient...
• § 14-218-131 - Bonds -- Issuance.
  (a) In order to hasten the work provided for in the original or any additional or supplementary plans and to pay the indebtedness owed...
• § 14-218-132 - Additional Assessments.
  (a) If the assessment first levied shall be insufficient to complete the improvement and pay the debts of the district, additional assessments may be...
• § 14-218-133 - Eminent Domain.
  (a) The right of eminent domain is conferred upon any consolidated district for the purpose of securing any lands or rights-of-way needed in making...

Last modified: November 15, 2016