Arkansas Code Title 14, Subtitle 17, Chapter 284, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
- § 14-284-101 - Definitions.
(a) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, wherever the words "majority in value" are used, it shall be construed to...
- § 14-284-102 - Purpose of District.
The purpose of the district shall be the building, equipping, and operating of a fire station or stations equipped with a fire truck or...
- § 14-284-103 - Petition Generally.
(a) Upon the petition of majority in value of the owners of real property in any designated area, no part of which is more...
- § 14-284-104 - Petition -- Notice and Hearing.
(a) Upon the filing of the petition, it shall be the duty of the county clerk to give notice of the filing thereof, describing...
- § 14-284-105 - Board of Commissioners -- Appointment -- Qualifications.
(a) The board of commissioners shall be resident property holders in the district and shall be citizens of integrity and good business ability.(b) (1)...
- § 14-284-106 - Board of Commissioners -- Proceedings -- Officers -- Employees -- Selection of Depository.
(a) (1) Within thirty (30) days after their appointment, the commissioners shall take and file with the county clerk their oaths of office in...
- § 14-284-107 - Board of Commissioners -- Liability.
No member of the board of improvement shall be liable for any damages unless it shall be made to appear that he had acted...
- § 14-284-108 - Plans for Improvement -- Assessors and Assessments Generally.
(a) Immediately after their qualification, the commissioners shall form plans for the improvements they intend to make and the equipment they intend to purchase....
- § 14-284-109 - Assessment -- Notice and Hearing.
(a) The assessment shall be filed with the county clerk of the county, and the secretary of the board shall give notice of its...
- § 14-284-110 - Assessment -- Annual Reassessment.
(a) The commissioners shall one (1) time a year order the assessors to reassess the annual benefits of the district, provided there have been...
- § 14-284-111 - Assessment -- Order of Levy -- Lien.
(a) (1) The board of commissioners of the district shall, at the same time that the annual benefit assessment is equalized or at any...
- § 14-284-112 - Assessment -- Filing and Collection.
(a) The original assessment record, or any reassessment record, shall be filed with the county clerk, whose duty it shall be to extend the...
- § 14-284-113 - Assessment -- Time for Payment -- Failure to Pay -- Redemption.
(a) (1) All annual benefits extended and levied under the terms of this subchapter shall be payable between the third Monday in February and...
- § 14-284-114 - Expenditures -- Filing of Report.
(a) The depository shall pay out no money save upon the order of the board and upon a voucher check signed by at least...
- § 14-284-115 - Street and Road Maintenance.
(a) The board of commissioners may make the necessary repairs upon the streets or roads within the district.(b) (1) It is realized that the...
- § 14-284-116 - Awarding of Contracts.
(a) (1) All contractors shall be required to give bond for the faithful performance of contracts as may be awarded them, with good and...
- § 14-284-117 - Issuance of Notes.
(a) (1) In order to acquire equipment and to do the work, the board of commissioners may issue the negotiable notes of the fire...
- § 14-284-118 - Dissolution.
(a) The district shall not cease to exist upon the completion of the improvement, but it shall continue to exist for the purpose of...
- § 14-284-119 - Certain Suits in Public Interest.
(a) All cases involving the validity of such districts or the annual benefit assessments and all suits to foreclose the lien of annual benefit...
- § 14-284-120 - Alteration of Plans and Specifications.
(a) The commissioners may at any time alter the plans and specifications, which shall be filed with the county court. Notice of the filing...
- § 14-284-121 - Fee of Collector and County Clerk.
The collector of taxes in any county, in collecting annual benefit assessments in any district created under this subchapter or in collecting taxes in...
- § 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 this subchapter are authorized to contract with a city, town, county, the state, the...
- § 14-284-123 - Formation in Certain Towns.
(a) The real property owners in any incorporated town in this state having a population of not less than four hundred twenty-five (425) persons...
- § 14-284-124 - Consolidation -- Conditions and Procedures.
(a) (1) Fire protection districts organized under this subchapter may consolidate if: (A) The districts are geographically contiguous; (B) Located in the same county;...
- § 14-284-125 - Boundaries of Overlapping Districts.
The State Forestry Commission shall have authority to adjust the boundaries of fire protection districts having overlapping boundaries. The commission shall adjust the boundaries...
Last modified: November 15, 2016