Arkansas Code Title 14, Subtitle 18, Chapter 298 - Establishment, Alteration, and Vacation of County Roads
- § 14-298-101 - Powers of County Court.
All public roads and highways shall be laid out, opened, and repaired agreeably to the provisions of this chapter. The county court of each...
- § 14-298-102 - Notice Prerequisite to Petition for County Road.
(a) Previous to any petition being presented for a county road, or for the alteration or vacation of a county road, notice thereof shall...
- § 14-298-103 - Application by Petition -- Bond.
(a) All applications for laying out, viewing, reviewing, altering, or vacating any county road shall be by petition to the county court, signed by...
- § 14-298-104 - Contents of Petition.
All petitions for laying out, altering, or vacating any county road shall specify the place of beginning, the intermediate points, if any, and the...
- § 14-298-105 - Appointment of Viewers -- Duties.
(a) On presentation of the petition and proof of notice of publication as set out in § 14-298-102 and if the county court is...
- § 14-298-106 - Surveyors.
(a) The viewers may call to their assistance a competent surveyor to assist them in laying out and surveying or altering any road they...
- § 14-298-107 - [Repealed.]
- § 14-298-108 - Notices to Landowners and Viewers.
(a) It shall be the duty of one (1) of the petitioners to give at least thirty (30) days' notice in writing to: (1)...
- § 14-298-109 - Viewing, Surveying, and Laying Out Road.
It shall be the duty of the viewers to meet at the time and place specified in the order. After taking an oath or...
- § 14-298-110 - Determination of Road Width.
(a) (1) The viewers shall report what width the road should be to promote public convenience. (2) However, the county courts shall have power...
- § 14-298-111 - Assessment of Damages.
The viewers shall assess and determine the damages sustained by any person through whose premises the road is proposed to be established, mentioning the...
- § 14-298-112 - Report of Viewers -- Contents.
Viewers shall make and sign a report in writing, stating: (1) Their opinion in favor of or against the establishment, alteration, or vacation of...
- § 14-298-113 - Proceedings on Report -- Compensation and Damages.
(a) The county court, on receiving the reports of the viewers as set out in § 14-298-112, shall cause the report to be available...
- § 14-298-114 - Order Opening Road.
After any road has been established and declared a public road, the county court shall issue an order declaring the road to be opened...
- § 14-298-115 - Review.
(a) After the viewers of any county road shall have made return in favor of the road and before the road has been established,...
- § 14-298-116 - Appeal to Circuit Court.
(a) (1) An appeal from the final decision of the county court for a new county road or for vacating, altering, or reviewing any...
- § 14-298-117 - Vacation of Road.
(a) (1) When any county road or any part of any county road is considered useless, any ten (10) citizens residing in that portion...
- § 14-298-118 - Compensation.
(a) All persons required to render services under the provisions of this chapter as viewers or reviewers, chain carriers, markers, or surveyors shall be...
- § 14-298-119 - Limitation on Damages for Land Taken.
No part of this chapter shall be so construed as to entitle any person whose lands, or any part thereof, may be appropriated under...
- § 14-298-120 - Opening, Changing, and Classifying Roads by Order of County Court.
(a) (1) The county courts shall have power to: (A) Open new roads; (B) Make changes in old roads, as they deem necessary and...
- § 14-298-121 - Opening or Altering Roads in Counties Voting for Road Tax Generally.
(a) (1) The county courts shall have power to: (A) Open new roads; (B) Make changes in old roads as they may deem necessary...
- § 14-298-122 - Opening or Altering Roads in Counties Voting for Road Tax -- Notice by Actions.
(a) The purpose of this section is to establish a rule defining what actions have supplied the requisite notice to affected landowners of the...
- § 14-298-123 - Replacement of Washed-Out Road.
(a) When any county road may be injured or destroyed by the washing of any lake, river, or creek, the judge of the county...
- § 14-298-124 - Altering Public Roads on Private Land.
(a) (1) If any person through whose land a public road is or may be established shall be desirous of turning the road through...
- § 14-298-125 - Federal Authority.
(a) The county court of each county in the State of Arkansas is authorized to grant the United States of America the right to...
Last modified: November 15, 2016