Arkansas Code Title 14, Subtitle 3, Chapter 48 - City Administrator Form of Municipal Government

• § 14-48-101 - Applicability.
  (a) Any municipality of this state having a population of two thousand five hundred (2,500) or more inhabitants, according to the most recent federal...
• § 14-48-102 - Savings Provisions.
  (a) When a city effects a change of government under this chapter, it shall remain subject to and controlled by all laws, except those...
• § 14-48-103 - Form of Government.
  The form of municipal government authorized by this chapter shall be known as the city administrator form of municipal government.
• § 14-48-104 - Submission of Governmental Form Question to Electors.
  (a) When petitions shall be filed with the county clerk containing the signatures of qualified electors of a municipality equal in number to fifteen...
• § 14-48-105 - Procedure to Change to Another Form of Government.
  (a) When the question of the adoption of the city administrator form of government is submitted to, and approved by, a majority of the...
• § 14-48-106 - Effect of Reorganization.
  (a) (1) When, in connection with the reorganization of a municipality under this chapter, an initial board of directors shall be elected, the reorganization...
• § 14-48-107 - Division of City Into Wards.
  (a) (1) Following the adoption of the city administrator form of government in any city and prior to the special municipal election for the...
• § 14-48-108 - Calling of Elections for Directors and Mayor.
  (a) (1) Within ten (10) days after the designation of the four (4) wards, the Secretary of State by proclamation in accordance with §...
• § 14-48-109 - Election of Directors and Mayor -- Oath.
  (a) Candidates for the office of director and mayor shall be nominated and elected as follows: (1) (A) (i) A special election for the...
• § 14-48-110 - Board of Directors and Mayor Generally.
  (a) (1) The seven (7) directors elected by a city reorganized under this chapter shall be known and designated as the board of directors...
• § 14-48-111 - Mayor.
  (a) (1) The mayor of a city having the city administrator form of government shall be recognized as the head of the city government...
• § 14-48-112 - Assistant Mayor or Vice Mayor.
  (a) (1) The board of directors shall elect from its membership an assistant mayor or vice mayor who shall serve in that capacity for...
• § 14-48-113 - Acting Mayor.
  If both the mayor and assistant mayor should be absent or disabled from performing their duties, the board of directors may designate by resolution...
• § 14-48-114 - Removal of Mayor or Directors.
  (a) Any person holding the office of mayor and any person holding the office of member of the board of directors of any city...
• § 14-48-115 - Mayor or Director Vacancy.
  In the case of a vacancy in the office of mayor or in the office of a member of the board of directors, the...
• § 14-48-116 - Employment of City Administrator.
  (a) The initial board of directors shall employ a city administrator as promptly as possible after effecting the board's organization. A city administrator's employment...
• § 14-48-117 - Powers and Duties of City Administrator.
  The city administrator shall have the following powers and duties: (1) To the extent that such authority is vested in him or her through...
• § 14-48-118 - Acting City Administrator.
  (a) (1) If the city administrator is absent from the city or is unable to perform his or her duties, if the board of...
• § 14-48-119 - [Repealed.]
• § 14-48-120 - Meetings of Board of Directors.
  (a) (1) A majority of the elected membership of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. (2) Except...
• § 14-48-121 - Initiative and Referendum.
  (a) The initiative and referendum laws of this state are applicable to cities reorganized under this chapter.(b) The number of signatures required upon any...
• § 14-48-122 - Budgets and Appropriations.
  (a) The approval of the budget by the board of directors shall amount to an appropriation, for the purposes of the budget, of the...
• § 14-48-123 - Annual Audit.
  The board of directors shall have the financial affairs of the city audited annually by the Division of Legislative Audit of the State of...
• § 14-48-124 - Creation of New Departments, Etc.
  (a) (1) The board of directors may from time to time by ordinance create, reorganize, or abolish, except as provided in § 14-48-106, any...
• § 14-48-125 - Appointees Generally.
  Subject to the exceptions contained in § 14-48-102, every person appointed by the board of directors to any municipal office, employment, position, or to...
• § 14-48-126 - Qualifications of Appointees.
  (a) In the exercise by the board of directors of its authority in respect to the filling of vacancies on municipal boards, authorities, and...
• § 14-48-127 - Bond of Officers and Employees.
  All officers and employees of a city reorganized under this chapter, excepting the city administrator whose bond requirement is controlled by § 14-48-116, may...
• § 14-48-128 - Prohibited Actions by Officers or Employees.
  (a) (1) No member of the board of directors nor any officer or employee appointed in any city shall have an interest in any...
• § 14-48-129 - Competitive Bidding Required.
  (a) Before making any purchase of, or contract for, any supplies, materials, or equipment, and before obligating the city under any contract for the...
• § 14-48-130 - Public Utility Franchises, Etc.
  Every ordinance or resolution granting any public utility franchise or granting the right to occupy the streets, highways, bridges, or other public places in...
• § 14-48-131 - Improvement Districts.
  (a) (1) The board of directors elected under the provisions of this chapter shall constitute the respective boards of improvement for any and all...

Last modified: November 15, 2016