Arkansas Code Title 14, Subtitle 7, Chapter 120, Subchapter 2 - Agreements With United States Generally

• § 14-120-201 - Legislative Intent.
  (a) It is found and declared as a matter of legislative determination that the construction of flood control and drainage works by the United...
• § 14-120-202 - Definition.
  As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, "board of directors" shall include the board of commissioners or other governing body of...
• § 14-120-203 - Construction.
  (a) This subchapter shall be liberally construed and applied to enable levee districts, or drainage districts, or levee and drainage districts to cooperate with...
• § 14-120-204 - Subchapter Cumulative.
  This subchapter shall be construed to be cumulative to existing laws, except as to those sections herein expressly amended or repealed. This subchapter shall...
• § 14-120-205 - Conditions Precedent to Conferring Powers on Districts -- in General.
  No levee district or drainage district, or levee and drainage district, lying in one (1) or more counties, coming within the provisions of this...
• § 14-120-206 - Filing Project Outline and Estimate.
  (a) An outline of the project insofar as it affects the district and as adopted by the Congress of the United States must be...
• § 14-120-207 - Board Approval of Proposal.
  The board of directors of the district shall approve the proposed project insofar as it affects the particular district by a proper resolution to...
• § 14-120-208 - Approval Election Generally.
  An election must be held in each county of the district in the manner provided in this subchapter. A majority of the landowners of...
• § 14-120-209 - Date of Election.
  The election shall be held on a date to be fixed by the directors of the drainage and levee improvement district at a special...
• § 14-120-210 - Notice of Election.
  (a) Notice of the election shall be given by the secretary of the district, not less than thirty (30) days prior to the date...
• § 14-120-211 - Election Judges and Clerks.
  At the request of the secretary of the district, the judges and clerks for the election shall be designated by the election commissioners of...
• § 14-120-212 - Ballots.
  (a) The ballots for the election in the respective counties shall be prepared and distributed to the election officials by, or under the supervision...
• § 14-120-213 - Voting -- Certification of Results.
  (a) The voting places shall be open between the hours of 8:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m. on the date of the election.(b) Upon the closing...
• § 14-120-214 - Canvass of Results -- Judicial Review.
  (a) Within twenty (20) days after the certification of the election and when the ballots from each county have been delivered to the secretary...
• § 14-120-215 - Majority Vote -- Payment of Expenses.
  (a) No powers shall be exercised by the district under the provisions of this subchapter nor shall any obligations be incurred or assumed by...
• § 14-120-216 - Contract Authority.
  The board of directors of any levee district, drainage district, or any levee and drainage district in this state is authorized and empowered to...
• § 14-120-217 - Board Authority to Acquire Land -- Condemnation.
  (a) In order to discharge its obligations under any contract or agreement authorized to be made by the provisions of § 14-120-216, the board...
• § 14-120-218 - Conveyance of Rights-Of-way Across State Lands.
  The Governor and Secretary of State are authorized, empowered, and directed to make and execute any and all necessary and proper contracts, easements, deeds,...
• § 14-120-219 - Agreements for Construction Across Highways.
  If the construction of the flood control and drainage works contemplated under any project is to be constructed upon, over, and across any highways...
• § 14-120-220 - Eminent Domain by the United States.
  (a) The State of Arkansas agrees: (1) That the United States of America, the Secretary of the Army of the United States on behalf...
• § 14-120-221 - Board of Assessors.
  The duly constituted board of assessors of the levee district or drainage district, or levee and drainage district in which the flood control and...
• § 14-120-222 - Assessment Roll.
  (a) The board of assessors, each for the county it represents, shall make, in a book to be provided by the district for that...
• § 14-120-223 - Assessment -- Time, Certification, and Filing.
  (a) The assessors shall make their assessment in their respective counties at the time they may be directed to do so by the board...
• § 14-120-224 - Board of Assessment and Equalization.
  (a) When the assessments for each county shall have been filed, the president of the district shall call a meeting of the assessors, to...
• § 14-120-225 - Chancery Court Review of Assessment.
  Any person aggrieved by an assessment made or equalized by the board of assessment and equalization may have the assessment reviewed by the chancery...
• § 14-120-226 - Tax Levy by Board to Satisfy Certain Obligations.
  (a) The board of directors of any levee district, drainage district, or levee and drainage district is authorized and empowered, and it is made...
• § 14-120-227 - Alternative Method of Assessment -- Reassessment -- Vacancies on Board.
  (a) Any levee district, drainage district, or levee and drainage district in this state, lying in one (1) or more counties which may hereafter...
• § 14-120-228 - Collectors.
  (a) The qualified and acting tax collectors of the levee district, drainage district, or levee and drainage districts which may hereafter avail themselves of...
• § 14-120-229 - Penalty for Delinquency -- Enforcement Proceedings Generally.
  (a) If the annual tax levied as provided in this subchapter is not paid within the time fixed by law for payment of other...
• § 14-120-230 - Filing Complaint -- Notice.
  (a) The board of directors of the district shall file its complaint, setting out the list of delinquent lands, town lots, blocks, railroads and...
• § 14-120-231 - Trial Date -- Continuance or Dismissal.
  (a) The suit shall stand for trial on any day of the first term of court held after the filing of the complaint, provided...
• § 14-120-232 - Trial Procedure.
  (a) The suit shall be conducted in accordance with the practice and procedure of chancery courts in this state, except as provided in this...
• § 14-120-233 - Decree -- Sale of Real Property by Commissioner.
  (a) If the taxes, interest, penalty, and costs are not paid before the day of the taking of the decree, the court shall: (1)...
• § 14-120-234 - Execution of Deed.
  (a) It shall be the duty of the commissioner to execute his deed to the purchaser of each separate tract as in other chancery...
• § 14-120-235 - Redemption of Property -- Vacation of Decree.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of § 14-120-234, the owner of any lands, town lots, blocks, railroads and tramroads, telegraph and telephone lines, electric power lines,...
• § 14-120-236 - Tributary Tax Fund.
  (a) The moneys derived from the tax levied under the provisions of this subchapter on the increased value, or betterment, which will accrue to...
• § 14-120-237 - Disbursement of Funds on Vouchers.
  Disbursement of the funds constituting the tributary compliance fund and the tributary tax fund shall be made on vouchers signed by the president and...
• § 14-120-238 - Authority to Borrow Money and Issue Bonds -- Purpose.
  For the purpose of enabling the board of directors of any levee district, drainage district, or levee and drainage district, lying in one (1)...
• § 14-120-239 - Issuance of Bonds -- Interest Coupons.
  (a) Bonds may be sold and negotiated in any market after due advertisement and may be made callable as the board of directors may...
• § 14-120-240 - Lithographing and Registration of Bonds.
  (a) The bonds shall be lithographed with such devices for identification and to prevent imitation as the board of directors may think proper.(b) The...
• § 14-120-241 - Bonds -- Sale Prohibitions -- Penalty.
  (a) (1) It shall be unlawful for the board of directors of any such district, or any officer or member thereof, to sell or...
• § 14-120-242 - Use of Revenues for Bond Payment -- Lien.
  (a) To secure the due and prompt payment of both principal and interest of any bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter, the...
• § 14-120-243 - Nonpayment of Bonds -- Collection by Receiver.
  (a) If any bond so issued, or interest coupon thereon, is not paid within six (6) months after its maturity, it shall be the...
• § 14-120-244 - Disposition and Use of Proceeds From Bonds.
  The proceeds derived from the bonds to be so sold shall be paid to the treasurer of the district and shall be set aside...

Last modified: November 15, 2016