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14-121-703. Annexation procedure.
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14-121-703. Annexation procedure.
(a) When the commissioners of any such drainage district find that lands, lots, or blocks such as are described in §§ 14-121-701 and 14-121-702 of this subchapter have been benefited by the connection established with the drainage ditches or conduits of the district, they shall file with the clerk of the chancery court of the county where the lands lie a petition setting forth the reasons why the lands, lots, or blocks should be annexed to the drainage district and praying for their annexation.
(b) Thereupon, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to publish once a week for two (2) weeks in some newspaper issued and having a bona fide circulation in the county a notice in substantially the following form:
“ DRAINAGE DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the commissioners of Drainage District have filed in the Chancery Court of County their petitions setting forth that the following lands, lots, and blocks (here will follow a description of the lands, lots, and blocks sought to be annexed) have been benefited by connections made with the drainage ditches or conduits of said district and praying that such lands, lots, and blocks be annexed to said district; and all persons interested are warned to appear in said court on the day of , 19 and show cause for or against the proposed annexation. Chancery Clerk”
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(c) On the day named in the notice or as soon thereafter as the business of the court will permit, the court shall hear all persons who wish to be heard on the question of whether the lands, lots, or blocks shall be annexed to the drainage district, and it shall enter its decree which shall be conclusive unless an appeal therefrom is taken and perfected within thirty (30) days.
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Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-121-703
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14-121-703. Annexation procedure.
(a) When the commissioners of any such drainage district find that lands, lots, or blocks such as are described in §§ 14-121-701 and 14-121-702 of this subchapter have been benefited by the connection established with the drainage ditches or conduits of the district, they shall file with the clerk of the chancery court of the county where the lands lie a petition setting forth the reasons why the lands, lots, or blocks should be annexed to the drainage district and praying for their annexation.
(b) Thereupon, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the court to publish once a week for two (2) weeks in some newspaper issued and having a bona fide circulation in the county a notice in substantially the following form:
“ DRAINAGE DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the commissioners of Drainage District have filed in the Chancery Court of County their petitions setting forth that the following lands, lots, and blocks (here will follow a description of the lands, lots, and blocks sought to be annexed) have been benefited by connections made with the drainage ditches or conduits of said district and praying that such lands, lots, and blocks be annexed to said district; and all persons interested are warned to appear in said court on the day of , 19 and show cause for or against the proposed annexation. Chancery Clerk”
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(c) On the day named in the notice or as soon thereafter as the business of the court will permit, the court shall hear all persons who wish to be heard on the question of whether the lands, lots, or blocks shall be annexed to the drainage district, and it shall enter its decree which shall be conclusive unless an appeal therefrom is taken and perfected within thirty (30) days.
(d) If it makes an order annexing the territory, the annexed territory shall constitute a part of the drainage district.
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14-121-701. Lands to be annexed.
Where any slough, marsh, or lake has been drained into the drainage ditches of any drainage district which has completed its work of construction, lands benefited by the draining of the slough, marsh, or lake may be added to the drainage district in the manner provided by § 14-121-703, but in no case shall lands paying taxes in another drainage district be added to any drainage district under the provisions of this subchapter, and in no case shall lands, lots, or blocks already in a drainage district be in any way affected by the provisions of this subchapter.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-121-701
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14-121-702. Addition of sanitary sewer district — Taxes and bonds.
(a) If any sanitary sewer district drains into the ditches or conduits of any drainage district which has completed its work of construction, or if private or other public sanitary sewers drain into the ditches or conduits, the lands within the sanitary sewer district or the lands served by those private or other public sewers may be added to the drainage district in the manner provided in § 14-121-703.
(b) If lands, lots, or blocks served by sanitary sewers are added to the drainage district, they shall not be taxed exceeding an average of fifty cents (50¢) per year for each lot or parcel of land fifty feet by one hundred fifty feet (50' x 150'), and more or less for larger or smaller tracts or parcels of land. It is ascertained that the average benefits to the lands, lots, or parcels derived from the sanitary sewer drainage will not exceed that sum.
(c) The commissioners of any drainage district, with the consent of the chancery court in which the lands of the district are located, shall have the right to sell additional bonds for the purpose of cleaning, widening, deepening, and completing necessary ditches for the proper drainage of the district.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-121-702
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-121-702. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.