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14-301-302. Petition to vacate — Notice of hearing.
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14-301-302. Petition to vacate — Notice of hearing.
(a) The owners of any property abutting upon a street or alley referred to in § 14-301-301, may file a petition with the city or town council requesting the council to vacate the street or alley, or a portion thereof.
(b) The petition shall designate the street or alley, or a portion thereof, to be vacated, and there shall be filed with the petition a certified or photostatic copy of the portion of the plat filed in the office of the county recorder which shows the street or alley to be vacated, together with the lot and block numbers of each lot which abuts upon the street or alley to be vacated.
(c) At the next regular or special meeting of the council, the council shall, by resolution, fix a day for the hearing of the petition and shall direct the city clerk or town recorder to give notice of the meeting by publication once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the county and having a general circulation in the city or town.
(d) The notice shall:
(1) State the names of the persons who sign the petition;
(2) State the name of the street or alley, or the portion thereof, to be vacated. If the street or alley is not named on the plat, the notice shall identify the street or alley by the abutting lot or block numbers; and
(3) Advise all persons that on a certain day named in the notice, the council will hear and determine whether the street or alley shall be vacated.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-301-302
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14-301-302. Petition to vacate — Notice of hearing.
(a) The owners of any property abutting upon a street or alley referred to in § 14-301-301, may file a petition with the city or town council requesting the council to vacate the street or alley, or a portion thereof.
(b) The petition shall designate the street or alley, or a portion thereof, to be vacated, and there shall be filed with the petition a certified or photostatic copy of the portion of the plat filed in the office of the county recorder which shows the street or alley to be vacated, together with the lot and block numbers of each lot which abuts upon the street or alley to be vacated.
(c) At the next regular or special meeting of the council, the council shall, by resolution, fix a day for the hearing of the petition and shall direct the city clerk or town recorder to give notice of the meeting by publication once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in the county and having a general circulation in the city or town.
(d) The notice shall:
(1) State the names of the persons who sign the petition;
(2) State the name of the street or alley, or the portion thereof, to be vacated. If the street or alley is not named on the plat, the notice shall identify the street or alley by the abutting lot or block numbers; and
(3) Advise all persons that on a certain day named in the notice, the council will hear and determine whether the street or alley shall be vacated.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
14-301-301. Power and authority to vacate.
(a) Cities of the first and second class and incorporated towns are given power and authority to vacate public streets and alleys within the cities and towns under the conditions and in the manner herein provided.
(b) In all cases where the owner of property within a city or town shall have dedicated, or may hereafter dedicate, a portion of the property to the public use as streets or alleys by platting the property and causing the plat to be filed for record, as provided by law, and any street or alley, or section thereof, shown on the plat so filed shall not have been actually used by the public as a street or alley for a period of five (5) years and in all cases where all property abutting any street or alley, or section thereof, is owned by any educational institution or college, whether the property shall have been actually used by the public as a street or alley for a period of five (5) years or not, the city or town council shall have power to vacate and abandon the street or alley, or any portion thereof, by proceeding in the manner set forth in this subchapter.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-301-301
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 14-301-301. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.