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14-301-403. Hearing — Closure ordinance.
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14-301-403. Hearing — Closure ordinance.
On the day named in the notice provided for in § 14-301-402 of this subchapter, the city or town council shall hear the petition and the protests and objections of all persons, firms, or corporations desiring to object to or protest against the closing and vacating of the alley, and if a majority of the city or town council finds that the petition is signed by ten (10) or more owners of real property in the city or town, including a majority of the owners of real property abutting upon the alley, and that it is desirable or necessary to close the alley for any of the purposes mentioned in § 14-301-401, then the city or town council shall, by ordinance, vacate and close the alley or such part thereof as may be described in the petition. Thereafter, the right of the general public and of the owners of real property abutting upon the alley to use the lands embraced therein and described in the petition as an alley shall be forever cancelled and barred, and the title to the lands embraced in the alley shall be forever free of the right of all persons to use the lands as an alley. However, no protest or objection to the closing of the alley shall be considered by the council or by any court on appeal unless the protest or objection shall be in writing and shall be filed before or at the hearing provided for in this section.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-301-403
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14-301-403. Hearing — Closure ordinance.
On the day named in the notice provided for in § 14-301-402 of this subchapter, the city or town council shall hear the petition and the protests and objections of all persons, firms, or corporations desiring to object to or protest against the closing and vacating of the alley, and if a majority of the city or town council finds that the petition is signed by ten (10) or more owners of real property in the city or town, including a majority of the owners of real property abutting upon the alley, and that it is desirable or necessary to close the alley for any of the purposes mentioned in § 14-301-401, then the city or town council shall, by ordinance, vacate and close the alley or such part thereof as may be described in the petition. Thereafter, the right of the general public and of the owners of real property abutting upon the alley to use the lands embraced therein and described in the petition as an alley shall be forever cancelled and barred, and the title to the lands embraced in the alley shall be forever free of the right of all persons to use the lands as an alley. However, no protest or objection to the closing of the alley shall be considered by the council or by any court on appeal unless the protest or objection shall be in writing and shall be filed before or at the hearing provided for in this section.
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14-301-401. Closure authority.
When, in the opinion of a majority of the members of any city or town council in any of the cities of the first or second class or any incorporated towns of this state, it shall be necessary and desirable to use the land which is or may be dedicated for the use of the general public as an alley through or across any part of any block in the city or town, upon which to build any public school, hospital, orphanage, or church building, or any addition to the buildings as may be built, it shall be lawful for the city or town council, by ordinance duly enacted, to vacate and close the alley, or any part thereof, thereby cancelling and rescinding the rights of the general public and the owners of real property abutting upon the alley to use the property as an alley. However, the procedure for vacating and closing an alley or any part thereof shall be as set out in this subchapter.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-301-401
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 14-301-401. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
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14-301-402. Petition of property owners to close alley — Notice.
When any person files with the city clerk or recorder of any city of the first or second class or any incorporated town in this state a petition signed by ten (10) or more persons claiming to be owners of real property in the city or town and including a majority of the owners of real property abutting upon any alley running through or across any part of any block in the city, with this petition stating that the land embraced in the alley or any part thereof is needed for the purpose of building on the lands any public school, hospital, orphanage, or church building, or any addition to those buildings, and praying that the alley be vacated as a whole or in part and, if not as a whole, describing specifically the part of the alley desired to be vacated, then it shall be the duty of the city clerk or recorder to give notice of the filing of the petition by publication in some newspaper published in the city or town, by one (1) insertion. If no newspaper is published therein, notice shall be given by publication of the notice, by one (1) insertion, in any newspaper published in the county and shall call upon the owners of real property abutting upon the alley and upon all other persons, firms, and corporations, to appear before the council of the city or town at its next regular meeting to be held after ten (10) days from the date of the notice and show cause, if any they can, why the petition should not be granted and the alley vacated.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-301-402
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 14-301-402. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.