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14-37-108. Application for advancement between census periods.
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14-37-108. Application for advancement between census periods.
(a) The Auditor of State, Secretary of State, and Attorney General may declare incorporated towns cities of the second class, and cities of the second class cities of the first class, between the periods fixed in § 14-37-107(a), upon application from any incorporated town or city of the second class, accompanied by a resolution adopted by the town or city council, asking to be so declared a city of the first or second class, as the case may be.
(b) The application shall be accompanied with satisfactory evidence showing the population of the town or city to be large enough to entitle it to such advancement.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-37-108
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14-37-108. Application for advancement between census periods.
(a) The Auditor of State, Secretary of State, and Attorney General may declare incorporated towns cities of the second class, and cities of the second class cities of the first class, between the periods fixed in § 14-37-107(a), upon application from any incorporated town or city of the second class, accompanied by a resolution adopted by the town or city council, asking to be so declared a city of the first or second class, as the case may be.
(b) The application shall be accompanied with satisfactory evidence showing the population of the town or city to be large enough to entitle it to such advancement.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
14-37-107. Advancement of cities and towns according to census.
(a)(1) It shall be the duty of the Governor, the Auditor of State, and the Secretary of State, or any two (2) of them, to ascertain from the federal census and census provided for by law of this state, what cities of the second class are entitled to become cities of the first class and what incorporated towns are entitled to become cities and their proper class.
(2) The Governor shall cause a statement stating the grade to which the city has been advanced to be prepared and transmitted to the mayor of the city or town.
(b) As soon as the statement has been received by the mayor, as provided in subsection (a) of this section, showing that any city or town will be entitled to be organized into a city of the first class or city of the second class at the next regular annual period for the election of municipal officers, it shall be the duty of the proper corporate authority of the city or incorporated town to make and publish bylaws or ordinances necessary to perfect the organization in respect to the election, duties, and compensation of municipal officers, or otherwise.
(c) When a city of the second class becomes a city of the first class, the recorder of the affected city of the second class automatically becomes the city clerk of the city when the change in classification occurs.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-37-107
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 14-37-107. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.