14-40-1212. Rights of annexed territory to benefits of its revenues.

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14-40-1212. Rights of annexed territory to benefits of its revenues.

14-40-1212. Rights of annexed territory to benefits of its revenues. (a) The wards formed out of the territory comprising the former territory of the smaller municipal corporation annexed under the provisions of this subchapter shall always receive betterments and improvements in an amount equal to the amount of revenue derived by the consolidated municipality from the territory and inhabitants of the smaller municipal corporation, after having deducted the pro rata share of the territory of the running expenses necessary to be expended in maintaining the government of the entire city or incorporated town and after having taken into consideration the amount of revenues necessarily appropriated to pay the indebtedness due by the smaller municipality before consolidation, until the indebtedness is paid. In addition, those wards shall always receive their fair and equitable proportion of the police, board of health, fire protection, and lighting service of the larger city or incorporated town. They shall in all other ways receive fair and liberal treatment and their fair proportion of the expenditure of moneys made by the larger city or incorporated town. (b) Council members representing the wards composing the territory of the smaller municipal corporation before consolidation have a right: (1) At all times, to demand of the city or town council the benefit of the revenue collected from the wards, as provided for in this section; and (2) On the refusal by the city or town council of the demand made under subdivision (b)(1) of this section, to enforce the revenue rights by mandamus or other appropriate proceedings. (c) In the event the council members, or fifty (50) qualified electors of the territory annexed, feel aggrieved in reference to the amount of revenue

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-40-1212

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. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.