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14-47-102. Applicability of 1957 amendments.
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14-47-102. Applicability of 1957 amendments.
Acts 1957, No. 8, amending §§ 14-47-101 — 14-47-103, 14-47-105, 14-47-106 — 14-47-111, 14-47-114 — 14-47-121, 14-47-123 — 14-47-127, 14-47-131, 14-47-133, 14-47-134, and 14-47-136 — 14-47-139, shall be applicable to:
(1) All cities of the first and second class hereafter electing to reorganize under this chapter, as heretofore amended and as amended in this legislation; and
(2) All cities of the first and second class that have not yet consummated a reorganization into the management form of government but whose electors, prior to the enactment of this legislation, may have voted through an election held pursuant to § 14-47-106 to reorganize the city under this chapter.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-47-102
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14-47-102. Applicability of 1957 amendments.
Acts 1957, No. 8, amending §§ 14-47-101 — 14-47-103, 14-47-105, 14-47-106 — 14-47-111, 14-47-114 — 14-47-121, 14-47-123 — 14-47-127, 14-47-131, 14-47-133, 14-47-134, and 14-47-136 — 14-47-139, shall be applicable to:
(1) All cities of the first and second class hereafter electing to reorganize under this chapter, as heretofore amended and as amended in this legislation; and
(2) All cities of the first and second class that have not yet consummated a reorganization into the management form of government but whose electors, prior to the enactment of this legislation, may have voted through an election held pursuant to § 14-47-106 to reorganize the city under this chapter.
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14-47-101. Applicability generally.
Any city within the State of Arkansas having a population of two thousand five hundred (2,500) or more, according to the latest federal census, may become organized under the provisions of this chapter by proceeding as provided in this chapter.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-47-101
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14-47-103. Savings provisions.
(a) When a city effects a change of government under this chapter, it shall remain subject to and controlled by all laws, except those inconsistent with this chapter, which on the effective date of the reorganization applied to or governed the city, including, without limiting the foregoing, laws relating to improvement districts or providing for the creation thereof.
(b) All bylaws, ordinances, and resolutions lawfully passed and in force in any city under its former organization, and not in conflict with this chapter, shall remain in force until altered or repealed by the board of directors elected under the authority of this chapter.
(c) The territorial limits of the city shall remain the same as under its former organization, and all rights and property of every description which were vested in the city under its former organization shall remain vested in it under the reorganization provided for in this chapter.
(d) No existing right or liability either in favor of or against the city or any agency thereof, including, without limiting the foregoing, improvement districts and no suit or prosecution of any kind shall be affected by the change unless otherwise provided for in this chapter.
(e) No valid pledge or mortgage of the revenues or property of the city, or of any agency or instrumentality thereof, or of any municipal improvement district, shall be impaired by the reorganization.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-47-103
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14-47-105. Forms of government.
(a) The form of government created by an organization under this chapter is called the management form of city government.
(b) The form of government of a municipality operating under the control of a municipal council, under either § 14-43-201 et seq. or § 14-44-101 et seq., is called the mayor-council form of government.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-47-105
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14-47-106. Election on city manager form of government.
(a) Any city in this state having a population of two thousand five hundred (2,500) or more according to the most recent federal census may call and hold an election to determine whether or not the city shall be organized under and governed by the manager form of city government as provided for in this chapter.
(b) The proceeding shall be in the following manner:
(1)(A) When petitions containing the signatures of electors equal in number to fifteen percent (15%) of the aggregate number of ballots cast for all candidates for mayor in the preceding general city election are presented to the mayor, the mayor by proclamation shall submit the question of organizing the city under the manager form of government to the electors of the city at a special election to be held in accordance with § 7-11-201 et seq.
(B) The proclamation shall be published at length in some newspaper published in the city for one (1) time, and notice of the election shall be published in some newspaper published in the city one (1) time a week for two (2) weeks, the first publication to be not less than fifteen (15) days before the date set for the election. No other notice of the election shall be necessary;
(2)(A) At the special election for the submission or resubmission of the proposition, the ballots shall contain substantially the following:
“FOR the proposition to organize this city under Act 99 of the General Assembly of 1921, as amended ♦
AGAINST the proposition to organize this city under Act 99 of the General Assembly of 1921, as amended ♦”
(B)(i) The election thereon shall be conducted, the vote canvassed, and the result thereof declared in the same manner as provided by law in respect to other city elections.
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Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-47-106
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 14-47-106. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.