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16-20-401. Duties of clerk generally.
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16-20-401. Duties of clerk generally.
(a) The county clerk shall be clerk of the county court for his or her county, by virtue of his or her office.
(b) It shall be his or her duty to attend each regular or special session of the county court, either in person or by deputy, and to keep and preserve in his or her office a complete and correct record of the proceedings of the county court.
(c)(1) When a report filed under § 14-86-103 or an affidavit of a district resident containing substantially the same information required under § 14-86-103(b) or § 14-86-103(c) and filed with the county clerk indicates a vacancy in a district board or district commission, the county clerk shall provide a written notice of the vacancy to:
(A) The members of the district board or the district commission; and
(B) The county court.
(2) A copy of the notice shall be published:
(A) In a newspaper of general circulation in the county; and
(B) On a county-owned or county-affiliated website, if any.
(d)(1) When a report filed under § 14-86-103 or an affidavit of a district resident containing substantially the same information required under § 14-86-103(b) or § 14-86-103(c) and filed with the county clerk indicates a vacancy in a district board or a district commission has not been filled in the interval after the county clerk gave the notices required under subsection (c) of this section, the county clerk shall provide a written notice of the continuing vacancy to:
(A) The members of the district board or the district commission; and
(B) The county court.
(2) A copy of the notice shall be published on a county-owned or county-affiliated website, if any, and in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and shall contain:
(A) The time, date, and location of a hea
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-20-401
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16-20-401. Duties of clerk generally.
(a) The county clerk shall be clerk of the county court for his or her county, by virtue of his or her office.
(b) It shall be his or her duty to attend each regular or special session of the county court, either in person or by deputy, and to keep and preserve in his or her office a complete and correct record of the proceedings of the county court.
(c)(1) When a report filed under § 14-86-103 or an affidavit of a district resident containing substantially the same information required under § 14-86-103(b) or § 14-86-103(c) and filed with the county clerk indicates a vacancy in a district board or district commission, the county clerk shall provide a written notice of the vacancy to:
(A) The members of the district board or the district commission; and
(B) The county court.
(2) A copy of the notice shall be published:
(A) In a newspaper of general circulation in the county; and
(B) On a county-owned or county-affiliated website, if any.
(d)(1) When a report filed under § 14-86-103 or an affidavit of a district resident containing substantially the same information required under § 14-86-103(b) or § 14-86-103(c) and filed with the county clerk indicates a vacancy in a district board or a district commission has not been filled in the interval after the county clerk gave the notices required under subsection (c) of this section, the county clerk shall provide a written notice of the continuing vacancy to:
(A) The members of the district board or the district commission; and
(B) The county court.
(2) A copy of the notice shall be published on a county-owned or county-affiliated website, if any, and in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and shall contain:
(A) The time, date, and location of a hearing on the vacancy before the county court;
(B) The purpose of the hearing before the county court that requires the landowners in the district to appear; and
(C) Notice that the landowners in attendance by majority vote may fill the continuing vacancies in the district board or district commission.
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14-86-103. Reporting — Definition.
(a) Definitions.
As used in this section, “district” means any levee, drainage, irrigation, watershed, or river improvement district in Arkansas, including without limitation those districts:
(1) Formed or operating under this chapter, § 14-87-101 et seq., § 14-88-101 et seq., § 14-89-101 et seq., § 14-90-101 et seq., § 14-91-101 et seq., § 14-92-101 et seq., the Property Owners' Improvement District Law, § 14-93-101 et seq., the Municipal Property Owner's Improvement District Law, § 14-94-101 et seq., § 14-95-101 et seq., § 14-114-101 et seq., the Interstate Watershed Cooperation Act, § 14-115-101 et seq., the Arkansas Irrigation, Drainage, and Watershed Improvement District Act of 1949, § 14-117-101 et seq., § 14-118-101 et seq., The Water Improvement District Accounting Law of 1973, § 14-119-101 et seq., § 14-120-101 et seq., § 14-121-101 et seq., § 14-122-101 et seq., § 14-123-101 et seq., § 14-124-101 et seq., and the Conservation Districts Law, § 14-125-101 et seq.; or
(2) Created by a special act of the General Assembly.
(b)(1) On or before December 31, 2009, each district shall file an initial report with the clerk of the county court in whose jurisdiction any property of the district is located.
(2) The initial report shall include the following:
(A) The name of the district;
(B) The date on which the district was formed;
(C) The statutory or other legal authority under which the district was formed;
(D) A description of the district's boundaries and a map of the district;
(E) The names and addresses of the district's directors and its officers and their respective terms of office;
(F) An identification of any vacancy on the district board or district commission;
(G) A map of the parcels of property lo
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-86-103
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 14-86-103. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.