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16-21-159. Duty after receiving notice of vacancy on district board.
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16-21-159. Duty after receiving notice of vacancy on district board.
(a) A county judge who receives notice under § 16-20-401(d) of a continuing vacancy on a district board or district commission shall investigate the alleged vacancy, and after conducting a hearing under § 16-20-401(d), enter a county order reflecting the majority vote of the landowners of the district in attendance at the hearing to fill any continuing vacancies in the district board or district commission.
(b)(1) The county judge's order may assess the district fines for violations as well as the costs of the required publications of notices.
(2) A fine under subdivision (b)(1) of this section shall be not less than one hundred dollars ($100) and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each offense.
(3) A fine recovered under subdivision (b)(2) of this section shall be deposited into the county clerk's cost fund.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-21-159
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16-21-159. Duty after receiving notice of vacancy on district board.
(a) A county judge who receives notice under § 16-20-401(d) of a continuing vacancy on a district board or district commission shall investigate the alleged vacancy, and after conducting a hearing under § 16-20-401(d), enter a county order reflecting the majority vote of the landowners of the district in attendance at the hearing to fill any continuing vacancies in the district board or district commission.
(b)(1) The county judge's order may assess the district fines for violations as well as the costs of the required publications of notices.
(2) A fine under subdivision (b)(1) of this section shall be not less than one hundred dollars ($100) and not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each offense.
(3) A fine recovered under subdivision (b)(2) of this section shall be deposited into the county clerk's cost fund.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
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
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 16-20-401. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.