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27-87-106. State establishment and operation.
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27-87-106. State establishment and operation.
(a) In all cases hereafter existing in which a privately owned ferry serving traffic upon any state highway is discontinued, leaving no means of crossing available to the public, the State Highway Commission is authorized to establish and maintain ferry service at that point.
(b) To the end of providing ferry service, the State Highway Commission is authorized to acquire by negotiation, purchase, or exercise of eminent domain any required sites for landings or other needed acreage and to purchase or construct ferry boats and all facilities needed in the operation of the ferries.
(c) The ferries as provided shall be operated free of tolls to the public and shall be operated in the manner and at the hours as the State Highway Commission may from time to time prescribe.
(d) No portion of §§ 27-87-101 — 27-87-105, 27-87-201 — 27-87-209, 27-87-301 — 27-87-303, and 27-87-401 — 27-87-403 shall apply to the free ferries installed and operated by the State Highway Commission hereunder.
(e) All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are repealed.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-87-106
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27-87-106. State establishment and operation.
(a) In all cases hereafter existing in which a privately owned ferry serving traffic upon any state highway is discontinued, leaving no means of crossing available to the public, the State Highway Commission is authorized to establish and maintain ferry service at that point.
(b) To the end of providing ferry service, the State Highway Commission is authorized to acquire by negotiation, purchase, or exercise of eminent domain any required sites for landings or other needed acreage and to purchase or construct ferry boats and all facilities needed in the operation of the ferries.
(c) The ferries as provided shall be operated free of tolls to the public and shall be operated in the manner and at the hours as the State Highway Commission may from time to time prescribe.
(d) No portion of §§ 27-87-101 — 27-87-105, 27-87-201 — 27-87-209, 27-87-301 — 27-87-303, and 27-87-401 — 27-87-403 shall apply to the free ferries installed and operated by the State Highway Commission hereunder.
(e) All laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are repealed.
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27-87-101. Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Public ferries” means all ferries upon or over any public navigable streams in this state; and
(2) “Navigable streams” includes all lakes within this state that have been meandered in making the public surveys of the United States lands and retained as public property by the United States.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-87-101
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27-87-105. Exclusiveness of privilege.
The county court shall not permit any ferry to be established within one (1) mile above or below any ferry previously established, except at or near cities and towns where the public convenience may require it and satisfactory proof of the need shall be first adduced.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-87-105
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27-87-201. Taking toll without license — Penalty.
If any person shall keep any ferry over any navigable stream, for which he or she shall charge any person any money or any other valuable thing, without complying with the provisions of this chapter in relation to obtaining license, he or she shall forfeit and pay to every other person having a licensed ferry on the same stream or lake in the same county five dollars ($5.00) for every person so ferried, and the same sum for every vehicle or other article so transported which may be the subject of a separate charge is to be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace in the county by civil action founded on this statute, with the costs of prosecution.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-87-201
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27-87-209. Tax or charge — Stream on state boundary.
When a navigable stream makes a part of the boundary line of this state, if any tax or charge shall be assessed or collected by any adjoining state for the privilege of a ferry landing on the shore or bank of another state from this state, then the same tax or duty shall be assessed and collected for like privilege of landing on the banks or shores of this state.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-87-209
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 27-87-209. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.