{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-186-210","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 14-186-210","heading":"Acquisition of rights-of-way and property","body":"(a) For the acquiring of rights-of-way and property necessary for the construction of terminal railroads and structures, including railroad crossings, airports, seaplane bases, naval bases, wharves, piers, ships, docks, quays, elevators, compresses, refrigeration storage plants, warehouses, and other riparian and littoral terminals and structures and approaches to them and transportation facilities needful for the convenient use of them, and belt line roads and highways and causeways and bridges and other bridges and causeways, a municipal port authority shall have the right and power to acquire them by purchase, by negotiation, or by condemnation. (b) (1) Should a municipal port authority elect to exercise the right of eminent domain, condemnation proceedings shall be maintained by and in the name of the authority, and it may proceed as provided by the general laws of the State of Arkansas for the procedure by any county, municipality, or authority organized under the laws of this state, or by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, or by railroad corporations, or in any other manner provided by law, as the authority may, in its discretion, elect. (2) The power of eminent domain shall not apply to property of persons, state agencies, or corporations already devoted to public use. Amended by Act 2017, No. 707,§ 26, eff. 8/1/2017. Acts 1947, No. 167, § 4; A.S.A. 1947, § 19-2723.\n\n(a) For the acquiring of rights-of-way and property necessary for the construction of terminal railroads and structures, including railroad crossings, airports, seaplane bases, naval bases, wharves, piers, ships, docks, quays, elevators, compresses, refrigeration storage plants, warehouses, and other riparian and littoral terminals and structures and approaches to them and transportation facilities needful for the convenient use of them, and belt line roads and highways and causeways and bridges and other bridges and causeways, a municipal port authority shall have the right and power to acquire them by purchase, by negotiation, or by condemnation.\n\n(b) (1) Should a municipal port authority elect to exercise the right of eminent domain, condemnation proceedings shall be maintained by and in the name of the authority, and it may proceed as provided by the general laws of the State of Arkansas for the procedure by any county, municipality, or authority organized under the laws of this state, or by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, or by railroad corporations, or in any other manner provided by law, as the authority may, in its discretion, elect. (2) The power of eminent domain shall not apply to property of persons, state agencies, or corporations already devoted to public use.\n\n(1) Should a municipal port authority elect to exercise the right of eminent domain, condemnation proceedings shall be maintained by and in the name of the authority, and it may proceed as provided by the general laws of the State of Arkansas for the procedure by any county, municipality, or authority organized under the laws of this state, or by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, or by railroad corporations, or in any other manner provided by law, as the authority may, in its discretion, elect.\n\n(2) The power of eminent domain shall not apply to property of persons, state agencies, or corporations already devoted to public use.","path":["AR Code","Title 14","Chapter 186","Subchapter 2"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"1d0a242f10c697da3e9d5e9bb5e94e213214a514cca919305d7b646c021b2e42","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-186-209","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-186-211","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}