{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-269-203","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 14-269-203","heading":"Commissioners - Powers and duties","body":"(a) The commissioners appointed pursuant to this subchapter shall have full and complete authority to build, manage, operate, maintain, and keep in a good state of repair any municipal buildings deemed necessary to carry on a recreation park for the municipality including the building of swimming pools, field houses, stadiums, zoos, or other buildings necessary to carry on the recreational park.\n\n(b) The commissioners shall have full and complete charge of the buildings and grounds, including the right to control and permit, or refuse to permit, such public gatherings or other meetings or affairs, as the commissioners shall see fit and deem to be in the best interests of the city.\n\n(c) The commissioners shall have the right to employ or remove managers, janitors, and other employees of whatsoever nature, kind, or character and to fix, regulate, and pay their salaries since it is the intention of this subchapter to vest in the commissioners the authority to build, operate, manage, maintain, and control the municipal recreational park and to have full and complete charge thereof.\n\n(d) The commissioners shall not have the authority or power to sell, mortgage, or encumber the property unless otherwise authorized by the statutes of Arkansas.\n\n(e) The commissioners shall have the exclusive right and power to make purchases of all supplies, apparatus, and other property and things requisite and necessary for the management and operation of the recreational park, including the construction thereof and repairs and additions thereto.\n\n(f) The commissioners shall have the authority to enter into contracts with persons, firms, corporations, or organizations for the use of recreational park buildings or parts thereof.","path":["AR Code","Title 14","Chapter 269","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":"9b5cca4f12c1f058039e4d2e08d20c19902f0f5b2551968838c6e8b20c102b35","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-269-202","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-269-204","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."}