{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-270-102","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 14-270-102","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:\n\n(1) \"Community, city, or town projects\" means, but shall not be limited to, parks, playgrounds, community meeting halls, community cultural facilities, picnic grounds, community recreation facilities, firefighting equipment and facilities, and similar projects to be available to the members of the unincorporated community or citizens of the small city or town in the rural areas of the state for their use, benefit, and enjoyment;\n\n(2) \"Rural area\" or \"rural community\" means all the territory of the State of Arkansas that is not within the outer boundary of any city or town having a population of twenty thousand (20,000) or more according to the latest federal decennial census or within such a city's or town's neighboring urbanized areas;\n\n(3) \"Small city or town\" means a city or a town incorporated under the laws of the State of Arkansas with a population of less than three thousand (3,000) persons according to the latest federal decennial census;\n\n(4) \"State\" shall mean the State of Arkansas;\n\n(5) \"Unincorporated community\" means an unincorporated community in a rural area of the state;\n\n(6) \"Urbanized area\" means the areas of dense settlement and suburbanization contiguous to the central city of a metropolitan area;\n\n(7) \"Property in kind\" means real or personal property.","path":["AR Code","Title 14","Chapter 270","Subchapter 1"],"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":"7e2b7980de85acdc22fad144e55506c62fb8abd244a25340e563c40f1a6a6f1f","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-270-101","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-270-103","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."}