{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-317-118","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 14-317-118","heading":"Signatures prerequisite to levy - Five year freeze on assessment increase","body":"(a) Road and street improvement districts formed after July 4, 1983, under the provisions of this chapter shall be subject to the provisions of this section in addition to other provisions of this chapter and all other applicable laws.\n\n(b) When the initial assessment of benefits by the districts has been determined, the petition for formation of the districts shall once again be reviewed by the authority initially reviewing the petition, and, if upon review, it does not appear that persons who would be liable for at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the initial assessed benefits have signed the petition, then the assessment shall not be levied until additional signatures are obtained on the petition which would represent the approval of persons who would be liable for at least fifty-one percent (51%) of the assessments.\n\n(c) Furthermore, the first assessment of benefits by the districts shall not be increased for a period of five (5) years subsequent to the first levy.\n\n(d) Thereafter, the assessment of benefits shall be as otherwise provided by law.","path":["AR Code","Title 14","Chapter 317"],"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":"055ae6c0aadce2896990e23ea8b36c82e95ffe7cd9430b02ed4542e29b5b7228","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-317-117","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-317-119","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."}