{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-38-103","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 14-38-103","heading":"Hearing on petition","body":"(a) (1) Every incorporation hearing under this chapter shall be public and may be adjourned from time to time. (2) Any person interested may appear and contest the granting of the prayer of the petition, and affidavits in support of or against the petition, which may be prepared and submitted, shall be examined by the county court. (b) (1) In its discretion, the court may permit the agent named in the original petition to amend or change it. (2) However, no amendment shall be permitted whereby territory not before embraced shall be added or the character of the proposed city or incorporated town changed from special to general, or from general to special, without appointing another time for a hearing and requiring new notice to be given as provided in § 14-38-101 . Acts 1875, No. 1, § 36, p. 1; C. \u0026 M. Dig., § 7665; Pope's Dig., § 9787; A.S.A. 1947, § 19-102.\n\n(a) (1) Every incorporation hearing under this chapter shall be public and may be adjourned from time to time. (2) Any person interested may appear and contest the granting of the prayer of the petition, and affidavits in support of or against the petition, which may be prepared and submitted, shall be examined by the county court.\n\n(1) Every incorporation hearing under this chapter shall be public and may be adjourned from time to time.\n\n(2) Any person interested may appear and contest the granting of the prayer of the petition, and affidavits in support of or against the petition, which may be prepared and submitted, shall be examined by the county court.\n\n(b) (1) In its discretion, the court may permit the agent named in the original petition to amend or change it. (2) However, no amendment shall be permitted whereby territory not before embraced shall be added or the character of the proposed city or incorporated town changed from special to general, or from general to special, without appointing another time for a hearing and requiring new notice to be given as provided in § 14-38-101 .\n\n(1) In its discretion, the court may permit the agent named in the original petition to amend or change it.\n\n(2) However, no amendment shall be permitted whereby territory not before embraced shall be added or the character of the proposed city or incorporated town changed from special to general, or from general to special, without appointing another time for a hearing and requiring new notice to be given as provided in § 14-38-101 .","path":["AR Code","Title 14","Chapter 38"],"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":"edbdde86697dfe6b4185387d1b1df9d9eff96c025f86910176f1cf2448c8dfb7","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-38-101","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-38-104","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."}