All corporations which existed when the Arkansas Constitution of 1874 took effect for the purpose of municipal government, and described or denominated in any law then in force, are organized into cities of the first and second class, as the case may be, and incorporated towns with the territorial limits respectively prescribed or belonging.
In respect to the exercise of certain corporate powers and to the number, character, powers, and duties of certain officers, municipal corporations are divided into the following classes: (1) Cities of the first class; (2) Cities of the second class; and (3) Incorporated towns.
(a) (1) All municipal corporations having over two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed cities of the first class. (2) All cities having five hundred (500) inhabitants or more and fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed cities of the second class. (3) All others shall be incorporated towns […]
(a) All cities, which at the last federal census had, or now have, a population exceeding two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants shall be deemed cities of the first class. (b) All cities which, at any future federal census, or any census which may be taken in pursuance of the laws of this state, shall […]
(a) Any incorporated town of the State of Arkansas which, at any future federal census, or any census taken under the authority of the State of Arkansas, shall be found to have a population exceeding five hundred (500) persons who shall be inhabitants of the town and less than two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants […]
The Board of Municipal Corporations shall consist of the Auditor of State, Secretary of State, and Attorney General. The Secretary of State shall be president.
(a) (1) It shall be the duty of the Governor, the Auditor of State, and the Secretary of State, or any two (2) of them, to ascertain from the federal census and census provided for by law of this state, what cities of the second class are entitled to become cities of the first class […]
(a) The Auditor of State, Secretary of State, and Attorney General may declare incorporated towns cities of the second class, and cities of the second class cities of the first class, between the periods fixed in § 14-37-107(a), upon application from any incorporated town or city of the second class, accompanied by a resolution adopted […]
(a) (1) If a city or incorporated town desires to be made a city of the first class or a city of the second class, or if it is deemed necessary to determine the number of inhabitants within the city or incorporated town for any purpose, on petition of ten (10) qualified voters of the […]
(a) (1) Before the enumerators shall enter upon their duties, they shall make and subscribe to an oath to well and faithfully perform their duties, and their return shall be taken as true. (2) (A) However, the returns so made by the census enumerators shall be filed in the office of the mayor and shall […]
(a) Whenever the last federal census shows that any city of the first class has fewer than two thousand five hundred (2,500) inhabitants and that any city of the second class has fewer than five hundred (500) inhabitants, the city may be reduced to a city of the second class or to an incorporated town, […]
(a) (1) Any incorporated town in this state may become a city of the second class by the adoption and publication of an ordinance, duly adopted and published as provided by law, converting the incorporated town into a city of the second class. However, after the adoption and publication of the ordinance, the qualified voters […]
Whenever any law of this state provides that the provisions of it shall apply to any city within a defined population classification, it is declared to be the intent of the General Assembly that, in the event any city to which the law was applicable at the time of the enactment of that law shall […]
(a) Whenever the last federal census shows that any city of the first class has less than five thousand (5,000) inhabitants, the city may be reduced to a city of the second class upon the adoption of a resolution by the council of the municipal corporation requesting that the grade of the municipal corporation be […]
