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Ark. Code Ann. § 14-121-804

Landowner ditches draining into public ditches — Crossing lands of another

Acts 1909, No. 279, § 19, p. 829; C. & M

(1) Any landowner within the district may build ditches to drain his lands into the public ditches.

(2) If any intervening landowner should refuse permission to cross his lands with such ditch, the landowner seeking to construct the ditch may, by proceedings in the circuit court to be conducted in the same manner as condemnation proceedings instituted by railroad, telegraph, and telephone companies, condemn a right-of-way for the ditch.

(3) In those proceedings, the jury shall deduct from the damages the benefits that will accrue to the intervening landowner by the construction of the ditch, and the intervening landowner shall have the right to use the ditch for the drainage of his own lands.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.