It is the purpose of this subchapter to assist landowners to obtain municipal services by making the services reasonably available. However, nothing in this subchapter shall relieve a landowner from the obligation to pay regular fees and costs for connecting to services or from the obligation to pay the regular cost of the services.
Ark. Code Ann. § 14-40-2001
Purpose
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case City of Maumelle v. Jeffrey Sand Co. (2003)
Most recently applied in 2020 Ark. App. 528 - City of Tontitown, Arkansas v. City of Springdale, Arkansas; First Security Bank; And Hillcrest Holdings, LLC (November 2020)
Acts 1999, No. 779, § 1.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
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.