Authority generally
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 104 Ark. App. 10 - Statewide Outdoor Advertising, LLC v. Town of Avoca (2008)
Most recently applied in First State Bank & Pinnacle Bank v. City of Elkins (May 2018)
Acts 1875, No. 1, § 13, p. 1; 1887, No. 32, § 1, p. 41; C. & M
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.
Municipal corporations shall have the power to:
(1) Regulate the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, and repair of buildings;
(2) Make regulations for the purpose of guarding against accidents by fire;
(3) Require the use of fireproof or fire-resistant materials in the erection, construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repairs of buildings; and
(4) Provide for the removal of any buildings, or additions thereto, erected contrary to this prohibition.
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.