§ 14-123-301 — Election of directors and assessors - In general - Erroneous selection of commissioners or directors

(a) At the term of the court at which the districts may be laid off, or at any future term, the court shall designate and fix a day of election for three (3) directors of levees and three (3) assessors of lands in each of the districts and shall appoint three (3) judges of election to hold the election. (b) The election shall be held in accordance with the general election laws of the state, except that none but landholders of the district and mortgagees in possession after condition broken shall be allowed to vote at the election, be eligible to election to either of the offices, or to act as judges at the election, except that guardians duly appointed, and who shall have given bond and received letters of guardianship of infant heirs or insane persons owning land in the district, may vote in right of their respective wards. (c) Where any levee district in Arkansas organized under any general or special act of the General Assembly provided for election of commissioners or directors and, through error, such commissioners or directors have not been elected but selected by some other method, and such commissioners or directors have served as such commissioners or directors in good faith, the acts of such commissioners and directors are hereby validated and shall have the same force and effect as though such commissioners or directors had been selected in the manner provided by law. (d) In any levee district heretofore established which is now operating with a board of commissioners or directors, all of whom have taken, or, within thirty (30) days after March 26, 1991, take the oath required by law, said commissioners or directors may continue to serve for the terms prescribed by law, and the acts of such boards are hereby validated.

Legislative History

Acts 1879, No. 78, § 2, p. 117; C. & M. Dig., §§ 6815, 6816; Pope's Dig., §§ 4541, 4542; A.S.A. 1947, § 21-604; Acts 1991, No. 778, § 1.