§ 14-88-305 - Removal of member. - Arkansas Statutes

14-88-305. Removal of member.

(a) (1) The city or town council shall have the power to remove a municipal board of improvement or any member thereof by a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the whole number of aldermen elected to the council.

(2) (A) Removal shall be for cause only, and after a hearing upon sworn charges proffered in writing by some real property owner in the district.

(B) Ten (10) days' notice of the hearing of the charges shall be given.

(b) (1) The council shall have the power to remove the board or any member thereof by a vote of a majority of the whole number of aldermen elected to the city council, upon the written petition of the owners of a majority in assessed value of the property located within the district, after a hearing upon ten (10) days' notice to each member of the board affected.

(2) After July 1, 1999, in cities of the first class with a population of between sixty-one thousand five hundred (61,500) and sixty-two thousand (62,000) persons according to the 1990 Federal Decennial Census, the council shall have the power to remove the board or any member by a vote of a majority of the whole number of aldermen elected to the city council, upon the written petition of twenty-five percent (25%) of the owners of real property located within the district stating that the petitioners believe it to be in the best interest of the district and after a hearing upon ten (10) days' notice to each member of the board affected.