§ 14-125-402 - Petition requesting division or combination. - Arkansas Statutes

14-125-402. Petition requesting division or combination.

(a) At least twenty-five (25) landowners of each district affected by the proposed division or combination shall sign and file with the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission a petition requesting that the district or districts, as the case may be, and the operations thereof, be divided or combined, or divided and combined, in the manner requested.

(b) The commission shall prescribe the form for the petitions, which shall be as nearly as may be in the form described in this chapter for petitions to organize a district.

(c) The commission may conduct the public meetings and public hearings upon the petition as may be necessary to assist it in the consideration thereof.

(d) The commission may define in more detail the boundaries outlined in the petitions for the districts proposed to result from the division or combination.