Arkansas Code Title 14. Local Government § 14-387-306. Township not included

(b)(1) If the petitioners and qualified electors shall show good and valid reason why the territory of the townships should not be governed by the order and shall, before the filing of the petition, give fifteen (15) days' notice, by publication, of their intention of filing and presenting the petition, and shall set forth in the notice their reasons why the township and petitioners should be exempt from the order adopting the act, then the court shall hear the petition, together with any remonstrance to it.

(2) If the court should find that the township and the citizens of it should be exempt from the provisions of the adoption, and that no injury will be done to citizens residing within adjoining townships, then the court shall make an order exempting the township from the adoption.