Arkansas Code Title 14. Local Government § 14-40-1802. Judicial order

(a) After hearing the petition, if the county court shall be satisfied that a majority of the qualified electors of the corporation are in favor of the exclusion of the territory mentioned in the petition from within its limits, or alternatively that the city council has resolved to request that the territory be excluded from the limits of the municipal corporation and remitted back to the county, that the territory to be excluded has been accurately described, and that it would be proper and right to grant the petition, it shall make an order excluding the territory in the petition mentioned from the limits of the municipal corporation and remitting it back to the county.