Arkansas Code Title 23. Public Utilities and Regulated Industries § 23-13-229. Grant of temporary authority

(a) To provide motor carrier service for which there is an urgent and immediate need to, from, or between points within a territory having no motor carrier service deemed capable of meeting that need, the Arkansas Department of Transportation in its discretion and without hearing or other proceeding may grant temporary authority for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days for the service by common or contract carrier, as the case may be. Satisfactory proof of the urgent and immediate need shall be made by affidavit or other verified proof, as the department shall prescribe.

(b) The temporary authority shall be granted only upon payment of a filing fee in the amount of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and compliance with the requirements of §§ 23-13-227 and 23-13-244. The filing fees shall be collected by the department to be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Revenue Fund Account of the State Apportionment Fund.

(c) After the temporary authority is granted, the department shall notify any carrier already authorized to perform all or any part of the service so authorized temporarily. Upon application in writing by the carrier, the department shall hold such hearings and make such further determination with respect to such temporary authority as the public interest shall require.

(d) The grant of temporary authority shall not be extended for any cause.

(e) Issuance of such temporary authority shall create no presumption that corresponding permanent authority will be granted thereafter.