As used in this part:
(1)
- (A) “Acreage” means the common square measure of land described in the land tenure system.
- (B) One (1) acre equals forty-three thousand five hundred sixty square feet (43,560 square feet);
- (2) “AdrCity” means the city associated with the physical address of the property;
(3)
- (A) “AdrLabel” means the concatenated physical address of property.
- (B) This can be composed of variable elements depending on road names.
(C) Examples could be:
- (i) 123 Main St;
- (ii) 211 S Mountain Dr; and
- (iii) 2307 Highway 35 S, among others;
- (4) “AdrNum” means the physical address road number of the property as seen in the address point recommendations;
- (5) “AdrZip5” means the physical address zip code of property as seen in the address point recommendations;
- (6) “Assessed value” means the monetary amount attribute at which a property is put on the assessment roll;
- (7) “Assessment date” means the date on which the most recent assessment has been completed;
- (8) “Attribute or attributes” means the properties and characteristics of spatial data entities;
(9) “Cadastral” means showing or recording:
- (A) Property boundaries;
- (B) Subdivision lines;
- (C) Buildings; and
- (D) Related details;
- (10) “Cadastre” means an official register of the quantity, value, and ownership of real estate used in apportioning taxes;
- (11) “CAMA” means computer assisted mass appraisal;
(12)
- (A) “CAMADate” means the effective date of the CAMA database.
- (B) Typically, this would be the date the database was extracted from a county’s CAMA system;
- (13) “CAMAKey” means the unique key used by the county’s CAMA company;
(14)
- (A) “CAMAProv” means a county’s CAMA system provider.
- (B) This is the vendor from which a county procures its CAMA system;
- (15) “County” means the attribute which contains the name of the county responsible for the parcel polygons;
(16) “County FIPS code” means the FIPS county code, which is a five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code, see Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 6-4 (FIPS 6-4), that uniquely identifies:
- (A) Counties and county equivalents in the United States;
- (B) Certain United States possessions; and
- (C) Certain freely associated states;
- (17) “County identification numbers” means a unique identifier for the parcel, using a combination of the county FIPS code and the parcel identification number;
- (18) “DataProv” means the attribute that contains the name of the entity who provided parcel data to the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office;
- (19) “Digital cadastre” means the storage and manipulation of computerized representations of parcel map and linked parcel databases as defined by Arkansas Code § 15-21-502(5);
- (20) “Entity” means any object about which an organization chooses to collect data;
(21)
- (A) “Geometry source reference” means a pointer to or an attribute describing the source reference for the parcel.
(B)
(i) This can be a:
- (a) (a) Document number;
- (b) (b) Book/page; or
- (c) (c) Map of survey.
- (ii) The geometry source reference should describe the source of the parcel geometry, either the centroid or the parcel outline.
- (iii) This should represent the latest and most accurate document available;
(22)
- (A) “Geometry source reference date” means the effective date of the geometry source reference.
- (B) This date is a general indication of the currency of the source.
- (C) This is the date entered into the CAMA system as the date the deed was filed.
- (D) It is the date as of which the source documentation was valid;
- (23) “Georeferencing” means a software procedure that consists in positioning, through points with known coordinates, known as check points, scanned paper images in the respective area of the real territory according to a given reference system;
- (24) “Improved value” means the attribute of the monetary amount of any improvements that have been made to the land;
- (25) “Land value” means the attribute of the monetary amount of the land without improvement;
- (26) “NatCoord” means the attribute that indicates whether the native coordinate system for the county is Arkansas State Plane North or Arkansas State Plane South;
- (27) “Neighborhood” means the attribute used to represent geographical or market areas;
- (28) “Owner name” means the name of the property owner;
- (29) “Parcel identification number” means a unique identifier for the parcel as defined by the CAMA system;
- (30) “Parcel legal description” means the deeded legal boundary for the parcel contained in the CAMA system;
- (31) “PreDir” means primary directional prefix as defined in the State Addressing standard;
(32)
- (A) “Projection” means State Plane Arkansas North Zone and State Plane Arkansas South Zone.
(B) State Plane Arkansas North Zone includes the following counties:
- (i) Baxter;
- (ii) Benton;
- (iii) Boone;
- (iv) Carroll;
- (v) Clay;
- (vi) Cleburne;
- (vii) Conway;
- (viii) Craighead;
- (ix) Crawford;
- (x) Crittenden;
- (xi) Cross;
- (xii) Faulkner;
- (xiii) Franklin;
- (xiv) Fulton;
- (xv) Greene;
- (xvi) Independence;
- (xvii) Izard; (xviii) Jackson;
- (xix) Johnson;
- (xx) Lawrence;
- (xxi) Logan;
- (xxii) Madison; (xxiii) Marion;
- (xxiv) Mississippi;
- (xxv) Newton;
- (xxvi) Perry; (xxvii) Poinsett; (xxviii) Pope;
- (xxix) Pulaski;
- (xxx) Randolph;
- (xxxi) Scott; (xxxii) Searcy; (xxxiii) Sebastian; (xxxiv) Sharp;
- (xxxv) St. Francis; (xxxvi) Stone; (xxxvii) Van Buren; (xxxviii) Washington; (xxxix) White;
- (xl) Woodruff; and
- (xli) Yell.
(C) State Plane Arkansas South Zone includes the following counties:
- (i) Arkansas;
- (ii) Ashley;
- (iii) Bradley;
- (iv) Calhoun;
- (v) Chicot;
- (vi) Clark;
- (vii) Cleveland;
- (viii) Columbia;
- (ix) Dallas;
- (x) Desha;
- (xi) Drew;
- (xii) Garland;
- (xiii) Grant;
- (xiv) Hempstead;
- (xv) Hot Spring;
- (xvi) Howard;
- (xvii) Jefferson; (xviii) Lafayette;
- (xix) Lee;
- (xx) Lincoln;
- (xxi) Little River;
- (xxii) Lonoke; (xxiii) Miller;
- (xxiv) Monroe;
- (xxv) Montgomery;
- (xxvi) Nevada; (xxvii) Ouachita; (xxviii) Phillips;
- (xxix) Pike;
- (xxx) Polk;
- (xxxi) Prairie; (xxxii) Saline; (xxxiii) Sevier; and (xxxiv) Union;
(33)
- (A) “Property type code” means a code indicating the property’s use or classification at the time of reappraisal.
(B) Commonly used codes:
(i) Would represent uses such as:
- (a) (a) Residential;
- (b) (b) Commercial; or
- (c) (c) Agricultural, among others; and
- (ii) Typically indicate the presence of an improvement on the property.
- (C) A list of approved property type codes is available from the Arkansas Assessment Coordination Division.
- (D) Information on codes used by specific counties should be obtained directly from the county assessor’s office;
- (34) “PstrNam” means primary street name as defined in the State Addressing standard;
- (35) “PstrType” means the primary street type as defined in the State Addressing standard;
- (36) “PsufDir” means the primary directional suffix as defined in the State Addressing standard;
- (37) “Relative accuracy” means a measure of the accuracy of individual features on a map when compared to other features on the same map;
(38)
(A) “Section, township, and range” means the attribute that indicates the parcel location by:
- (i) Section;
- (ii) Township; and
- (iii) Range.
- (B) The format for this field should be SXX_TXXDirection_RXXDirection, Direction for Townships being N or S and Direction for Ranges being E or W;
(39)
- (A) “Subdivision” means the name of any subdivision the parcel is located in.
(B) Examples are:
- (i) Jones Addition;
- (ii) Original City of Little Rock; and
- (iii) Smith Subdivision, etc.;
(40)
- (A) “Tax area” means the attribute containing the area being taxed.
- (B) This is the value that should be used on all cartographic displays of the data;
- (41) “Tax code” means the attribute which represents the tax district;
(42)
(A) “Topology” means spatial relationships and connectivity among graphic GIS features, such as:
- (i) Points;
- (ii) Lines; and
- (iii) Polygons.
- (B) These relationships allow display and analysis of intelligent data in GIS.
(C) Many topological structures incorporate:
- (i) Begin and end relationships;
- (ii) Direction; and
- (iii) Right or left identification.
- (D) Accurate topology will ensure that there are no gaps or slivers between adjacent parcels, as well as no overlapping parcels; and
- (43) “Total value” means the attribute which is the monetary amount of the improved value plus the land value.
Codification Notes: “GIS” means geographic information systems.