(a) Districts organized under this subchapter shall have all the rights, powers, and privileges of drainage districts organized under existing laws and all amendments of those laws, and specifically under Acts 1909, No. 279, as amended.
(b) However, districts organized under this subchapter shall be limited to the purposes of complying with requirements made of the local interests of drainage, levee, or flood control projects approved and authorized by the Congress of the United States and constructed or partially constructed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers or by other federal agencies.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts
Chapter 118 - Improvement Districts for Rivers
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 14-118-102. Subchapter cumulative
§ 14-118-103. Petition to establish district
§ 14-118-104. Petition — Lands in more than one county
§ 14-118-105. Establishment order — Appeal
§ 14-118-106. Board of commissioners
§ 14-118-107. District use of federal agency plans
§ 14-118-108. Assessment of benefits and damages
§ 14-118-109. Filing of assessment — Notice and hearing — Appeal
§ 14-118-110. Tax levy — Appeal
§ 14-118-111. Extension of tax upon books — Collection, delinquency, redemption
§ 14-118-112. Board authority to borrow money and issue bonds
§ 14-118-113. District rights, powers, and privileges
§ 14-118-114. Contracts of assurance with federal agencies — Eminent domain