(a) To secure the due and prompt payment of both principal and interest of any bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter, the entire revenues, or a fractional part thereof as the board deems expedient and necessary, arising from annual taxes to be levied on the increased value or betterment to accrue to the lands, town lots, blocks, railroads and tramroads, telegraph and telephone lines, electric power lines, and other real property, are pledged.
(b) The board of directors of the district is required to set aside annually from the first revenue collected a sum sufficient in amount to secure and pay the interest on the bonds and the principal thereof, as the interest and principal may become due. Its duty to do so may be enforced by mandamus proceedings.
(c) The principal and interest of the bonds shall be secured by a lien on all the lands, town lots, blocks, railroads and tramroads, telegraph and telephone lines, and electric power lines, and all other real property in the district.
(d) The board of directors may pledge all or any part of the assessment of benefits and its revenues as security for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts
Chapter 120 - Drainage and Levee Improvement Districts Generally
Subchapter 2 - Agreements with United States Generally
§ 14-120-201. Legislative intent
§ 14-120-204. Subchapter cumulative
§ 14-120-205. Conditions precedent to conferring powers on districts — In general
§ 14-120-206. Filing project outline and estimate
§ 14-120-207. Board approval of proposal
§ 14-120-208. Approval election generally
§ 14-120-209. Date of election
§ 14-120-210. Notice of election
§ 14-120-211. Election judges and clerks
§ 14-120-213. Voting — Certification of results
§ 14-120-214. Canvass of results — Judicial review
§ 14-120-215. Majority vote — Payment of expenses
§ 14-120-216. Contract authority
§ 14-120-217. Board authority to acquire land — Condemnation
§ 14-120-218. Conveyance of rights-of-way across state lands
§ 14-120-219. Agreements for construction across highways
§ 14-120-220. Eminent domain by the United States
§ 14-120-221. Board of assessors
§ 14-120-223. Assessment — Time, certification, and filing
§ 14-120-224. Board of assessment and equalization
§ 14-120-225. Chancery court review of assessment
§ 14-120-226. Tax levy by board to satisfy certain obligations
§ 14-120-227. Alternative method of assessment — Reassessment — Vacancies on board
§ 14-120-229. Penalty for delinquency — Enforcement proceedings generally
§ 14-120-230. Filing complaint — Notice
§ 14-120-231. Trial date — Continuance or dismissal
§ 14-120-233. Decree — Sale of real property by commissioner
§ 14-120-234. Execution of deed
§ 14-120-235. Redemption of property — Vacation of decree
§ 14-120-236. Tributary tax fund
§ 14-120-237. Disbursement of funds on vouchers
§ 14-120-238. Authority to borrow money and issue bonds — Purpose
§ 14-120-239. Issuance of bonds — Interest coupons
§ 14-120-240. Lithographing and registration of bonds
§ 14-120-241. Bonds — Sale prohibitions — Penalty
§ 14-120-242. Use of revenues for bond payment — Lien