(a) To secure the due and prompt payment of both principal and interest of any bonds or notes issued under the provisions of this subchapter, the entire revenue of the district or such fractional part thereof as the board of directors may deem expedient and necessary is 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 or notes and the principal, 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 or notes shall be secured by a lien on all the lands, town lots, suburban lots, rural lots, industrial tracts, blocks, railroads, tramroads, telegraph, telephone, and electric power lines and underground cables, pipelines, and all other real property and interests in 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 or notes.
(e) In the event the board of directors fails or refuses to levy and collect the tax in any year in which there are bonds or notes or interest coupons outstanding when the proceeds of the tax are required for the payment of the bonds, notes, or interest coupons, this duty may be enforced by a mandamus or by a mandatory injunction in equity at the instance of any landowner in the district, the trustee in any deed of trust securing the bonds of the district, the holder of any bond, note, or interest coupon as to which the district has defaulted in the payment, or any other creditor of the district.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts
Chapter 120 - Drainage and Levee Improvement Districts Generally
Subchapter 3 - Consolidation of District Duties, Obligations, and Purposes
§ 14-120-301. Legislative determination
§ 14-120-304. Subchapter cumulative
§ 14-120-305. Construction of levees and drainage works declared conducive to public welfare
§ 14-120-306. Powers of board of directors
§ 14-120-307. Conveyance of rights-of-way across state lands
§ 14-120-308. Agreements for construction across highways
§ 14-120-309. Eminent domain by the United States
§ 14-120-310. Authority to consolidate
§ 14-120-311. Consolidation procedure
§ 14-120-312. Consolidation and use of assets — Prior liabilities and obligations
§ 14-120-313. Board of assessors
§ 14-120-315. Assessment — Time, certification, and filing
§ 14-120-316. Board of assessment and equalization
§ 14-120-317. Chancery court review of assessment
§ 14-120-318. Annual assessment and levy of tax upon increased value
§ 14-120-319. Alternative method of assessment — Reassessment
§ 14-120-321. Penalty for delinquency — Enforcement proceedings generally
§ 14-120-322. Filing complaint of delinquency — Notice
§ 14-120-323. Trial date — Continuance or dismissal
§ 14-120-325. Decree — Sale of real property by commissioner
§ 14-120-326. Execution of deed
§ 14-120-327. Redemption of property — Vacation of decree
§ 14-120-328. Authority to borrow money and issue bonds — Purpose
§ 14-120-329. Sale of bonds — Interest coupons
§ 14-120-330. Disposition and use of bond proceeds
§ 14-120-331. Lithographing and registration of bonds