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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 14-116-101. Title - This chapter may be cited as “The Regional Water Distribution...
§ 14-116-102. Purpose - Public nonprofit regional water distribution districts may be organized under...
§ 14-116-103. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 14-116-104. Chapter controlling - This chapter is complete in itself and shall be controlling....
§ 14-116-105. Construction - This chapter shall be construed liberally. The enumerating of any...
§ 14-116-106. Joint projects - (a) It is the intent and purpose of this section...
§ 14-116-107. Applicability of Regional Water Distribution District Act - The provisions of § 14-116-101 et seq., the Regional Water...
Subchapter 2 - Establishment of Water Districts
§ 14-116-201. Authority to petition for district establishment - (a) When there is water available for industrial, municipal, or...
§ 14-116-202. Contents of petition - The petition shall contain: (1) An accurate description of the...
§ 14-116-203. Petition — Land in more than one county - (a) The territory proposed to be embraced within the water...
§ 14-116-204. Commission review of petition - (a) Upon the filing of the petition in the office...
§ 14-116-205. Notice of hearing - (a) Between thirty (30) and sixty (60) days after the...
§ 14-116-206. Hearing — Appeal - (a) Upon the date and at the time and place...
§ 14-116-207. Exclusion of land for irrigation purposes - (a) Any owner of real property within the territory of...
Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors
§ 14-116-301. Members generally — Original appointments - (a) If a water district is composed of all or...
§ 14-116-302. Members — Terms - (a) (1) Each director on the board of directors of...
§ 14-116-303. Members — Nomination and election - (a) (1) (A) If a water district is composed of...
§ 14-116-304. Members — Vacancy - The directors shall fill any vacancy occurring on the board...
§ 14-116-305. Members — Oath - (a) Each of the original directors and all directors elected...
§ 14-116-306. Members — Compensation - The directors provided for, upon majority vote of the board,...
§ 14-116-307. Organization - Immediately upon the appointment of the board of directors, the...
§ 14-116-308. Meetings - (a) Regular meetings of the board of directors shall be...
§ 14-116-309. Powers and duties - (a) All powers granted a water district created under this...
Subchapter 4 - Operation of Water Districts
§ 14-116-401. Exemption from jurisdiction of Arkansas Public Service Commission - Water districts organized under this subchapter shall be exempt in...
§ 14-116-402. District powers - (a) Each water district shall have power to: (1) Sue...
§ 14-116-403. Appeal from district actions - Any person aggrieved by the service furnished or rates charged...
§ 14-116-404. Revenues - (a) Water districts formed pursuant to this subchapter shall be...
§ 14-116-405. Tax exemption - Water districts formed under this chapter shall be exempt from...
§ 14-116-406. Annexation of additional territory - (a) Additional territory may be annexed to and embraced by...
§ 14-116-407. Contracts — Water district and United States - The board is authorized to: (1) Cooperate with the United...
Subchapter 5 - Improvement of Water Districts
§ 14-116-501. Proposed improvement plan for assessment-based water district projects - (a) (1) Upon the securing of a petition described in...
§ 14-116-502. Court approval of project improvement plan — Appointment of assessor - (a) The board of directors of the regional water distribution...
§ 14-116-503. Expenses — Plan preparation, adoption, and approval - All costs and expenses incurred in the preparation, adoption, and...
§ 14-116-504. Alteration of plans - (a) (1) The board of directors of the regional water...
§ 14-116-505. Additional works of improvement - After the work contemplated by the original improvement plan has...
Subchapter 6 - Improvement Plan Assessments
§ 14-116-601. Assessment of benefits and damages - (a) After the court issues an order approving the improvement...
§ 14-116-602. Assessments — Filing and recording — Appointment of board of adjustment - (a) (1) When an assessment is completed, the assessor shall...
§ 14-116-603. Appeal — Notice — Hearing of assessment complaints - (a) (1) Upon the filing of assessment, the court clerk...
§ 14-116-604. Acquiescence in damage assessment — Condemnation - If such owner has been given notice by certified mail...
§ 14-116-605. Assessments — Complaints - (a) Any owner of land within the improvement project area...
§ 14-116-606. Reassessments - (a) In no event shall a reduction of assessments be...
§ 14-116-607. Payment of taxes - (a) When the tax levies are made, the landowners shall...
§ 14-116-608. Levy of tax — Lien — Appeal from tax assessment - (a) The court shall, at the same time that the...
§ 14-116-609. Levy of tax for preliminary expenses - (a) If the board does not deem it to the...
§ 14-116-610. Levy of tax for operation and maintenance - (a) On or before the first Monday in October of...
§ 14-116-611. Extension of taxes on county tax books — Collection of taxes - (a) Copies of the assessment necessary for the assessment and...
Subchapter 7 - Bonds
§ 14-116-701. Authority to borrow money or issue bonds, etc - The board may borrow money at a rate of interest...
§ 14-116-702. Terms and form of bonds, etc - (a) Bonds or other evidences of indebtedness issued under the...
§ 14-116-703. Refunding bonds - Refunding bonds may be issued and may be sold, exchanged,...
§ 14-116-704. Security for bonds — Delinquencies - (a) All bonds issued under the terms of this chapter...
Subchapter 8 - Applicability of Chapter
§ 14-116-801. Provisions inapplicable to state agencies, political subdivisions, and state lands - The provisions of this chapter, as now or hereafter amended...