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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 14-234-101. Definitions - As used in this act unless the context requires otherwise:...
§ 14-234-102. Construction - This act, being necessary for the public health, safety, and...
§ 14-234-103. Improvements — Financing with bonds - (a) Whenever any municipality shall own or operate a waterworks...
§ 14-234-104. Improvements — Financing with promissory notes - (a) Any municipality owning or operating a waterworks system, however...
§ 14-234-105. Alteration despite zoning regulations - Any municipality maintaining facilities in an area zoned subsequent to...
§ 14-234-106. Relocation of waterworks or sewer system by federal government - (a) All cities and incorporated towns in the State of...
§ 14-234-107. Cities of the first class — Operation by city in governmental capacity - Every city of the first class shall operate its waterworks...
§ 14-234-108. Cities of the first class — Sale or purchase of water to other municipalities - (a) (1) A city of the first class owning or...
§ 14-234-109. Cities of the first class — Sale of water to certain persons - (a) Any city of the first class owning or operating...
§ 14-234-110. Waterworks operated in governmental capacity — Services to nonresident consumers - (a) A municipality owning a waterworks system shall operate its...
§ 14-234-111. Service to adjacent areas — Municipalities generally - (a) Any municipality in the State of Arkansas owning and...
§ 14-234-112. Service to adjacent areas — Cities of the second class - Cities of the second class now owning a waterworks system...
§ 14-234-113. Service to other municipalities - Municipal corporations, upon approval by resolution of their governing bodies,...
§ 14-234-114. Payments from water revenues in lieu of taxes - (a) The operating authority of any municipal waterworks system which...
§ 14-234-115. Water impoundments in other counties — Payment in lieu of taxes - (a) Cities of the first class owning a water impoundment...
§ 14-234-116. Waterworks and sewer commission - (a) Any city of the first or second class operating...
§ 14-234-117. Return of dedicated property - (a) Any water improvement district or any municipality that has...
§ 14-234-118. No abrogation of existing contracts — Exception - (a) As used in this section: (1) The term “utility...
§ 14-234-119. Annual audits and procedures - (a) (1) A county, municipality, improvement district, or not-for-profit association...
§ 14-234-120. Filing of report - Within thirty (30) days of completion of the audit report...
§ 14-234-121. Review of audit report or report of agreed-upon procedures by board - Each audit report or report of agreed-upon procedures shall be...
§ 14-234-122. Penalty provision - Any entity not complying with §§ 14-234-119 — 14-234-121 may...
Subchapter 2 - Purchase and Construction
§ 14-234-201. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 14-234-202. Construction - (a) This subchapter shall be construed as cumulative authority for...
§ 14-234-203. Authority of municipalities - (a) Municipalities are authorized to purchase or construct a waterworks...
§ 14-234-204. Authority of cities and towns — Use of revenues - (a) Any city or incorporated town in the State of...
§ 14-234-205. Ordinance for issuance of bonds — Contents - (a) Whenever the legislative body of any municipality shall determine...
§ 14-234-207. Bonds — Amount — Negotiability — Execution — Sale - (a) Bonds shall be issued in such amounts as may...
§ 14-234-208. Lien in favor of bondholders — Enforcement — Appointment of receiver upon default - (a) (1) There shall be created a statutory mortgage lien...
§ 14-234-209. Accounts — Audit — Treasurer as custodian of fund — Fund separated from city funds - (a) Any municipality issuing revenue bonds under the provisions of...
§ 14-234-210. Allocation of specific portion of issue of bonds to particular project - (a) Any specified portion of the proceeds of an issue...
§ 14-234-211. Acceleration of maturities — Priorities between bond issues — Execution of indenture - (a) The ordinance authorizing the issuance of the revenue bonds...
§ 14-234-212. Issuance of bonds to construct improvements - (a) (1) If any municipality shall own or operate a...
§ 14-234-213. Exchange of unpaid water revenue certificates for refunding bonds - (a) Whenever all of the holders of unpaid water revenue...
§ 14-234-214. Rates — Disposition of surplus funds - (a) Rates for resident and nonresident consumers of a municipal...
§ 14-234-215. Eminent domain - (a) For the purpose of acquiring any lands or property...
§ 14-234-216. Obligations incurred solely through sale of revenue bonds — Security in condemnation proceedings - No obligation may be incurred by the municipality in the...
§ 14-234-217. Bonds — Nature of indebtedness - (a) Bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter shall...
§ 14-234-218. Bonds — Tax exemption - The revenue bonds shall be exempt from all taxation, state,...
Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions
§ 14-234-301. Construction and applicability - (a) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as repealing...
§ 14-234-302. Creation of commission - Any city of the first or second class owning and...
§ 14-234-303. Ordinance — Qualifications of commissioners - (a) Any city of the first class or city of...
§ 14-234-304. Appointment of commissioners — Term — Salaries — Oath - (a) (1) The commissioners shall be appointed by the mayor...
§ 14-234-305. Removal of commissioners - Any commissioner appointed by the provisions of this subchapter may...
§ 14-234-306. Authority of commissioners to operate and manage waterworks system - (a) The commissioners appointed under this subchapter shall have full...
§ 14-234-307. Further powers of commissioners — Donations to charitable organizations — Use of waterworks commission funds - (a) (1) The commissioners shall, in addition to the powers...
§ 14-234-308. Vesting of control in commissioners - (a) Upon the appointment of the commissioners as provided in...
§ 14-234-309. Rules and regulations — Reports and audits - (a) The commissioners shall adopt such rules and regulations as...
§ 14-234-310. Social security and retirement for employees of waterworks system in cities of the first class - (a) In any city of the first class owning and...
Subchapter 4 - Recreational Activities
§ 14-234-401. Definition - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...
§ 14-234-402. Penalty - The violation of this subchapter or of any rule or...
§ 14-234-403. Injunctions - (a) Anything to the contrary in this subchapter notwithstanding, the...
§ 14-234-404. Summons and prosecution for offense - (a) Wardens may issue a special summons returnable to the...
§ 14-234-405. Recreational activities on lands and waters authorized — Exceptions - (a) The operating authority of any municipally owned waterworks system...
§ 14-234-406. Lease of property for recreational purposes - (a) The operating authority may lease portions of its property...
§ 14-234-407. Designation of warden - (a) Any employee of the operating authority may be designated...
§ 14-234-408. Nonliability for torts of employees - No municipality or operating authority permitting any activities authorized by...
§ 14-234-409. Disposition of fees, rentals, and income - All fees, rentals, or other income of any type derived...
Subchapter 5 - Joint Systems
§ 14-234-501. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Mayor” means the mayor...
§ 14-234-502. Construction - (a) This subchapter shall be construed as cumulative authority for...
§ 14-234-503. Authority for joint undertaking - (a) Any two (2) or more municipalities in the State...
§ 14-234-504. Cost estimate — Contents of ordinances — Bonds - (a) Whenever the respective legislative bodies of two (2) or...
§ 14-234-505. Ordinances — Additional provisions - (a) The several ordinances authorized in the issuance of the...
§ 14-234-506. Ordinances — Publication — Hearing - (a) After the passage of the ordinance, it shall be...
§ 14-234-507. Location of system — Sale of water — Ownership of distribution system - (a) Municipalities are authorized to construct waterworks systems or any...
§ 14-234-508. Bond issue — Sufficiency — Negotiability — Sale — Fiscal agent - (a) Bonds provided for in this subchapter shall be issued...
§ 14-234-509. Bonds — Nature of indebtedness - (a) Bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter shall...
§ 14-234-510. Obligation payable from revenue bonds only — Security in condemnation proceedings - (a) No obligation shall, or may, be incurred by the...
§ 14-234-511. Allocation of bond proceeds - (a) Any specified portion of the proceeds of an issue...
§ 14-234-512. Bonds — Tax exemption - Bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter shall be...
§ 14-234-513. Fixed rate reduction prohibited — Exception — Surpluses - (a) Rates for water fixed precedent to the issuance of...
§ 14-234-514. Deposit of funds - (a) Municipalities joining together to issue revenue bonds under the...
§ 14-234-515. Statutory mortgage lien — Default - (a) (1) There shall be created a statutory mortgage lien...
§ 14-234-516. Eminent domain - For the purpose of acquiring any waterworks system under the...
§ 14-234-517. Management of system - (a) Municipalities desiring to avail themselves of the benefits of...
Subchapter 6 - Collection of Delinquent Water Bills
§ 14-234-601. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Water association” means any...
§ 14-234-602. Liability - Any person who is delinquent on the payment for water,...
§ 14-234-603. Refusal of water service for delinquency - If a person who is delinquent on the payment of...
§ 14-234-604. Applicability - No provision of this subchapter shall apply to a water...
§ 14-234-605. Termination of water service for delinquency - A public water system that is not otherwise regulated by...
Subchapter 7 - The Sewer Utility Collection Act
§ 14-234-701. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 14-234-702. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Corresponding water utility” means...
§ 14-234-703. Cooperation between sewer and water utilities — Termination of water service - (a) (1) A sewer utility may request notification from a...
§ 14-234-704. Cooperative billing arrangements - (a) A corresponding water utility may enter into a written...