Arkansas Code
Title 14 - Local Government
Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally

Chapter 229 - General Provisions

§ 14-229-101. Individual Sewage Disposal Systems Advisory Committee — Creation — Members - (a) There is established an advisory committee to be known...

§ 14-229-102. Individual Sewage Disposal Systems Advisory Committee — Powers and duties - The Individual Sewage Disposal Systems Advisory Committee shall have the...

§ 14-229-103. Termination of water service — Definition - (a) A municipality owning or operating a public sewer system...

§ 14-229-104. Rural water and wastewater entities — Electronic funds transfers - All rural water and rural wastewater entities, however organized, may...

Chapter 230 - Water, Sewer, And Solid Waste Management Financing

§ 14-230-101. Title - This chapter shall be known as “The Water, Sewer, and...

§ 14-230-102. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...

§ 14-230-103. General duties of commission - The Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission shall: (1) Administer...

§ 14-230-105. State loan and grant program authorized - (a) The commission is authorized to make loans and grants...

§ 14-230-106. Eligible applicants - (a) An eligible applicant is eligible to apply for loans...

§ 14-230-107. Applications for grants - (a) The commission shall promulgate such rules and forms as...

§ 14-230-108. Criteria for selection of loan and grant recipients - In selecting the recipients for loans and grants authorized in...

§ 14-230-109. Revolving fund - (a) A special fund, entitled the “Water, Sewer and Solid...

Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally

§ 14-232-101. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:...

§ 14-232-102. Construction - This chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes.

§ 14-232-103. General powers of counties and municipalities - (a) Any county or municipality in this state is authorized...

§ 14-232-104. Revenue bonds — Power to issue — Amount - (a) Counties and municipalities are authorized to use any available...

§ 14-232-105. Revenue bonds — Terms — Indenture — Execution - (a) The issuance of revenue bonds shall be by order...

§ 14-232-106. Refunding bonds - (a) Revenue bonds may be issued under this chapter for...

§ 14-232-107. Bonds — Nature of indebtedness — Security - (a) The revenue bonds issued under this chapter shall not...

§ 14-232-108. Receivership - (a) In the event of a default in the payment...

§ 14-232-109. Investment of public funds in bonds - Any municipality; any board, commission, or other authority established by...

§ 14-232-110. Rates and charges - (a) Counties and municipalities are authorized to impose and collect...

§ 14-232-111. Lease agreements - Counties and municipalities are authorized to enter into leases, as...

§ 14-232-112. Compacts in joint effort - (a) Any county or any municipality is authorized and empowered...

§ 14-232-113. Eminent domain - (a) In the event that necessary lands needed for the...

§ 14-232-114. Bonds — Tax exemption - Bonds issued under the authority of this chapter shall be...

§ 14-232-115. County dumping grounds - (a) (1) The several counties of this state shall designate...

§ 14-232-116. Sites or facilities in another county - (a) No county or municipality in a county shall acquire...

Chapter 233 - Joint County And Municipal Solid Waste Disposal

§ 14-233-101. Title - This chapter may be referred to and cited as the...

§ 14-233-102. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Board of directors” or...

§ 14-233-103. Construction - (a) This chapter shall be deemed to provide an additional...

§ 14-233-104. Creation of authority — General powers and restrictions - (a) (1) Any two (2) or more municipalities or suburban...

§ 14-233-105. Contents of ordinance — Filing of application — Certificate of incorporation — Amendments - (a) (1) The governing body of each municipality and county...

§ 14-233-106. New members — Withdrawal of old members - (a) (1) After the creation of a sanitation authority, any...

§ 14-233-107. Specific powers of authority - Each sanitation authority shall have all of the rights and...

§ 14-233-108. Board of directors — Executive committee - (a) Each sanitation authority shall consist of a board of...

§ 14-233-109. Bonds — Issuance, public hearing, execution, and sale - (a) Sanitation authorities are authorized to use any available funds...

§ 14-233-110. Bonds — Trust indenture - (a) The resolution authorizing the bonds may provide for the...

§ 14-233-111. Bonds — Default - (a) (1) In the event of a default in the...

§ 14-233-112. Bonds — Liability — Payment and security - (a) It shall be plainly stated on the face of...

§ 14-233-113. Refunding bonds — Issuance - (a) Bonds may be issued for the purpose of refunding...

§ 14-233-114. Contracts with municipalities or counties — Rates, fees, and charges — Pledges - (a) Any municipality or county that is a member of...

§ 14-233-115. Rights of bondholders - Any holder or registered owner of bonds or coupons pertaining...

§ 14-233-116. Bonds — Tax exemption - Bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, and the...

§ 14-233-117. Tax exempt status of property and income of authority - Each sanitation authority created pursuant to this chapter will be...

§ 14-233-118. Investment of public funds in bonds - Any municipality, any board, commission, or other authority established by...

§ 14-233-119. Transfer of facilities to authority by county or municipality - (a) (1) Any municipality or county may acquire facilities for...

§ 14-233-120. Annual report - Within the first ninety (90) days of each calendar year,...

§ 14-233-121. Dissolution of authority - (a) Whenever the member municipalities and counties shall by ordinance...

§ 14-233-122. Purchasing procedures - The board of each sanitation authority shall adopt county purchasing...

Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply

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...

Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems

Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities

§ 14-235-201. Definition - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...

§ 14-235-202. Construction - This subchapter, being necessary for the public health, safety, and...

§ 14-235-203. Authority generally - (a) The authority given in this subchapter shall be in...

§ 14-235-204. Extent of authority - (a) Except as provided in § 14-235-203, this subchapter shall,...

§ 14-235-205. Authority to own, etc., systems - (a) A municipality shall have authority to: (1) Acquire, by...

§ 14-235-206. Appointment of sewer committee - (a) (1) (A) The construction, acquisition, improvement, equipment, custody, operation,...

§ 14-235-207. Powers and duties of sewer committee - (a) (1) (A) The sewer committee shall have power to...

§ 14-235-208. Appointment, members, etc., of sanitary board - (a) (1) The municipal council may, in its discretion, provide...

§ 14-235-209. Powers and duties of sanitary board - (a) The board shall have power to establish bylaws, rules,...

§ 14-235-210. Power of eminent domain - (a) (1) Under this subchapter, every municipality shall have power...

§ 14-235-211. Acquisition of encumbered property - No property shall be acquired under this subchapter upon which...

§ 14-235-212. Contracting with other political subdivisions - (a) (1) (A) Any municipality operating a sewage collection system...

§ 14-235-213. Enactment of ordinance before construction or acquisition - Before any municipality shall construct or acquire any works under...

§ 14-235-214. Cost of works - The cost of works under this subchapter shall be deemed...

§ 14-235-215. Issuance of revenue bonds and notes generally - (a) (1) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be so...

§ 14-235-216. Terms, execution, and sale of bonds - (a) (1) Revenue bonds issued under this subchapter shall bear...

§ 14-235-217. Additional bonds authorized - (a) The municipal council or sewer committee may provide by...

§ 14-235-218. Issuance of additional bonds - Nothing contained in this subchapter shall prevent the issuance of...

§ 14-235-219. Securing of bonds by trust indenture - (a) (1) In the discretion of the municipal council or...

§ 14-235-220. Enforcement of rights by bondholders or trustee - (a) (1) Any holder of any bonds issued under this...

§ 14-235-221. Sinking fund to pay bonds and interest - (a) (1) At or before the issuance of any bonds...

§ 14-235-222. Allocation of funds from bonds and revenues - (a) (1) (A) Any specified portion of the proceeds of...

§ 14-235-223. Rates and charges for services — Lien - (a) (1) The council of the municipality shall have power,...

§ 14-235-224. Service payments by municipalities - (a) A municipality shall be subject to the same charges...

§ 14-235-225. Authority for joint undertaking - (a) Any city of the first class having a city...

§ 14-235-226. Public improvements — Award procedure — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Design-build” means a...

Subchapter 3 - Sewer Connections by Property Owners

§ 14-235-301. Penalties - (a) (1) It is declared a misdemeanor for any person...

§ 14-235-302. Ordering property owners to connect - (a) After the completion of any sewer or branch sewer...

§ 14-235-303. Refusal of owner to connect - (a) (1) If the owner of property shall fail, neglect,...

§ 14-235-304. Restrictions on connections - This act does not authorize a municipal board of health...

§ 14-235-305. Tapping of sewers - (a) The city council shall regulate, by ordinance, the terms,...

Chapter 236 - Arkansas Sewage Disposal Systems Act

§ 14-236-101. Title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 14-236-102. Findings, policy, and intent - (a) The General Assembly finds and determines that: (1) Safe...

§ 14-236-103. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...

§ 14-236-104. Certain individual systems excepted from chapter - (a) (1) No individual sewage disposal system in existence on...

§ 14-236-105. Interpretation with other laws - The provisions of any law or regulation of any municipality...

§ 14-236-106. Penalties - (a) (1) A person who shall willingly and knowingly violate...

§ 14-236-107. Division of Environmental Health Protection — Powers and duties - (a) The Division of Environmental Health Protection of the Department...

§ 14-236-108. Division of Sanitarian Services — Nonliability - The Division of Sanitarian Services of the Department of Health...

§ 14-236-109. Property owners' associations — Powers and duties - Property owners' associations that construct and maintain or have constructed...

§ 14-236-110. Construction, alteration, repair prohibited - No person shall construct, alter, repair, or extend or cause...

§ 14-236-111. Review of proposals and inspections - (a) (1) The Division of Environmental Health Protection of the...

§ 14-236-112. Permit and registration required — Exception - (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation,...

§ 14-236-113. Applications for permits, etc. — Refusal - (a) All applications for permits, licenses, or review certificates shall...

§ 14-236-114. Notification by installer required - It shall be unlawful for any installer to begin construction,...

§ 14-236-115. Registration of installers - (a) Each installer who operates within the State of Arkansas,...

§ 14-236-116. Permits and registration fees — Annual training course — Transferability — Renewal - (a) (1) A fee shall be levied for the review...

§ 14-236-117. Duty to prosecute - It shall be the duty of each prosecuting attorney to...

§ 14-236-118. Fees for tests, designs, and inspections - Designated representatives may charge reasonable fees for percolation tests, system...

§ 14-236-119. Registration of a certified maintenance person - (a) Each certified maintenance person who operates within the State...

Chapter 237 - Arkansas Municipal Water And Sewer Department Accounting Law

§ 14-237-101. Title - This chapter shall be known and cited as the “Arkansas...

§ 14-237-102. Applicability - This chapter shall apply to all municipal water and sewer...

§ 14-237-103. Exemption of accounting systems exceeding minimum - (a) In the event any department feels its system of...

§ 14-237-104. Bank accounts - All municipal water and sewer departments of this state shall...

§ 14-237-105. Prenumbered receipts or mechanical receipting devices - (a) (1) All funds received are to be formally receipted...

§ 14-237-106. Prenumbered checks — Electronic funds transfers - (a) All disbursements of water and sewer department funds, except...

§ 14-237-107. Petty cash funds - (a) Municipal water and sewer departments are permitted to establish...

§ 14-237-108. Fixed asset records - (a) (1) Each water and sewer department's governing body shall...

§ 14-237-109. Cash receipts journal - (a) Water and sewer departments shall establish a cash receipts...

§ 14-237-110. Cash disbursements journal - (a) Water and sewer departments shall establish a cash disbursements...

§ 14-237-111. Reconciliation of bank accounts - (a) (1) All water and sewer departments shall reconcile on...

§ 14-237-112. Maintenance and destruction of accounting records - (a) Accounting records can basically be divided into three (3)...

§ 14-237-113. Annual publication of financial statements - (a) (1) The governing body of each municipal water or...

Chapter 238 - Rural Waterworks Facilities Boards

§ 14-238-101. Short title - This chapter may be referred to and cited as the...

§ 14-238-102. Legislative intent - It is determined by the General Assembly that adequate rural...

§ 14-238-103. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...

§ 14-238-104. Provisions supplemental - This chapter shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes...

§ 14-238-105. Construction of chapter - This chapter shall be deemed to provide an additional and...

§ 14-238-106. Creation of boards - (a) Any county is authorized to create one (1) or...

§ 14-238-107. Board names — Powers - (a) Each board shall be created by ordinance of the...

§ 14-238-108. Members — Compensation - (a) Each board shall consist of five (5) members unless...

§ 14-238-109. Officers - (a) (1) (A) The members of each board shall meet...

§ 14-238-110. Meetings — Quorum — Actions — Records - (a) (1) Each board shall meet upon the call of...

§ 14-238-111. Powers — Duties - (a) Each board is authorized and empowered: (1) To have...

§ 14-238-112. Acquisition of property - (a) Any county may acquire facilities for a waterworks facility...

§ 14-238-113. Funds - (a) Boards are authorized to use any available funds and...

§ 14-238-114. Issuance of bonds — Procedure - (a) (1) The issuance of bonds shall be by resolution...

§ 14-238-115. Bonds for refunding obligations - (a) Bonds may be issued for the purpose of refunding...

§ 14-238-116. Payment of bonds - (a) The principal of and interest on the bonds shall...

§ 14-238-117. Bonds may impose mortgage lien - (a) The resolution or indenture referred to in § 14-238-114...

§ 14-238-118. Receiver - (a) (1) In the event of a default in the...

§ 14-238-119. Bonds as obligation of issuing board - (a) It shall be plainly stated on the face of...

§ 14-238-120. Bonds tax exempt - Bonds issued under this chapter and the income therefrom shall...

§ 14-238-121. Property exempt - (a) It is declared that each board created pursuant to...

§ 14-238-122. Report by boards - (a) Within the first ninety (90) days of each calendar...

§ 14-238-123. Audits - (a) Each board shall annually contract with a certified public...

§ 14-238-124. Alternative membership selection - (a) If so prescribed, successor members shall be elected by...

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Arkansas Code Title 14 - Local Government Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally

Arkansas Code
Title 14 - Local Government
Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally