Arkansas Code Title 14, Subtitle 14, Chapter 234, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• § 14-234-101 - Definitions.
  As used in this act unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Operating authority" means either the city council, legislative body, or board of commissioners,...
• § 14-234-102 - Construction.
  This act, being necessary for the public health, safety, and welfare, shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.
• § 14-234-103 - Improvements -- Financing With Bonds.
  (a) Whenever any municipality shall own or operate a waterworks system and shall desire to construct improvements and betterments thereto, it may issue revenue...
• § 14-234-104 - Improvements -- Financing With Promissory Notes.
  (a) Any municipality owning or operating a waterworks system, however constructed or acquired, and desiring to construct improvements and betterments thereto, may borrow money...
• § 14-234-105 - Alteration Despite Zoning Regulations.
  Any municipality maintaining facilities in an area zoned subsequent to the construction of the facilities may add to, alter, expand, or change the facilities...
• § 14-234-106 - Relocation of Waterworks or Sewer System by Federal Government.
  (a) All cities and incorporated towns in the State of Arkansas are authorized to grant the United States of America the right to alter...
• § 14-234-107 - Cities of the First Class -- Operation by City in Governmental Capacity.
  Every city of the first class shall operate its waterworks system, however acquired, in its governmental capacity.
• § 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 operating a waterworks system may sell, in its governmental capacity, water at contractual rates...
• § 14-234-109 - Cities of the First Class -- Sale of Water to Certain Persons.
  (a) Any city of the first class owning or operating a water system may, in its governmental capacity, sell surplus water at contractual rates...
• § 14-234-110 - Waterworks Operated in Governmental Capacity -- Services to Nonresident Consumers.
  (a) A municipality owning a waterworks system shall operate its entire system in a governmental and not proprietary capacity.(b) (1) The municipality shall have...
• § 14-234-111 - Service to Adjacent Areas -- Municipalities Generally.
  (a) Any municipality in the State of Arkansas owning and operating a municipal waterworks system or a municipal sewer system or both may extend...
• § 14-234-112 - Service to Adjacent Areas -- Cities of the Second Class.
  Cities of the second class now owning a waterworks system are authorized and empowered to purchase, construct, own, and maintain water supply lines to...
• § 14-234-113 - Service to Other Municipalities.
  Municipal corporations, upon approval by resolution of their governing bodies, may make and enter into contracts whereby one (1) municipal corporation shall construct and...
• § 14-234-114 - Payments From Water Revenues in Lieu of Taxes.
  (a) The operating authority of any municipal waterworks system which was constructed or acquired pursuant to the authority contained in subchapter 2 of chapter...
• § 14-234-115 - Water Impoundments in Other Counties -- Payment in Lieu of Taxes.
  (a) Cities of the first class owning a water impoundment in excess of one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250) acres in a county other...
• § 14-234-116 - Waterworks and Sewer Commission.
  (a) Any city of the first or second class operating its municipal waterworks through a waterworks commission, by passage of a municipal ordinance, may...
• § 14-234-117 - Return of Dedicated Property.
  (a) Any water improvement district or any municipality that has paid for the construction of water pipelines and other portions of the infrastructure of...
• § 14-234-118 - No Abrogation of Existing Contracts -- Exception.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) The term "utility service" shall mean utility service of municipally owned water utilities and shall not mean...
• § 14-234-119 - Annual Audits and Procedures.
  (a) (1) A county, municipality, improvement district, or not-for-profit association or entity receiving fees from customers for providing sewage services shall obtain an annual...
• § 14-234-120 - Filing of Report.
  Within thirty (30) days of completion of the audit report or the agreed-upon procedures and compilation report, the accountant performing the audit or agreed-upon...
• § 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 reviewed by the appropriate board at the next regularly scheduled open meeting after receiving...
• § 14-234-122 - Penalty Provision.
  Any entity not complying with §§ 14-234-119 -- 14-234-121 may be subject to fines up to one thousand dollars ($1,000) by the Department of...

Last modified: November 15, 2016