Arkansas Code Title 14, Subtitle 14, Chapter 235, Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities

• § 14-235-201 - Definition.
  As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the term "works" shall be construed to mean and include: (1) The structures and...
• § 14-235-202 - Construction.
  This subchapter, being necessary for the public health, safety, and welfare, shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes of it.
• § 14-235-203 - Authority Generally.
  (a) The authority given in this subchapter shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, any power existing in any municipality under...
• § 14-235-204 - Extent of Authority.
  (a) Except as provided in § 14-235-203, this subchapter shall, without reference to any other statute, be deemed full authority for the construction, acquisition,...
• § 14-235-205 - Authority to Own, Etc., Systems.
  (a) A municipality shall have authority to: (1) Acquire, by gift, grant, purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, all necessary lands, rights-of-way, and property within or...
• § 14-235-206 - Appointment of Sewer Committee.
  (a) (1) (A) The construction, acquisition, improvement, equipment, custody, operation, and maintenance of any works for the collection, treatment, or disposal of sewage and...
• § 14-235-207 - Powers and Duties of Sewer Committee.
  (a) (1) (A) The sewer committee shall have power to take all steps and proceedings and to make and enter into all contracts or...
• § 14-235-208 - Appointment, Members, Etc., of Sanitary Board.
  (a) (1) The municipal council may, in its discretion, provide by ordinance that the custody, administration, operation, and maintenance of sewage system works shall...
• § 14-235-209 - Powers and Duties of Sanitary Board.
  (a) The board shall have power to establish bylaws, rules, and regulations for its own government.(b) The board, in respect to all matters of...
• § 14-235-210 - Power of Eminent Domain.
  (a) (1) Under this subchapter, every municipality shall have power to condemn any works to be acquired and any land, rights, easements, franchises, and...
• § 14-235-211 - Acquisition of Encumbered Property.
  No property shall be acquired under this subchapter upon which any lien or other encumbrance exists unless at the time the property is acquired...
• § 14-235-212 - Contracting With Other Political Subdivisions.
  (a) (1) (A) Any municipality operating a sewage collection system or sewage disposal works as defined in this subchapter or which, as provided in...
• § 14-235-213 - Enactment of Ordinance Before Construction or Acquisition.
  Before any municipality shall construct or acquire any works under this subchapter, the municipal council shall enact ordinances which shall: (1) Set forth: (A)...
• § 14-235-214 - Cost of Works.
  The cost of works under this subchapter shall be deemed to include: (1) The cost of acquisition or construction of them; (2) The cost...
• § 14-235-215 - Issuance of Revenue Bonds and Notes Generally.
  (a) (1) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be so construed as to authorize or permit any municipality to make any contract or to...
• § 14-235-216 - Terms, Execution, and Sale of Bonds.
  (a) (1) Revenue bonds issued under this subchapter shall bear interest at such rate or rates, payable annually or at shorter intervals, and shall...
• § 14-235-217 - Additional Bonds Authorized.
  (a) The municipal council or sewer committee may provide by the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds, or in the trust indenture executed...
• § 14-235-218 - Issuance of Additional Bonds.
  Nothing contained in this subchapter shall prevent the issuance of additional bonds, from time to time, if the bonds shall be authorized by law....
• § 14-235-219 - Securing of Bonds by Trust Indenture.
  (a) (1) In the discretion of the municipal council or sewer committee, bonds issued under this subchapter may be secured by a trust indenture...
• § 14-235-220 - Enforcement of Rights by Bondholders or Trustee.
  (a) (1) Any holder of any bonds issued under this subchapter, or any of the coupons attached to them, and the trustee, if any,...
• § 14-235-221 - Sinking Fund to Pay Bonds and Interest.
  (a) (1) At or before the issuance of any bonds under this subchapter, the municipal council shall, by ordinance, create a sinking fund for...
• § 14-235-222 - Allocation of Funds From Bonds and Revenues.
  (a) (1) (A) Any specified portion of the proceeds of an issue of bonds authorized under this subchapter may be allocated by the municipal...
• § 14-235-223 - Rates and Charges for Services -- Lien.
  (a) (1) The council of the municipality shall have power, and it shall be its duty, by ordinance to establish and maintain just and...
• § 14-235-224 - Service Payments by Municipalities.
  (a) A municipality shall be subject to the same charges and rates established as provided in § 14-235-223, or to charges and rates established...
• § 14-235-225 - Authority for Joint Undertaking.
  (a) Any city of the first class having a city manager form of government and divided by a state line shall have the authority...

Last modified: November 15, 2016