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AR Code § 14-235-212 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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 this subchapter, has ordered the construction or acquisition of such works, in this section called the “owner”, is authorized to contract with one (1) or more other cities, towns, or political subdivisions within the state, in this section called the “lessee”.  (B) The lessees are authorized to enter into contracts with the owners, for the service of such works to the lessees and their inhabitants, but only to the extent of the capacity of the works without impairing the usefulness of them to the owners, upon such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the sewer committee or sanitary board and approved by ordinance of the respective contracting parties.    (2) No such contract shall be made for a period of more than thirty (30) years, in violation of an ordinance authorizing bonds under this subchapter, or in violation of the trust indenture.    (b)  (1) The lessee shall, by ordinance, have power to establish, change, and adjust, so far as will not impair the rights of bondholders, rates and charges for the service rendered by the works against the owners of the premises served, in the manner provided in § 14-235-223 for establishing, changing, and adjusting rates and charges for the service rendered in the municipality where the works are owned and operated, and the rates or charges shall be collectible and shall be a lien as provided in § 14-235-223 for rates and charges made by the owner.  (2) The necessary intercepting sewers and appurtenant works for connecting the works of the owner with the sewerage system of the lessee shall be constructed by the owner or the lessee upon such terms and conditions as may be set forth in the contract, and the cost, or that part of the cost of them which is to be borne by the owner, may be paid as a part of the cost of the works from the proceeds of bonds issued under this subchapter unless otherwise provided by the ordinance or trust indenture prior to the issuance of the bonds.  (3) The income received by the owner under any such contract, if so provided in the ordinance or trust indenture, shall be deemed to be a part of the revenues of the works as defined in this subchapter and shall be applied as provided in this subchapter for the application of such revenues.
AR Code § 14-235-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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) A brief and general description of the works proposed to be constructed or purchased; and  (B) If the works are to be constructed, a reference to the preliminary report or plans and specifications which shall theretofore have been prepared and filed with the clerk or recorder by an engineer chosen by such council;    (2) Set forth:  (A) The cost of the works estimated by the engineer chosen as prescribed; or  (B) The purchase price if the works are to be purchased;    (3) Order the construction or acquisition of the works, in which connection the ordinance will recite that the terms of the construction or acquisition, so far as they are not set out in the ordinance, will thereafter be fixed by the council or sewer committee;  (4) State the names of the members of the sewer committee to have charge of the works and the construction or acquisition of them;  (5) Direct that revenue bonds of the municipality shall be issued pursuant to this subchapter in such an amount as may be found necessary to pay the cost of the works; and  (6) Contain such other provisions as may be necessary in the premises.
AR Code § 14-235-214 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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 of all property, rights, easements, and franchises deemed necessary or convenient for them and for the improvements determined upon as provided in § 14-235-210;  (3) Interest upon bonds prior to and during construction or acquisition and for six (6) months after completion of construction or of acquisition of the improvements mentioned;  (4) Engineering and legal expenses;  (5) Expense for estimates of cost and of revenues;  (6) Expense for plans, specifications, and surveys;  (7) Other expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of the enterprise;  (8) Administrative expense; and  (9) Such other expenses as may be necessary or incident to the financing authorized in this subchapter and the construction or acquisition of the works and the placing of the works in operation and the performance of the things required in this subchapter or permitted in connection with any of it.
AR Code § 14-235-216 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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 mature at such time or times as may be determined by ordinance.  (2) The bonds may be made redeemable before maturity, at the option of the municipality, to be exercised by the sewer committee, at not more than the par value thereof and a premium of five percent (5%), under such terms and conditions as may be fixed by the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds.  (3) The principal and interest of the bonds may be made payable in any lawful medium.  (4) The ordinance shall determine the form of the bonds, including the interest coupons to be attached to them, and shall fix the denomination or denominations of the bonds and the place or places of payment of the principal and interest of them, which may be at any bank or trust company within or without the state.  (5) The bonds shall contain a statement on their face that the municipality shall not be obligated to pay them or the interest on them except from the special fund provided from the net revenues of the works.  (6) All such bonds shall be, shall have, and are declared to have all the qualities and incidents of negotiable instruments under the negotiable instruments laws of the state.  (7)  (A) The bonds shall be exempt from all taxation, state, county, and municipal.  (B) This exemption shall include income taxation and inheritance taxation, as well as all forms of property taxation.    (8) Provisions may be made for the registration of any of the bonds in the name of the owner as to principal alone.    (b) Bonds shall be executed in the same manner as other bonds issued by municipalities are executed.  (c)  (1) The bonds shall be sold by the sewer committee in such manner as may be determined to be for the best interests of the municipality and subject to the approval of the municipal council or the committee.  (2) Any surplus of bond proceeds over and above the cost of the works shall be paid into the sinking fund provided for in § 14-235-221.  (3) If the proceeds of the bonds, by error or calculation or otherwise, shall be less than the cost of the works, additional bonds may in like manner, be issued to provide the amount of the deficit and, unless otherwise provided in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the bonds first issued or in the trust indenture executed in connection with them, shall be deemed to be the same issue as the antecedent bonds, secured by a lien of equal rank and in all other respects upon a parity with them.  (4) Prior to the preparation of the definitive bonds, temporary bonds may, under like restrictions, be issued with or without coupons, exchangeable for definitive bonds upon the issuance of the latter.
AR Code § 14-235-217 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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 in connection with it, that additional bonds may thereafter be authorized and issued, at one time or from time to time, under such limitations and restrictions as may be set forth in the ordinance or trust indenture, for the purpose of extending, improving, or bettering the works authorized under this subchapter when deemed necessary in the public interest.  (b) Unless otherwise provided in the ordinance or in the trust indenture executed pursuant to it, the additional bonds will be secured and be payable from the revenues of the works equally with all other bonds issued pursuant to the ordinance, without preference or distinction between any one (1) bond and any other bond by reason of priority of issuance or otherwise. However, any provisions of the ordinance or trust indenture subordinating the lien of subsequent issues, or otherwise regulating the priorities as between successive issues, will be controlling.
AR Code § 14-235-218 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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. However, all such additional bonds shall be subordinate to bonds issued pursuant to §§ 14-235-215 — 14-235-217 in respect to the application of revenues to such additional bonds unless the additional bonds consist of revenue bonds issued under this subchapter, the issuance of which was expressly authorized in the ordinance or indenture governing prior bonds of similar character. In this event, the additional bonds and such prior bonds will have a parity of lien unless the governing ordinance or indenture shall provide to the contrary.
AR Code § 14-235-219 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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 by and between the municipality and a corporate trustee, which may be any domestic or nonresident trust company or bank having the powers of a trust company.  (2) The trust indenture may convey or mortgage the works or any part of it.    (b) The ordinance authorizing the revenue bonds and fixing the details of it may provide that the trust indenture may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the bondholders as may be reasonable and proper, not in violation of law, including covenants setting forth the duties of the municipality and the committee in relation to the construction or acquisition of the works and the improvement, operation, repair, maintenance, and insurance of them, and the custody, safeguarding, and application of all moneys, and may provide that the works shall be contracted for, constructed, and paid for under the supervision and approval of consulting engineers employed or designated by the committee and satisfactory to the original bond purchasers, successors, assigns, or nominees. The bond purchasers, etc. may be given the right to require that the security given by contractors and by any depository of the proceeds of bonds or revenues of the works or other moneys pertaining to them be satisfactory to the purchasers, successors, assigns, or nominees.  (c) The indenture may set forth the rights and remedies of the bondholders or the trustee, restricting the individual right of action of bondholders as is customary in trust indentures securing bonds and debentures of corporations.  (d) Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter, the council or committee may provide by ordinance, or in the trust indenture, for the payment of the proceeds of the sale of the bonds and the revenues of the works to such officer, board, or depository as it may determine for the custody of them and for the method of disbursement of them, with such safeguards and restrictions as it may determine.
AR Code § 14-235-220 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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, except to the extent the rights given in this subchapter may be restricted by the ordinance authorizing issuance of the bonds or by the trust indenture, may either, at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceeding, protect and enforce any and all rights granted under this subchapter or under the ordinance or trust indenture.  (2) A bondholder or trustee may enforce and compel performance of all duties required by this subchapter or by the ordinance or trust indenture to be performed by the municipality issuing the bonds or by the sewer committee or any officer, including the making and collecting of reasonable and sufficient charges and rates for service rendered by the works.    (b) If there is any failure to pay the principal or interest of any of the bonds on the date named for payment, any court having jurisdiction of the action may appoint a receiver to administer the works on behalf of the municipality and the bondholders or trustee, except as so restricted, with power to charge and collect, or, by mandatory injunction or otherwise, to cause to be charged and collected, rates sufficient to provide for the payment of the expenses of operation, repair, and maintenance and also to pay any bonds and interest outstanding and to apply the revenue in conformity with this subchapter and the ordinance or trust indenture.
AR Code § 14-235-221 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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 the payment of the bonds and the interest on them and the payment of the charges of banks or trust companies for making payment of the bonds or interest and shall set aside and pledge a sufficient amount of the net revenues of the works, meaning the revenues of the works remaining after the payment of the reasonable expense of operation, repair, and maintenance.  (2)  (A) This amount shall be paid by the sewer committee into the sinking fund at intervals to be determined by ordinance prior to issuance of the bonds, for:  (i) The interest upon the bonds as interest shall fall due;  (ii) The necessary fiscal agency charges for paying bonds and interest;  (iii) The payment of the bonds as they fall due, or, if all bonds mature at one time, the proper maintenance of a sinking fund sufficient for the payment of them at such time; and  (iv) A margin for safety and for the payment of premiums upon bonds retired by call or purchase as provided in this subchapter, which margin, together with any unused surplus of such margin carried forward from the preceding year, shall equal ten percent (10%) of all other amounts so required to be paid into the sinking fund.    (B) Required payments shall constitute a first charge upon all the net revenues of the works.      (b)  (1) Prior to the issuance of the bonds, the committee, by ordinance, may be given the right to use or direct the trustee to use the sinking fund, or any part of it, in the purchase of any of the outstanding bonds payable from it at the market price of them but not exceeding the price, if any, at which they shall, in the same year, be payable or redeemable, and all bonds redeemed or purchased shall be cancelled and shall not again be issued.  (2) After the payments into the sinking fund as required in this section, the committee, at any time, in its discretion, may transfer all, or any part, of the balance of the net revenues after reserving an amount deemed by the committee sufficient for operation, repair, and maintenance for an ensuing period of not less than twelve (12) months and for depreciation, into the sinking fund or into a fund for extensions, betterments, and additions to the works.
AR Code § 14-235-222 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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 council to any particular project, or to new construction, as distinguished from the purchase of works already constructed, or vice versa.  (B)  (i) After such allocation, the designated portion of the proceeds of the bond issue shall be kept separate and apart from the remaining proceeds and shall be held by the municipality in trust for the performance of the purposes specified, and none other.  (ii) The diversion of the funds to any other purpose may be enjoined on the suit of the trustee under the indenture securing the bonds, or on the suit of any of the bondholders, or on the suit of any person whose property, under the ordinance of the council, is to be served by the proposed works.      (2) In making the allocation, the council will be controlled by the engineer's estimate of cost referred to in the initial ordinance.    (b)  (1)  (A) In the event of such allocation or proceeds, the bonds themselves may be similarly and correspondingly segregated and allocated to the respective purposes of the issue.  (B) Bonds segregated and allocated to one purpose, from the standpoint of legality and in all other respects, shall be deemed to have been issued to finance such purpose, and that alone.    (2)  (A) Notwithstanding such allocation and segregation, all bonds of the entire issue, unless the initial ordinance and the indenture securing the bonds shall provide to the contrary, will be secured ratably and equally by the revenues of the entire and aggregate works financed by the bond issue.  (B) Unless the ordinance and indenture shall so specifically provide, the allocation of bond proceeds or segregation of bonds mentioned will never have the effect of allocating the revenues from any particular portion of the authorized works exclusively to any particular bonds.
AR Code § 14-235-224 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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 in harmony with them, for service rendered the municipality and shall pay the rates or charges when due from corporate funds.  (b) The payments shall be deemed to be a part of the revenues of the works as defined in this subchapter and shall be applied as provided in this subchapter for the application of such revenues.
AR Code § 14-235-225 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 2 - Operation of Systems by Municipalities|§ 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 to join in the purchase, construction, and operation of a sewage system with the adjoining city in another state for each of the municipalities, and to execute an agreement for the joint obligation of the municipalities and secure the payment thereof by a joint pledge of the net revenues derived from the operation of the sewage systems.  (b) The municipalities shall employ a joint manager for the operation of the sewage system who shall be hired by the city managers of the municipalities and who shall serve under the direct supervision of the city managers jointly.
AR Code § 14-235-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 3 - Sewer Connections by Property Owners|§ 14-235-301. Penalties

 (a)  (1) It is declared a misdemeanor for any person to:  (A) Injure, damage, or destroy any public sewer; or  (B) Fail or refuse to connect with or tap the sewers of a municipality within the time prescribed by an ordinance of the municipality.    (2)  (A) Any person so offending shall be punished on conviction by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court, in any sum not more than five hundred dollars ($500) and for a period not longer than six (6) months.  (B)  (i) An offender shall also be liable for all damages which shall be found by the jury.  (ii) The sum so found, judgment shall be rendered in favor of the municipality, and execution shall issue on it as on other judgments at law.        (b)  (1) A city council shall have power by ordinance to compel all sewers built by private parties to be kept clean and in repair, by fine and punishment of the party in possession as owner or lessee of the property where the sewer is situated.  (2) The fine shall not exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) for any one (1) neglect, nor shall the imprisonment be more than ninety (90) days.
AR Code § 14-235-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 235 - Municipal Sewage Systems|Subchapter 3 - Sewer Connections by Property Owners|§ 14-235-302. Ordering property owners to connect

 (a) After the completion of any sewer or branch sewer authorized to be built under the provisions of this act, it shall be lawful for any municipality to which this act is applicable, whenever in its opinion the public health will be promoted by it, to order any one (1) or more property owners near or adjacent to any sewer to construct upon their property sewers leading from some point or place on their premises to the sewer of the municipality for the purpose of:  (1) Draining off surface or other water; and  (2) Conducting any excrement that may be at or about the premises and filth of every nature, character, and description into the sewers belonging to the municipality.    (b) In the order issued to construct the sewers for the purpose presented, the time within which they are to be completed, the nature and character of the material to be used in the construction of them, and the place of tapping the sewers of the municipality shall be designated, as well as the manner of doing it.