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AR Code § 14-229-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 229 - General Provisions|§ 14-229-103. Termination of water service — Definition

 (a) A municipality owning or operating a public sewer system or sewer improvement district that provides sewer service to its citizens may request a water association, a water improvement district, or a water authority that provides the water service to terminate the water service to a resident who is delinquent at least thirty (30) days in making payment to the municipality for sewer service or solid waste service.  (b) The water association, water improvement district, or water authority shall send notice to a person who is delinquent in making payments for sewer service or solid waste service of the date the water service will be terminated and shall terminate the water service upon that date unless the balance due the municipality for sewer service or solid waste service is paid.  (c) The water association, water improvement district, or water authority shall terminate the water service upon certification by the municipality that the person:  (1) Is more than thirty (30) days delinquent in making payments for sewer service or solid waste service; and  (2) Has been sent notice of the termination of the water service as required under subsection (b) of this section.    (d) As used in this section, “water authority” means the public body politic and governmental entity organized under the Water Authority Act, § 4-35-101 et seq.
AR Code § 14-229-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 229 - General Provisions|§ 14-229-104. Rural water and wastewater entities — Electronic funds transfers

 All rural water and rural wastewater entities, however organized, may disburse funds for payment of debts by electronic funds transfer if:   (1) The person responsible for the disbursement maintains a ledger including without limitation the following information:  (A) The name and address of the entity receiving payment;  (B) The routing number of the bank in which the funds are held;  (C) The account number and the accounts clearinghouse trace number pertaining to the transfer; and  (D) The date and amount transferred; and    (2) Written consent for payment by electronic funds transfer is given by the entity to whom the transfer is made.
AR Code § 14-230-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 230 - Water, Sewer, And Solid Waste Management Financing|§ 14-230-101. Title

 This chapter shall be known as “The Water, Sewer, and Solid Waste Management Systems Finance Act of 1975.”
AR Code § 14-230-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 230 - Water, Sewer, And Solid Waste Management Financing|§ 14-230-102. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Eligible applicant” means a city, a town, a county, a regional water district, a special improvement district, a public facilities board, a rural development authority, a rural waterworks facilities board including boards and commissions thereof, other public entity, or a nonprofit corporation which provides water, sewer, or solid waste services to one (1) or more cities, towns, or counties;  (2) “Commission” means the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission.
AR Code § 14-230-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 230 - Water, Sewer, And Solid Waste Management Financing|§ 14-230-103. General duties of commission

 The Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission shall:   (1) Administer the loan and grant programs authorized under this chapter;  (2) Take necessary action to ensure that the funds are used for the purposes established in this chapter and in accordance with state and federal laws.
AR Code § 14-230-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 230 - Water, Sewer, And Solid Waste Management Financing|§ 14-230-105. State loan and grant program authorized

 (a) The commission is authorized to make loans and grants to provide funds for water, sewer, or solid waste management financial assistance.  (b) The commission may provide financial assistance up to the total project cost for water, sewer, or solid waste management systems projects.
AR Code § 14-230-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 230 - Water, Sewer, And Solid Waste Management Financing|§ 14-230-106. Eligible applicants

 (a) An eligible applicant is eligible to apply for loans and grants specified in this chapter. Combinations of eligible applicants may apply jointly for loans or grants authorized under this chapter in accordance with § 25-20-101 et seq.  (b)  (1) Award of a loan or grant may be made contingent upon the receipt of the federal, state or other financial assistance for which an eligible applicant has applied.  (2) Award of a loan or grant may be made contingent upon the eligible applicant providing additional local funds for water, sewer, or solid waste management systems.    (c) Award of a loan or grant may be made contingent upon (1) the funds provided being the last to be used, (2) the eligible applicant establishing and a maintaining depreciation, debt service or other reserves, any reasonable condition established by the Commission.
AR Code § 14-230-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 230 - Water, Sewer, And Solid Waste Management Financing|§ 14-230-107. Applications for grants

 (a) The commission shall promulgate such rules and forms as are needed for the efficient administration of the chapter.  (b) Applications shall be submitted to the commission.  (c)  (1) The commission shall consider the merits of the application and, in accordance with the criteria for selection and the available funds, make a final determination concerning the disposition of the application.  (2) The director of the commission shall, within ten (10) days, notify the applicant of the final action of the commission in accepting, modifying, or rejecting the application.
AR Code § 14-230-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 230 - Water, Sewer, And Solid Waste Management Financing|§ 14-230-108. Criteria for selection of loan and grant recipients

 In selecting the recipients for loans and grants authorized in this chapter, the following factors shall be taken into consideration by the commission:   (1) The financial ability of the eligible applicant to provide the funds for the project;  (2) The burden placed on low income, elderly, or unemployed persons if an eligible applicant constructs a water, sewer, or solid waste management system and pays for the project through user fees, or taxes, or both;  (3) Evaluations and priorities as enunciated in the Arkansas State Water Plan;  (4) State and regional priorities and requirements as recommended by appropriate state and regional agencies;  (5) The amount of fair user charges or other revenues which the project may reasonably be expected to generate; and  (6) The funds necessary to amortize the initial cost and provide for the successful operation and maintenance of the project, including depreciation.
AR Code § 14-230-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 230 - Water, Sewer, And Solid Waste Management Financing|§ 14-230-109. Revolving fund

 (a) A special fund, entitled the “Water, Sewer and Solid Waste Systems Revolving Fund”, is created to provide a depository for funds which may be appropriated or otherwise secured.  (b) The revolving fund shall be used to provide low interest loans or grants to an eligible applicant for the purposes established in this chapter. Funds from the repayment of loans made under this chapter shall return to the revolving fund and shall be reused in a manner which is consistent with the purposes of this chapter.  (c) The commission is authorized to use the funds made available under this chapter for grants to or for suspended repayment of loans to eligible applicants.  (d) Special terms for repayment of loans, including a negotiated schedule of repayment that reasonably minimizes the user charges and tax burden upon customers of an eligible applicant, may be negotiated by the commission and concluded by contractual agreement. Repayment of loans not exceeding a fifty-year period is authorized.  (e)  (1) The commission is authorized to require partial or complete repayment of grants plus the payment of interest accumulated on the sum granted if the operation of a water, sewer, or solid waste management system constructed with the assistance of such grants produces an income which exceeds the sum necessary to repay the federal, state, or other loans for construction of the system and the expenses of operating the system.  (2) The terms and conditions of possible repayment of grants shall be specified and agreed to in writing prior to the disbursement of the grant.
AR Code § 14-232-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-101. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise:   (1) “Governing body” means the council, board of directors, or city commissioner of any municipality or the county judge and quorum court of any county;  (2) “Municipality” means a city of the first class or a city of the second class or an incorporated town;  (3) “Refuse” means refuse, garbage, trash, rubbish, debris of any nature, including, without limitation, food waste, rejected animal or vegetable matter, whether or not intended for or resulting from the preparation of food, paper, clothing, grass, leaves, ashes, tin cans, bottles, and solid waste of any nature whatever;  (4) “Equip” means to install or place in or on any building or structure equipment of any and every kind, whether or not affixed, including, without limitation, building service equipment, fixtures, heating equipment, air conditioning equipment, machinery, furniture, furnishings, and personal property of every kind;  (5) “Sell” means to sell for such price, in whatever manner, and upon whatever terms the county or municipality shall determine, including, without limitation, public or private sale, and if public, pursuant to such advertisement as the county or municipality shall determine, to sell for cash or credit, payable in lump sum or in installments over such period as the county or municipality shall determine and, if on credit, with or without interest;  (6) “Lease” means to lease for such rentals, for such periods, and upon such terms and conditions as the county or municipality shall determine, and to grant such purchase options for such prices and upon such terms and conditions as the county or municipality shall determine;  (7) “Facilities” means any real property, personal property, or mixed property of any and every kind that can be used or that will be useful in controlling, collecting, removing, handling, reducing, disposing of, treating, and otherwise dealing in and concerning refuse, including, without limitation, rights-of-way, roads, streets, pipes, pipelines, reservoirs, utilities, materials, motor vehicles, equipment, fixtures, machinery, furniture, furnishings, instrumentalities, and other real, personal, or mixed property of every kind;  (8) “Person” means any individual, corporation, or other organization of whatever nature, whether or not a property owner and whether residing within or without the corporate limits of the municipality or county involved.
AR Code § 14-232-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-102. Construction

 This chapter shall be liberally construed to accomplish its purposes.
AR Code § 14-232-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-103. General powers of counties and municipalities

 (a) Any county or municipality in this state is authorized to own, acquire, construct, reconstruct, extend, equip, improve, operate, maintain, sell, lease, contract concerning, or otherwise deal in facilities of any nature necessary or desirable for the control, collection, removal, reduction, disposal, treatment, or other handling of refuse. Each undertaking by a county or municipality under this chapter may sometimes be referred to as a “project.”  (b) Counties and municipalities are authorized to prescribe, by order or ordinance, reasonable rules and regulations necessary or appropriate to the control, collection, removal, reduction, disposal, treatment, and handling of refuse.
AR Code § 14-232-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-104. Revenue bonds — Power to issue — Amount

 (a) Counties and municipalities are authorized to use any available revenues for the accomplishment of the purposes set forth in § 14-232-103(a), including the proceeds of revenue bonds issued under the authority of this chapter, either alone or together with other available funds and revenues.  (b) The amount of revenue bonds issued shall be sufficient to pay:  (1) The cost of accomplishing the specified purposes;  (2) The cost of issuing bonds;  (3) The amount necessary for a reserve, if desirable;  (4) The amount necessary to provide for debt service on bonds until revenues for the payment thereof are available; and  (5) Any other costs and expenditures of whatever nature incidental to the accomplishment of the specified purposes.
AR Code § 14-232-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-106. Refunding bonds

 (a) Revenue bonds may be issued under this chapter for the purpose of refunding any obligations issued under this chapter. The refunding bonds may be combined with bonds issued under the provisions of § 14-232-105 into a single issue.  (b) When bonds are issued under this section for refunding purposes, they may either be sold or delivered in exchange for the outstanding obligations. If sold, the proceeds may be either applied to the payment of the obligations refunded or deposited in escrow for the retirement thereof.  (c) All bonds issued under this section shall in all respects be authorized, issued, and secured in the manner provided for other bonds issued under this chapter and shall have all the attributes of those bonds.  (d) The order or ordinance under which the refunding bonds are issued may provide that any of the refunding bonds shall have the same priority of lien on the revenues pledged for their payment as was enjoyed by the obligations refunded thereby.
AR Code § 14-232-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-107. Bonds — Nature of indebtedness — Security

 (a) The revenue bonds issued under this chapter shall not be general obligations of the county or municipality but shall be special obligations.  (b) In no event shall the revenue bonds constitute an indebtedness of the county or municipality within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.  (c) It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it has been issued under the provisions of this chapter and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the county or municipality within any constitutional or statutory limitation.  (d) The principal of and interest on the revenue bonds and the paying agent's fees shall be secured by a pledge of and payable from revenues derived from the rates or charges imposed and collected under the authority of this chapter.
AR Code § 14-232-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-108. Receivership

 (a) In the event of a default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any revenue bonds issued under this chapter, any court having jurisdiction may appoint a receiver to take charge of any project acquired, constructed, reconstructed, extended, equipped, or improved, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of revenue bonds issued under this chapter.  (b) The receiver shall have the power to operate and maintain the project and to charge and collect rates and charges sufficient to provide for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds, after providing for the payment of all costs of receivership and operating expenses of the project, and to apply the income and revenues derived from the project in conformity with this chapter and the ordinance or indenture authorizing or securing the bonds.  (c) When the default has been cured, the receivership shall be ended and the properties returned to the county or municipality.  (d) The relief afforded by this section shall be construed to be in addition and supplemental to the remedies that may be afforded to the trustee for the holders and registered owners of the bonds and the holders and registered owners of the bonds in the order, ordinance, or indenture authorizing or securing the bonds. It shall be so granted and administered as to accord full recognition to priority rights of holders and registered owners of the bonds as to the pledge of revenues from the project as specified in and fixed by the order, ordinance, or indenture authorizing or securing successive bond issues.
AR Code § 14-232-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-109. Investment of public funds in bonds

 Any municipality; any board, commission, or other authority established by ordinance of any municipality, or the boards of trustees, respectively, of the firemen's relief and pension fund and the policemen's pension and relief fund of any municipality; or the board of trustees of any retirement system created by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas may, in its discretion, invest any of its funds not immediately needed for its purposes in revenue bonds issued under the authority of this chapter. Revenue bonds issued under the authority of this chapter shall be eligible to secure the deposit of public funds.
AR Code § 14-232-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-110. Rates and charges

 (a) Counties and municipalities are authorized to impose and collect rates and charges for the services provided by projects of the type authorized by this chapter whether or not acquired, constructed, reconstructed, extended, or improved under the authority of this chapter.  (b) Counties and municipalities are authorized to impose upon and collect from all persons who can be served by a project reasonable rates and charges for the services of the project, without regard to whether the person desires to utilize the services.  (c) All or any part of the revenues derived from the rates and charges imposed and collected under the authority of this chapter may be used for accomplishing and carrying out the authorities conferred by this chapter, including the pledging and use of those revenues for the payment of the principal of and interest on bonds issued under the authority of this chapter.
AR Code § 14-232-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-111. Lease agreements

 Counties and municipalities are authorized to enter into leases, as lessor, leasing any project or any facilities thereof. The lease rentals shall be treated as project revenues for all purposes of this chapter.
AR Code § 14-232-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-112. Compacts in joint effort

 (a) Any county or any municipality is authorized and empowered to enter into a compact with any county or counties, any municipality or municipalities, the United States of America, or the State of Arkansas, or any agency or political subdivision thereof, for the purpose of a cooperative effort to carry out any or all of the purposes authorized by this chapter.  (b) The compact may provide for joint ownership or joint operation of any facilities and may contain other terms and conditions as the parties deem necessary or desirable for the accomplishment of any of the purposes authorized by this chapter.
AR Code § 14-232-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-113. Eminent domain

 (a) In the event that necessary lands needed for the accomplishment of the purposes authorized by this chapter cannot be acquired by negotiation, any county or municipality is authorized to acquire the needed lands by condemnation proceedings under the power of eminent domain.  (b) Such proceedings may be exercised in the manner now provided for taking private property for rights-of-way for railroads as set forth by §§ 18-15-1202 — 18-15-1207, or in the manner provided by §§ 18-15-301 — 18-15-307, or pursuant to any other applicable statutory provisions enacted for the exercise of the power of eminent domain by the various counties or municipalities in the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 14-232-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 232 - Refuse Disposal Generally|§ 14-232-114. Bonds — Tax exemption

 Bonds issued under the authority of this chapter shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxes. This exemption includes income taxes.