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AR Code § 14-265-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 265 - Health Care Facilities|§ 14-265-108. Bonds — Statutory mortgage lien — Enforcement by holder of bonds

 (a) Subject to the subsequent provisions of this section, there shall exist a statutory mortgage lien upon the land, buildings, and facilities acquired or constructed, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of the revenue bonds, which shall exist in favor of the holders of the bonds and in favor of the holders of the coupons attached to the bonds.  (b) The land, buildings, and facilities shall remain subject to the statutory mortgage lien until payment in full of the principal of and interest on the revenue bonds.  (c) The nature and extent of the mortgage lien on the land, buildings, and facilities may be controlled by the indenture referred to in § 14-265-105(b), including, without limitation, provisions pertaining to the release of all or part of the land, buildings, and facilities from the lien and the priority of the lien in the event of additional bond issues under this chapter for the purpose of reconstructing, replacing, extending, or improving the same land, buildings, and facilities.  (d) Subject to the restrictions as may be contained in the ordinance, order, or indenture authorizing and securing the bonds, any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter or of any coupons representing interest accrued thereon may enforce, either at law or in equity, the statutory mortgage lien conferred by this section and may compel, by proper suit, the performance of the duties of the officials of the issuing municipality or county as set forth in this chapter and in any ordinance, order, or indenture authorizing and securing the revenue bonds.
AR Code § 14-265-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 265 - Health Care Facilities|§ 14-265-109. Bonds — Default in payment

 (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 the land, buildings, or facilities acquired, constructed, reconstructed, extended, equipped, or improved, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of revenue bonds issued under this chapter, upon which land, buildings, or facilities, or any part thereof, there is a mortgage lien securing the revenue bonds with reference to which there is a default in the payment of principal or interest.  (b) The receiver shall have the power to operate and maintain the land, buildings, or facilities, to charge and collect rates or rents sufficient to provide for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds, after providing for the payment of any cost of receivership and operating expenses of the land, buildings, or facilities, and to apply the income and revenues derived from the land, buildings, or facilities in conformity with this chapter and the ordinance, order, 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 municipality or county.  (d) The relief afforded by this section shall be construed to be in addition and supplemental to the remedies that may be afforded the trustee for the bondholders and the bondholders in the ordinance, order, or indenture authorizing or securing the bonds and shall be so granted and administered as to accord full recognition to priority rights of bondholders as to the pledge or revenues from, and mortgage lien on, the land, buildings, or facilities as specified in, and fixed by, the ordinances, orders, or indentures authorizing or securing successive bond issues.
AR Code § 14-265-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 265 - Health Care Facilities|§ 14-265-110. Bonds — Tax exemption

 Bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxes including income and estate taxes.
AR Code § 14-265-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 265 - Health Care Facilities|§ 14-265-111. Bonds — Investment of public funds

 (a) Any municipality; any board, commission, or other authority duly established by ordinance of any municipality; 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 any county; or the board of trustees of any retirement system created by the General Assembly, in its discretion, may invest any of its funds not immediately needed for its purposes in the revenue bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter.  (b) Revenue bonds issued under this chapter shall be eligible to secure the deposit of public funds.
AR Code § 14-266-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 266 - Ambulance Licensing Act|§ 14-266-101. Title

 This chapter shall be known as the “Ambulance Licensing Act”.
AR Code § 14-266-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 266 - Ambulance Licensing Act|§ 14-266-103. Definitions

 As used in this chapter:   (1) “Emergency medical services” means the transportation and emergency medical services personnel care provided to the critically ill or injured before arrival at a medical facility by licensed emergency medical services personnel and within a medical facility subject to the individual approval of the medical staff and governing board of that facility; and  (2)  (A) “Nonemergency ambulance services” means the transport in a motor vehicle to or from medical facilities, including without limitation hospitals, nursing homes, physicians' offices, and other healthcare facilities of persons who are infirm or injured and who are transported in a reclining position.  (B) “Nonemergency ambulance services” does not include transportation provided by licensed hospitals that own and operate the ambulance for their own admitted patients.
AR Code § 14-266-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 266 - Ambulance Licensing Act|§ 14-266-104. Applicability and construction

 (a) This chapter does not apply to nonprofit or hospital-based ambulance services operated on November 1, 1981, by a nonprofit organization or an Arkansas hospital licensed by the Department of Health.  (b) This chapter does not expand the authority of emergency medical technicians or other ambulance personnel beyond the authority existing under applicable law.  (c) This chapter does not give cities or counties the power to regulate regional or state emergency medical service communication facilities.
AR Code § 14-266-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 266 - Ambulance Licensing Act|§ 14-266-106. Authority of EMS board

 (a)  (1) In addition to the powers granted under the Public Facilities Boards Act, § 14-137-101 et seq., the EMS board, unless limited by the governing body of the city or county, has unlimited authority, by negotiation or by bidding, to own, acquire, lease, construct, contract, operate, manage, improve, extend, maintain, control, permit, license, supervise, and regulate emergency medical services, ambulances, ambulance companies, their related properties, facilities, equipment, personnel, and all aspects attendant to providing emergency medical services and ambulance operations in the city or county.  (2) The authority under subdivision (a)(1) of this section includes without limitation the right to employ, regulate, license, and remove personnel, assistants, and employees and to regulate and fix their compensation.    (b) The EMS board may also appoint an executive director who shall not be a member of the EMS board and who shall serve at the pleasure of the EMS board and receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the EMS board.  (c) The members of the EMS board shall receive no compensation but shall be entitled to reimbursement of expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
AR Code § 14-266-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 266 - Ambulance Licensing Act|§ 14-266-107. Franchise

 (a) Cities of the first class, cities of the second class, and counties, whether or not they establish an EMS board as provided in this chapter, have all the powers that an EMS board is granted in this chapter and may exercise those powers alone or in conjunction with an EMS board.  (b) The cities and counties may franchise, exclusively or otherwise, emergency medical services, ambulances, ambulance companies, their related properties, facilities, equipment, personnel, and all aspects attendant to providing emergency medical services and ambulance operations within the cities or counties, whether or not owned and operated by the cities or counties.  (c) If an exclusive franchise is issued, the process employed in the issuance shall provide periodic opportunity for competitive solicitation of ambulance franchise applications.
AR Code § 14-266-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 266 - Ambulance Licensing Act|§ 14-266-108. Financing of services and facilities

 (a) The emergency medical services and emergency medical health care facilities anticipated by this chapter may be financed by service charges and bonds or by subsidy by some governmental agency.  (b)  (1) The bonds, which shall be issued under §§ 14-137-101 — 14-137-123, may be financed by service charges and rates levied by ordinance.  (2) The service charges and rates shall be assessed and collected on a per unit of service basis as determined by the EMS Board.
AR Code § 14-266-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 266 - Ambulance Licensing Act|§ 14-266-109. Rules, standards, and regulations

 (a) All rules, standards, and regulations concerning clinical medical standards, including, but not limited to, equipment standards, personnel standards, and training standards shall be submitted to the State Board of Health with advice from the Governor's Advisory Council for EMS through the Department of Health for review and approval before becoming effective.  (b)  (1) Approval shall not be required if the clinical medical standards are developed and approved by an organization of physicians licensed under the Arkansas Medical Practices Act, and authorized by local ordinance adopted pursuant to this chapter to establish clinical medical standards which are not in conflict with the Arkansas Medical Practices Act, and are not less than those established by this state.  (2) In this instance, the clinical medical standards so developed and approved shall be submitted to the State Board of Health with advice from the Governor's Advisory Council for EMS through the Department of Health for review and comment only.
AR Code § 14-266-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 266 - Ambulance Licensing Act|§ 14-266-110. Effect of termination of permit by state

 The revocation, suspension, or expiration of any permit, license, or certification issued by the Department of Health to an ambulance company or ambulance personnel shall cause an automatic revocation of the holder's permit, license, certification, or franchise granted under this chapter.
AR Code § 14-267-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 267 - Pollution Control Facilities|§ 14-267-101. Legislative determination

 (a) Pollution control facilities are legislatively determined to be essential to the securing and developing of industry and essential to the health, safety, and physical and economic welfare of the people of this state.  (b) The availability of permanent financing for pollution control facilities on favorable terms is necessary in the case of new and existing projects so that the people may obtain the benefits of additional jobs and payrolls, in the case of new projects, and may retain and, where applicable, expand jobs and payrolls which might otherwise be lost, in the case of existing projects. This chapter is in implementation of Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 49 [repealed], and is necessary for the full accomplishment and realization of the public purposes contemplated by the people in adopting Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 49 [repealed].
AR Code § 14-267-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 267 - Pollution Control Facilities|§ 14-267-103. Construction

 (a) This chapter is to be liberally construed to accomplish the purposes hereof and shall be the sole act and authority necessary to be complied with. To that end, this chapter and the authority conferred by it shall be supplemental to all other authority set forth in any other act authorizing or dealing with industrial or pollution control facilities and their financing.  (b) The pollution control facilities authorized by this chapter may pertain to any aspect of the securing and developing of industry including those directly involved and those indirectly involved therewith, such as, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, utility facilities and services, whether rendered by political subdivisions or private persons, corporations, or organizations.  (c) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize any municipality or county to sell bonds and use the proceeds of that sale to condemn a utility plant or distribution system owned or operated by a regulated public utility.
AR Code § 14-267-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 267 - Pollution Control Facilities|§ 14-267-104. Authority

 Any municipality and any county in this state is authorized to own, acquire, contruct, reconstruct, extend, equip, improve, operate, maintain, sell, lease, contract concerning, or otherwise deal in or dispose of, or make loans to finance the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, extension, equipment, or improvement of pollution control facilities for the disposal or control of sewerage, solid waste, water pollution, air pollution, or any combination thereof; any such undertaking, or combination of such undertakings, shall be sometimes referred to in this chapter as a “pollution control project.”
AR Code § 14-267-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 267 - Pollution Control Facilities|§ 14-267-105. Agreements with federal or state agencies

 Municipalities and counties are authorized to enter into and carry out appropriate agreements with any agency or political subdivision of the United States of America or of the State of Arkansas pertaining to the accomplishment of the purposes authorized by this chapter including, without limitation, loan agreements for the borrowing of money and agreements pertaining to grants.
AR Code § 14-267-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 267 - Pollution Control Facilities|§ 14-267-106. Bonds — Authority to issue

 (a) Municipalities and counties are authorized to use any available revenues for the accomplishment of pollution control projects, either alone or together with other available funds and revenues. They may issue bonds, as authorized in this chapter, for the accomplishment of pollution control projects, either alone or together with other available funds and revenues.  (b) Bonds may be issued in such principal amount as shall be sufficient to pay the cost of accomplishing the pollution control project involved, the cost of issuing bonds, the amount necessary for a reserve, if deemed desirable, the amount necessary to provide for debt service on the bonds until revenues for the payment thereof are available, and any other costs and expenditures of whatever nature incidental to the accomplishment of the pollution control project involved.
AR Code § 14-267-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 267 - Pollution Control Facilities|§ 14-267-108. Bonds — Issuance for refunding of obligations

 (a) Bonds may be issued for the purpose of refunding any obligations issued under this chapter.  (b) The refunding bonds may be combined with bonds issued under the provisions of § 14-267-107 into a single issue.  (c)  (1) When bonds are issued under this section for refunding purposes, the bonds may either be sold or delivered in exchange for the outstanding obligations.  (2) If sold, the proceeds may be either applied to the payment of the obligations refunded or deposited in escrow for the retirement thereof.    (d) 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.  (e) The ordinance or order under which chapter 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 § 14-267-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 267 - Pollution Control Facilities|§ 14-267-109. Bonds — Indebtedness as special obligation — Payment of principal and interest

 (a) The bonds issued under this chapter shall not be general obligations of the municipality or county but shall be special obligations. In no event shall the bonds constitute an indebtedness of the municipality or county within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation.  (b) It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that the same has been issued under the provisions of this chapter, and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the municipality or county within any constitutional or statutory limitation.  (c) The principal of and interest on the bonds shall be secured by a pledge of, and shall be payable from, revenues derived from the pollution control project acquired, constructed, reconstructed, extended, or improved, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of the bonds.  (d) In addition, the municipality or county is authorized to pledge to and use for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds, together with other expenses in connection therewith, surplus revenues derived from water, sewer, gas, and electric utilities owned by the municipality or county.  (e) Surplus revenues, as used in this section, are defined to mean revenues remaining after adequate provision shall have been made for expenses of operation, maintenance, and depreciation and all requirements of ordinances, orders, or indentures securing bonds, theretofore and thereafter issued to finance the cost of acquiring, constructing, reconstructing, extending, or improving the utilities, have been fully met and complied with.
AR Code § 14-267-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 267 - Pollution Control Facilities|§ 14-267-110. Bonds — Mortgage lien

 (a) The ordinance, order, or indenture referred to in § 14-267-107 may, but need not, impose a foreclosable mortgage lien upon the land, buildings, and facilities acquired, constructed, reconstructed, extended, equipped, or improved, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of bonds issued under this chapter. The nature and extent of the mortgage lien may be controlled by the ordinance, order, or indenture, including, without limitation, provisions pertaining to the release of all or part of the land, buildings, and facilities from the mortgage lien and the priority of the mortgage lien in the event of successive bond issues, as authorized by § 14-267-107.  (b) The ordinance, order, or indenture authorizing or securing the bonds may authorize any holder or registered owner of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter, or a trustee on behalf of all holders and registered owners, either at law or in equity, to enforce the mortgage lien and, by proper suit, compel the performance of the duties of the officials of the issuing municipality or county as set forth in this chapter and in the ordinance, order, or indenture authorizing or securing the bonds.  (c) References in this chapter to “mortgage lien” shall include a security interest in any personal property embodied in a pollution control project acquired, constructed, reconstructed, extended, equipped, or improved, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of bonds issued under this chapter.
AR Code § 14-267-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 267 - Pollution Control Facilities|§ 14-267-111. Bonds — Default in payment

 (a) In the event of a default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any bonds issued under this chapter, any court having jurisdiction may appoint a receiver to take charge of the land, buildings, or facilities acquired, constructed, reconstructed, extended, equipped, or improved, in whole or in part, with the proceeds of bonds issued under this chapter, upon which land, buildings, or facilities, or any part thereof, there is a mortgage lien securing the bonds with reference to which there is a default in the payment of principal or interest.  (b) The receiver shall have the power to operate and maintain the land, buildings, or facilities, to charge and collect rates or rents 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 land, buildings, or facilities and to apply the income and revenues derived from the land, buildings, or facilities in conformity with this chapter and the ordinance, order, 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 municipality or county.  (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 ordinance or indenture authorizing or securing the bonds and 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, and the mortgage lien on, the land, buildings, or facilities as specified in, and fixed by, the ordinance, order, or indenture authorizing or securing successive bond issues.
AR Code § 14-267-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 16 - Public Health And Welfare Generally|Chapter 267 - Pollution Control Facilities|§ 14-267-112. Bonds — Tax exemption

 Bonds issued under this chapter shall be exempt from all state, county, and municipal taxes, including income and inheritance taxes.