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AR Code § 14-234-216 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 2 - Purchase and Construction|§ 14-234-216. Obligations incurred solely through sale of revenue bonds — Security in condemnation proceedings

 No obligation may be incurred by the municipality in the construction or acquisition of the works contemplated by this subchapter or in the condemnation of property in connection therewith, except as shall be payable solely from the funds to be acquired from the sale of revenue bonds of the character authorized by this subchapter. In view of this provision, the court, in condemnation proceedings instituted under this subchapter by the municipality, may make such requirements of security as will serve to protect the landowner.
AR Code § 14-234-217 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 2 - Purchase and Construction|§ 14-234-217. Bonds — Nature of indebtedness

 (a) Bonds issued under the provisions of this subchapter shall be payable solely from the revenues derived from the waterworks system.  (b) The bonds shall not in any event constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of the constitutional provisions or limitations.  (c) It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that it has been issued under the provisions of this subchapter and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within any constitutional or statutory limitation.
AR Code § 14-234-218 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 2 - Purchase and Construction|§ 14-234-218. Bonds — Tax exemption

 The revenue bonds shall be exempt from all taxation, state, county, and municipal. This exemption includes income taxation and inheritance taxation.
AR Code § 14-234-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions|§ 14-234-301. Construction and applicability

 (a) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as repealing any special act providing for a board of commissioners to administer and operate municipal waterworks, nor shall this subchapter apply to cities which have a commission form of government.  (b) This subchapter shall not alter, amend, or affect any indenture or obligation issued by any city prior to the passage of this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-234-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions|§ 14-234-302. Creation of commission

 Any city of the first or second class owning and operating a waterworks and distributing system, by appropriate action of its city council, may create a commission for the purpose of operating and managing the waterworks and distributing system.
AR Code § 14-234-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions|§ 14-234-303. Ordinance — Qualifications of commissioners

 (a) Any city of the first class or city of the second class may enact an ordinance by a majority vote of the elected and qualified members of its city council creating a waterworks commission to be composed of no less than three (3) nor more than seven (7) citizens who are qualified electors of the municipality or who are qualified electors of the area served by the municipality.  (b) Any waterworks commission of a city of the first class or city of the second class having less than seven (7) members may have its membership increased at any time to no more than seven (7) members by ordinance of the city council passed by the majority vote of the elected and qualified members of the city council.
AR Code § 14-234-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions|§ 14-234-304. Appointment of commissioners — Term — Salaries — Oath

 (a)  (1) The commissioners shall be appointed by the mayor and confirmed by a two-thirds vote of the elected and qualified members of the city council and shall hold office for a term of eight (8) years.  (2)  (A) However, commissioners first appointed and confirmed shall serve for terms of four (4), six (6), and eight (8) years for a three-member commission, for terms of two (2), four (4), six (6), seven (7), and eight (8) years for a five-member commission, and for terms of two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), six (6), seven (7), and eight (8) years for a seven-member commission, each to be designated by the mayor and city council.  (B) Thereafter, and upon the expiration of the commissioners' respective terms, their successors shall be appointed by the remaining commissioners subject to the approval of two-thirds (2/3) of the elected and qualified members of the city council for a term of eight (8) years.      (b)  (1) If the membership of any waterworks commission of a city of the first class or city of the second class is increased under this subchapter, the members selected to fill the additional positions following the increase in membership of the waterworks commission shall be appointed as vacancies are filled under subsection (d) of this section for terms of such duration to assure that thereafter the terms of the remaining commissioners will expire in successive years with no two (2) terms expiring during any one (1) calendar year.  (2) All successor appointments to the waterworks commission shall be made in the manner and for the terms prescribed in this subchapter.    (c) The city council may fix and prescribe the salaries to be paid to the commissioners.  (d) In the event of a vacancy on the commission, the vacancy shall be filled by the remaining commissioners appointing a member, subject to the approval of two-thirds (2/3) of the elected and qualified members of the city council.  (e) The commissioners shall file the oath of public officials required by law in the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 14-234-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions|§ 14-234-305. Removal of commissioners

 Any commissioner appointed by the provisions of this subchapter may be removed for cause upon a two-thirds (2/3) vote of the duly elected and qualified members of the city council.
AR Code § 14-234-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions|§ 14-234-306. Authority of commissioners to operate and manage waterworks system

 (a) The commissioners appointed under this subchapter shall have full and complete authority to manage, operate, improve, extend, and maintain the municipal waterworks and distribution system, and shall have full and complete charge of the plant, including the right to employ or remove any and all assistants and employees of whatsoever nature, kind, or character and to fix, regulate, and pay their salaries.  (b) It is the intention of this subchapter to vest in the commissioners unlimited authority to operate, manage, maintain, improve, and extend the municipally owned waterworks and distribution system and to have full and complete charge thereof.  (c) The commissioners shall not have authority or power to sell, mortgage, or encumber the waterworks and distribution system, unless it is done in accordance with the provisions of subchapter 2 of this chapter or when authorized by the mandate of an election called for that purpose.
AR Code § 14-234-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions|§ 14-234-307. Further powers of commissioners — Donations to charitable organizations — Use of waterworks commission funds

 (a)  (1) The commissioners shall, in addition to the powers enumerated in § 14-234-306, have such other and further powers as are now by law given to the city council of any city.  (2) The commissioners shall be governed by all existing statutes pertaining to the duties of city councils.    (b)  (1) The commissioners shall be authorized to make donations of money from the revenue of municipal waterworks systems to local community chests or other citywide nonsectarian, incorporated, charitable organizations.  (2) Any commissioner or commissioners making donations to local community chests or other organizations under the provisions of this section and § 14-42-108 shall not be liable for the penalty provided in § 14-42-108; nor shall they be personally liable by civil action because of any donation made to a local community chest or other organization under the provisions of this section. It is the purpose of this section to authorize such donations and to relieve the commissioners from any criminal or civil liability as a result of their official act in making the donation.    (c)  (1) The General Assembly finds that payments to a chamber of commerce for industrial development activities or prevention of community deterioration are authorized payments within the board of commissioners' authority to manage and operate a waterworks and distribution system pursuant to this subchapter.  (2) A board of waterworks commissioners created pursuant to this subchapter may expend operation and maintenance funds of the waterworks for industrial development or community deterioration prevention activities conducted by a chamber of commerce or similar not-for-profit organization, if such activities in the judgment of the board of commissioners are likely to increase revenues of the waterworks or decrease expenditures resulting from system deterioration.  (3) It is not intended that this subsection should in anywise alter any authority that a board of waterworks commissioners has as of April 12, 1993.
AR Code § 14-234-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions|§ 14-234-308. Vesting of control in commissioners

 (a) Upon the appointment of the commissioners as provided in this subchapter, the mayor and city council shall execute such instruments and enact measures as may be necessary to vest complete charge of the municipally owned waterworks and distributing system in the commissioners appointed under this subchapter.  (b) Upon their failure to do so, mandamus may be maintained against them, or any one of them, in any court of competent jurisdiction by any taxpayer of the city wherein is located the waterworks and distributing system in question.
AR Code § 14-234-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions|§ 14-234-309. Rules and regulations — Reports and audits

 (a) The commissioners shall adopt such rules and regulations as they may deem necessary and expedient for the proper operation and management of the municipal waterworks and distributing system and shall have authority to alter, change, or amend the rules and regulations at their discretion.  (b) They shall submit monthly reports and annual audits of operations to the mayor and city council and furnish other and further reports, data, and information as may be requested by the mayor or city council.
AR Code § 14-234-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 3 - Waterworks Commissions|§ 14-234-310. Social security and retirement for employees of waterworks system in cities of the first class

 (a) In any city of the first class owning and operating waterworks and distribution systems by or through a board of waterworks commissioners created in compliance with this subchapter, the board of waterworks commissioners of the city may provide a plan for social security, old age pensions, and retirement pay for part or all of the employees of the waterworks system under such plan as the board of waterworks commissioners may provide.  (b) The plan may include payments from both the board of commissioners and the employees, or either of them and may be underwritten by a solvent insurance company or by a fund set up and maintained by the board of commissioners from the funds of the waterworks system, the employees, or both, or either of them.  (c) The board may also authorize its employees to participate in the Federal Old Age and Survivor's Insurance Program with the city's cost of contribution to constitute an operating expense of the waterworks system.
AR Code § 14-234-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 4 - Recreational Activities|§ 14-234-401. Definition

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “operating authority” means either the legislative body or the board of commissioners, whichever is charged in a given instance with the responsibility of operating the municipal waterworks system.
AR Code § 14-234-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 4 - Recreational Activities|§ 14-234-402. Penalty

 The violation of this subchapter or of any rule or regulation adopted by the operating authority shall constitute a misdemeanor, and upon conviction the offender shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) for each offense.
AR Code § 14-234-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 4 - Recreational Activities|§ 14-234-403. Injunctions

 (a) Anything to the contrary in this subchapter notwithstanding, the State Board of Health may obtain an injunction restraining the operating authority from permitting a recreational activity if the rules and regulations adopted by the operating authority, or if the provisions of any lease granted by the operating authority do not adequately protect the water supply from pollution, or if the rules and regulations or the terms of any lease are not properly enforced by the operating authority.  (b) Any operating authority may obtain prohibitive and mandatory injunctions against any person, firm, or corporation polluting its water supply or refusing to obey lawful regulations or rules adopted by the operating authority or the State Board of Health for the protection of any municipal water supply.
AR Code § 14-234-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 4 - Recreational Activities|§ 14-234-404. Summons and prosecution for offense

 (a) Wardens may issue a special summons returnable to the municipal court of the municipality owning the waterworks system. The summons shall specify the date of the offense and the law or the number of the rule or regulation violated.  (b) The original of the summons shall be retained by the warden. A copy shall be delivered to the offender and two (2) copies delivered to the clerk of the municipal court within ten (10) days after issuance of the summons.  (c) The clerk of the court shall insert the date of hearing on one (1) copy of the summons and the copy shall be served on the offender by regular mail or may be served in person by the warden or by any other person authorized by law to serve processes.  (d) It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of the county where the municipality is located to prosecute offenders.
AR Code § 14-234-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 4 - Recreational Activities|§ 14-234-405. Recreational activities on lands and waters authorized — Exceptions

 (a) The operating authority of any municipally owned waterworks system which maintains adequate controls against pollution shall have the authority to permit recreational activities upon the lands and waters owned by the municipality for waterworks purposes, to construct recreational facilities, to collect fees and rentals for permitting recreational activities, and to prescribe rules and regulations prohibiting, permitting, and governing recreational activities.  (1) The rules and regulations shall have the force and effect of any other laws of this state and shall be effective wherever the lands and waters are located.  (2) A copy of all rules and regulations, or amendments thereto, adopted by the operating authority shall be furnished to the State Board of Health within thirty (30) days after adoption.  (3) If the operating authority elects to permit hunting or fishing upon its premises, the laws of this state and the rules and regulations of the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission governing hunting and fishing shall remain in full force and effect and may not be abrogated by the rules and regulations of the operating authority.    (b) Regardless of any rule or regulation adopted by the operating authority, it shall be unlawful for any person to wade, bathe, or swim in any lake or reservoir with a surface area of less than seven hundred (700) acres used by a municipality for its water supply, or to wade, bathe, or swim in that part of any nonnavigable stream located upon land belonging to the municipality which lies above the water intake or impounding dam owned by the municipality. However, the prohibition set forth in this subsection shall not apply to reservoirs whose water is diverted into a natural stream and flows by gravity down the stream three (3) or more miles before reaching the water intake of the municipality unless all of the land of the stream belongs to the municipality.  (c) It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to camp upon land not owned by him which is located above any impounding dam for the municipal water supply and within the drainage area of the reservoir, lake, or nonnavigable stream from which the water supply is taken. However, where any land adjoining the drainage area, reservoir, lake, or nonnavigable stream from which the water supply is taken is within the confines of any national forest reserve or national park, persons may camp upon the lands enclosed in the national forest reserve or national park upon such terms and conditions as are or may be permitted by the rules and regulations governing the national forest reserves or national parks.
AR Code § 14-234-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 4 - Recreational Activities|§ 14-234-406. Lease of property for recreational purposes

 (a) The operating authority may lease portions of its property for recreational purposes upon such terms as it deems advisable and may permit the lessee to construct upon the leased premises such recreational and merchandising facilities as the operating authority thinks proper.  (b) Public notice of intention to lease the premises shall be published at least one (1) time and at least two (2) weeks before the bid date, in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the municipality is situated.  (c) The operating authority may reject all bids or may accept the bid which it believes most advantageous, bearing in mind the experience and financial resources of the bidder.
AR Code § 14-234-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 4 - Recreational Activities|§ 14-234-407. Designation of warden

 (a) Any employee of the operating authority may be designated as a warden.  (b) Wardens shall have the authority to arrest or apprehend any person whom they believe to have violated this subchapter, or the boating laws of this state, or the rules and regulations of the operating authority which are authorized in this subchapter, or the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health pertaining to protection of municipal water supplies, and may take the offender when apprehended before any court having jurisdiction of the offense. Wardens shall have no authority to make arrests for violation of the game and fish laws, rules, and regulations of this state.
AR Code § 14-234-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 4 - Recreational Activities|§ 14-234-408. Nonliability for torts of employees

 No municipality or operating authority permitting any activities authorized by this subchapter shall be liable for the torts of its servants, agents, or employees committed while acting within the scope of their employment in carrying out the duties assigned to them in connection with the aforesaid recreational activities.
AR Code § 14-234-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 4 - Recreational Activities|§ 14-234-409. Disposition of fees, rentals, and income

 All fees, rentals, or other income of any type derived by the operating authority as a result of the acts authorized in this subchapter may be treated as recreational income rather than as water revenues and may be used to defray the cost of providing or maintaining recreational facilities and providing for protection of the water supply against pollution because of recreational activities.
AR Code § 14-234-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 5 - Joint Systems|§ 14-234-501. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Mayor” means the mayor of municipalities having the mayor-council form of government and the presiding officer of municipalities having a commission or other form of government;  (2) “Municipality” means a city of the first class, a city of the second class, or an incorporated town in the State of Arkansas;  (3) “Net revenues” means the revenues of the waterworks system remaining after the payment of the reasonable costs of operation, repair, maintenance, and depreciation; and  (4) “Waterworks system” means and includes the waterworks system in its entirety or any integral part thereof, including mains, hydrants, meters, valves, standpipes, storage tanks, pumping plants, intakes, wells, impounding reservoirs, or purification plants.