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AR Code § 14-95-608 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 95 - Urban Service District|Subchapter 6 - Arkansas Development Finance Authority|§ 14-95-608. Pledged revenues

 The principal of, premiums, if any, interest on, and trustees' and paying agents' fees in connection with all bonds issued under this chapter shall be secured solely by a lien on and pledge of each municipality's urban service district's revenues derived from their service charges credited to the town or city treasury, and the pledging of those revenues, the “pledged revenues”, is hereby authorized.
AR Code § 14-95-609 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 95 - Urban Service District|Subchapter 6 - Arkansas Development Finance Authority|§ 14-95-609. Resolutions and indentures

 (a) Any authorizing resolution and trust indenture shall, together with this chapter, constitute a contract between the Arkansas Development Finance Authority and the holders and registered owners of the bonds, which contract, and all covenants, agreements, and obligations therein, shall be promptly performed in strict compliance with the terms and provisions of the contract, and the covenants, agreements, and obligations of the authority may be enforced by mandamus or other appropriate proceedings at law or in equity.  (b) In this regard, in addition to other provisions referred to above, the authority is hereby expressly authorized to include in any authorizing resolution or trust indenture a covenant that, to the fullest extent possible, each municipality's urban service district's revenues derived from its service charges will be collected under this chapter to the fullest extent possible so as to avoid any impairment of the security for the bonds and that the authority will always maintain reserves at proper levels, and otherwise comply with any provisions of authorizing resolutions or trust indentures concerning revenues and bonds.
AR Code § 14-95-610 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 5 - Improvement Districts Generally|Chapter 95 - Urban Service District|Subchapter 6 - Arkansas Development Finance Authority|§ 14-95-610. Bond description and liability

 (a) It shall be plainly stated on the face of each bond that:  (1) It has been issued under the provisions of this chapter;  (2) The bonds shall be obligations only of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, as specified in the applicable trust indenture; and  (3) In no event shall they constitute indebtedness for which the faith and credit of the State of Arkansas or any of its revenues, within the meaning of Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 20, are pledged.    (b) No member of the authority shall be personally liable on the bonds.
AR Code § 14-116-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-116-101. Title

 This chapter may be cited as “The Regional Water Distribution District Act.”
AR Code § 14-116-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-116-102. Purpose

 Public nonprofit regional water distribution districts may be organized under this chapter for any one (1) or more of the following purposes:   (1) Acquisition of water from wells, lakes, rivers, tributaries, or streams of or bordering this state or from existing reservoirs heretofore created by the construction of dams by or under the direction and supervision of the United States Army Corps of Engineers;  (2) Acquisition of water, water storage facilities, and the storage of the water in reservoirs created by the construction of multipurpose dams by or under the direction and supervision of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, or by the water district with federal financial or other assistance furnished by the United States Secretary of Agriculture under the provisions of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act or any other federal law;  (3) Purification, treatment, and processing of the water;  (4) Furnishing the water to persons desiring it;  (5) Assisting in the installation and operation of the water and transportation facilities of persons who are furnished water by the water district and the acquisition, supply, or installation of equipment necessary therefor;  (6) Transportation and delivery of the water to persons furnished it by the water district;  (7) In the case of a district in existence on January 1, 2001, other than a district the lands within which are subject to assessment under § 14-116-601 et seq., owning, acquiring, operating, constructing, equipping, improving, expanding, contracting, concerning, and otherwise dealing in and with regard to properties, real, personal, or mixed, tangible and intangible, for the purpose of the collecting, transporting, treating, and disposing of sewage and liquid waste, industrial, commercial, and residential; and  (8) Carrying out the functions as may be related and appropriate to the accomplishment of the purposes enumerated in this section.
AR Code § 14-116-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-116-103. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Acquire” means and includes construct, acquire by purchase, lease, devise, gift, or other mode of acquisition;  (2) “Board” means a board of directors of a regional water distribution district organized under this chapter;  (3) “Commission” means the Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission;  (4) “Court” means the circuit court creating the water district pursuant to § 14-116-201 et seq.;  (5) “Improvement project area” means an area established by the court within the district for which an approved improvement plan has been developed and for which assessment of benefits may be made to pay the cost of development, construction, operation, and maintenance of the improvement plan and its works of improvement;  (6) “Improvement plan” means a plan developed by a water district to carry out any of the purposes contained in § 14-116-102 or the ancillary benefits derived therefrom within an improvement project area;  (7) “Obligation” includes bonds, notes, debentures, interim certificates or receipts, and all other evidences of indebtedness issued by a regional water distribution district formed under this chapter;  (8) “Person” includes any natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust, partnership, federal agency, state agency, state or political subdivision thereof, municipality, or any body politic;  (9) “Reservoir” means any impoundment of water through the construction of a dam by or under the direction and supervision of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, or by the water district, with federal financial or other assistance furnished by the United States Secretary of Agriculture under the provisions of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act or any other federal law;  (10) “Water district” or “district” means a nonprofit regional water distribution district organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter;  (11) “Works of improvement” means any facilities developed by the water district as district as part of an improvement plan which need not be located exclusively within a proposed improvement project area or within the water district.
AR Code § 14-116-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-116-104. Chapter controlling

 This chapter is complete in itself and shall be controlling. The provisions of any other law of this state, except as provided in this chapter, shall not apply to a water district organized under this chapter.
AR Code § 14-116-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-116-105. Construction

 This chapter shall be construed liberally. The enumerating of any object, purpose, power, manner, method, or thing shall not be deemed to exclude like or similar objects, purposes, powers, manners, methods, or things.
AR Code § 14-116-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-116-106. Joint projects

 (a) It is the intent and purpose of this section and § 25-20-103 to permit any two (2) or more water districts created under this chapter to jointly and cooperatively undertake and carry out any purpose or project which a single water district created under this chapter is authorized to undertake and carry out. It is further the intent that any agreement entered into by two (2) or more water districts pursuant to the authority granted in this section to undertake a joint or cooperative project shall, so far as practical, be entered into in conformity with the requirements and provisions of the Interlocal Cooperation Act, § 25-20-101 et seq.  (b) Any two (2) or more water districts created under this chapter are authorized to enter into an agreement or agreements for the joint or cooperative exercise of any power or authority or for the undertaking of any project which a single water district created under this chapter could exercise or undertake.  (c) Any agreement or agreements between two (2) or more water districts pursuant to the authority granted in this section and § 25-20-103 shall, so far as practicable, be entered into in accordance with the provisions of the Interlocal Cooperation Act, § 25-20-101 et seq. Any power or authority exercised or any project undertaken jointly or cooperatively by the agreeing water districts pursuant to the agreement shall be exercised, undertaken, and consummated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
AR Code § 14-116-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-116-107. Applicability of Regional Water Distribution District Act

 The provisions of § 14-116-101 et seq., the Regional Water Distribution District Act, as now or hereafter amended, shall not be applicable to agencies of the State of Arkansas or of political subdivisions of the state, nor to lands owned by such agencies.
AR Code § 14-116-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 2 - Establishment of Water Districts|§ 14-116-201. Authority to petition for district establishment

 (a) When there is water available for industrial, municipal, or agricultural irrigation water supply purposes from wells, lakes, rivers, tributaries, or streams of this state or bordering on this state or from reservoirs heretofore created by the construction of multipurpose dams by or under the direction and supervision of the United States Army Corps of Engineers on any of the rivers, tributaries, or streams of or bordering on this state, or when the United States Congress has enacted a law authorizing the construction of a reservoir by or under the supervision and direction of the United States Army Corps of Engineers on any of the rivers, tributaries, or streams of or bordering on this state, or when a proposed reservoir on any stream of this state is to be constructed by a water district established under this chapter with federal or other assistance furnished by the United States Secretary of Agriculture under the provisions of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1007, or any other federal law, then one hundred (100) or more qualified voters residing and owning lands situated within the boundaries of the water district proposed to be established under the provisions of this chapter may petition the circuit court in the county to establish a water district for the purposes set out in this section.  (b) A petition under this section shall contain a bold heading stating that a signature on the petition is a vote to create the district.
AR Code § 14-116-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 2 - Establishment of Water Districts|§ 14-116-202. Contents of petition

 The petition shall contain:   (1) An accurate description of the territory which it is proposed shall be embraced within the water district, and a map of the territory shall be attached to the petition as an exhibit thereto;  (2) A brief and concise statement describing the water source, whether it is wells, lakes, streams, a reservoir heretofore created by the construction of a dam, or a proposed reservoir authorized by the Congress of the United States of America or a proposed reservoir to be constructed by the water district with federal financial or other assistance furnished by the United States Secretary of Agriculture under the provisions of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act or any other federal law;  (3) A brief and concise statement showing the necessity for forming and operating the proposed water district, describing the benefits to be received therefrom by the residents and property owners in the territory proposed to be embraced in the water district, and if the water district proposes to use project improvement plans and assessments, a statement that such petitioners are aware of the power of the district under this chapter to levy taxes;  (4) The proposed name for the water district;  (5) The proposed location of the principal office of the water district;  (6) Other and additional information appropriate and useful in support.
AR Code § 14-116-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 2 - Establishment of Water Districts|§ 14-116-203. Petition — Land in more than one county

 (a) The territory proposed to be embraced within the water district may include lands in one (1) or more counties.  (b) If more than one (1) county is involved, the petition shall be filed in the circuit court of the county having the greatest acreage within the boundaries of the proposed water district.
AR Code § 14-116-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 2 - Establishment of Water Districts|§ 14-116-204. Commission review of petition

 (a) Upon the filing of the petition in the office of the circuit clerk for the county or any one (1) of the counties where the reservoir or other water source as referred to in § 14-116-102(1) is located or to be located, in whole or in part, the clerk shall prepare a certified copy of the petition and transmit the copy to the commission within five (5) days from the date of the filing of the petition.  (b) Upon receipt of the certified copy, the commission shall institute an investigation of the proposed district and its territory and purposes. The commission shall, within thirty (30) days after receipt of the copy, transmit a written report of its findings on the petition to the clerk of the circuit court.  (c) The report of the commission shall include, but not be limited to:  (1) A finding as to how the proposed boundaries of the water district conflict with the boundaries of any existing water district of which the commission may have supervisory jurisdiction;  (2) A finding as to whether the statement of purposes contained in the petition conforms with the intent and purposes of this chapter as applied to the area proposed to be included within the boundaries of the water district;  (3) A finding as to whether the organization of the proposed water district would promote the general welfare and be conducive to the purposes of this chapter;  (4) Any conditions, revisions, including revisions of area, or limitations which the commission deems necessary to the organization of the water district, the conditions, revisions, or limitations to be stated as changes in the petition. These changes shall thereupon become a part of the petition and be deemed effective without another amendment thereto.
AR Code § 14-116-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 2 - Establishment of Water Districts|§ 14-116-205. Notice of hearing

 (a) Between thirty (30) and sixty (60) days after the report of the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission has been filed in the office of the circuit clerk, the petition shall be presented to the judge of the circuit court of the county, either in term or vacation, and the court shall thereupon enter its order:  (1) Setting a hearing upon the petition for a day certain; and  (2) Directing the clerk of the court to give notice of the hearing by publication for two (2) consecutive weeks in some newspaper or newspapers having a general circulation in each of the counties containing lands embraced within the boundaries of the proposed water district and, if available, on the website of the county or of the Secretary of State.    (b) The notice shall contain:  (1) A concise statement describing the purpose of the hearing;  (2) A description of the territory to be embraced within the water district;  (3) A concise statement of the action of the commission;  (4) A warning to all persons residing or owning property within the boundaries of the proposed water district to appear upon the date and at the time and place of the hearing to show cause, if any exists, why the petition should not be granted.
AR Code § 14-116-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 2 - Establishment of Water Districts|§ 14-116-206. Hearing — Appeal

 (a) Upon the date and at the time and place named in the notice, the circuit court shall meet and shall hear all persons who wish to appear and advocate or resist the establishment of the water district. If the court, after being satisfied as to the sufficiency of the petition and the proceedings thereon, finds and deems it to be in the best interests of the persons residing or owning land within the boundaries of the proposed water district that the water district be established under the terms of this chapter, then the court shall enter its order establishing a water district embracing the territory described in the petition, subject to all the terms and provisions in this chapter and designating a name for the water district.  (b) The order establishing the water district shall empower the water district, to the full extent that the State of Arkansas can grant that right, the right to acquire absolute title to and use of water stored in any water source as referred to in § 14-116-102 or in the reservoir created, or to be created, by the construction of the dam by, or under the direction and supervision of, the United States Army Corps of Engineers or by the water district with federal financial or other assistance furnished by the United States Secretary of Agriculture under the provisions of the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, or any other federal law. The water district shall by the order be empowered to enter into contracts of assurances with the United States of America for the storage, procurement, or removal of the water from the reservoir or other such water source. The order establishing the water district shall have all the force and effect of a judgment. Any person aggrieved by the entry of the order by the court may appeal, as in other cases of appeal, to the Supreme Court, from the order within thirty (30) days after the order has been made. If no appeal is taken within that time, the order authorizing and creating the water district shall be deemed conclusive, and any person residing or owning land in the district may in like manner and time appeal from any order refusing to establish the water district.
AR Code § 14-116-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 2 - Establishment of Water Districts|§ 14-116-207. Exclusion of land for irrigation purposes

 (a) Any owner of real property within the territory of the proposed water district may, at any time before the entry of the order establishing the district or before the entry of the order establishing an improvement project area including such real property, petition the court to exclude his property for agricultural irrigation water uses.  (b) To exclude the property from the district, the court must make the following determinations:  (1) The property is supplied by adequate agricultural irrigation water from surface sources or other sources; and  (2) The property is not and will not in the future be benefited by the improvements of the proposed water district.
AR Code § 14-116-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 7 - Water and Soil Improvement Districts|Chapter 116 - Regional Water Distribution District Act|Subchapter 3 - Board of Directors|§ 14-116-302. Members — Terms

 (a)  (1) Each director on the board of directors of a water district shall serve a term of six (6) years and until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified, except that one (1) of the original directors from each county shall serve a term of not more than two (2) years, one (1) for a term of not more than four (4) years, and one (1) for a term of not more than six (6) years as determined by the circuit court.  (2)  (A) The circuit court may find at any time that it is necessary or desirable that the membership of the board of directors of the water district increase or, in the case of a water district that includes less than the entirety of a county, decrease to a number other than three (3) for each county represented in the water district in order to provide proper representation to the various parts of the water district.  (B) In modifying the number of directors under subdivision (a)(2)(A) of this section, the circuit court shall adjust the terms of office as necessary to properly provide for staggered terms for the directors representing each part of the water district.      (b) The term of office of the directors shall expire on December 31 of the last year of the term of each director.