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AR Code § 14-199-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-199-105. Release of information to court-appointed process server

 (a) Upon verbal request of a court-appointed process server, a public utility under this subtitle shall release the last known address of a current or former customer to the process server to effect service of process of legal documents on the customer or former customer.  (b) The public utility may request that the process server produce written documentation of his or her court appointment at the time the verbal request is made under this section.
AR Code § 14-199-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 2 - Profits of Electric or Water System|§ 14-199-201. Applicability to commission form of government

 No part of this subchapter shall apply to a municipal plant operated solely by city commissioners without a majority vote of the commissioners.
AR Code § 14-199-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 2 - Profits of Electric or Water System|§ 14-199-202. Authorized use

 Any municipality owning an electric power plant or a water system, where the plant or system has no bonded indebtedness, is authorized to use the profit derived from the operation of the plant or system toward the payment of the outstanding bonded indebtedness of all sewer or street improvement districts within the limits of the municipality, as provided in this subchapter.
AR Code § 14-199-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 2 - Profits of Electric or Water System|§ 14-199-203. Ordinance requirement

 The profits from the operation of any electric power plant or water system within any municipality shall not be used toward the retirement of the bonded indebtedness of any sewer or street improvement district within such city until the use of the profit for that purpose has first been authorized by an ordinance regularly adopted by the council of the municipality.
AR Code § 14-199-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 2 - Profits of Electric or Water System|§ 14-199-204. Apportionment ratio

 At the end of each fiscal year of the operation of the municipally owned electric plant or water system, the profit from the operation of the plant or system shall be determined. If the council or city commission of the municipality shall determine that the profit or a part thereof shall be used toward the retirement of the bonded indebtedness of all the sewer or street improvement districts within the limits of such municipality, then the council, by ordinance as provided in § 14-199-203, shall allocate the amount to the various improvement districts within the limits of the municipality according to the following ratio: The total amount of bond and interest maturities of all sewer or street improvement districts within such municipality coming due during the particular fiscal year for which the profit of the plant and system was determined, shall be determined, and the ratio which the total bond and interest maturities of any sewer or street improvement district for such fiscal year bears to the total bond and interest maturities of all the sewer or street improvement districts for the fiscal year shall be the percentage used to allocate to each sewer or street improvement district, its proportion of the profit to be used for the retirement of the bonded indebtedness of any such district.
AR Code § 14-199-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 2 - Profits of Electric or Water System|§ 14-199-205. Payment of allocated funds

 The amounts allocated to the various sewer or street improvement districts within the limits of a municipality shall be paid to the districts when the commissioners of the district shall request that the amount be paid in order that the amount may be used to pay the bond and interest maturities of the districts which are about to come due.
AR Code § 14-199-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 3 - Lease or Sale|§ 14-199-301. Lease or contract

 (a) The council of any municipal corporation operating a system of waterworks or sewer or gas or electric plants belonging to and owned by any town or city may lease, or may contract for the operation of, the system of waterworks or sewer or gas or electric plants for such period of time and upon such terms and conditions as the council may deem for the best interest of the town or city.  (b) The lessees, or parties with which the town or city has contracted, shall be required to maintain, keep in repair, and return the plant to the town or city in as good condition as when received, ordinary wear and tear excepted, but the maintenance contemplated shall permit more modern or suitable machinery or equipment, equally as efficient to perform the service required, to be installed in place of machinery or equipment then in use.  (c) No lease shall be made, and no contract for the operation of any such system shall be entered into, except with persons, firms, or corporations, both for profit and nonprofit, holding a franchise to operate a system of waterworks or sewer or gas or electric plants in the city or town in which the plant or system to be leased or operated is situated.  (d) No plant shall be taken over for operation under the provisions of this subchapter unless and until the lessee, or the party with which the town or city contracts, has filed with the town or city an approved bond, in such sum as the council may require, for the faithful fulfillment of the terms of the lease or contract.
AR Code § 14-199-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 3 - Lease or Sale|§ 14-199-302. Sale

 (a) The council of any municipal corporation owning a system of waterworks or gas or electric plants may sell the system or either of them, together with the right to operate them when they shall determine by resolution adopted by a majority vote of the council that it would be for the best interest of the town or city that the sale be consummated.  (b)  (1) Before any sale shall be consummated, a petition shall be filed with the council within one (1) year after the adoption of the resolution, signed by a majority in value as shown by the last county assessment of the owners of real property within the town or city proposing to make the sale, asking that the sale be made and stating the minimum price at which the sale shall be made, which shall in no event be a sum less than the amount necessary to pay all the outstanding secured indebtedness against the plant or system.  (2) Upon the filing of this petition, the council of the city or town shall give notice by publication once a week for two (2) weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which the city or town may lie, advising the owners of real property within the city or town that on a day therein named the council of the city or town will hear the petition and determine whether those signing it constitute a majority in value of the owners of real property.  (3) At the meeting named in the notice, the owners of real property within the city or town shall be heard before the council, which shall determine whether the signers of the petition constitute a majority in value. The finding of the council shall be conclusive unless within thirty (30) days thereafter suit is brought to review its action in the chancery court of the county in which the city or town lies.  (4) In determining whether those signing the petition constitute a majority in value of the owners of the real property within the city or town, the council and the chancery court shall be guided by the records of deeds in the office of the recorder of the county and shall not consider any unrecorded instrument.
AR Code § 14-199-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 3 - Lease or Sale|§ 14-199-303. Payment — Bond

 (a) Where the sale price is an amount greater than the outstanding secured indebtedness of the district, at least the excess over the amount of the secured indebtedness shall be paid in cash.  (b)  (1) All deferred payments, if any, shall be secured by a bond for one and one-half (1½) times the total amount of the deferred payments. This bond shall be for the maintenance of the plant or system during the time of any outstanding secured indebtedness and for the prompt payment of any interest or principal on any secured indebtedness as and when the interest or principal shall fall due.  (2) The bond shall be further conditioned that the purchaser will maintain insurance upon the plant for an amount to be agreed upon, with a “loss payable” clause for the benefit of the town or city making the sale as its interest may appear.  (3) The bond shall be approved by the town or city council.  (4) The bond provided for in this section and § 14-199-301 shall be made by a corporate surety company authorized to do business in the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 14-199-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 3 - Lease or Sale|§ 14-199-304. Deed of conveyance — Satisfaction of lien

 (a) The transfer of property under this subchapter shall be evidenced by a deed of conveyance in the usual form and with the usual covenants or warranty; but a lien against the property sold shall be retained in the deed for all of the unpaid sale price with the right, upon default of payment of any interest or indebtedness when any interest or indebtedness falls due, to declare all of the unpaid sale price due and payable and to proceed to a foreclosure. The deed of conveyance shall be executed on behalf of a town or city by the mayor and the recorder or clerk.  (b) A receipt duly executed by the treasurer of a town or city shall release the purchaser from further liability for the payment of the amount recited in the receipt.  (c) Upon the payment of all indebtedness for which a lien may be retained in the deed of conveyance, the mayor and recorder or clerk of a town or city are authorized and directed to satisfy the lien by a deed or release, or by marginal entry upon the deed records where the lien may be recorded.
AR Code § 14-199-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 3 - Lease or Sale|§ 14-199-305. Use of down payment

 The proceeds of any initial cash payment from the sale of any system of waterworks or gas or electric plants of any town or city shall be applied first to the payment of all unsecured debts owing by the town or city on account of the plant or system. Any remainder shall be turned over to the treasurer of the town or city.
AR Code § 14-199-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 3 - Lease or Sale|§ 14-199-306. First opportunity to purchase — Notice

 (a) Any privately owned utility whose main facilities and service area is wholly located within no more than two (2) counties and which serves primarily rural residential customers shall not be transferred or sold to another privately owned legal entity without first the county, or a political subdivision of the county established by the utility's customers solely for the purpose of acquiring the utility, being given the first opportunity to purchase the utility together with the right to meet any other bona fide offers.  (b) Prior to any offering, the utility shall attach a notice to each customer's bill that the utility will be offered for sale on a specified future date not less than ninety (90) days after the date of the first notice.
AR Code § 14-199-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 4 - Joint Management|§ 14-199-401. Joint management authorized

 All cities of the first class whose population exceeds seven thousand (7,000) according to the official federal census now owning both a light plant and a water plant which are operated by separate boards or commissions, the light plants having been constructed pursuant to Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 13 [repealed], and the water plants having been constructed by an improvement district embracing the city as a whole, are authorized and empowered to adopt a municipal ordinance providing for the consolidation of the boards or commissions, and for the joint management of the water and light plants by the consolidated boards or commissions.
AR Code § 14-199-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 4 - Joint Management|§ 14-199-402. Ordinance abolishing old boards — Light and water commission created

 (a) Cities of the first class, in order to comply with the provisions of this subchapter, are authorized and empowered to adopt and approve an ordinance providing that:  (1) Each board or commission referred to in § 14-199-401 shall be immediately abolished;  (2) A new board, known as the “light and water commission,” shall be created and established to be composed of not more than nine (9) members, with at least one (1) member from each ward, whose qualifications and tenures of office are set forth in subsection (b).    (b)  (1) The city council shall, immediately after the passage of the ordinance, select four (4) members; two (2) members from the light board or commission and two (2) members from the water board or commission abolished by this ordinance to serve as commissioners of the light and water commission.  (2)  (A) Members appointed shall serve until the third city general election following their appointment and thereafter shall be elected for two (2) year terms by the qualified voters of the municipality.  (B) The remaining members of the commission shall be appointed to serve until the second general election after the passage of this ordinance and thereafter shall be elected each two (2) years by the qualified voters of the municipality at the city general election.      (c) The commission shall have authority to designate its chairman and prescribe rules and regulations for the operation of the commission.
AR Code § 14-199-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 4 - Joint Management|§ 14-199-403. Compensation of commissioners

 The city council of any city adopting an ordinance in conformity with this subchapter is authorized to allow a per diem expense for each member at each meeting of the light and water commission herein provided. The per diem expense shall not exceed ten dollars ($10.00), and neither shall it exceed twenty dollars ($20.00) in any calendar month.
AR Code § 14-199-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 4 - Joint Management|§ 14-199-404. Report and audit of operation

 The city council of any city adopting the ordinance provided for in this subchapter shall require the consolidated governing body designated as the light and water commission to make a complete and competent audit by an auditor approved by the city council each biennium, from and after the effective date of the ordinance. The city council shall require the light and water commission to file with the city council a complete report and audit of the operation of both the light plant and water plant. This audit shall be publicized in a legal newspaper having a general circulation in the county wherein the city is located.
AR Code § 14-199-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 5 - Electric Distribution System Management|§ 14-199-501. Authority to create commission

 All cities of the first class in excess of population of fifty thousand (50,000), according to the last official federal census and having the mayor-council form of government on the date of passage of this subchapter, now owning an electric distribution system are authorized and empowered to adopt a municipal ordinance providing for the creation of a commission for the management of the electric distribution system.
AR Code § 14-199-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 5 - Electric Distribution System Management|§ 14-199-502. General powers of commission

 (a) The commission created pursuant to this subchapter shall have full power to operate and control the utilities system entrusted to its direction by the city ordinance creating the commission.  (b) Subject to such restrictions as may be prescribed in the ordinance creating the commission pertaining to the expenditure of surplus utility revenues, establishment of rates for service, and appointment of commission members, the commission shall have plenary powers with reference to the selection, supervision, and payment of compensation for all employees required in connection with the operation of the electrical distribution system, with reference to management, improvement, extension, and maintenance of the electrical distribution system, with reference to the purchase of such materials and supplies, or machinery as are necessary and proper, and with reference to necessary indebtedness to finance the extension, betterment, or improvement of the electrical distribution system.
AR Code § 14-199-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 5 - Electric Distribution System Management|§ 14-199-503. Fiscal powers of commission

 (a)  (1) Subject to restrictions set forth in the ordinance creating the commission, it shall have power to borrow money and issue negotiable evidences of debt in the form of serial bonds or short-term notes. It may execute such negotiable notes or bonds to obtain the funds needed to carry out its functions.  (2) The commission may also pledge its revenues including the income from operations, and it may mortgage its property to secure the payment of money borrowed.    (b) The rate of interest to be paid and the time of maturity of all obligations shall be such as, in the judgment of the commission, will be most advantageous to the commission and its patrons. However, no obligation shall be made to run for more than twenty (20) years and no obligation running longer than one (1) year shall bear interest at more than the maximum rate allowable for income from the obligations to qualify for tax-exempt status under the laws of the United States of America and the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 14-199-504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 5 - Electric Distribution System Management|§ 14-199-504. Quarterly report

 The commission shall report to the city council on each calendar quarter of the year on the state of the operations of the commission and its financial affairs.
AR Code § 14-199-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 5 - Electric Distribution System Management|§ 14-199-505. Outstanding bond indebtedness — Cross-pledging

 (a) If any city of the first class subject to this subchapter shall have outstanding, on the date of enactment of this subchapter, any revenue bonds issued under the authority of § 14-199-101, or the general laws of the state wherein electric utility revenues or surplus electric utility revenues are pledged, then, in that event, the ordinance authorizing the creation of the commission envisioned within this subchapter shall specifically provide all of the terms and provisions of ordinances and laws authorizing such bonded indebtedness shall be fully complied with. The ordinance creating the commission provided for in this subchapter shall make specific provisions limiting the authority of the commission so as not to cause a default under any existing bond issue. If the city council deems it appropriate, the authorizing ordinance shall provide for separate accountings and audits as is required by such bond issues.  (b) Nothing contained in this section shall either prohibit or authorize the cross-pledging of sewer, electric, and water revenues as may be now allowed by law or § 14-199-101.
AR Code § 14-199-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 6 - Television Signal Distribution Systems|§ 14-199-601. Authority of municipalities generally — Immunity

 (a) Any first-class city, second-class, and incorporated town may own, construct, acquire, purchase, maintain, and operate a television signal distribution system for the purpose of receiving, transmitting, and distributing television impulses and television energy, including audio signals and transient visual images, to the inhabitants of the city or town and to the inhabitants of an area not to exceed two (2) miles outside the boundaries of the city or town.  (b) In no case shall a city or town be held liable for damages for failure to furnish or provide the service.
AR Code § 14-199-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 12 - Public Utilities Generally|Chapter 199 - General Provisions|Subchapter 6 - Television Signal Distribution Systems|§ 14-199-602. Appliances, fixtures, and equipment authorized

 The city or town may erect, construct, operate, repair, and maintain in, upon, along, over, across, through, and under its streets, alleys, highways, and public grounds, poles, cross-arms, cables, wires, guy-wires, stubs, anchors, towers, antennas, pipes, connections, and other appliances, fixtures, and equipment necessary, expedient, or useful in connection with a television signal distribution system.