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AR Code § 14-234-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-104. Improvements — Financing with promissory notes

 (a) Any municipality owning or operating a waterworks system, however constructed or acquired, and desiring to construct improvements and betterments thereto, may borrow money to be used for those purposes, to refinance or retire existing indebtedness related to the waterworks system, or to provide funds for preliminary expenses prior to the issuance of revenue bonds, the loan to be evidenced by revenue promissory notes as set out in this section. The money so borrowed shall be deposited in a revenue note fund and shall be used solely for the purposes authorized in this section.  (b) The note or notes evidencing the loan shall be authorized by the legislative body of the municipality and shall be due in no more than five (5) years from date and shall bear interest at a rate or rates as shall be provided in the ordinance authorizing their issuance, interest payable semiannually.  (c)  (1) The note or notes shall be payable solely from the revenues derived from the waterworks system and shall not in any event constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within the meaning of the constitutional provisions or limitations.  (2) It shall be plainly stated on the face of each note that it has been issued under the provisions of this act and that it does not constitute an indebtedness of the municipality within any constitutional or statutory limitations.    (d) The note or notes shall be subordinate to any outstanding revenue bonds theretofore issued by the municipality.  (e) It shall be no objection to the subsequent issue of any revenue bonds that a portion of the proceeds received from the sale of the revenue bonds is to be used to retire the indebtedness permitted by this section. If the proceeds of the bonds are so used, then the improvements constructed or purchased with the proceeds of the loan authorized by this section shall be considered to be a portion of the improvements constructed or purchased with the revenue bonds subsequently issued and shall be subject to the lien of the bonds.  (f) All interest paid on the revenue bonds shall be exempt from State of Arkansas income tax.
AR Code § 14-234-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-105. Alteration despite zoning regulations

 Any municipality maintaining facilities in an area zoned subsequent to the construction of the facilities may add to, alter, expand, or change the facilities upon the land now used for those purposes, or upon lands immediately adjacent thereto, without regard to the zoning regulation for the area if the operating authority of the waterworks system deems the action necessary for the proper operation of its system.
AR Code § 14-234-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-106. Relocation of waterworks or sewer system by federal government

 (a) All cities and incorporated towns in the State of Arkansas are authorized to grant the United States of America the right to alter or relocate any portion of a municipally owned waterworks or sewer system in connection with the construction, development, operation, or maintenance of any flood control or other public project being constructed, operated, developed, or maintained by the United States of America, upon such terms and conditions and for such consideration as the cities or towns may determine to be just and proper.  (b) The cities or towns of each county of the State of Arkansas shall have power to execute any and all contracts, deeds, easements, subordination agreements, and other instruments of conveyance as may be required in or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted in this section, whether those powers are held in a governmental or proprietary capacity.
AR Code § 14-234-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-107. Cities of the first class — Operation by city in governmental capacity

 Every city of the first class shall operate its waterworks system, however acquired, in its governmental capacity.
AR Code § 14-234-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-108. Cities of the first class — Sale or purchase of water to other municipalities

 (a)  (1) A city of the first class owning or operating a waterworks system may sell, in its governmental capacity, water at contractual rates to another municipality of this state or to an improvement district created under the laws of this state.  (2) A municipality of this state or an improvement district created under the laws of this state may purchase, in its governmental capacity, water at contractual rates from a city of the first class of this state and may expend the necessary funds to connect its distribution system with the supply or other mains of the selling municipality.    (b)  (1) The contract between two (2) municipalities of this state for the sale and purchase of water or between a municipality of this state and an improvement district created under the laws of this state for the sale and purchase of water shall be in writing, shall be authorized by ordinances adopted by the respective governing bodies of the contracting municipalities or by ordinance adopted by the governing body of the contracting municipality and by resolution adopted by the board of commissioners of the contracting improvement district, and shall be signed by the mayor of each contracting municipality and by the chair of the board of each contracting improvement district.  (2) Unless the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission is involved in the financing and determines that a different form or length of contract would be best in meeting the long-term water supply needs of the contracting parties, the contract may be for a term not to exceed twenty (20) years and may fix by its terms the rate or rates to be paid for the water for the entire term of the contract or may fix the rate or rates for the first year, two (2) years, or five (5) years, with appropriate provisions for arriving at the rate or rates for each succeeding one-year, two-year, or five-year period.  (3) The contract may also contain other appropriate provisions which will protect the respective interests of the contracting parties.
AR Code § 14-234-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-109. Cities of the first class — Sale of water to certain persons

 (a) Any city of the first class owning or operating a water system may, in its governmental capacity, sell surplus water at contractual rates to any person engaged in the business of selling and distributing water to consumers within a zone which is adjacent to and commercially a part of the city, or within any municipality which is within a zone adjacent to and commercially a part of the city, provided that the person has been authorized to engage in such business by the legal authority with jurisdiction to regulate it.  (b) Delivery of the water to the person shall be made at a point not beyond the corporate limits of the city.
AR Code § 14-234-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-110. Waterworks operated in governmental capacity — Services to nonresident consumers

 (a) A municipality owning a waterworks system shall operate its entire system in a governmental and not proprietary capacity.  (b)  (1) The municipality shall have the option of extending its services to any consumer outside the municipal boundaries, but it shall not be obligated to do so.  (2) No municipality shall be obligated to supply any fixed amount of water or water pressure to nonresident consumers, nor shall a municipality be obligated to increase the number or size of, or change the location of, any mains or pipes outside its boundaries.  (3) Water may be supplied to nonresident consumers at such rates as the legislative body of the municipality may deem just and reasonable, and the rates need not be the same as the rates charged residents of the municipality.
AR Code § 14-234-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-111. Service to adjacent areas — Municipalities generally

 (a) Any municipality in the State of Arkansas owning and operating a municipal waterworks system or a municipal sewer system or both may extend its service lines beyond its corporate limits for the purpose of giving water service, sewer service, or both, to adjacent areas where the demand for service is sufficient to produce revenues that will retire the cost of the service lines.  (b)  (1) A municipality owning and operating a municipal water or sewer system, or both, without applying for a certificate of convenience and necessity, extend its water lines and sewer lines or both to serve the adjacent or nearby areas.  (2) In order to secure the funds with which to make the service line extension or extensions, the municipality may issue negotiable coupon bonds or interest-bearing certificates of indebtedness to be paid out of the net revenues derived from the operation of the services so extended and, for the payment of the bonds, may pledge not only the net revenues from the areas but also any unpledged revenues derived by the municipality from the operation of either its water or sewer system, or both, that may be available from year to year in order to prevent a default in the payment of the revenue bonds issued for the extension beyond the corporate limits.    (c) The bonds or certificates of indebtedness authorized under this section shall be issued and sold under the provisions governing the issuance and sale of municipal water revenue bonds, as set out in subchapter 2 of chapter 234 of this title.  (d) Any municipality extending a service to an adjacent or nearby area shall have the power to fix the schedule of rates for services so extended.  (e) For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this section, a municipality shall have the right of eminent domain as is provided in §§ 18-15-301—18-15-307.  (f) Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a municipality to extend either water or sewer service to adjacent or nearby areas.
AR Code § 14-234-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-112. Service to adjacent areas — Cities of the second class

 Cities of the second class now owning a waterworks system are authorized and empowered to purchase, construct, own, and maintain water supply lines to the city limits of any adjacent city or town where the latter city or town agrees to purchase water under contract from the supplying city.
AR Code § 14-234-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-113. Service to other municipalities

 Municipal corporations, upon approval by resolution of their governing bodies, may make and enter into contracts whereby one (1) municipal corporation shall construct and maintain a water system for, and supply water to, another municipal corporation.
AR Code § 14-234-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-114. Payments from water revenues in lieu of taxes

 (a) The operating authority of any municipal waterworks system which was constructed or acquired pursuant to the authority contained in subchapter 2 of chapter 234 of this title shall have discretion to make payments from water revenues to the general fund of the municipality, in lieu of taxes, in return for police, fire, and health protection and in return for administrative and other services furnished the waterworks system by the municipality.  (b) The payments, if made, shall be an operation and maintenance expense of the waterworks system.  (c) In any calendar year, the payments authorized by this section shall not exceed the total of the following:  (1) A sum equal to five percent (5%) of gross income from water sales during the preceding calendar year; plus  (2) A sum equal to the amounts the municipality would have received from the waterworks system as property taxes for the preceding calendar year if the waterworks system's property had been privately owned and subject to tax by the municipality. For the purpose of this computation, the waterworks property shall be deemed to have an assessed value equal to twenty percent (20%) of book value as reflected by the waterworks system's usual accounting procedures.    (d) The payments shall be discretionary with the operating authority of the waterworks system and shall not be mandatory.  (e) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as authorizing payments in violation of any trust indenture executed by municipalities to secure waterworks revenue bondholders. It shall be permissible for such indentures to limit or prohibit the payments authorized in this section.  (f) The payments authorized in this section shall not be made unless the municipality maintains water rates sufficient to provide the operating authority's estimated cost of operating and maintaining the waterworks system and sufficient to pay all other items specified in § 14-234-214.
AR Code § 14-234-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-115. Water impoundments in other counties — Payment in lieu of taxes

 (a) Cities of the first class owning a water impoundment in excess of one thousand two hundred fifty (1,250) acres in a county other than the county in which the city is located shall pay to the school districts wherein their water impoundments are located, in lieu of property tax on the water impoundments, an annual amount equal to the property taxes the cities would pay to such school districts were their water impoundments not exempt from property taxation.  (b) It is declared to be the intent of the General Assembly to afford school districts located in counties where there is no corresponding benefit from the water impoundment a means of recovering lost revenues due to the impoundment.
AR Code § 14-234-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-116. Waterworks and sewer commission

 (a) Any city of the first or second class operating its municipal waterworks through a waterworks commission, by passage of a municipal ordinance, may authorize the waterworks commission to function as a waterworks and sewer commission.  (b) Waterworks and sewer commissions created pursuant to the authority granted in this section shall retain all powers now granted to waterworks commissions and, in addition, shall have all the powers granted to sewer committees by §§ 14-235-206 and 14-235-207 and all the powers granted to sanitary boards by § 14-235-209.  (c) It is the express purpose of this section to permit cities of the first and second class to operate their waterworks and sewer systems through a single commission.
AR Code § 14-234-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-117. Return of dedicated property

 (a) Any water improvement district or any municipality that has paid for the construction of water pipelines and other portions of the infrastructure of a water system used by the district or municipality and has dedicated the property to the use of another municipality shall be entitled to the return of the property located within its boundaries by a vote of a majority of the board of directors of the water improvement district or the governing body of the municipality.  (b) The property shall be returned without charge except for cost reimbursement for repairs that have been made to the water pipelines and other portions of the infrastructure of the water system.  (c) The provisions of this section shall apply only to municipalities and improvement districts within counties having a population of two hundred thousand (200,000) or more according to the most recent decennial census.
AR Code § 14-234-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-118. No abrogation of existing contracts — Exception

 (a) As used in this section:  (1) The term “utility service” shall mean utility service of municipally owned water utilities and shall not mean utility service of municipally owned electric utilities, municipally owned natural gas utility systems, or consolidated municipal utility improvement districts;  (2) The term “abrogate” means to cancel, invalidate, nullify, annul, void, revoke, rescind, deny, repudiate, or otherwise terminate or refuse to honor.    (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to contracts between a municipality within this state and an entity or entities located outside the boundaries of this state.  (c)  (1) The governing body of a municipality shall have no authority, by ordinance or otherwise, to abrogate an existing contract to furnish water utility service to residents in an area outside the boundaries of the municipality unless provided for by mutual agreement of all parties involved. Provided, nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit or restrict the authority of the governing body of a municipality to revise a revision of the rates to be charged water utility users in an area outside the boundaries of the municipality if circumstances arise which justify a revision in such rates or charges.  (2) Provided further, nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit or restrict the authority of a municipality to enforce payment of utility bills by disconnecting utility service and terminating contracts to furnish utility service.    (d) Nothing contained in this section shall require a municipally owned water utility to extend new service under existing water supply contracts outside its corporate limits or continue service under existing water supply contracts outside its corporate limits, if, in the opinion of the municipally owned water utility, such extension or continuance of service would be an engineering or financial impracticality, affect the reliability or quality of service to customers served under such extension or continuance, or affect the reliability or quality of service to other customers of the municipally owned water utility.
AR Code § 14-234-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-119. Annual audits and procedures

 (a)  (1) A county, municipality, improvement district, or not-for-profit association or entity receiving fees from customers for providing sewage services shall obtain an annual financial audit of the system if the system has at least seven hundred fifty (750) service connections during a fiscal year.  (2) A county, municipality, improvement district, or not-for-profit association or entity receiving fees from customers for providing water services shall obtain an annual financial audit of the system if the system has at least one thousand (1,000) service connections during a fiscal year.    (b)  (1)  (A) A county, municipality, improvement district, or not-for-profit association or entity receiving fees from customers for providing sewage services and having at least one hundred (100) but less than seven hundred fifty (750) service connections during a fiscal year shall obtain an annual audit or an annual agreed-upon procedures and compilation report.  (B) A county, municipality, improvement district, or not-for-profit association or entity receiving fees from customers for providing water services and having at least one hundred (100) but less than one thousand (1,000) service connections during a fiscal year shall obtain an annual audit or an annual agreed-upon procedures and compilation report.    (2) The agreed-upon procedures and compilation report engagement shall be conducted in accordance with standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and subject to minimum procedures prescribed by the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee.    (c) The audits or agreed-upon procedures and compilation reports shall be completed within one (1) year following each system's fiscal year end.  (d) Each entity shall choose and employ accountants who are licensed and in good standing with the Arkansas State Board of Public Accountancy.
AR Code § 14-234-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-120. Filing of report

 Within thirty (30) days of completion of the audit report or the agreed-upon procedures and compilation report, the accountant performing the audit or agreed-upon procedures and compilation shall submit the report to the Legislative Auditor. The report shall be submitted in an electronic media format approved by the Legislative Auditor.
AR Code § 14-234-121 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-121. Review of audit report or report of agreed-upon procedures by board

 Each audit report or report of agreed-upon procedures shall be reviewed by the appropriate board at the next regularly scheduled open meeting after receiving the audit report or the report of agreed-upon procedures from the accountant.
AR Code § 14-234-122 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 14 - Solid Waste Disposal, Waterworks, And Sewers Generally|Chapter 234 - Waterworks and Water Supply|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-234-122. Penalty provision

 Any entity not complying with §§ 14-234-119 — 14-234-121 may be subject to fines up to one thousand dollars ($1,000) by the Department of Health, the Division of Environmental Quality, or the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission and any permits or licenses obtained from these agencies are subject to cancellation or nonrenewal.