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14-116-103. Definitions.
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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
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-116-103
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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.
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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, ind
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-116-102
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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.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-116-201
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 14-116-201. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.