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14-234-307. Further powers of commissioners — Donations to charitable organizations — Use of waterworks commission funds.
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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 or
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-234-307
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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.
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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.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-234-306
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14-42-108. Prohibited actions by municipal officials or employees — Penalty.
(a)(1) It shall be unlawful for any official or employee of any municipal corporation of this state to receive or accept any water, gas, electric current, or other article or service from the municipal corporation, or any public utility operating therein, without paying for it at the same rate and in the same manner that the general public in the municipal corporation pays therefor.
(2)(A) This section shall not affect rights to free or other special services given to certain municipal officials and employees under the terms of franchises in effect with public utilities in this state.
(B) This section shall not apply to any city official or employee of any municipal corporation of this state as to free streetcar transportation.
(b)(1) It shall be unlawful for any city official or employee of any municipal corporation in this state to furnish or give to any person, concerns, or corporations any property belonging to the municipal corporation, or service from any public utility owned or operated by the municipal corporation, unless payment is made therefor to the municipal corporation at the usual and regular rates, and in the usual manner, except as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
(2) The waterworks commission of cities of the first class shall be authorized to make donations of money from the revenue of municipal waterworks systems to the local United Way campaign or other citywide nonsectarian, incorporated charitable organizations.
(c)(1) Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250).
(2) Convict
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-42-108
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 14-42-108. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.