Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
14-94-110. Powers of districts generally.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
14-94-110. Powers of districts generally.
(a) Any district, in furtherance of any of the purposes set forth in § 14-94-105, shall have the authority to hire managers and other employees and to pay their salaries incident to the operation and maintenance of any of the improvements authorized by this chapter. It shall also have the authority to acquire and purchase equipment and machinery incident to the operation and maintenance of these improvements and shall be further authorized to do any and all other acts which shall be deemed necessary in order to purchase, construct, accept as a gift, operate, and maintain any and all improvements authorized by this chapter.
(b) Any district shall have the power to sell or lease any improvements owned by it to any nearby municipality or district or other improvement district within the nearby municipality serving on behalf of the property owners of the district or to any other person. The district may make contracts with any person, or it may operate any improvement and may connect any improvement with the improvements, systems, and transmission lines of any nearby municipality or other district or improvement district and, with respect to sewers, may carry its sewers to any proper outlet within or without the district.
(c) Any district may accept as a gift any or all of the improvements and facilities authorized in this chapter upon the assumption of the maintenance and operation of the improvements and shall have the authority to assess and collect benefits as provided in this chapter, in order to provide the revenue for the costs of the maintenance and operation.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-94-110
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. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.
Issuing source page ↗
Authority boundary: historical statutory source snapshot not current law.
Open the recorded source website ↗
Record provenance
Stable record: arkansas_code:legal_authorities:14-94-110
Source file: gov.ar.code.title.14.odt
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: 317b63ea869885b2a0fbd8ff0911cab725922728f5f5df0ae0cff4d06a94f02f
Source location: content.xml paragraph 26692
Stored source content
14-94-110. Powers of districts generally.
(a) Any district, in furtherance of any of the purposes set forth in § 14-94-105, shall have the authority to hire managers and other employees and to pay their salaries incident to the operation and maintenance of any of the improvements authorized by this chapter. It shall also have the authority to acquire and purchase equipment and machinery incident to the operation and maintenance of these improvements and shall be further authorized to do any and all other acts which shall be deemed necessary in order to purchase, construct, accept as a gift, operate, and maintain any and all improvements authorized by this chapter.
(b) Any district shall have the power to sell or lease any improvements owned by it to any nearby municipality or district or other improvement district within the nearby municipality serving on behalf of the property owners of the district or to any other person. The district may make contracts with any person, or it may operate any improvement and may connect any improvement with the improvements, systems, and transmission lines of any nearby municipality or other district or improvement district and, with respect to sewers, may carry its sewers to any proper outlet within or without the district.
(c) Any district may accept as a gift any or all of the improvements and facilities authorized in this chapter upon the assumption of the maintenance and operation of the improvements and shall have the authority to assess and collect benefits as provided in this chapter, in order to provide the revenue for the costs of the maintenance and operation.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
14-94-105. Petition to form district.
(a) Upon the petition of all the owners of the record title as reflected by the deed records in the office of the circuit clerk and ex officio recorder of the pertinent county, it shall be the duty of the governing body to:
(1) Lay off into an improvement district the territory described in the petition for the purpose of purchasing, accepting as a gift, constructing, or maintaining facilities for waterworks, recreation, drainage, gas pipelines, underground trenches and excavations necessary for the installation by public utilities or municipal utilities of electric and telephone distribution systems, sanitary sewers, streets and highways, including curbs and gutters, and sidewalks, together with facilities related to any of the foregoing, or for more than one (1) of those purposes; and
(2)(A) Name as commissioners of the district the three (3) individuals whose names appear in the petition if the petition contains those names, and if not, then three (3) individuals of integrity and good business ability who own real property in the district or are creditors of the district or live in the district.
(B) In the event that a property owner or creditor is a corporation, partnership, trust, or other legal entity, any officer, director, trustee, employee, or other designated representative of the entity may be named and appointed as a commissioner.
(b) All the districts shall be numbered consecutively and shall receive names selected by the governing body. If the governing body does not act promptly in complying with the terms of this section, or of any other section of this chapter essential to the creation and operation of the district, it may be compelled to do so by mandamus.
(c)(1) Any number of petitions may be circulate
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-94-105
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 14-94-105. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.