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§ 14-120-701. Purpose and intent

(a) It is the express purpose and intent of this subchapter to require levee and drainage districts to keep their facilities in proper repair, whenever the districts shall have given assurances to the federal government that maintenance of a facility would be provided upon its completion. (b) In imposing the duty upon levee and drainage […]

§ 14-120-702. Authority and powers of board of commissioners

(a) The board of commissioners of any drainage or drainage and levee district organized under the laws of the State of Arkansas are authorized and empowered to purchase, lease, or rent, separately as individual districts or jointly with other districts such machinery, equipment, and material to be used in repairing, deepening, widening, clearing, and maintaining […]

§ 14-120-703. Maintenance requirements

(a) Whenever any levee or drainage district in the State of Arkansas shall have given assurances to the United States Army Corps of Engineers or other appropriate federal agency that the levee or drainage district will maintain any levee or drainage facility upon its completion by the federal government, then that levee or drainage district […]

§ 14-120-704. Failure to maintain structures

(a) (1) Whenever any levee or drainage district shall fail, refuse, or neglect to maintain the levee and drainage structures after completion, in compliance with the assurances given the federal government, then the United States Army Corps of Engineers may give written notice to the officers of the levee and drainage district and in the […]

§ 14-120-705. Collection and expenditure of tax — Costs

(a) In all proceedings for the imposition and collection of an annual tax upon the real property in the levee or drainage district, the powers and duties of the Attorney General in this respect shall cease when the order of the proper court in the matter has become final. (b) The actual collection and expenditure […]