48-2001. Establishment of sanitary district; territory; purposes; change of name A. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 48-261 or 48-262, a sanitary district shall not include territory located within an incorporated city or town at the time the district is established and the territory included in a sanitary district is required to be contiguous except as […]
48-2001.01. Merger of sanitary districts; hearing; election; joint meeting; resolution A. For any two or more sanitary districts that are proposed to merge, the county board of supervisors shall hold a hearing on the proposed merger if either of the following applies: 1. The county board of supervisors has received a petition containing the signatures […]
48-2002. Annexation of noncontiguous property A. If the statement described in section 48-262, subsection A requests the annexation of property located within an incorporated city or town but not encompassing all the territory within the boundaries of the city or town, in addition to the other requirements of section 48-262, subsection A, the governing body […]
48-2003. Annexation of all the territory within a city or town A. Notwithstanding section 48-2002, if a city or town desires to have annexed all the territory located within such city or town, or if a portion of the city or town lies within the sanitary district, the remaining territory within such city or town, […]
48-2010. Board of directors; qualifications; term; appointment; election; conversion; reorganization; compensation; expenses A. A sanitary district having an area of one hundred sixty acres or more shall be governed by a board of directors with not less than three members. Members of the board of directors shall be qualified electors of the district. Immediately after […]
48-2011. Powers of sanitary district In addition to the powers specifically granted, a sanitary district, acting through its board of directors, may: 1. Construct, maintain and operate within or without the district a sewerage system and necessary sewage disposal and treatment plants. 2. Construct, maintain and operate within or without the district garbage disposal and […]
48-2011.01. Wastewater treatment facility and nonpoint source projects; financial assistance loan repayment agreements; definition A. Notwithstanding any other law, a sanitary district may construct or improve a wastewater treatment facility or nonpoint source project with monies borrowed from or financial assistance provided by the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona. B. To repay financial assistance […]
48-2011.02. Wastewater treatment facility revenues; use A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the board of directors of a sanitary district may obligate by resolution or by contract the revenues generated by any wastewater treatment facility or system of the district and take any and all other actions incidental as are necessary to do […]
48-2011.03. Issuance of bonds; notice; hearing Notwithstanding any other law, a sanitary district may issue bonds that refinance existing debt and that mature over a period of forty-one years only if the sanitary district complies with both of the following before issuance of the bonds: 1. The new bonds do not cause an increase in […]
48-2012. Rights of way A right of way in or across public property, highways or streets within a sanitary district is granted to the district whenever found by the board of directors to be necessary or convenient for performing any work authorized by this article.
48-2013. Compulsory connection; financial assistance A. The board of directors of a sanitary district may declare further maintenance or use of a cesspool, septic tank or other local means of sewage disposal within the district a public nuisance and abate them. B. The board may require any building within the district inhabited or used by […]
48-2014. Lateral and collecting lines A. The construction of main lines of the sewerage system of a sanitary district shall be paid for from the proceeds of the sale of bonds of the district, but the construction of lateral and collecting lines shall be paid for by the connecting property owners if the owners have […]
48-2015. Sanitation survey, plan and report A. When a sanitary district is established, or at any time before issuing and selling bonds under this article, the board of directors shall employ one or more sanitation or water engineers for any of the following purposes: 1. To make a survey of the problems of the district […]
48-2016. Sanitation survey report; hearings; approval A. When the survey or plan and report prepared under section 48-2015 are filed, the board of directors may reject the report and direct that a new report be prepared or that changes be made. If the report complies with the provisions of section 48-2015 and is satisfactory to […]
48-2017. Election to determine whether sewer service to be supplied other than by construction of facilities by district If the engineer’s report required by this article recommends that sewer service or garbage disposal and treatment service for the sanitary district can be provided by a method other than construction of facilities by the district or […]
48-2018. Performance of work; methods; calls for bids; modification of specifications A. The board of directors shall employ qualified water or sanitation engineers necessary to superintend the performance of work specified in the approved report of the survey or plan. The work or any portion thereof may be performed, under the direction of the engineers […]
48-2019. Elections Elections held pursuant to this article, except as otherwise specified, shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by title 16.
48-2020. Bond election; subsequent bond election A. After approval of the survey or plan and report prepared under section 48-2015 the board of directors of the district shall submit to the qualified electors of the district the proposition of incurring bonded indebtedness to obtain funds with which to acquire the property and perform the work […]
48-2021. Issuance of bonds; subsequent bond issues A. If a majority of the votes cast at a bond election favors the bonded indebtedness proposed, bonds of the district for the amount stated shall be issued and sold. B. The board of directors, subject to this article, shall prescribe by resolution the form of the bonds […]
48-2022. Sale of bonds; disposition of proceeds A. The board of directors of a sanitary district shall sell bonds issued pursuant to section 48-2021, subsections A, B, C and D at not less than par value at public sale or if the district has a population of more than two thousand persons and has been […]
