{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-250-113","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 14-250-113","heading":"Nonprofit operation","body":"(a) Wastewater districts formed pursuant to this chapter shall be operated without profit, but the rates, fees, rent, or other charges for wastewater disposal and other facilities, supplies, equipment, or services furnished by the wastewater district shall be sufficient at all times: (1) To pay all operating and maintenance expenses necessary or desirable for the prudent conduct of its affairs and the principal of and interest on the obligations issued or assumed by the district in the performance of the purposes for which it was organized; (2) For the creation of adequate reserves. (b) The revenues of the wastewater district shall be devoted first to the payment of operating and maintenance expenses and the principal and interest on outstanding obligations and, thereafter, to such reserves for improvements, new construction, depreciation, and contingencies as the board may prescribe from time to time. (c) Revenues not required for the purposes set forth in subsection (b) of this section shall be returned from time to time to the customers of the wastewater district on a pro rata basis, according to the amount of business done with each customer during the period for which the return is made, either in cash, in abatement of current charges for wastewater disposal, or otherwise as the board determines. The return may be made by way of a general rate reduction to customers if the board so elects. Acts 1983, No. 608, § 11; A.S.A. 1947, § 20-2311.\n\n(a) Wastewater districts formed pursuant to this chapter shall be operated without profit, but the rates, fees, rent, or other charges for wastewater disposal and other facilities, supplies, equipment, or services furnished by the wastewater district shall be sufficient at all times: (1) To pay all operating and maintenance expenses necessary or desirable for the prudent conduct of its affairs and the principal of and interest on the obligations issued or assumed by the district in the performance of the purposes for which it was organized; (2) For the creation of adequate reserves.\n\n(1) To pay all operating and maintenance expenses necessary or desirable for the prudent conduct of its affairs and the principal of and interest on the obligations issued or assumed by the district in the performance of the purposes for which it was organized;\n\n(2) For the creation of adequate reserves.\n\n(b) The revenues of the wastewater district shall be devoted first to the payment of operating and maintenance expenses and the principal and interest on outstanding obligations and, thereafter, to such reserves for improvements, new construction, depreciation, and contingencies as the board may prescribe from time to time.\n\n(c) Revenues not required for the purposes set forth in subsection (b) of this section shall be returned from time to time to the customers of the wastewater district on a pro rata basis, according to the amount of business done with each customer during the period for which the return is made, either in cash, in abatement of current charges for wastewater disposal, or otherwise as the board determines. The return may be made by way of a general rate reduction to customers if the board so elects.","path":["AR Code","Title 14","Chapter 250"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"c6bb1aba4af1ee815ec321e83193ab820c4ed737d7277598e406dbe23797c6f1","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-250-112","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-14-250-114","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}