A. Whenever the board of a district shall, by resolution, determine that interest or necessity requires the acquisition, construction, repair, extension, improvement or betterment of a water system, sewer system or other fee-for-service system, districts are authorized to issue revenue bonds or obtain loans, payable solely out of the net income, to be derived from the operation of a publicly owned water system or sewer system or from services rendered by the district for a fee, and to pledge, irrevocably, the income to the payment of the bonds.
B. The proceeds of the bonds are to be used solely for the purchasing, acquiring, constructing and making of necessary improvements, extensions, repairs and betterments of the water system, sewer system or other fee-for-service system for the purchase and acquiring of wells, cisterns, reservoirs or other sources of water supply and pumping plants, sewage disposal plants or other machinery necessary for the operation of those facilities and the land and real estate upon which those facilities are situated or to be situated.
C. Joint revenue bonds may be issued for the acquisition, construction, extension, enlargement or betterment of a joint water system and joint sewer system or other joint fee-for-service system and the income of one or more of the utilities may be pledged to secure the repayment of the joint bonds.
History: 1941 Comp., § 77-3433, enacted by Laws 1951, ch. 195, § 1; 1953 Comp., § 75-18-33; 1978 Comp., § 73-21-36; 2009, ch. 241, § 5.
The 2009 amendment, effective June 19, 2009, in Subsection A, after "sewer system", added "or other fee-for-service system"; after "issue revenue bonds", added "or obtain loans"; and after "water system or sewer", added "system or from services rendered by the district for a fee"; in Subsection B, after "sewer system or", added "other fee-for-service system"; and in Subsection C, after "sewer system", added "or other joint fee-for-service system".
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 39A C.J.S. Health and Environment § 56.
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