(a) A regional solid waste management district is authorized to own, acquire, construct, reconstruct, extend, equip, improve, operate, maintain, sell, lease, contract concerning, or otherwise deal in facilities of any nature necessary or desirable for the control, collection, removal, reduction, disposal, treatment, or other handling of solid waste.(b)(1) A regional solid waste management district may elect to acquire the ownership or use of elements of solid waste management systems owned or controlled by municipalities, counties, improvement districts, or sanitation authorities within the regional solid waste management district by contract on such terms as are mutually agreed to be necessary, convenient, or desirable.(2)(A) If the regional solid waste management district has elected such acquisition of ownership or use, the regional solid waste management district shall also have assumed the responsibility associated with that project or element, as contemplated by § 8-6-714.(B) If the regional solid waste management district and the other entity or entities which are parties to the acquisition cannot mutually agree on the fair value to be paid and the method of compensation If the regional solid waste management district and the other entity or entities which are parties to the acquisition cannot mutually agree on the fair value to be paid and the method of compensation for the acquired asset, then either party may have that value and method adjudicated as to fairness by the circuit court having jurisdiction of the regional solid waste management district's principal office, in the manner of a declaratory judgment and not in the nature of eminent domain.(C) The regional solid waste management district shall have the discretion to proceed or not to proceed with the acquisition after the declaration is obtained.(c)(1)(A) A regional solid waste management district may elect to seek a permit for a Class I landfill to be owned by the State of Arkansas.(B) Provided, however, that only one (1) such Class I landfill shall be sited in each of the eight (8) planning and development districts established pursuant to § 14-166-202.(2) Upon the regional solid waste management district's obtaining a permit to operate, ownership interest in said Class I landfill shall be vested with the State of Arkansas through deed or other conveyance.(d) An existing and operating agement district's obtaining a permit to operate, ownership interest in said Class I landfill shall be vested with the State of Arkansas through deed or other conveyance.(d) An existing and operating solid waste facility within the regional solid waste management district shall be incorporated into the regional solid waste management district solid waste management plan, or the regional solid waste management district shall acquire ownership of that solid waste facility in the manner set forth in subsection (b) of this section.(e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to give a regional solid waste management district the power to make an acquisition described in this section without the consent of the municipalities, counties, improvement districts, or sanitation authorities involved.Acts 1991, No. 752, § 2.
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