Arkansas Code Title 25. State Government § 25-20-103. Definitions

(1) “Public agency” means any:

(2) “Retail customer” means a person other than a municipality, improvement district, or other entity that sells and distributes water subject to regulation by the Department of Health who:

(3) “State” means a state of the United States and the District of Columbia;

(4) “Storm water system” means all or any portion of the collective facilities and parts designed, organized, and implemented for the collection, storage, transmission, and disposition of excess storm water runoff in its entirety, or any integral parts thereof, that is formed under the authority of state law and includes without limitation inlets, street gutters, roadway gutters, roadside ditches, channels, swales, aboveground drain pipes, underground drain pipes, natural waterways, conduits, and water impoundments;

(5) “Surplus water” means water available for distribution or sale aside from water necessarily required of the public body for distribution to its existing retail customers;

(6) “Wastewater system” means a wastewater and collection system formed under state law that includes without limitation land, mains, interceptors, collector lines, manholes, force mains, valves, pumping stations, pumps, treatment and pretreatment plants and units thereof, other real and personal property, buildings, structures, other improvements, and facilities as necessary or advisable for the proper and efficient operation of the wastewater system; and

(7) “Water system” means and includes a waterworks and distribution system in its entirety, or any integral parts thereof, which is formed under state law and includes without limitation land, mains, pipelines, hydrants, meters, valves, standpipes, storage tanks, storage basins, pumping tanks, intakes, wells, clear water wells, impounding reservoirs, lakes, watercourses, pumps, purification plants and units thereof, filtration plants and units thereof, as well as all other real and personal property, buildings, structures, and other improvements or facilities as necessary or advisable for the proper and efficient operation of the water system.