§22-29-21. Grants to local public bodies - Powers of local public bodies.

In order to provide for the funding of the grant by the authority for a project to the local public body, such local public body is hereby authorized and empowered, any existing statute to the contrary notwithstanding, to do and perform any one or more of the following:

(1) To obligate itself to pay to the authority at periodic intervals a sum sufficient to provide bond service charges with respect to the bonds of the authority issued to fund the grant for such project.

(2) To levy, collect and pay over to the authority and to obligate itself to continue to levy, collect and pay over to the authority the proceeds of any one or more of the following:

a. Any sewer or waste disposal service fee or charge;

b. Any privilege or license tax; or

c. Any special assessment on the property drained, served or benefited by the project.

(3) To undertake and obligate itself to pay its contractual obligation to the authority solely from the proceeds from any one or more of the sources specified in paragraphs a, b or c of subdivision (2) of this section or to impose upon itself a general obligation indebtedness to the authority additionally secured by a pledge of any one or more of such sources.

(4) To levy and collect and to obligate itself to continue to levy and collect for the use of the sewer system or disposal facilities or the project such fees and charges in addition to all other fees and charges as shall equal 125 percent of the maximum principal and interest maturing and coming due in any one year on the bonds issued by the authority to fund a grant for the project and to pay over such fees and charges to the State Treasurer for the account of such bonds.

(5) To retain as its expenses for collecting such fees and charges from the users of such system or disposal facilities or project a charge not exceeding five percent of the total collected therefrom; to delegate the collection of such fees and charges to any agency which collects sewer or water service charges in the local public body and to pay as compensation for the services to such agency all or any part of such five percent.

(6) To enter into such agreements, to perform such acts and to delegate such functions and duties as its governing body shall determine to be necessary or desirable to enable the authority to fund a grant to the local public body to aid it in the construction or acquisition of a project.

(Acts 1971, No. 42, p. 279, §17.)