§ 22-4-305 - Authority of State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission to impose fees for services -- Pledge of revenues from fees -- Restrictions. - Arkansas Statutes

22-4-305. Authority of State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission to impose fees for services -- Pledge of revenues from fees -- Restrictions.

(a) The State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission is authorized and directed to prescribe and collect reasonable fees, rates, tolls, and charges for the services, facilities, and commodities rendered by the properties and equipment of the state parks system.

(b) The authority and power of the commission includes the right to erect and operate cabins, lodges, restaurants, and other facilities and improvements for the convenience of the public and the right to erect and lease to third parties for operation such facilities and improvements upon such terms as the commission may determine.

(c) (1) The commission shall revise the rates, fees, tolls, charges, and rentals whenever necessary to ensure that the revenues therefrom, together with other available funds, shall be fully sufficient to discharge all obligations of the commission pertaining to the principal of and interest on any bonds as the principal and interest become due.

(2) The gross revenue derived by the commission from all or any part of the properties and equipment of the state parks system may be pledged to the payment of revenue bonds authorized to be issued by this subchapter even though the proceeds from a particular bond issue may be used for the development or improvement of one (1) or more, but less than all, state parks.

(d) The bonds shall not constitute an indebtedness of the commission or of the State of Arkansas within the meaning of any constitutional or statutory limitation, and this shall be so stated on the face of each bond.