Opinion No.

The Honorable T.J. Hively Prosecuting Attorney Sixteenth Judicial Circuit P.O. Box 2476 Batesville, Arkansas 72503

Dear Mr. Hively:

This is in response to your request, submitted by Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Wesley J. Ketz, Jr., for an opinion on whether a county can operate a sewer system and force a mandatory hook-up within three hundred feet of the sewer system. He indicates that the county wishes to accomplish this by creating a "public facilities board." Mr. Ketz states that he is aware of Attorney General opinions with regard to charging each resident of the county a fee for solid waste…