A. Notwithstanding any other law, an irrigation or water conservation district may design, construct, acquire, rehabilitate or improve water or wastewater infrastructure, related property and appurtenances or a nonpoint source project with monies borrowed from or financial assistance, including forgivable principal, provided by the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona pursuant to Title 49, Chapter 8.

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B. To repay a loan from the authority a district may enter into a loan repayment agreement with the authority. A loan repayment agreement is payable from any revenues otherwise authorized by law to be used to pay long-term obligations.

C. The board shall obtain approval for the loan repayment agreement in the same manner provided by law for approving and issuing other obligations payable from those revenues that are to be used to pay the loan.

D. A loan repayment agreement entered into pursuant to this section shall contain the covenants and conditions pertaining to the design, construction, acquisition, rehabilitation or improvement of water or wastewater infrastructure, related property and appurtenances or a nonpoint source project and repayment of the loan as the authority deems proper. Loan agreements may provide for the payment of interest on the unpaid principal balance of the agreement at the rates established in the agreement. The agreement may also provide for payment of the irrigation or water conservation district’s proportionate share of the expenses of administering the revolving fund that is the source of the financial assistance and may provide that the irrigation or water conservation district pay financing and loan administration fees approved by the authority. These costs may be included in the assessment amounts pledged to repay the loan. Districts are bound by and shall fully perform the loan repayment agreements, and the agreements are incontestable after the loan is funded by the authority. The irrigation or water conservation district shall also agree to pay the authority’s costs in issuing bonds or otherwise borrowing to fund a loan.

E. A loan repayment agreement under this section does not create a debt of the irrigation or water conservation district, and the authority shall not require that payment of a loan agreement be made from other than those sources permitted in subsection B of this section.

F. An irrigation or water conservation district may employ or contract for the services of attorneys, accountants, financial consultants and other experts in their field as deemed necessary to perform services with respect to the loan repayment agreement.

G. This section is supplemental and alternative to any other law under which a district may borrow money or issue bonds. This section is the exclusive authorization to enter into loan agreements with the authority.

H. For the purposes of this section:

1. "Authority" means the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona.

2. "Board" means the water infrastructure finance authority of Arizona board of directors.