(a) The district shall have all powers necessary or desirable to undertake and carry out any and all parts of the plan for constructing, reconstructing, expanding, improving, or otherwise providing appropriate drainage facilities in the district, and to employ persons as it deems necessary to accomplish the purposes of the plan, including the authority to issue bonds as hereinafter provided except as otherwise provided in this chapter, Acts 1881, No. 84, and Acts 1899, No. 183, and all other laws of the State of Arkansas pertaining to municipal improvement districts, in general, as they have been and may be from time to time amended.
(b) This chapter shall be applicable to a drainage improvement district established hereunder, and shall govern the procedures for the operation of a district's affairs including without limitation, the giving of any notice, appointment of assessors, making and filing of assessments of benefits or reassessments of benefits, annexation of additional territory to a district, collection of assessments, enforcement of delinquent assessments, and all other matters relating to the internal operation of a district.