(a) The State Highway Commission:
(1) Shall have authority to examine the books, records, and accounts of road districts and to have them audited; and
(2) May take any other steps necessary to ascertain the exact status and assets of a road district.
(b) Any commissioner, officer, agent, or employee of a road district wrongfully using or permitting the wrongful use of district funds shall be personally liable therefor. The Attorney General, at the request of the commission, shall prosecute the necessary suit, in the name of the district, to enforce that liability.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 19 - Roadways, Bridges, and Parking Improvement Districts
Chapter 316 - Road Improvement Districts Generally
Subchapter 2 - Collection and Disposition of Taxes Generally
§ 14-316-201. Penalty and enforcement
§ 14-316-202. Examination of records by commission — Liability for wrongful use of funds
§ 14-316-203. Districts with roads wholly within the state highway system — Annual report
§ 14-316-204. Remission of funds for paying bonded indebtedness and interest
§ 14-316-207. Payment of outstanding indebtedness and bonds by funds derived from taxes
§ 14-316-208. Tax collection prohibited except to pay bonds and interest
§ 14-316-209. Use of funds — County road tax vested in county — Repayment of advances