Arkansas Code
Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees

§ 21-1-610. Reward to state employee when communication of waste or violation results in savings of state funds — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “State employee” means...

Subchapter 7 - State Employee Grievances

§ 21-1-701. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Employee” means a...

§ 21-1-702. Grievances - (a) The Office of Personnel Management shall establish a procedure...

Chapter 2 - Commission, Oath, And Bond

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 21-2-101. Officers commissioned by Governor - Each Justice of the Supreme Court, judge of a circuit...

§ 21-2-102. Commission fee and duplicate oath to be forwarded to Secretary of State - (a) (1) With the exception of judges elected at the...

§ 21-2-103. Sending commission fees directly to Treasurer of State — Issuance of commission - (a) Any officer entitled to a commission may send the...

§ 21-2-104. District, county, and township officers — Issuance of commissions — Collection of fees - (a) (1) The Secretary of State is authorized, after each...

§ 21-2-105. Administration of oaths generally - (a) (1) The Governor shall take the oath of office...

§ 21-2-106. Endorsement of oath on commission - (a) It shall be the duty of every officer administering...

§ 21-2-107. Bonds of state, county, and district officers generally - (a) The official bonds of all state, county, and district...

§ 21-2-108. Duration of bond - All official bonds shall be executed for a definite period...

§ 21-2-109. Payment of premium on bonds - If state, county, or city officials, including officials of incorporated...

§ 21-2-110. Liability of surety generally - The surety on an official's bond shall be liable for...

§ 21-2-111. Discharge of sureties on official bonds - (a) (1) Any person bound as surety in any bond...

§ 21-2-112. Remedy of surety against principal and cosureties - Any person bound as a security in any bond given...

§ 21-2-113. Discrepancies in accounts — Effect on surety - (a) If any discrepancies are found in the accounts of...

§ 21-2-114. Bond required of people employed by public officials - Each public official or employee of this state, or political...

§ 21-2-115. Persons in armed forces — Oath — Bond - (a) (1) Any person in the armed forces of the...

Subchapter 7 - Self-Insured Fidelity Bond Program

§ 21-2-701. Purpose - It is found and determined that: (1) The State of...

§ 21-2-702. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Audit” or “audit report”...

§ 21-2-703. Coverage in lieu of statutory bonds - (a) (1) The fidelity bond coverage provided under this subchapter...

§ 21-2-704. Establishment — Scope of coverage - (a) There is established a Self-Insured Fidelity Bond Program for...

§ 21-2-705. Governmental Bonding Board - (a) There is created the Governmental Bonding Board, which shall...

§ 21-2-706. Administration - It shall be the responsibility of the Governmental Bonding Board...

§ 21-2-707. Operations and recommendations - (a) The Insurance Commissioner, at the direction of the Governmental...

§ 21-2-708. Notice and proof of losses — Investigations — Restitution - (a) The Legislative Auditor, with the approval of the Legislative...

§ 21-2-709. Determination of coverage — Assignment of rights - (a) (1) (A) Upon the receipt of the proof of...

§ 21-2-710. Billing certification — Payment and deposit - (a) The Governmental Bonding Board, with the assistance of the...

§ 21-2-711. Fidelity Bond Trust Fund - (a) There is established on the books of the Treasurer...

Chapter 3 - Recruiting, Hiring, and Appointment

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 21-3-101. Equal employment hiring program - (a) Every state agency, board, commission, institution of higher education,...

§ 21-3-102. Selective Service registration — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “statement of selective service...

Subchapter 2 - Age Discrimination

§ 21-3-201. Definition - For the purposes of this subchapter, “public employer” means any...

§ 21-3-202. Applicability - The prohibitions in this subchapter shall be limited to individuals...

§ 21-3-203. Age discrimination prohibited — Exceptions - (a) It shall be unlawful for a public employer to:...

§ 21-3-205. Compulsory retirement of certain employees - (a) (1) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to...

Subchapter 3 - Veterans Preferences

§ 21-3-301. Uniform Classification and Compensation Act rules - Any requirement or rule set up for the purpose of...

§ 21-3-302. Veterans Preference Law — Definition - (a) This section shall be entitled the “Veterans Preference Law”....

§ 21-3-303. Failure to hire veteran - (a) If requested by the veteran applicant and in addition...

§ 21-3-304. Reduction in force - (a) A department or agency director or institution of higher...

§ 21-3-305. Reemployment - (a) An employee as defined in § 21-5-203 who has...

§ 21-3-306. Rights of reservists — Legislative intent - (a) It is declared to be the intent of the...

Subchapter 5 - Cooperative Education Program

§ 21-3-501. Policy — Purpose - (a) Recognizing the tremendous potential represented by the young people...

§ 21-3-502. Definitions - For the purposes of this subchapter: (1) “Academic credit” means...

§ 21-3-503. Student employment not restricted - Nothing in this subchapter is to be construed as barring...

§ 21-3-504. Creation and administration - There is established a cooperative education program for hiring qualified...

§ 21-3-505. Arkansas Cooperative Education Advisory Committee - (a) The Governor shall appoint an Arkansas Cooperative Education Advisory...

§ 21-3-506. Agency eligibility - All offices, branches, and agencies within state government shall be...

§ 21-3-507. Student eligibility - A student shall be eligible for a cooperative education placement...

§ 21-3-508. School eligibility - In order for any institution of higher education within the...

§ 21-3-509. State personnel administrator - (a) The state personnel administrator shall have the responsibility to...

Subchapter 6 - Internship Program

§ 21-3-601. Internship program - (a) The Legislative Council and the Department of Finance and...

Subchapter 8 - Exceptional Employee Recruitment Program

§ 21-3-801. Title - This subchapter shall be known as the “Exceptional Employee Recruitment...

§ 21-3-802. Recruitment of retired employees - (a) The Department of Finance and Administration shall promulgate rules...

Chapter 4 - Attendance and Leave

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 21-4-101. Leave of absence for public service - (a) Any person who is employed by any person, firm,...

§ 21-4-102. Leave of absence for certain training programs - (a) (1) All employees of the state, as defined in...

§ 21-4-103. Service credit for former Office of Child Support Enforcement contractors - Any employee of the Office of Child Support Enforcement who...

§ 21-4-104. Leave of absence for emergency and rescue services - (a) An employee of the state, a city of the...

§ 21-4-105. Leave of absence for reexamination or treatment of service-connected disability - (a) All employees of the State of Arkansas, as defined...

§ 21-4-106. Leave of absence for participation in Healthy Employee Lifestyle Program — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Agency” means a...

§ 21-4-107. Paid leave for firefighters with occupationally caused cancer - (a) (1) A paid firefighter for the state or any...

Subchapter 2 - Uniform Attendance and Leave Policy Act

§ 21-4-201. Title - This subchapter may be referred to and cited as the...

§ 21-4-202. Legislative intent - It is the purpose and intent of this subchapter to...

§ 21-4-203. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Agency head” or “agency...

§ 21-4-204. Annual leave — Accrual and use - (a) (1) Except for the employees under subdivision (a)(2) of...

§ 21-4-205. Annual leave — Unused leave - (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (a)(2) of this...

§ 21-4-206. Sick leave — When granted — Definition - (a) (1) Sick leave with pay shall be granted to...

§ 21-4-207. Sick leave — Accrual and use - (a) (1) (A) Except for the employees under subdivision (a)(1)(B)...

§ 21-4-208. Sick leave — Use in conjunction with workers' compensation - (a) (1) Employees who are absent from work due to...

§ 21-4-209. Maternity leave - (a) Maternity leave shall be treated as any other leave...

§ 21-4-210. Leave of absence without pay - (a) (1) Upon application in writing to and written approval...

§ 21-4-211. Educational leave - A permanent employee who is given out-service training may be...

§ 21-4-212. Military leave — Definition - (a) (1) Employees who are members of the armed forces...

§ 21-4-213. Court and jury leave — Definition - (a) An employee serving as a juror in state or...

§ 21-4-214. Catastrophic leave program - (a) (1) The Department of Transformation and Shared Services shall...

§ 21-4-215. Leave for bone marrow or organ donation — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Bone marrow donor”...

§ 21-4-216. Leave for participation in children's educational activities — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) (A) “Child” means...

Subchapter 3 - Military Leave of Absence

§ 21-4-301. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Active service” or “active...

§ 21-4-302. Officers — Leave of absence granted to perform active military service - (a) Subject to the provisions of this subchapter, the following...

§ 21-4-303. Officers — Deputy appointed by officer - (a) Officers who are authorized by law to appoint deputies...

§ 21-4-304. Officers — Deputy appointed by Governor - (a) (1) Any elected officer who is not authorized by...

§ 21-4-306. Circuit court judges - (a) Whenever a judge of a circuit court shall volunteer...

§ 21-4-307. Officers — Expiration of term while on leave - (a) In the event the term of office of an...

§ 21-4-308. Employees — Leave of absence granted at discretion of employer - (a) In the discretion of their employer, all employees of...

§ 21-4-309. Employees — Reemployment rights - (a) Any public employee who may be granted a leave...

§ 21-4-310. Employment and retirement rights - (a) During a leave of absence, an official shall be...

§ 21-4-311. Vacancy in office or position - (a) Should any person appointed to fill the office or...

§ 21-4-312. Compensation of absentee and deputy or substitute - (a) The deputies or other persons appointed to fill the...

§ 21-4-313. Commission, oath of deputy, or substitute - (a) It shall not be required that a commission issue...

Subchapter 4 - Deceased Employees — Payment for Accrued Leave

§ 21-4-401. Specific repeal required - This subchapter shall remain in full force and effect in...

§ 21-4-402. Payment for accrued vacation - (a) It shall be the duty of the officer in...

§ 21-4-403. Determination of amount of leave and rate of pay — Records - (a) In the event that the salary of a deceased...

§ 21-4-404. Payment for unused annual leave and holidays - When a person dies while actively employed by any agency...

§ 21-4-405. Payment of accrued leave to estate of wildlife officer - (a) The Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission may pay...

§ 21-4-406. Payment of accrued leave to estate of Arkansas Highway Police Division officer - (a) The State Highway Commission may pay all accrued and...

Subchapter 5 - Financial Incentives to Decrease Use of Sick Leave

§ 21-4-501. Compensation for unused sick leave at retirement - (a) Upon retirement or death, any employee or beneficiary of...

§ 21-4-503. Applicability of subchapter - (a) The provisions of §§ 21-4-501 and 21-4-504 apply to:...

§ 21-4-504. Participation by other state agencies - All state agencies are encouraged to participate in the Department...

§ 21-4-505. Compensation for unused sick leave of nonclassified employees of state-supported institutions of higher education — Calculation for unused sick leave - (a) At its discretion, a state-supported institution of higher education...

Chapter 5 - Compensation and Benefits

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 21-5-101. Regular Salary Procedures and Restrictions Act - (a) This section and § 19-4-1601 shall be known as...

§ 21-5-102. Automobile insurance expenses for employees of Department of Health - (a) The Department of Health is authorized to pay from...

§ 21-5-103. Insufficient funds for payment of county salaries - If, in any year, the funds available for the payment...

§ 21-5-104. Deduction of jury duty fees from salary prohibited - (a) No state, county, or municipal employer in this state...

§ 21-5-106. Annual career service recognition payments for state employees - (a) (1) (A) Employees of state agencies shall become eligible...

§ 21-5-107. Compensation of person holding more than one elective office - (a) (1) A person holding more than one (1) elective...

§ 21-5-108. Salary distributions - The annual salaries of court reporters and case coordinators shall...

§ 21-5-109. New employees — Electronic direct deposit — Definition - (a) (1) (A) As a condition of employment, a person...

§ 21-5-110. State Insurance Department — Arkansas Firefighter Cancer Relief Network Trust Fund — Proceeds - (a) (1) The State Insurance Department shall maintain the Arkansas...

Subchapter 2 - Uniform Classification and Compensation Act

§ 21-5-201. Title - This subchapter may be referred to and cited as the...

§ 21-5-202. Legislative intent - (a) It is the purpose and intent of this subchapter...

§ 21-5-203. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Agency director” means the...

§ 21-5-204. Exceptions - (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section,...

§ 21-5-205. Effect on appropriation acts - (a) All appropriation acts of all state agencies subject to...

§ 21-5-206. Legislative Council — Duties - In order to assist the General Assembly in more efficiently...

§ 21-5-207. Office of Personnel Management — Duties - (a) It shall be the duty of the Office of...

§ 21-5-208. Classification of positions - (a) There are established for state agencies covered by this...

§ 21-5-209. Compensation plan - (a) There is established for state agencies covered by this...

§ 21-5-210. Implementation of plan — Changes in class specifications - (a) For the purposes of implementing the uniform employee classification...

§ 21-5-211. Implementation procedure for grade changes — Salary adjustments - (a) The Office of Personnel Management has administrative responsibility for...

§ 21-5-214. New appointments and other compensation plan provisions - (a) A new appointment to a position in a state...

§ 21-5-218. Reimbursement for interpreter services for deaf - Whereas Arkansas Rehabilitation Services currently purchases and sells staff interpreter...

§ 21-5-220. Shift differential - (a) (1) Upon the approval of the Office of Personnel...

§ 21-5-221. Compensation differentials - (a) To address specific employee compensation needs not otherwise provided...

§ 21-5-222. Salary administration grids - (a) (1) A state agency may request that a salary...

§ 21-5-223. Severance pay - (a) (1) If the agency director determines that it is...

§ 21-5-224. Extra help positions - (a) (1) A position authorized as extra help in a...

§ 21-5-225. Position pools - (a) (1) There is established a pool of one thousand...

Subchapter 4 - State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Board

§ 21-5-401. State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Program established — Legislative intent - (a) The State and Public School Life and Health Insurance...

§ 21-5-402. Creation of board — Members - (a) (1) The State and Public School Life and Health...

§ 21-5-403. Policy-making body only — Reports - (a) The State and Public School Life and Health Insurance...

§ 21-5-404. Powers, functions, and duties of board - The State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Board...

§ 21-5-405. Additional duties of board - (a) (1) The State and Public School Life and Health...

§ 21-5-406. Director — Staff - (a) (1) The State and Public School Life and Health...

§ 21-5-407. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Active employee” means an...

§ 21-5-408. Compensation - State and Public School Life and Health Insurance Board members...

§ 21-5-410. Eligibility generally — Definition - (a) Individuals eligible to participate in the State and Public...

§ 21-5-411. Eligibility of certain retired employees — Definition - (a) (1) If qualified, state employee retirees and public school...

§ 21-5-412. Eligibility of certain elected officials - (a) Members of the General Assembly and the state-elected constitutional...

§ 21-5-414. State contributions generally — Partial state contribution of employees' premiums - (a) The Department of Transformation and Shared Services shall seek...

§ 21-5-415. Nonpayment of premiums and failure to file reports by agency or school district - (a) (1) If any participating state agency or school district...

§ 21-5-416. Annual performance audits - The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee shall annually conduct a performance...

§ 21-5-417. State contribution for employee receiving workers' compensation - Notwithstanding any other provisions of the law, a state agency...

§ 21-5-418. Health savings account - (a) A health savings account shall be a component of...

Subchapter 5 - Deferred Compensation

§ 21-5-501. Definition - For the purpose of this subchapter, “employee” means any person,...

§ 21-5-502. Applicability - This subchapter shall apply to all deferred compensation plans adopted...

§ 21-5-503. Effect on other benefits - The deferred compensation program established by this subchapter shall exist...

§ 21-5-504. Authority of state or political subdivision - (a) (1) The state or a county, city, town, or...

§ 21-5-505. Authority of Department of Finance and Administration - (a) The Department of Finance and Administration is authorized to...

§ 21-5-506. Administration of programs - (a) (1) The administration of the state government employees' deferred...

§ 21-5-507. Payments by administrator - (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,...

§ 21-5-508. Taxation of deferred income - A sum deferred under the deferred compensation program is not...

§ 21-5-509. Exclusive benefit - All amounts of compensation deferred pursuant to a deferred compensation...

§ 21-5-510. Liability of state or political subdivision - The financial liability of the state, county, city, town, or...

§ 21-5-511. Automatic enrollment in deferred compensation plan — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Deferred compensation plan”...

Subchapter 6 - Public Employee Workers' Compensation Act

§ 21-5-601. Title - This subchapter shall be known and cited as the “Public...

§ 21-5-602. Legislative intent - It is the purpose of this subchapter to: (1) Provide...

§ 21-5-603. Definitions - (a) The term “public employee”, as used in this subchapter,...

§ 21-5-604. Workfare participants excluded - (a) A workfare participant by participating in workfare does not...

§ 21-5-605. Public Employee Claims Division - (a) There is created a Public Employee Claims Division within...

§ 21-5-606. Division attorneys - (a) The Director of the Public Employee Claims Division shall...

§ 21-5-607. Claim, review, and appeal procedures - To the extent not in conflict with this subchapter, the...

§ 21-5-608. Report of injury, death, or exposure - (a) The appropriate public employer shall file with the Public...

§ 21-5-609. Benefits for emergency service volunteer workers - (a) Benefits payable for the injury or death of a...

§ 21-5-610. Workers' compensation benefits in conjunction with certain other benefits - In the event that any public employee is entitled to...

Subchapter 7 - Death Benefits

§ 21-5-701. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Child” or “children” means...

§ 21-5-702. Jurisdiction of Arkansas State Claims Commission regarding claims filed under subchapter - (a) The Arkansas State Claims Commission is vested with exclusive...

§ 21-5-703. Procedures for filing claims - (a) All claimants shall be subject to the same rules...

§ 21-5-704. Payment of claim to covered public employees, their designated beneficiaries, or their survivors — Funds — Definition - (a) (1) (A) The state shall pay to the beneficiaries...

§ 21-5-705. Payment of claim to designated beneficiaries or survivors of certain specified public employees killed in the line of duty — Funds — Definitions - (a) The state shall pay the additional sum of one...

§ 21-5-706. Funds for payment of claims generally - (a) All claims allowed under the provisions of this subchapter...

§ 21-5-707. Eligibility of children for death benefits - (a) Unless designated as the beneficiary of a covered public...

§ 21-5-708. Designated beneficiary - (a) (1) A covered public employee may designate a beneficiary...

Subchapter 8 - Attorney’s Fees and Court Costs

§ 21-5-801. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “State agency” means any...

§ 21-5-802. Right to payment — Claims and awards - (a) Any state officer or state employee who has been...

Subchapter 9 - Cafeteria Plans

§ 21-5-901. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Cafeteria plan” means a...

§ 21-5-902. Salary reduction agreement - (a) Any eligible employee who chooses to participate in a...

§ 21-5-903. Computing retirement benefits - The amount by which an eligible employee's salary is reduced...

§ 21-5-904. Administration of cafeteria plans - (a) The Director of the Employee Benefits Division shall have...

Subchapter 10 - Employee Performance Evaluation

§ 21-5-1001. Legislative intent - (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that...

§ 21-5-1007. Annual leave - (a) When an officer or employee of a state office...

Subchapter 11 - Career Ladder Incentive Program

§ 21-5-1101. Merit increase pay system — Definition - (a) (1) The Department of Transformation and Shared Services is...

Subchapter 12 - Active Duty After September 11, 2001

§ 21-5-1201. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Emergency nature or contingency”...

§ 21-5-1202. Compensation of employees of state agencies and state-supported institutions of higher education — Emergency activities - (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of the Uniform Attendance and Leave...

§ 21-5-1203. Compensation of public school district employee — Emergency activities - (a) Notwithstanding any other law, during the period that an...

Subchapter 13 - Deferred Contribution to a Tuition Savings Program

§ 21-5-1301. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Agency” means a...

§ 21-5-1302. Participation in tuition savings program - (a) When a state employee begins his or her employment...

Subchapter 14 - Higher Education Uniform Classification and Compensation Act

§ 21-5-1401. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 21-5-1402. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Class” or “classification” means...

§ 21-5-1403. Regular salary procedures and restrictions - Arkansas Constitution, Article 16, § 4, provides: “The General Assembly...

§ 21-5-1404. Effect on appropriation acts - (a) All appropriation acts of all institutions of higher education...

§ 21-5-1405. Division of Higher Education — Duties - (a) The Division of Higher Education shall perform the following...

§ 21-5-1406. Classification of positions - (a) (1) There are established for the institutions of higher...

§ 21-5-1407. Compensation plan - (a) There is established for institutions of higher education covered...

§ 21-5-1408. Implementation of plan — Changes in class specifications - (a) For the purposes of implementing the higher education uniform...

§ 21-5-1409. Implementation procedure for grade changes — Salary adjustments - (a) The Division of Higher Education has administrative responsibility for...

§ 21-5-1410. New appointments — Other compensation plan provisions - (a) A new appointment to a position in an institution...

§ 21-5-1411. Shift differential - (a) (1) Upon the approval of the Division of Higher...

§ 21-5-1412. Compensation differentials - (a) To address specific employee compensation needs not otherwise provided...

§ 21-5-1413. Salary administration grids - (a) (1) An institution of higher education may request that...

§ 21-5-1414. Extra help positions - (a) (1) A position authorized as extra help in an...

§ 21-5-1415. Position pools - (a) (1) The Division of Higher Education shall establish and...

§ 21-5-1416. Annual career service recognition payments for employees of institutions of higher education - (a) (1) (A) Nonfaculty and classified employees of institutions of...

§ 21-5-1417. Merit increase pay system — Definition - (a) (1) The Division of Higher Education may develop and...

§ 21-5-1418. Information technology labor market rates for recruitment and retention - (a) (1) In order for an institution of higher education...

Chapter 6 - Fees

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 21-6-101. Fees in certain sections superseded - The appropriate fee prescribed in §§ 21-6-306, 21-6-402, and 21-6-403...

§ 21-6-102. Posting of fees - Every officer to whom fees are allowed by law shall...

§ 21-6-103. Illegal fees — Penalty - If any officer shall charge, demand, or receive any more...

§ 21-6-104. Fees in absence of fixed fee - In all cases where any officer or other person is...

§ 21-6-105. Computation of fees - In all cases where fees are allowed by law according...

Subchapter 2 - State Officers

§ 21-6-201. Auditor of State - The following fee shall be paid into the State Treasury...

§ 21-6-202. Secretary of State - (a) The following fees shall be allowed for services performed...

§ 21-6-203. Commissioner of State Lands — Definition - (a) The Commissioner of State Lands may by rule: (1)...

Subchapter 3 - County Officers

§ 21-6-301. Fees not basis for compensation - (a) Fees of the office shall not be the basis...

§ 21-6-302. County treasurers — Commission — Definition — Findings - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) Requiring the collection...

§ 21-6-303. County surveyors - County surveyors shall be allowed the following fees: (1) For...

§ 21-6-304. Coroners - (a) (1) Coroners shall be allowed fees as follows: (A)...

§ 21-6-305. Collector of revenue - (a) The collector of revenue shall be allowed commissions for...

§ 21-6-306. Recorders - (a) (1) The uniform fees to be charged by the...

§ 21-6-307. Sheriffs - (a) The following fees shall be charged by each of...

§ 21-6-308. Constables - (a) The quorum court may fix the salary of the...

§ 21-6-309. Notaries public - (a) A notary public authorized to perform notarial acts in...

§ 21-6-310. Officers and employees generally — Disposition of funds - (a) (1) All fees, fines, penalties, and other moneys collected...

Subchapter 4 - Officers of the Court

§ 21-6-401. Clerk of the Supreme Court - (a) (1) The Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be...

§ 21-6-402. Circuit court clerks — Miscellaneous fees - (a) (1) The fees to be charged by the clerks...

§ 21-6-403. Circuit court clerks — Uniform filing fees — Definition - (a) (1) The uniform filing fees to be charged by...

§ 21-6-406. Clerks of county courts — Miscellaneous fees - (a) A clerk of a county court may charge the...

§ 21-6-407. Fees of clerks of county courts — Method of payment - (a) (1) The fees provided for in § 21-6-406 shall...

§ 21-6-411. Prosecuting attorneys — Certain checks, orders, drafts, or other forms of presentment involving transmission of account information - (a) A prosecuting attorney may collect a fee if his...

§ 21-6-412. Commissioners to sell property - (a) (1) Commissioners appointed to make sales of real property...

§ 21-6-413. Probate and county matters — Miscellaneous court fees - (a) Miscellaneous court fees are established as follows: (1) Dissolutions...

§ 21-6-415. County court clerks — Uniform filing fees - (a) The uniform filing fees to be charged by the...

§ 21-6-416. Court clerks — Technology fees — Definition - (a) (1) The court technology fee to be charged by...

Subchapter 5 - Miscellaneous Fees

§ 21-6-502. Service of subpoena or warrant — Officers - For issuing a subpoena or warrant of arrest and for...

§ 21-6-504. Limitation on fees in criminal cases - (a) (1) In criminal cases where the costs are paid...

§ 21-6-505. Expenses of keeping seized property - The sheriff, constable, or other officer shall safely keep all...

Chapter 7 - Accounting and Reporting

Subchapter 2 - State and Local Officers — Income and Expenditures

§ 21-7-201. Penalties - (a) (1) Any officer who shall refuse or neglect to...

§ 21-7-202. Treasurer of State's fiscal responsibility - The Treasurer of State shall be responsible for all moneys...

§ 21-7-203. Monthly reports by certain state officers — Disposition of funds - (a) (1) The Secretary of State, Auditor of State, and...

§ 21-7-207. Reports in case of vacancy in office - (a) In case any officer shall die or resign, or...

§ 21-7-208. Estimate of expenditures - (a) (1) Any officer coming within the purview of this...

§ 21-7-209. Credit for fees prohibited — Exception - (a) (1) Except as stated in subsections (b) and (c)...

§ 21-7-210. Records kept by officers - (a) (1) It shall be the duty of the Secretary...

§ 21-7-211. Failure of officer to render and settle accounts - If any collector, sheriff, clerk, or other officer shall willfully...

Subchapter 3 - State Officers — Quarterly Reports to Governor

§ 21-7-301. Quarterly statements by certain state officers - On the first day of January, March, July, and October,...

§ 21-7-302. Quarterly statement by Auditor of State - It shall be the duty of the Auditor of State,...

§ 21-7-303. Statement to be public record — Investigation of deficits - (a) The statements provided for in this subchapter, when so...

Subchapter 4 - Printing and Distribution of State Reports

§ 21-7-401. Biennial reports of Treasurer of State and Department of Finance and Administration - (a) (1) The only biennial reports which shall be printed...

§ 21-7-402. Annual and biennial reports - (a) Whenever the laws of this state require any state...

Chapter 8 - Ethics and Conflicts of Interest

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 21-8-101. Nepotism - (a) A person who is related within the second degree,...

§ 21-8-102. Restrictions on employment of former state officials and former state employees — Definitions - (a) As used in this section: (1) “State employee” means...

§ 21-8-103. Elected state officials prohibited from registering as lobbyists — Definition - (a) A person serving as an elected state official in...

Subchapter 2 - Income Disclosure by Salaried Employees

§ 21-8-201. Definitions - For the purposes of this subchapter: (1) “Public agency” shall...

§ 21-8-202. Penalty - (a) Any employee of the State of Arkansas, including employees...

§ 21-8-203. Disclosure of income required - The General Assembly determines that it is essential to the...

§ 21-8-204. Filing of income disclosure statement - (a) On or before January 31 following the close of...

Subchapter 3 - Code of Ethics

§ 21-8-301. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Constitutional office” means the...

§ 21-8-302. Penalties - Any person who knowingly or willfully violates any provision of...

§ 21-8-303. Enforcement - (a) (1) It shall be the duties and responsibilities of...

§ 21-8-304. Prohibited activities - (a) No public servant shall use or attempt to use...

§ 21-8-305. Person convicted of public trust crime ineligible as candidate for constitutional office or to hold constitutional office - (a) If a person has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere...

§ 21-8-310. Gifts from lobbyists - Persons elected or appointed to the following offices shall not...

Subchapter 4 - Disclosure by Lobbyists and State and Local Officials — General Provisions

§ 21-8-401. Title - This subchapter, § 21-8-601 et seq., § 21-8-701 et seq.,...

§ 21-8-402. Definitions - As used in this subchapter and § 21-8-601 et seq.,...

§ 21-8-403. Penalty - (a) Upon conviction, any person who violates any provision of...

§ 21-8-404. Investigation generally - The prosecuting attorney of the district where an alleged violation...

§ 21-8-405. Provisions supplemental - This subchapter, § 21-8-601 et seq., § 21-8-701 et seq.,...

§ 21-8-406. Tickets to charitable events - For the purposes of this subchapter, § 21-8-601 et seq.,...

§ 21-8-407. Gifts of art - Any work of art contracted for prior to January 1,...

Subchapter 6 - Disclosure by Lobbyists

§ 21-8-601. Registration required — Exceptions — Termination - (a) (1) A lobbyist shall register within five (5) days...

§ 21-8-602. Other filings required - (a) A lobbyist who lobbies public servants of state government...

§ 21-8-603. Activity reports — Inspection - (a) (1) Within fifteen (15) days after the end of...

§ 21-8-604. Activity reports — Required contents - (a) The lobbyist activity reports shall be signed and sworn...

§ 21-8-605. Records - A registered lobbyist shall maintain and preserve all accounts, bills,...

§ 21-8-606. Duties of public officials - The Secretary of State, each county clerk, and each city...

§ 21-8-607. Prohibited acts - (a) No person shall purposely employ any lobbyist who is...

Subchapter 7 - Disclosure by State and Local Officials — Statement of Financial Interest

§ 21-8-701. Persons required to file — Exceptions — Contents - (a) The following persons shall file a written statement of...

§ 21-8-702. Forms - Forms used by persons in filing statements as required in...

§ 21-8-703. Place and manner of filing - (a) The statement of financial interest shall be filed as...

§ 21-8-704. Filing by persons called to active duty — Exceptions - If a person who is required to file a statement...

§ 21-8-705. Filing of additional statement of financial interest in year in which party filing period is held. [Expires December 31, 2016.] - If the party filing period under § 7-7-203 ends before...

Subchapter 8 - Disclosure by State and Local Officials — Conflict of Interest

§ 21-8-801. Prohibited acts generally - (a) No public servant shall: (1) Receive a gift or...

§ 21-8-802. Prohibited appearances — Exceptions - (a) No legislator shall appear for compensation on behalf of...

§ 21-8-803. Reporting of potential conflicts - (a) A legislator who is required to take an action...

§ 21-8-804. Gifts to governmental entities - (a) (1) The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer...

Subchapter 9 - Disclosure by Legislators — Sales to the State

§ 21-8-901. Disclosure required - In addition to the required filings under § 21-8-701, a...

§ 21-8-902. Place of filing — Form - (a) The disclosure required by § 21-8-901 shall be filed...

§ 21-8-903. Penalty - Any person who purposely violates the provisions of this subchapter...

Subchapter 10 - State Boards, Commissions, and Entities Receiving State Funds

§ 21-8-1001. Conflicts of interest - (a) (1) No member of a state board or commission...

§ 21-8-1002. Use of position for privileges or exemptions - No member of a state board or commission or board...

§ 21-8-1003. Confidential information - No member of a state board or commission or board...

§ 21-8-1004. Penalties — Investigation by Arkansas Ethics Commission - (a) In addition to any penalty contained in any other...

§ 21-8-1005. Subchapter supplemental to other laws - This subchapter shall be supplemental to all other laws concerning...

Chapter 9 - Liability of State and Local Governments

Subchapter 2 - Liability of State

§ 21-9-201. Definition - For the purpose of this subchapter, elected state officials and...

§ 21-9-202. Jurisdiction of Arkansas State Claims Commission - (a) The Arkansas State Claims Commission shall have jurisdiction over...

§ 21-9-203. Authority to pay damages — Conflict of interest - (a) The State of Arkansas shall pay actual, but not...

§ 21-9-204. Effect of employee insurance - Damages payable under this subchapter shall be reduced to the...

§ 21-9-205. Procedure for making claims - (a) A party desiring to make a claim for indemnification...

Subchapter 3 - Liability of Political Subdivisions

§ 21-9-301. Tort liability — Immunity declared - (a) It is declared to be the public policy of...

§ 21-9-302. Tort liability — Settlement of claims - Each county, municipal corporation, school district, special improvement district, or...

§ 21-9-303. Motor vehicle liability insurance required — Minimum amounts - (a) All political subdivisions shall carry liability insurance on their...

§ 21-9-304. Indemnification by state for certain actions - (a) When any city of the first class, city of...

Chapter 10 - Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act

§ 21-10-101. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (a) “Public security” means a...

§ 21-10-102. Use of facsimile signature authorized — Filing required - Any authorized officer may, after filing with the Secretary of...

§ 21-10-103. Use of facsimile seal - When the seal of this state or any of its...

§ 21-10-105. Construction - This chapter shall be so construed as to effectuate its...

§ 21-10-106. Title - This chapter may be cited as the “Uniform Facsimile Signature...

§ 21-10-107. Severability - If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof...

§ 21-10-108. Inconsistent acts repealed - All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as...

Chapter 11 - Employee Suggestion System

§ 21-11-101. Definition — Exceptions - As used in this chapter, “employee” shall mean all full-time...

§ 21-11-102. Penalty - Any cabinet member or head of a department, agency, board,...

§ 21-11-103. Employee Suggestion System established - There is established a program to be known as the...

§ 21-11-104. Rules — Procedure for submission of suggestions - (a) The Secretary of the Department of Transformation and Shared...

§ 21-11-105. Suggestion Award Board - (a) (1) There is created the Suggestion Award Board. (2)...

§ 21-11-106. Reports by Personnel Director - (a) The Personnel Director shall prepare and annually transmit a...

§ 21-11-107. Awards for suggestions - (a) (1) (A) Any monetary award granted for a suggestion...

§ 21-11-108. Payment of awards - (a) When it is determined by the Personnel Director that...

§ 21-11-109. Funding - (a) No agency, board, or commission shall receive additional appropriations...

Chapter 12 - Termination of Service

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 21-12-101. Limitation of employment for preparers of certain grant applications - (a) For a period of one (1) year after leaving...

§ 21-12-102. Discharge of employee for falsifying employment application - Any person who is employed by the State of Arkansas...

§ 21-12-103. Dismissal of employee for prohibited discrimination - (a) Every state agency shall include in its personnel manual...

Subchapter 2 - Impeachments

§ 21-12-201. Definitions - In this subchapter: (1) “Articles of impeachment” means the written...

§ 21-12-202. Suspension of impeached officer - (a) When any officer shall be impeached, he or she...

§ 21-12-203. Initiation of proceedings - (a) When articles of impeachment have been approved by the...

§ 21-12-204. Attendance of witnesses - (a) The Senate shall have power of coercing the attendance...

§ 21-12-205. Depositions of witnesses - (a) The President of the Senate, on the application of...

§ 21-12-206. Trial - (a) Before the Senate proceeds to try the impeachment, the...

§ 21-12-207. Transcript of proceedings - The Secretary of the Senate shall make out a transcript...

§ 21-12-208. Decision no bar to indictment - The party convicted or acquitted shall, notwithstanding such acquittal or...

§ 21-12-209. Allocation of costs - (a) (1) If the accused is acquitted, he or she...

Subchapter 3 - Removal or Suspension of Local Officers

§ 21-12-301. Suspension upon charge of shortage of funds - (a) (1) Whenever any information or indictment shall be filed...

§ 21-12-302. Removal for conviction of certain offenses - (a) Upon conviction of any county or township officer for...

§ 21-12-303. Appointment of temporary replacement - (a) Whenever any county or township officer is suspended from...

§ 21-12-304. Public service not grounds for termination, demotion, etc - (a) The employment of an employee of any county, city,...

Subchapter 4 - Delivery of Records to Successor

§ 21-12-401. Officer to deliver official records — Penalty for noncompliance - (a) (1) If any civilian or military officer having any...

§ 21-12-402. Private person to deliver official records — Penalty for noncompliance - If any private person shall have or obtain possession of...

§ 21-12-403. Issuance of warrant to seize and deliver records - If any person whose office has become vacant, or his...

§ 21-12-404. Notice of application for warrant - If any person shall hold over or refuse to deliver...

§ 21-12-405. Power of officer executing warrant - The officer executing the warrant issued under § 21-12-403 may...

§ 21-12-406. Failure to execute warrant — Recovery - If an officer receives a warrant issued under § 21-12-403...

§ 21-12-407. Remedy of person aggrieved by warrant - (a) Any person aggrieved by a warrant issued under §...

Subchapter 5 - Privatization of State Employee Functions

§ 21-12-501. Intent - It is the intent of this subchapter to require state...

§ 21-12-502. State agencies required to report privatization of a function - (a) (1) Any state agency, institution, board, or commission which...

§ 21-12-503. Eliminated positions to be removed from budget - The Office of Personnel Management and the Bureau of Legislative...

§ 21-12-504. State agencies required to report impending layoffs of state employees - (a) Any state agency, board, or commission that announces a...

Chapter 13 - State and Local Government Volunteers Act

§ 21-13-101. Title - This chapter may be cited as the “State and Local...

§ 21-13-102. Legislative intent - (a) Since the spirit of volunteerism has long animated generations...

§ 21-13-103. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Department” means all agencies,...

§ 21-13-104. No legal claim created — Exceptions - Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to provide a...

§ 21-13-105. Development of programs — Use of volunteers - (a) Every department, through its executive head, may develop volunteer...

§ 21-13-106. Exemption from employment laws - (a) Volunteers recruited, trained, or accepted by any department shall,...

§ 21-13-107. Meals, lodging, and transportation - (a) (1) Every department that utilizes the services of volunteers...

§ 21-13-108. Liability insurance — Sovereign immunity - (a) Liability insurance may be provided by the department utilizing...

§ 21-13-109. Employment experience - (a) Each department that utilizes the services of volunteers may...

§ 21-13-110. Department reports or records - Each department shall include in its annual report, or shall...

§ 21-13-111. State income tax deductions — Definition - (a) In computing net income for the purpose of the...

Chapter 14 - Notaries Public

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 21-14-101. Appointment and commission - (a) (1) The Secretary of State may appoint and commission...

§ 21-14-102. Change of residence - (a) (1) Upon receiving notification of a change of residency,...

§ 21-14-103. Change in personal information - (a) If any notary public has a change in his...

§ 21-14-104. Power and authority generally - The power and authority of a notary public shall be...

§ 21-14-105. Administration of oaths - Each notary public shall have power to administer oaths in...

§ 21-14-106. Acknowledgments and authentications - (a) A notary public may: (1) Take the proof or...

§ 21-14-107. Signature — Seal - (a) (1) At the time of notarization, the notary public...

§ 21-14-108. Expiration date of commission - (a) (1) Every notary public shall attach to any certificate...

§ 21-14-109. Performance of duties for corporation - (a) It shall be lawful for any notary public who...

§ 21-14-110. Admissibility of acknowledged instruments - All declarations and protests made and acknowledgments taken by a...

§ 21-14-111. Unlawful act — Penalty — Definition - (a) It is unlawful for any notary public to witness...

§ 21-14-112. Denial or revocation of notary public commission - (a) The Secretary of State may deny the application of...

§ 21-14-113. Notice of revocation — Appeal - (a) If the Secretary of State revokes a notary public...

§ 21-14-114. Rules - The Secretary of State may promulgate rules necessary to administer...

Subchapter 2 - Facsimile Signatures and Seals

§ 21-14-201. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Commercial document” means...

§ 21-14-202. Use of facsimile signatures and seals authorized — Filing required - Any notary public may affix a notary certificate bearing the...

§ 21-14-203. Expiration and resignation - (a) Any filing by a notary public with the Secretary...

§ 21-14-204. Duties of notary public - A notary public shall have the same duties when affixing...

§ 21-14-205. Force and effect - Notary certificates which are signed by facsimile signature and sealed...

Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Electronic Notary Public Act

§ 21-14-301. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 21-14-302. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Electronic” means relating to...

§ 21-14-303. Appointment and commission - A notary public who is appointed and commissioned by the...

§ 21-14-304. Registration and application - (a) (1) (A) The Secretary of State shall require a...

§ 21-14-305. Term and renewal - (a) The commission date of the electronic notary public shall...

§ 21-14-306. Form and manner of performing electronic notarial act - (a) An electronic notarial act shall be executed through an...

§ 21-14-307. Physical proximity of signers of electronic documents required - (a) An electronic notary public shall not perform an electronic...

§ 21-14-308. Fees - (a) An electronic notary public may charge and collect fees...

Chapter 15 - Criminal Background Checks

§ 21-15-101. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Applicant” means a person...

§ 21-15-102. Positions involving direct contact with children and with mentally ill and developmentally disabled persons - (a) (1) (A) When a person applies for employment with...

§ 21-15-103. Deadline — Scope of check — Report — Notice — Discharge for persons in designated positions - (a) (1) A state agency shall ensure that any incumbent...

§ 21-15-104. Waiver of exclusion or discharge requirement for persons in designated positions - (a) (1) The provisions of § 21-15-102(a)(4) and §§ 21-15-102(f),...

§ 21-15-105. Confidentiality - (a) Any information received by a state agency from the...

§ 21-15-106. Rules — Records - (a) All state agencies with a designated position or a...

§ 21-15-107. Identification Bureau and registries — Duties - (a) (1) After receipt of a request for a criminal...

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