Title 14 — Local Government

(a) There is created the County Collector's Continuing Education Board, which shall be composed of the following members:(1) Eight (8) members of the Arkansas County Tax Collectors Association, designated by the Arkansas County Tax Collectors Association;(2) One (1) member design…

When the term of any sheriff and ex officio collector or a county collector or county treasurer or any county official required by law to make bond expires, within ten (10) days the county judge shall employ a reputable public accountant or a qualified Division of Legislative Aud…

(a) Each county within this state may employ an environmental officer who shall inspect all landfills within that county, ensure compliance with all environmental ordinances, collect evidence of noncompliance and present the evidence to the prosecuting attorney. This officer shal…

(a) Each constable shall be a conservator of the peace in his or her township and shall suppress all riots, affrays, fights, and unlawful assemblies, and shall keep the peace and cause offenders to be arrested and dealt with according to law. (b) If any offense cognizable before …

(a) A district court shall, upon the demand of the party injured, or his or her agent, issue a summons against a constable to whom any execution has been delivered, or who has received any money upon any judgment of the justice, whether with or without execution:(1) If the consta…

(a) If any constable fails to pay over any money collected by him or her after demand is made, or fails to return any execution or other process within the time specified in the process, or fails or neglects to perform any other duty required by law, he or she shall be removed fr…

(a) If any constable receives from any person any bonds, bills, notes, or accounts for collection and gives his or her receipt therefor in his or her official capacity, and fails to pay to that person on demand the amount he or she may have collected, and fails to return the bond…

If any township is divided, the constable in office at the time of the division shall continue in office and be constable of the township in which he or she resides.

Constables in the various townships in this state shall have no authority to appoint deputies.

On or before January 1 succeeding his or her election and before entering upon or discharging any of the duties of his or her office, every assessor shall take and subscribe to the oath prescribed in Arkansas Constitution, Article 19, § 20, and in addition thereto, the following …

Every assessor who shall have failed to take and subscribe to the oath prescribed in § 14-15-201 at the time therein stated is granted, until the time provided by law for entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, to take and subscribe to the oath prescribed in § 14-15-201…

(a) (1) It is declared to be the policy of the state and local governments of Arkansas that from and after July 1, 1947, the state and every county, municipality, school district, and other taxing unit, excepting only special improvement districts to which the county assessor is …

(a) The county assessor shall file an itemized claim, no less often than quarterly, with the clerk of the county court for salaries earned and for reimbursement of authorized expenses incurred. The county court shall promptly examine each claim, and if it finds the claim to be co…

(a) (1) County assessors, full-time employees of county assessors' offices, and state employees who actively work with ad valorem taxes shall be eligible for annual professional development recognition payments upon meeting all the requirements of this section.(2) Such payments s…

When a death is reported to the coroner, he or she shall conduct an investigation concerning the circumstances surrounding the death of an individual and gather and review background information, including, but not limited to, medical information and any other information which m…

(a) (1) A coroner's investigation does not include criminal investigation responsibilities.(2) The coroner shall assist a law enforcement agency or the State Crime Laboratory upon request. (1) A coroner's investigation does not include criminal investigation responsibilities. (2)…

If, after conducting an investigation, the law enforcement agency and prosecuting attorney of the jurisdiction are satisfied that no crime has occurred, the coroner is satisfied that the death is not the result of a crime, and the coroner knows to a reasonable certainty the cause…

(a) (1) Except as provided in this section, records, files, and information gathered and created during the course of a coroner's investigation shall be confidential and deemed exempt from the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq., but only until such time that …

County coroners may be employed by any city emergency medical service, county emergency medical service, or joint city and county emergency medical service.

(a) A coroner may collect and secure any prescription medication of the decedent to ensure that the medication does not come into the possession of a person who might use the medication in an illegal or harmful manner. (b) Collected medication shall be disposed of under circuit c…

A.C.A. § 14-15-307Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) The Division of Law Enforcement Standards and Training, in coordination with the Department of Health, shall establish a training curriculum for medicolegal death investigators, coroners, and deputy coroners in Arkansas that consists of no less than sixteen (16) hours nor mor…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Fixed assets” means items that are permanently located but can be made available for use, including without limitation:(A) Office space;(B) Body refrigeration units;(C) Personnel rehabilitation areas; and(D) Equipment storage facilities;(2) “Mobil…

(a) (1) There shall be established in each county in this state an office to be styled the county recorder's office, which shall be kept at the seat of justice of each county.(2) (A) Unless otherwise provided by law, the county recorder is the circuit clerk of the county.(B) In a…

(a) It shall be the duty of each recorder to record in the books provided for his or her office all deeds, mortgages, conveyances, deeds of trust, bonds, covenants, defeasances, affidavits, powers of attorney, assignments, contracts, agreements, leases, or other instruments of wr…

(a) No instrument by which the title to real estate or personal property, or any interest therein, or lien thereon, is conveyed, created, encumbered, assigned, or otherwise affected or disposed of shall be received for record or filing by the recorder unless:(1) The name and addr…

(a) (1) Every deed, bond, or instrument of writing affecting the title, in law or equity, to any real or personal property within this state which is or may be required by law to be acknowledged or proved and recorded shall be constructive notice to all persons from the time the …

(a) This section may be known and cited as the “Master Mortgage or Deed of Trust Recording Act of 1967”. (b) (1) An instrument containing a form or forms of covenants, conditions, obligations, powers, and other clauses of a mortgage or deed of trust may be recorded in the registr…

(a) The recorder of deeds of any county where any land in which a bankrupt or a debtor in any proceeding under the act of United States Congress relating to bankruptcy has any interest is located shall receive for record, and record, a certified copy of any pleading, decree, orde…

(1) Without delay, each recorder shall record every deed, mortgage, conveyance, deed of trust, bond, or other writing delivered to him or her for record with the acknowledgment, proofs, and certificates written on or attached to the writing and all other papers therein referred t…

No recorder shall be required to endorse any instrument presented to him or her for record as filed or to record the instrument unless the fees for recording and the tax thereon, if any, are first tendered to him or her, nor shall any recorder be subject to any action or liable i…

(1) When any deed, mortgage, deed of trust, bond, conveyance, or other instrument of writing authorized by law to be recorded is deposited in the recorder's office for record, the recorder shall enter in a book to be provided for that purpose in alphabetical order:(1) The names o…

When any deed, mortgage, deed of trust, bond, conveyance, or other instrument of writing authorized by law to be recorded shall be deposited in the recorder's office for record, the recorder shall give to the person delivering the instrument, if required, a receipt specifying the…

(a) It shall be the duty of the recorder to endorse the precise time the instrument is filed for record in his or her office on every deed, bond, or instrument of writing affecting the title in law or equity to any property, real or personal, within this state which is or may be …

(a) Every deed, mortgage, conveyance, deed of trust, bond, or other instrument of writing shall be considered as recorded from the time it was delivered for record. (b) The recorder shall certify and attach to every such deed, mortgage, conveyance, deed of trust, bond, and other …

When recorded, the recorder shall deliver the deed, mortgage, conveyance, deed of trust, bond, or other instrument of writing to the party entitled to the instrument on his or her order.

(a) (1) Each recorder shall provide and keep in the recorder's office a well-bound book and make and enter in alphabetical order in the book an index to all books of record wherein deeds, mortgages, or other instruments in writing concerning lands and tenements are recorded, dist…

Circuit clerks are authorized to destroy all chattel mortgages previously filed where the due date of the obligation secured has expired six (6) years or more prior to date of destruction, together with all bound records of the chattel mortgages containing the index or abstract t…

(1) Any recorder to whom any deed or other writing proved or acknowledged according to law is delivered for record shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500), to be recovered by action on his or her official bond, one-half (½) to the use of the county…

If any recorder willfully neglects to perform any of the duties required of him or her by §§ 14-15-401, 14-15-402, 14-15-407, 14-15-409 — 14-15-414, and 14-14-416 — 14-15-420 or willfully performs them in any other manner than is required by law, he or she shall be deemed guilty …

If any person shall be damaged by the conduct of the recorder, that person may commence an action on his or her official bond in the name of the state to his or her use.

The seal of the circuit court shall be the seal of the recorder and shall be used as such in all cases in which his or her official seal may be required.

Each recorder shall provide suitable books for his or her office and keep regular and faithful accounts of the expenses thereof. These accounts shall be audited by the county court and be paid out of the county treasury.

(a) Each sheriff shall be a conservator of the peace in his or her county and shall cause all offenders against the laws of this state, in his or her view or hearing, to enter into recognizance to keep the peace and appear at the next term of the circuit court of the county and, …

No bond entered into by a sheriff shall be deemed void for not having the approval of the court or clerk endorsed thereon.

(a) Every deputy sheriff appointed as provided by law shall possess all the powers of his or her principal and may perform any of the duties required by law to be performed by the sheriff. (b) Deputy sheriffs are authorized to make arrests for misdemeanor offenses and felony offe…

In any county in this state in which newly constructed jail facilities have been put into use since November 1, 1975, the quorum court of the county is authorized to provide additional positions for the county sheriff's office, in addition to those positions authorized in Acts 19…

(a) It shall be the duty of a clerk of a court of record, at each term thereof, to settle with the sheriff of each county for all moneys received by him or her, or which he or she ought to have collected for the use of the county and which have not been accounted for. He or she s…

(a) A paid, full-time deputy sheriff who is a member of the armed forces of this state or any other state, including without limitation the National Guard or a reserve component or auxiliary of the United States Armed Forces, shall be granted leave at the rate of one hundred sixt…

No person shall be eligible to seek or hold the office of county surveyor unless the person is registered as a professional surveyor by the State Board of Licensure for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors.