Title 25 — State Government

(a) For the purposes of this section, “business” means and includes business, industry, profession, occupation, and calling of every kind. (b) (1) The head of any business or head of any state, county, or municipal department, commission, bureau, or board may cause any or all rec…

(a) The Secretary of State is authorized and empowered to proceed to have microfilmed any state records and documents which, in his or her opinion, with the advice of the State Board of Finance and the heads of the various state departments, may be of the most importance from an …

The fees charged by the Secretary of State for facsimile copies of any state record document shall be the same as is provided by law for certified copies.

A.C.A. § 25-18-201Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

If any report, bill, or other document is ordered to be printed by the General Assembly and no number of copies is designated, there shall be printed at the public expense not more than two hundred forty (240) copies.

In printing messages, reports, and other documents ordered to be printed by the General Assembly or by any officer, in pursuance of law or resolution of either house of the General Assembly, the contractor may attach covers and prefix a title page to each message or report of a s…

Whenever any journal of the proceedings of the House of Representatives and Senate for any regular or extraordinary session of those bodies, or either of them, is authorized to be published by any enactment of the General Assembly, publication shall be made and the published jour…

(a) The Secretary of State shall make out true and accurate copies of all the laws, resolutions, and memorials and deliver them to the contractor for printing the acts of the General Assembly as fast as the contractor may need the copies in fulfillment of his or her contract as r…

(a) It shall be the Secretary of State's duty to distribute the acts and journals and all laws as are by law required to be distributed among the different counties of this state. (b) The Secretary of State shall issue his or her requisition for the acts in whatever quantities ar…

(a) (1) The officers, except the Clerk of the Supreme Court and the members of the General Assembly, receiving digests, acts, and journals shall keep them in good order and turn over the volumes to their successors in office.(2) On failure to do so without properly accounting for…

If any of the digests, acts, and journals shall be lost or destroyed, the officer whose books have become lost or destroyed may obtain a duplicate copy from the Secretary of State by furnishing the Secretary of State a statement under oath of the facts in the case, setting out th…

(a) (1) The Secretary of State shall have the authority and power and is required to sell Crawford and Moses' Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas at five dollars ($5.00) per copy and to sell the acts of the General Assembly at the actual pro rata cost to the state for publishing t…

(a) The clerk and his or her bondsmen shall be personally liable and responsible for the safekeeping of bound volumes of the reports. (b) The volume shall not be loaned or removed except that the clerk, upon approval of the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administratio…

(a) (1) The reports of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals shall be published and distributed in such format and medium as the Supreme Court may direct.(2) The medium shall be a permanent, secure, and unalterable record of the final, official decisions of the Supreme Court…

A.C.A. § 25-18-219Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

The archaic terms “dumb” and “deaf-mute” that formerly related to deaf people shall be struck from all future state publications that in any way refer to the deaf.

A.C.A. § 25-18-223Current 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) (1) (A) Any quasi-judicial board, commission, or agency of the state shall, on request, provide copies of its opinions and orders to any publication or reporting service which routinely reports on its opinions and orders.(B) If such a board, commission, or agency affirms and …

(a) The Secretary of State shall permanently maintain the original and one (1) copy of all:(1) Acts of the General Assembly;(2) Memorials;(3) Resolutions;(4) Proposed constitutional amendments, both initiated and referred; and(5) Proposed initiated acts. (1) Acts of the General A…

The David W. Mullins Library of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville shall be designated as an official state depository of all public documents published by or under the authority of the state or any division thereof.

The Secretary of State is further directed to send to the David W. Mullins Library of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville a copy of all publications of the United States Government, where there are duplicate copies in the library of the Secretary of State. This shall inclu…

(a) In addition to the David W. Mullins Library of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, which was designated as a depository of all state, city, and county documents under the provisions of § 25-18-301, the library of each of the state-supported institutions of higher lear…

(a) Any institution of higher learning desiring to obtain copies of any publication contained in the checklist shall order the number of copies, not to exceed three (3) copies of any one (1) report or publication, desired from the Arkansas State Library. (b) The Arkansas State Li…

Each department or division of the state, a city, or a county under whose jurisdiction any printed or processed book, pamphlet, report, or other publication is issued at the expense of a municipal corporation or of a county, or of a county and a city, or of the state is directed …

(1) No public official or employee acting in behalf of a governmental agency or another agency wholly or partially supported by or expending public funds shall:(1) Agree or authorize another to agree that all or part of a litigation settlement agreement to which the agency is a p…

This subchapter does not prohibit the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration and his or her authorized agents from entering into agreements with taxpayers pursuant to § 26-18-705 which shall not be subject to public disclosure if the subject matter of the agree…

Any person who violates the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a violation and punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500).

When any state agency enters into a contract with any entity, the contract shall be deemed a public record in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq.

(a) The General Assembly finds that while the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq., provides disclosure guarantees for public records, due to Acts 2001, No. 1252, there is no general requirement for agencies to preserve public records. (b) Therefore, the State …

(a) This subchapter shall not apply to city, county, or local governmental entities. (b) This subchapter shall apply only to records created by each state agency after the date the state agency complies with the rules and guidelines promulgated under this subchapter.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Public records” means the same as defined in § 25-19-103(7)(A); and(2) (A) “State agencies” means all state departments, boards, and commissions.(B) “State agencies” does not include:(i) The elected constitutional officers and their staffs;(ii)…

(a) The Department of Finance and Administration shall direct the development of rules and guidelines for the retention of public records commonly found in most state agencies. (b) (1) The department shall promulgate pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-…

(a) If any rule promulgated under this subchapter is found to conflict with current federal or state law for the retention of public records, the federal or state law shall override the rule promulgated under this subchapter. (b) Rules promulgated under this subchapter shall not …

All state agencies shall use or permit the use of electronic records and electronic signatures.

(a) The Director of the Office of State Technology shall establish standards and polices governing the use, management, retention, privacy, and security of electronic records of state agencies. (b) The standards and policies shall address:(1) The manner and format in which the el…

A state agency may use the standards and policies developed by the Director of the Office of State Technology under § 25-18-702, or it may develop its own standards and policies consistent with the requirements established in § 25-18-702(b).