Title 19 — Public Finance

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Blind trust” means an independently managed trust in which the employee-beneficiary does not have management rights and in which the employee-beneficiary is not given notice of alterations in or other dispositions of the property subject to the tr…

An employee or nonemployee who knowingly violates this chapter is guilty of an unclassified felony and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or shall be imprisoned not less than one (1) nor more than five (5) years, or shall be pun…

(a) Public employment is a public trust. It is the policy of the state to promote and balance the objective of protecting government integrity and the objective of facilitating the recruitment and retention of personnel needed by the state. The policy is implemented by prescribin…

(a) General Ethical Standards for Employees. (1) Any attempt to realize personal gain through public employment by conduct inconsistent with the proper discharge of the employee's duties is a breach of a public trust.(2) In order to fulfill this general prescribed standard, an em…

(a) Conflict of Interest. (1) It is a breach of ethical standards for an employee to participate directly or indirectly in a proceeding or application, in a request for ruling or other determination, in a claim or controversy, or in any other particular matter pertaining to a con…

(a) Disclosure of Benefit Received from Contract. An employee who has or obtains a benefit from a state contract with a business in which the employee has a financial interest shall report the benefit to the Secretary of the Department of Shared Administrative Services. However, …

(a) Gratuities. It is a breach of ethical standards for a person to offer, give, or agree to give an employee or former employee, or for an employee or former employee to solicit, demand, accept, or agree to accept from another person, a gratuity or an offer of employment in conn…

(a) Contingent Fees. It is a breach of ethical standards for a person to be retained, or to retain a person, to solicit or secure a state contract upon an agreement or understanding for a commission, percentage, brokerage, or contingent fee, except for retention of bona fide empl…

(a) Contemporaneous Employment Prohibited. It is a breach of ethical standards for an employee who is involved in procurement to become or be, while such an employee, the employee of a party contracting with the state agency by which the employee is employed. (b) Restrictions on …

It is a breach of ethical standards for an employee or former employee knowingly to use confidential information for actual or anticipated personal gain or for the actual or anticipated personal gain of any other person.

Procurement information is a public record to the extent provided in the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq., except as otherwise provided in this chapter and the Arkansas Procurement Law, § 19-61-101 et seq.

(a) Existing Remedies Not Impaired. Civil and administrative remedies against employees that are in existence on July 1, 1979, shall not be impaired. (b) Supplemental Remedies. In addition to existing remedies for breach of the ethical standards of this chapter, or rules promulga…

(a) Existing Remedies Not Impaired. Civil and administrative remedies against nonemployees that are in existence on July 1, 1979, shall not be impaired. (b) Supplemental Remedies. In addition to the existing remedies for breach of the ethical standards of this chapter, or rules p…

(a) General Provisions. The value of anything transferred or received in breach of the ethical standards of this chapter, or rules promulgated under this chapter, by an employee or a nonemployee may be recovered from both the employee and the nonemployee. (b) Recovery of Kickback…

The Secretary of the Department of Shared Administrative Services shall promulgate rules to implement this chapter and shall do so in accordance with this chapter and the applicable provisions of the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.

(a) (1) On written request of an employee or contractor and in consultation with the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Department of Shared Administrative Services may render a written advisory opinion regarding the appropriateness of the course of conduct to be followed in …

(a) On written request of an employee, the Secretary of the Department of Shared Administrative Services may grant the employee a written waiver from the application of § 19-64-202, which refers to employee conflict of interest, and grant permission to proceed with the transactio…

(a) This chapter does not apply to faculty or staff of state-supported institutions of higher education participating in business incubators within this state. (b) (1) The Secretary of the Department of Shared Administrative Services shall promulgate rules pursuant to the procedu…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding anything in this chapter to the contrary, if, in either of the events in subdivisions (a)(1)(A) and (B) of this section, the contract or subcontract, solicitation, or proposal involves patents, copyrights, or other proprietary information in which a state-…

(a) As used in this section:(1) (A) “Conflict of interest” means a special state employee's direct or indirect pecuniary or other interest in a matter before a covered board.(B) “Conflict of interest” includes without limitation the following:(i) An offer of employment from an en…