Title 21, Public Officers and Employees

(a) A legislator who is required to take an action in the discharge of his or her official duties that may affect his or her financial interest or cause financial benefit or detriment to him or her, or a business in which he or she is an officer, director, stockholder owning more…

(a) (1) The Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Treasurer of State, Auditor of State, Commissioner of State Lands, and Attorney General, in their official capacity, may accept gifts, grants, and donations of money or property on behalf of the state for any lawful p…

In addition to the required filings under § 21-8-701, a member or a member-elect of the General Assembly shall report any goods or services sold during the previous calendar year having a total annual value in excess of one thousand dollars ($1,000) to an office, department, comm…

(a) The disclosure required by § 21-8-901 shall be filed with the Secretary of State at the same time as the filing of the statement of financial interest required under § 21-8-701 et seq. (b) The disclosure shall be on a form requiring the signature of the member, under penalty …

Any person who purposely violates the provisions of this subchapter shall be deemed guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

For the purpose of this subchapter, elected state officials and members of commissions, boards, or other governing bodies of agencies are officers of the State of Arkansas.

(a) The Arkansas State Claims Commission shall have jurisdiction over all claims for indemnification based on a judgment or negotiated settlement in conformity with § 21-9-203. (b) Proceedings for the recovery of claims and the payment of claims shall be governed by the law gover…

(a) The State of Arkansas shall pay actual, but not punitive, damages adjudged by a state or federal court, or entered by such a court as a result of a compromise settlement approved and recommended by the Attorney General, against officers or employees of the State of Arkansas, …

Damages payable under this subchapter shall be reduced to the extent that the officer or employee has been indemnified or is entitled to indemnification under any contract of insurance.

(a) A party desiring to make a claim for indemnification under this subchapter shall notify the Attorney General of the filing of a complaint in any court or the making of any other form of demand for damages promptly after it is filed or made and permit the Attorney General to p…

(a) It is declared to be the public policy of the State of Arkansas that all counties, municipal corporations, school districts, public charter schools, special improvement districts, law enforcement agencies for and certified law enforcement officers employed by a public or priv…

Each county, municipal corporation, school district, special improvement district, or any other political subdivision of the state is authorized to provide for hearing and settling tort claims against it.

(a) All political subdivisions shall carry liability insurance on their motor vehicles or shall become self-insurers, individually or collectively, for their vehicles, or both, in the minimum amounts prescribed in the Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act, § 27-19-101 et seq. (…

(a) When any city of the first class, city of the second class, incorporated town, county, and its employees are called upon to assist the state and its employees and as a result are sued for their actions performed under the direct supervision of a state official or employee, th…

(a) As used in this chapter:(a) “Public security” means a bond, note, certificate of indebtedness, or other obligation for the payment of money, issued by this state or by any of its departments, agencies, or other instrumentalities, or by any of its political subdivisions;(b) “I…

(a) Any authorized officer may, after filing with the Secretary of State his or her manual signature certified by him or her under oath, execute or cause to be executed with a facsimile signature in lieu of his or her manual signature:(a) Any public security; and(b) Any instrumen…

When the seal of this state or any of its departments, agencies, or other instrumentalities, or of any of its political subdivisions is required in the execution of a public security or instrument of payment, the authorized officer may cause the seal to be printed, engraved, stam…

This chapter shall be so construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of states which enact it.

This chapter may be cited as the “Uniform Facsimile Signature of Public Officials Act.”

If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the p…

All acts and parts of acts are repealed insofar as inconsistent herewith.

(1) As used in this chapter, “employee” shall mean all full-time state employees of all departments, agencies, boards, commissions, or other agencies of the state supported by appropriation of state or federal funds except the following excluded employees:(1) The elected constitu…

Any cabinet member or head of a department, agency, board, commission, or other agency of state government who fails to comply with or implement a money-saving suggestions program as outlined in this chapter shall be deemed to be derelict in his or her duties and subject to dismi…

There is established a program to be known as the “Employee Suggestion System” to encourage the development of ideas for improving the economy and efficiency of state government, to grant awards for ideas of proper merit, and to implement them in the governmental process.

(a) The Secretary of the Department of Shared Administrative Services, or his or her designee, is directed to develop and adopt rules in accordance with this chapter for the administration of the Employee Suggestion System. (b) (1) The rules shall provide for the direct submissio…

(a) (1) (A) Any monetary award granted for a suggestion which may improve the economy and efficiency of state government shall be the greater of one hundred dollars ($100) or ten percent (10%) of the amount of savings.(B) However, the monetary award shall be limited to a maximum …

(a) When it is determined by the State Personnel Administrator that a monetary award is to be made under the rules of the Employee Suggestion System, he or she shall certify the amount to the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State. (b) The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall cause…

(a) No agency, board, or commission shall receive additional appropriations or funds to carry out this chapter except the Office of Personnel Management, which shall be allocated funds and appropriations to administer it. (b) All monetary awards prescribed in § 21-11-107(a) shall…

(a) For a period of one (1) year after leaving state employment, a person whose principal function in state employment is to apply for or assist in the preparation of applications for state or federal grants shall not assist, for compensation, another person applying for a grant …

Any person who is employed by the State of Arkansas and who falsified the employment application by alleging to have earned a college degree which in fact was not earned shall be terminated from employment with the state.

(a) Every state agency shall include in its personnel manual a statement that discrimination by any officer or employee based upon race, creed, religion, national origin, age, sex, or gender shall constitute grounds for dismissal. (b) When it is determined by any court of law tha…

(1) In this subchapter:(1) “Articles of impeachment” means the written accusation of the officer, drawn up and approved by the House of Representatives. The articles of impeachment shall state with reasonable certainty the misdemeanors in office for which the officer is impeached…

(a) When any officer shall be impeached, he or she is declared to be suspended from exercising his or her office, after he or she shall be notified thereof, until he or she is acquitted. (b) If the President of the Senate be impeached, notice shall be immediately given by the Hou…

(a) When articles of impeachment have been approved by the House of Representatives and impeachment ordered, a committee shall be appointed to prosecute the impeachment, whose chair, within five (5) days, shall bring the same before the Senate. (b) The Senate shall appoint a day …

(a) The Senate shall have power of coercing the attendance of witnesses and of compelling them to testify and of coercing the production of books and papers, by fine and imprisonment to such extent as shall be necessary. (b) (1) The Secretary of the Senate, at the request of the …

(a) The President of the Senate, on the application of the accused, or any of his or her counsel, or of the chair of the committee prosecuting the impeachment, shall issue commissions to take depositions where the witness is unable to attend from sickness or other infirmity or wh…

(a) Before the Senate proceeds to try the impeachment, the President of the Senate and every senator present shall take the following oath or affirmation: “I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully and impartially try the impeachment against A. B., and give my decision…

The Secretary of the Senate shall make out a transcript of the proceedings on impeachment and of the judgment of the Senate, whether of conviction or acquittal, which shall be signed by the officer presiding at the trial, attested by the Secretary of the Senate and deposited in t…

The party convicted or acquitted shall, notwithstanding such acquittal or conviction, be subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment for any indictable offense, according to the law of the land.

(a) (1) If the accused is acquitted, he or she shall be entitled to his or her costs, to be taxed by the Secretary of the Senate and paid by the Treasurer of State.(2) If convicted, the accused shall pay the costs, to be taxed by the Secretary of the Senate, and recovered upon a …

(a) If an information, presentment, or indictment is filed in a circuit court against a county elective, county quorum court district, or township officer on a charge involving a shortage of county funds in his or her office reported by Arkansas Legislative Audit, the circuit cou…

(a) Upon conviction of a county elective, county quorum court district, or township officer for an offense involving incompetency, corruption, gross immorality, criminal conduct amounting to a felony, malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office:(1) The circuit court shall …

(a) If a county quorum court district or township officer is suspended from office under § 21-12-301, the Governor shall temporarily appoint an officer in his or her place who shall hold the office:(1) Until the suspension is lifted; or(2) For the remainder of the term. (1) Until…

(a) The employment of an employee of any county, city, or school district in the State of Arkansas shall not be terminated by discharge, failure to renew contract, abolition of position, demotion, or transfer upon the grounds of or because of the service of the employee as a memb…

(a) (1) If any civilian or military officer having any records, books, or papers appertaining to any public office resigns, or his or her office becomes vacant, he or she shall deliver to his or her successor all records, books, and papers.(2) When any officer dies before deliver…

If any private person shall have or obtain possession of any books, records, or papers appertaining to any public officer, he or she shall deliver them to the officer entitled to them, and if he or she fails so to do, he or she shall be proceeded against in all respects as is pro…