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AR Code § 21-12-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|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 in any circuit court of this state against any county or township officer on any charge involving a shortage of funds in his or her office when the shortage has been reported by Arkansas Legislative Audit, the circuit court shall immediately order that the officer be suspended from his or her office until the information or indictment is tried.  (2) The suspension shall not extend beyond the next term after the information or indictment is filed in the circuit court, unless the cause is continued on the application of the defendant.    (b)  (1) Whenever any such officer is confined in a jail on a charge involving a shortage of funds in his or her office when the shortage has been reported by Arkansas Legislative Audit, he or she shall be suspended from office by the circuit court upon the filing of information of the imprisonment.  (2) The suspension shall last until the officer is discharged from prison by due process of law, on bail, or otherwise.
AR Code § 21-12-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 3 - Removal or Suspension of Local Officers|§ 21-12-302. Removal for conviction of certain offenses

 (a) Upon conviction of any county or township officer for an offense involving incompetency, corruption, gross immorality, criminal conduct amounting to a felony, malfeasance, misfeasance, or nonfeasance in office, a part of the sentence of the circuit court having jurisdiction shall be to remove such officer from office.  (b) The clerk of the court at the close of the term shall transmit to the Governor a certified transcript of the information or indictment, with the judgment of the court thereon.  (c) The vacancy shall be filled as may be prescribed by law at the time the vacancy occurs.
AR Code § 21-12-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 3 - Removal or Suspension of Local Officers|§ 21-12-303. Appointment of temporary replacement

 (a) Whenever any county or township officer is suspended from office on account of any information or indictment pending against him or her, the Governor may temporarily appoint an officer in his or her place who shall hold the office until the disability of the officer so suspended is removed, or an election to fill the vacancy occurs, in case there is a judgment of removal.  (b) Should a vacancy occur in the office of sheriff or clerk during the session of any court of record, the court may appoint some competent person to perform, temporarily, the duties of the office until the Governor makes an appointment as required by this section.
AR Code § 21-12-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 3 - Removal or Suspension of Local Officers|§ 21-12-304. Public service not grounds for termination, demotion, etc

 (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 member of the General Assembly, as an election official, as a juror, as an elected official of any office which is not otherwise prohibited by the Arkansas Constitution, or in the performance of any duty required under the laws of this state.  (b)  (1) If any official of any county, city, or school district in this state violates the provisions of subsection (a) of this section, the official shall be guilty of malfeasance in office and shall forfeit his or her office or position of employment and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.  (2) Upon conviction, he or she shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) and imprisonment for not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days.
AR Code § 21-12-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|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 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 delivering the records, books, and papers, his or her executor or administrator shall deliver such records, books, and papers to his or her successor.    (b) If any officer, or the executor or administrator of any officer, shall fail to deliver the records, books, and papers, he or she shall forfeit any sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) to be recovered by civil action, information, or indictment for the use of the county, and he or she shall pay to the person injured by the detention of records, books, and papers all damages which he or she may have sustained in consequence of the detention.
AR Code § 21-12-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 4 - Delivery of Records to Successor|§ 21-12-402. Private person to deliver official records — Penalty for noncompliance

 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 provided in this subchapter in cases of officers.
AR Code § 21-12-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 4 - Delivery of Records to Successor|§ 21-12-403. Issuance of warrant to seize and deliver records

 If any person whose office has become vacant, or his or her executor or administrator shall fail to deliver any record, book, or paper to the person entitled to them, any judge of the Supreme Court or circuit court, upon the affidavit of any creditable person, setting forth the facts, may issue a warrant directed to some sheriff or coroner, commanding him or her to seize all the records, books, and papers appertaining to the office, and deliver them to the proper officer, who shall be named in the warrant.
AR Code § 21-12-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 4 - Delivery of Records to Successor|§ 21-12-404. Notice of application for warrant

 If any person shall hold over or refuse to deliver such records, books, or papers, he or she shall first have notice of the time and place of the application for a warrant to show cause, if any, why the warrant under § 21-12-403 should not be issued.
AR Code § 21-12-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 4 - Delivery of Records to Successor|§ 21-12-405. Power of officer executing warrant

 The officer executing the warrant issued under § 21-12-403 may break open any doors or other places in which any records, books, or papers named in the warrant may be, or in which he or she may suspect them to be, and may arrest any person who shall resist the execution of the warrant and bring him or her before a judge or justice of the peace for obstructing the execution of process.
AR Code § 21-12-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 4 - Delivery of Records to Successor|§ 21-12-406. Failure to execute warrant — Recovery

 If an officer receives a warrant issued under § 21-12-403 and fails to execute or return the warrant, the officer shall be liable to the county in a civil action for an amount between one hundred dollars ($100) and five hundred dollars ($500).
AR Code § 21-12-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 4 - Delivery of Records to Successor|§ 21-12-407. Remedy of person aggrieved by warrant

 (a) Any person aggrieved by a warrant issued under § 21-12-403 may apply to any judge of the Supreme Court or circuit court, who, upon the affidavit of the applicant that injustice has been done or is about to be done by such warrant, shall issue a citation to all persons interested, commanding them to appear before him or her at a time and place named in the citation, which shall be served by the sheriff or coroner.  (b) The judge issuing the citation shall have power to enforce obedience by attachment. The judge shall proceed in a summary manner, determine according to right and justice, and may issue his or her warrant for the restoration of any books, records, or papers found to have been improperly seized.
AR Code § 21-12-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 5 - Privatization of State Employee Functions|§ 21-12-501. Intent

 It is the intent of this subchapter to require state agencies, institutions, boards, and commissions to provide notice to the Legislative Council and the Office of Personnel Management of impending layoffs of state employees due to privatization.
AR Code § 21-12-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 5 - Privatization of State Employee Functions|§ 21-12-502. State agencies required to report privatization of a function

 (a)  (1) Any state agency, institution, board, or commission which privatizes a function previously performed by state employees shall file a report as soon as possible with the Legislative Council and the Office of Personnel Management.  (2) The report shall include the job titles, grades, and position numbers which were eliminated by privatization.  (3) The report shall also explain how the determination was made as to which employees were terminated and give the effective date of termination.    (b) The agency, institution, board, or commission shall not fill the positions of the state employees terminated due to privatization.
AR Code § 21-12-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 5 - Privatization of State Employee Functions|§ 21-12-503. Eliminated positions to be removed from budget

 The Office of Personnel Management and the Bureau of Legislative Research shall ensure that the eliminated positions are removed from the agency, institution, board, or commission budget for the next biennium.
AR Code § 21-12-504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 12 - Termination of Service|Subchapter 5 - Privatization of State Employee Functions|§ 21-12-504. State agencies required to report impending layoffs of state employees

 (a) Any state agency, board, or commission that announces a layoff of state employees shall file a report as soon as possible with the Legislative Council and the Office of Personnel Management.  (b) The report shall include the job titles and programs involved in the impending layoff.  (c) It is the responsibility of the office and the Bureau of Legislative Research to ensure that the eliminated positions are removed from the agency's, institution's, board's, or commission's budget for the next biennium.  (d) This section does not apply to institutions of higher education.
AR Code § 21-14-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-102. Change of residence

 (a)  (1) Upon receiving notification of a change of residency, the Secretary of State shall transfer a notary public's appointment and commission to the new county of residence in instances in which a person appointed and commissioned a notary public under § 21-14-101 changes residence to a county within this state other than the county where the notary public resided on the date of commission.  (2) Upon receiving notification of a change in place of employment, the Secretary of State shall transfer a notary public's appointment and commission to the new county of employment in the case of a resident of an adjoining state or a nonresident spouse of a United States military service member changing his or her place of employment to a county within this state other than the county where the notary public was employed on the date of commission.    (b) The original bond or certified copy of the original bond from the original county of residence shall also be filed by the notary public in the new county of residence or if the notary public is a resident of an adjoining state or a nonresident spouse of a United States military service member, in the new county of employment in Arkansas.
AR Code § 21-14-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-103. Change in personal information

 (a) If any notary public has a change in his or her mailing address or status in life that alters the information on record with the Secretary of State and the circuit clerk for the county where the notary public resides or if the notary public is a resident of an adjoining state, the circuit clerk for the county in Arkansas where he or she is employed, the notary public shall be responsible for providing that change of information to the Secretary of State and the circuit clerk within thirty (30) calendar days of the change.  (b) If the change in status involves a court order, the notary public shall be responsible for providing the Secretary of State with a certified copy of the court order within thirty (30) calendar days of the filing of the court order with the clerk.  (c) If the notary public marries and the notary public's name changes, a certified copy of the marriage certificate shall be delivered to the office of the Secretary of State and the circuit clerk for the county where the notary public resides or if the notary public is a resident of an adjoining state, the circuit clerk for the county in Arkansas where he or she is employed.
AR Code § 21-14-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-104. Power and authority generally

 The power and authority of a notary public shall be coextensive with the state for:   (1) Swearing witnesses;  (2) Taking affidavits;  (3) Taking depositions under Rule 28 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure and Rule 28 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure; and  (4) Taking acknowledgments of deeds and other instruments in writing and authorized by law to be acknowledged.
AR Code § 21-14-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-105. Administration of oaths

 Each notary public shall have power to administer oaths in all matters incident to or belonging to the exercise of his or her notarial office.
AR Code § 21-14-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-106. Acknowledgments and authentications

 (a) A notary public may:  (1) Take the proof or the acknowledgment of all instruments of writing relating to commerce and navigation;  (2) Receive and authenticate acknowledgments of deeds, letters of attorney, and other instruments of writing;  (3) Make declarations and protests; and  (4) Certify under his or her official seal the truth of all matters and things done by virtue of his or her office.    (b) A notary public may supervise the making of a photocopy of an original document and attest that the document is a copy if the document is not:  (1) A vital record in this state, another state, a territory of the United States, or another country; or  (2) A public record, if a copy can be made by the custodian of the public record.
AR Code § 21-14-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-108. Expiration date of commission

 (a)  (1) Every notary public shall attach to any certificate of acknowledgment or jurat to an affidavit that he or she may make a statement of the date on which his or her commission will expire.  (2) No acknowledgment or other act of a notary public shall be held invalid on account of the failure to comply with this section.    (b) No notary public shall perform any official act after the expiration of his or her commission as evidenced by his or her certificate.  (c) Sixty (60) calendar days prior to the expiration of a notary public's commission, he or she shall submit to the Secretary of State a new application along with the fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) for the renewal of the commission.  (d) Every notary public shall file in the office of the recorder of deeds for the county where the notary public resides or if the notary public is a resident of an adjoining state, in the office of the recorder of deeds for the county in Arkansas where employed, either:  (1) A surety bond executed by a surety insurer authorized to do business in Arkansas for the faithful discharge of the notary public's duties in the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500), to be approved by the Secretary of State; or  (2) A surety contract guaranteeing the notary public's faithful discharge of his or her duties executed to the State of Arkansas for not more than an aggregate seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500), issued by a general business corporation validly organized and formed under the laws of this state pertaining to domestic corporations and which:  (A) Has previously registered with the Insurance Commissioner on forms prescribed by the commissioner evidencing the corporation's purpose to issue only surety contracts for notaries public pursuant to the provisions of this section;  (B) Has deposited and maintains with the commissioner securities in the sum of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) executed to the State of Arkansas that are issued by a nonaffiliated corporate entity and are approved by the commissioner; and  (C) Is not otherwise transacting any insurance business in this state that requires compliance with the provisions of the Arkansas Insurance Code.
AR Code § 21-14-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-109. Performance of duties for corporation

 (a) It shall be lawful for any notary public who is a stockholder, director, officer, or employee of a bank or other corporation to take the acknowledgment of any party to any written instrument executed to or by the corporation, or to administer an oath to any other stockholder, director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, or to protest for nonacceptance or nonpayment bills of exchange, drafts, checks, notes, and other negotiable instruments which may be owned or held for collection by the corporation.  (b) It shall be unlawful for any notary public to take the acknowledgment of an instrument executed by or to a bank or other corporation of which he or she is a stockholder, director, officer, or employee where the notary public is a party to the instrument, either individually or as a representative of the corporation, or to protest any negotiable instrument owned or held for collection by the corporation, where the notary public is individually a party to the instrument.
AR Code § 21-14-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-110. Admissibility of acknowledged instruments

 All declarations and protests made and acknowledgments taken by a notary public and certified copies of the notary public's records and official papers shall be received as evidence of the facts therein stated in all the courts of this state.
AR Code § 21-14-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-111. Unlawful act — Penalty — Definition

 (a) It is unlawful for any notary public to witness any signature on any instrument unless the notary public either:  (1) Witnesses the signing of the instrument and personally knows the signer or is presented proof of the identity of the signer; or  (2) Recognizes the signature of the signer by virtue of familiarity with the signature.    (b) Any notary public violating this section shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.  (c) For purposes of this section, “personally knows” means having an acquaintance, derived from association with the individual, which establishes the individual's identity with at least a reasonable certainty.
AR Code § 21-14-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-112. Denial or revocation of notary public commission

 (a) The Secretary of State may deny the application of any person for appointment or reappointment or revoke the commission of any notary public during the notary public's term of appointment if the notary public:  (1) Submits an application for commission and appointment that contains substantial and material misstatement or omission of fact;  (2) Is convicted of official misconduct under the provisions of § 21-14-111;  (3) Knowingly uses false or misleading advertising in which the notary public represents that the notary public has powers, duties, rights, or privileges that the notary public does not possess by law;  (4) Is found by a court of this state to have engaged in the unauthorized practice of law;  (5) Is found by a court to have improperly notarized documents according to the law;  (6) Is found by a court to have charged fees higher than allowed under § 21-6-309; or  (7) Fails to complete the requirements under § 21-14-101.    (b) The Secretary of State may investigate a possible violation of this section upon a signed complaint from any person.  (c) After a notary public receives notice from the Secretary of State that the notary public's commission has been revoked, unless the revocation has been enjoined the notary public shall immediately send or have delivered to the Secretary of State:  (1) The notary public's journal of notarial acts;  (2) All other papers and copies relating to the notary public's notarial acts; and  (3) The notary public's official seal.    (d) A person whose notary public commission has been revoked pursuant to the provisions of this section may subsequently apply for commission and appointment as a notary public after ten (10) years have elapsed from the date of the revocation.
AR Code § 21-14-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 14 - Notaries Public|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 21-14-113. Notice of revocation — Appeal

 (a) If the Secretary of State revokes a notary public commission, he or she shall serve the notary public with written notice that explains the reason or reasons for the revocation.  (b)  (1) The notary public may appeal the revocation to the Pulaski County Circuit Court within thirty (30) days after service of the notice of revocation is perfected.  (2) The notary public shall appeal by petitioning the court to set aside the revocation and attaching to the petition copies of the Secretary of State's Certificate of Revocation and the written notice of revocation.    (c) The court may summarily order the Secretary of State to reinstate the notary public or take other action the court considers appropriate.  (d) The court's final decision may be appealed as in other civil proceedings.