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AR Code § 14-15-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 5 - Sheriffs — Generally|§ 14-15-505. Settlement moneys received or due

 (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 shall make out two (2) separate lists of all sums chargeable to any sheriff and payable to any county, specifying on what account, and certify them under the seal of the court.  (b) One (1) of the lists so certified shall be immediately transmitted to the clerk of the county court to which the sums are payable, who shall immediately charge it accordingly, and the other shall be transmitted to the treasurer of the county.
AR Code § 14-15-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-701. Qualifications

 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.
AR Code § 14-15-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-702. Duties generally

 It shall be the duty of the county surveyor to execute all orders directed to him or her by any court of record for surveying or resurveying any tract of land, the title of which is in dispute or in litigation before the court, and to obey all orders of survey for the partition of real estate, and also to accompany viewers and reviewers of roads for the purpose of running and measuring any proposed road, whenever required by the viewers or reviewers.
AR Code § 14-15-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-703. Chainmen

 The necessary chainmen shall be employed by the person wanting surveying done, but they shall be good and disinterested persons, to be approved by the surveyor, and shall be sworn by the surveyor to measure justly and exactly, according to the best of their abilities.
AR Code § 14-15-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-704. Appointment of another surveyor

 In all cases where the county surveyor may be interested in any survey which is required to be made by any court, the court shall direct the survey to be made by some competent person. The person so appointed shall have power to administer the necessary oaths to the chainmen, and shall return the survey under oath, and shall be entitled to the same fees for his or her services as the county surveyor would be entitled to receive for similar services.
AR Code § 14-15-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-705. Survey of lands sold for taxes

 It shall be the duty of the county surveyor to survey all lands sold for taxes in his or her county on the application of any person producing to him or her a certificate of purchase from the officer by whom the lands may have been sold.
AR Code § 14-15-706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-706. Survey of public land

 (a) Any person who may have entered any of the public lands of the United States, having received from the proper officer a certificate of entry and desiring his or her lands surveyed and laid off according to the certificate, may apply to the county surveyor for that purpose, and the county surveyor shall make a survey in accordance with the entry.  (b) Before the county surveyor shall proceed to survey any such tract of land, he or she shall be satisfied that all persons owning lands adjoining and who may be in any manner affected by the survey have been notified to attend and be present at the surveying thereof.  (c) It shall be the duty of each county surveyor, when subdividing any section or part of a section of land originally surveyed under the authority of the United States, to make his or her survey conformably to the original survey.
AR Code § 14-15-707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-707. Establishment of corners

 For the purpose of perpetuating every survey, the surveyor shall establish his or her corners by taking bearings on trees and noting particularly their course and distance from the corner. When there are no trees within a reasonable distance, he or she shall perpetuate his or her corners by erecting mounds of turf at least two and one-half feet (2½') at the base and two feet (2') high. In lieu of mounds, stones may be planted in the ground to a depth not less than twelve inches (12"), which shall not be less than eighteen inches (18") long, eight inches (8") wide, and three inches (3") thick. The stones shall be described in the field book.
AR Code § 14-15-708 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-708. Calculating tract contents

 All calculations to ascertain the content of any tract of land by any county surveyor or other person shall be made by differences of latitude and departure.
AR Code § 14-15-709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-709. Instruments required — Record book

 (a) It shall be the duty of each county surveyor to furnish himself or herself with a compass of approved construction, having a nonius division; also, a two-pole chain of fifty (50) links, and a well-bound book, in which he or she shall carefully and legibly record and note down every survey made by him or her, giving the name of the person the survey of whose lands is recorded, and describing as near as practicable, the metes and bounds of the tract, and noting the date on which the survey was made.  (b) The record book required by this section to be kept by each county surveyor shall be furnished at the expense of the county.  (c) The record shall be subject to the inspection of every person who may deem himself or herself interested in the land record.
AR Code § 14-15-710 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-710. Delivery of records to successor

 (a) It shall be the duty of the county surveyor, or other person having the official record of the surveyor in his or her possession, to deliver up the record to his or her successor whenever he or she may be applied to for that purpose.  (b) If the surveyor, or the person having the possession of the record, shall refuse to deliver it to such successor when demanded, he or she shall forfeit and pay the sum of one dollar ($1.00) per day for every day he or she may retain it after demanded, to be recovered by a civil action before any justice of the peace, in the name of any person who may sue for it, one-half (½) to the use of the person suing and one-half (½) to the use of the county.
AR Code § 14-15-711 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-711. Conclusiveness of official survey

 No act or record by any county surveyor, or his or her deputy, shall be conclusive, but may be reviewed by any competent tribunal in any case where the correctness thereof may be disputed.
AR Code § 14-15-712 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 7 - County Surveyors|§ 14-15-712. Admissibility of certified copy

 A certified copy of the record of any county surveyor, under the hand of the surveyor, shall be admitted as prima facie evidence in any court of record in this state.
AR Code § 14-15-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 8 - County Treasurers|§ 14-15-802. Office

 County treasurers shall keep their offices at their respective county sites.
AR Code § 14-15-803 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 8 - County Treasurers|§ 14-15-803. Counties having two judicial districts

 The treasurer shall keep in his or her office at each county site in counties having two (2) judicial districts, except Prairie, Woodruff, Lawrence, Yell, and Logan, the funds belonging to the school districts and road districts of the respective judicial districts for the purpose of paying warrants drawn thereon.
AR Code § 14-15-804 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 8 - County Treasurers|§ 14-15-804. Appointment of a deputy treasurer

 (a) Appointment of a deputy treasurer shall be:  (1) In writing;  (2) Signed by the county treasurer; and  (3) Recorded in the county recorder's office.    (b) A deputy treasurer shall possess powers as authorized by the county treasurer.
AR Code § 14-15-805 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 8 - County Treasurers|§ 14-15-805. Duties generally

 It shall be the duty of each county treasurer to:   (1)  (A) Receive and give receipt for all moneys payable into the county treasury and to pay and disburse the moneys on warrants or checks drawn by order of the county court.  (B) Any nonrevenue receipts as defined in § 21-6-302(f)(2) shall be deposited into the same county fund from which the original expenditure was made;    (2)  (A) Refuse payment of any warrant or check that would cause a deficit balance in any special revenue account without an appropriated transfer of general funds to cover the deficit, except as provided in this section.  (B)  (i) A grant account that operates as a reimbursable grant fund may operate with a deficit balance if there is a county general fund cash balance or an appropriate special revenue fund cash balance sufficient to support the deficit.  (ii) When the grant moneys are received by the county, the moneys shall be receipted to the proper grant fund by the county treasurer.  (iii) Any remaining deficit balance at the conclusion of the grant cycle shall be brought to a zero balance with an appropriated transfer of general funds or an appropriated transfer from the applicable special revenue fund; and      (3)  (A) Maintain a positive general fund balance.  (B) The general fund shall include county general and any other ledger account on the treasurer's books accruable to county general.  (C) The treasurer shall refuse payment of any warrant or check that would cause a deficit balance of the general fund in aggregate.
AR Code § 14-15-806 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 8 - County Treasurers|§ 14-15-806. Neglect or refusal to pay warrant

 (a) If any county treasurer shall neglect or refuse to pay any warrant or check drawn on him or her by order of the county court of his or her county, having cash available in the fund on which the warrant or check is drawn, he or she shall forfeit and pay to the holder of the warrant four (4) times the amount thereof.  (b) The forfeiture may be recovered by a civil action in the name of the party aggrieved against the treasurer and his or her securities, and the treasurer shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office and upon conviction shall be removed from office.
AR Code § 14-15-807 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 8 - County Treasurers|§ 14-15-807. Accounting of moneys received and disbursed

 (a) A county treasurer shall keep a true and just account of all moneys received and disbursed and a regular abstract of all warrants paid by him or her.  (b) A treasurer shall make duplicate receipts in favor of the proper person for all moneys paid into the treasury and keep the books, papers, and money pertaining to his or her office at all times ready for the inspection of the county court or the presiding judge thereof.  (c) A treasurer shall furnish the county court with an account of the receipts and expenditures of the county not previously accounted for at each term of the county court, if required.
AR Code § 14-15-809 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 8 - County Treasurers|§ 14-15-809. Resignation, removal, or death

 If he or she resigns, is removed from office, or dies, a county treasurer, or his or her executor or administrator, shall immediately make his or her settlement and deliver to his or her successor in office all things pertaining to the office, together with all the moneys belonging to the county.
AR Code § 14-15-810 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 8 - County Treasurers|§ 14-15-810. Relief from liability

 In all cases where any funds in the hands of any county treasurer of this state have been lost or become unavailable by reason of the insolvency of any bank in which the funds were deposited, and not through defalcation of the county treasurer, the county treasurers and their bondsmen, in cases where the bondsmen have not become sureties on account of the payment of a cash consideration, and in such cases only, are released and relieved from any and all liability for loss of the funds.
AR Code § 14-15-811 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 8 - County Treasurers|§ 14-15-811. Continuing education — Board and fund

 (a) There is created the County Treasurer's Continuing Education Board, which shall be composed of the following members:  (1) Eight (8) members of the Arkansas County Treasurers' Association, designated by the Arkansas County Treasurers' Association;  (2) One (1) member designated by the Association of Arkansas Counties; and  (3) The Auditor of State or a person designated by the Auditor of State.    (b)  (1) It shall be the responsibility of the board to establish a continuing education program for county treasurers of the various counties in the state. This program shall be designed to better equip persons elected to serve as county treasurers to carry out their official responsibilities in an effective and efficient manner. The program shall include requirements and procedures for an effective certification program for county treasurers.  (2) It shall also be the responsibility of the board to disburse any funds made available to it from the County Treasurers' Continuing Education Fund to establish and maintain a continuing education program and a certification program for county treasurers.    (c)  (1) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State the County Treasurers' Continuing Education Fund.  (2)  (A) The quorum court of each county shall annually appropriate and pay into the County Treasurers' Continuing Education Fund in the State Treasury the sum of seven hundred dollars ($700) from fees of the office of county treasurer.  (B) If any quorum court shall fail or refuse to appropriate and pay over the funds to the County Treasurers' Continuing Education Fund in the State Treasury, the Treasurer of State shall withhold funds from the county aid due to the county and shall credit the funds to the County Treasurers' Continuing Education Fund.      (d) The funds in the County Treasurers' Continuing Education Fund shall be used exclusively for:  (1) Establishing and operating a continuing education program for county treasurers;  (2) Paying the meals, lodging, registration fees, and mileage at the rate prescribed in state travel rules of county treasurers who attend the continuing education program;  (3) Acquiring educational materials; and  (4) Paying presenter fees and expenses.
AR Code § 14-15-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 9 - County Clerks|§ 14-15-901. Records — Multiple judicial districts

 (a) In counties having two (2) judicial districts, it shall be the duty of the county clerk to keep at each county site, in addition to the records now required by law to be kept, the following records:  (1) Record of marks and brands;  (2) Record of incorporations;  (3) Record of estrays;  (4) Record of advertisements and sale of delinquent lands;  (5) Record of lands sold to the state; and  (6) Record of lands sold to individuals.    (b) It shall be the duty of the county courts of such counties to immediately purchase such records for the use of the various counties as are required by this section, and all other expenses made necessary by the provisions of this section shall be borne by the respective counties embraced in this section.  (c) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Prairie, Woodruff, and Lawrence counties.
AR Code § 14-15-1001 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 15 - Officers|Subchapter 10 - County Collectors|§ 14-15-1001. Continuing education — Board and fund

 (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 designated by the Association of Arkansas Counties; and  (3) The Auditor of State or a person designated by the Auditor of State.    (b)  (1) It shall be the responsibility of the board to establish a continuing education program for county collectors and sheriff-collectors of the various counties in the state. This program shall be designed to better equip persons elected to serve as county collectors and as sheriff-collectors to carry out their official responsibilities in an effective and efficient manner. The program shall include requirements and procedures for an effective certification program for county collectors.  (2) It shall also be the responsibility of the board to disburse any funds made available to it from the County Collectors' Continuing Education Trust Fund to establish and maintain a continuing education program and a certification program for county collectors.    (c)  (1)  (A) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State the County Collectors’ Continuing Education Trust Fund.  (B) The quorum court of each county shall annually appropriate and pay into the fund in the State Treasury the sum of seven hundred dollars ($700) from fees of the office of county collector.  (C) If any quorum court shall fail or refuse to appropriate and pay over the funds to the County Collectors’ Continuing Education Trust Fund in the State Treasury, the Treasurer of State shall withhold funds from the county aid due to the county and shall credit the funds to the County Collectors’ Continuing Education Trust Fund.    (2) The County Collectors' Continuing Education Trust Fund shall consist of all moneys required to be paid in annually as set out herein, all interest earned from the investment of fund balances, and any remaining fund balances carried forward from year to year.    (d) The funds in the County Collectors' Continuing Education Trust Fund shall be used exclusively for:  (1) Establishing and operating a continuing education program for county collectors and sheriff-collectors;  (2) Paying the meals, lodging, registration fees, and mileage at the rate prescribed in state travel rules of county collectors and sheriff-collectors who attend the continuing education programs;  (3) Acquiring educational materials; and  (4) Paying presenter fees and expenses.
AR Code § 14-16-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 16 - Powers of Counties Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-16-101. Actions on behalf of counties

 When any county has any demand against any persons or corporations, suit thereon may be brought by the county judge.
AR Code § 14-16-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 16 - Powers of Counties Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-16-102. Rights under contracts

 All notes, bonds, bills, contracts, covenants, agreements, or writings, made or to be made, whereby any person is, or shall be, bound to any county, or the commissioners of any county, or to any other person, in whatever form, for the payment of any debt or duty, or the performance of any matter or thing, to the use of any county, shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes to vest in the county all rights, interests, and actions which would be vested in any individual if any such contract had been made directly to him or her.
AR Code § 14-16-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 16 - Powers of Counties Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-16-103. Deeds, etc., to county

 All deeds, grants, and conveyances which are made and duly acknowledged and recorded as are other deeds of conveyance to any county, or to the commissioners of any county, or to any other person, by whatever form of conveyance, for the use and benefit of any county, for all intents and purposes shall be good and valid instruments for vesting in the county, in fee simple or otherwise, all such right, title, interest, and estate as the grantor in any such deed or conveyance had in the lands conveyed at the time of the execution of the instrument and was intended by that means to be conveyed.
AR Code § 14-16-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 14 - Local Government|Subtitle 2 - County Government|Chapter 16 - Powers of Counties Generally|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 14-16-104. Conveyances from federal government

 (a)  (1) Any and all counties of the State of Arkansas are authorized and empowered to accept conveyances of real estate from the federal government, or any authorized agency thereof, whether that conveyance contains reservations to oil, mineral, or fissionable material rights in the United States or not, and subject to such terms and conditions as the federal government, or an agency thereof, may reasonably require.  (2) Counties are authorized to accept conveyances containing reversion clauses providing for reversion of real estate to the federal government in case the real estate ceases to be used for the purposes for which conveyed.    (b) The word “conveyance” as used herein shall be construed to refer to either quit-claim or warranty deeds.  (c) The provisions of this section shall apply only to conveyances from the United States or from any authorized agency of the federal government.