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AR Code § 16-20-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 20 - Clerks Of Court|Subchapter 3 - Circuit Clerks|§ 16-20-310. Charges against or indictment of clerk — Proceedings — Removal

 (a)  (1) When any prosecuting attorney is required to prosecute charges against any clerk, if the offense is indictable, the prosecuting attorney shall submit the charges to the grand jury, in order that an indictment may be found.  (2)  (A) If the charges are for an offense not indictable, the prosecuting attorney shall make the charges out and file them in the court. He shall cause a copy thereof to be served on the clerk, together with a notice requiring him to appear before the circuit court of the county in which the clerk may reside, on some specified day in the term, and answer the charges.  (B) The notice and copy of the charges shall be delivered to the clerk at least fifteen (15) days before the day appointed for the answering thereof.      (b)  (1) The prosecuting attorney shall cause witnesses to be summoned to support such charges or any indictment that may have been found against the clerk and shall prosecute the charges or indictment with speed.  (2) The clerk shall appear and plead at the next term of the court unless further time is given for that purpose.  (3) If the clerk pleads not guilty to the charges or indictment, the court shall require a jury to be summoned to try the issue joined.  (4) If the jury finds the clerk guilty, or if he pleads guilty to the charges or indictment, it shall be the duty of the court to enter up an order removing the clerk from office. From that time he shall cease to be clerk of such court, and the vacancy shall be filled according to law.
AR Code § 16-20-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 20 - Clerks Of Court|Subchapter 4 - County and Probate Clerks|§ 16-20-401. Duties of clerk generally

 (a) The county clerk shall be clerk of the county court for his or her county, by virtue of his or her office.  (b) It shall be his or her duty to attend each regular or special session of the county court, either in person or by deputy, and to keep and preserve in his or her office a complete and correct record of the proceedings of the county court.  (c)  (1) When a report filed under § 14-86-103 or an affidavit of a district resident containing substantially the same information required under § 14-86-103(b) or § 14-86-103(c) and filed with the county clerk indicates a vacancy in a district board or district commission, the county clerk shall provide a written notice of the vacancy to:  (A) The members of the district board or the district commission; and  (B) The county court.    (2) A copy of the notice shall be published:  (A) In a newspaper of general circulation in the county; and  (B) On a county-owned or county-affiliated website, if any.      (d)  (1) When a report filed under § 14-86-103 or an affidavit of a district resident containing substantially the same information required under § 14-86-103(b) or § 14-86-103(c) and filed with the county clerk indicates a vacancy in a district board or a district commission has not been filled in the interval after the county clerk gave the notices required under subsection (c) of this section, the county clerk shall provide a written notice of the continuing vacancy to:  (A) The members of the district board or the district commission; and  (B) The county court.    (2) A copy of the notice shall be published on a county-owned or county-affiliated website, if any, and in a newspaper of general circulation in the county and shall contain:  (A) The time, date, and location of a hearing on the vacancy before the county court;  (B) The purpose of the hearing before the county court that requires the landowners in the district to appear; and  (C) Notice that the landowners in attendance by majority vote may fill the continuing vacancies in the district board or district commission.
AR Code § 16-20-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 20 - Clerks Of Court|Subchapter 4 - County and Probate Clerks|§ 16-20-402. Duties as to accounts

 It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county court of each county:   (1) To keep a regular account between the treasurer and the county, charging him with all moneys paid into the treasury, and crediting him with the amount he may have disbursed, between the period of his respective settlements with the court;  (2) To keep just accounts between the county and all persons, bodies politic or corporate, chargeable with moneys payable into the county treasury;  (3)  (A) To file and preserve in his office all documents, vouchers, and other papers pertaining to the settlement of any account to which the county shall be a party;  (B) Copies of such documents, vouchers, and papers certified under the hand and seal of such clerk shall be admitted to be read in evidence in any of the courts of this state;    (4) To issue warrants on the treasury for all moneys ordered to be paid by the court, keep an abstract thereof, and present the abstract to the county court at every regular term;  (5) To balance and exhibit the accounts kept by him as often as required by the court; and  (6) To keep his books and papers at all times ready for the inspection of the county court or the presiding judge thereof.
AR Code § 16-20-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 20 - Clerks Of Court|Subchapter 4 - County and Probate Clerks|§ 16-20-404. Fee for making settlement with collector

 The clerks of the county courts and of the probate division of the circuit courts are authorized to charge a fee of not more than ten dollars ($10.00) per day for making settlement with the collector for each day employed, including quarterly apportionments, but not exceeding thirty (30) days during any calendar year.
AR Code § 16-20-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 20 - Clerks Of Court|Subchapter 4 - County and Probate Clerks|§ 16-20-406. Receipts for papers filed with clerk of circuit court

 Whenever the clerk of the county and probate court shall deliver to the clerk of the circuit court any original papers, he shall take a receipt therefor and file the receipt in place of the papers.
AR Code § 16-20-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 20 - Clerks Of Court|Subchapter 4 - County and Probate Clerks|§ 16-20-407. Additional marriage license fee

 (a) Each county clerk in this state shall charge an additional fee of thirteen dollars ($13.00) for each marriage license issued.  (b)  (1) The clerk shall deposit two dollars ($2.00) of the moneys collected under this section into the county treasury to the credit of the county clerk's cost fund as special revenue as provided under § 21-6-413(e)(2) and shall be appropriated and expended exclusively for the operation of the office of county clerk.  (2) The clerk shall transmit eleven dollars ($11.00) of the moneys collected under this section to the Treasurer of State who shall deposit it in the Domestic Peace Fund as special revenue.
AR Code § 16-20-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 20 - Clerks Of Court|Subchapter 4 - County and Probate Clerks|§ 16-20-408. Fee for filing a district report or affidavit

 The fee for filing a report or an affidavit under § 14-86-103 shall be the same as the fee for initiating a cause of action under § 21-6-415.
AR Code § 16-21-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-101. Residence

 Each prosecuting attorney shall reside in the judicial district for which he may be elected, under the provisions of the Constitution of this state.
AR Code § 16-21-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-102. Opinion on criminal law matters to be given to public officers

 The prosecuting attorney, without fee or reward, shall give his opinion to any county or township office in his judicial district, on matters of criminal law in which the state or county is concerned, pending before the official.
AR Code § 16-21-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-103. Duty to commence and prosecute criminal actions

 Each prosecuting attorney shall commence and prosecute all criminal actions in which the state or any county in his district may be concerned.
AR Code § 16-21-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-104. Summoning witnesses before grand jury

 It shall be the duty of each prosecuting attorney, whenever he has information of the commission of any offense against the criminal and penal laws of this state or has reason to believe that any offense has been committed, to cause to be summoned all persons that he may think necessary to testify before the grand jury in relation to the offense.
AR Code § 16-21-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-105. Justice of the peace to notify prosecutor of pendency of certain criminal proceedings — Duty of prosecutor

 (a) In any criminal action pending before any justice of the peace court, where the defendant is charged with any offense of carrying weapons unlawfully, unlawful sale of or being interested in the sale of intoxicating liquors, or gambling, by affidavit or otherwise, and pleads not guilty and secures the services of an attorney to represent him at the trial, it shall be the duty of the justice to cause the prosecuting attorney or deputy for the county to be notified of the nature of the charge and of the time and place of the trial.  (b)  (1) The prosecuting attorney shall attend and prosecute in behalf of the state.  (2) In case of a conviction, the prosecuting attorney shall be allowed the same fee as is allowed for similar cases in the circuit court. However, no prosecuting attorney or his deputy shall receive any fee unless he personally appears and prosecutes in the case, nor shall any court tax any fee where such officer does not appear and personally prosecute.
AR Code § 16-21-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-107. Victim/Witness Coordinator

 (a) This section shall be known as the “Victim/Witness Coordinator Act”.  (b) There is created a Victim/Witness Coordinator to provide technical assistance and support to all victims of crimes and their families and to witnesses to crimes who are involved in the criminal justice system, to establish programs intended to result in such support, and to provide a communication network for victim/witness programs.  (c) The Victim/Witness Coordinator shall be located in the Office of the Prosecutor Coordinator.
AR Code § 16-21-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-108. Child support enforcement — Participation in federal programs — Collection and assessment of costs

 (a) The prosecuting attorneys of the several judicial districts in the State of Arkansas shall be designated as local units of government for the express purpose of permitting contracting with the Department of Finance and Administration for the provision of legal services under Part D of Title IV of the Social Security Act of 1935, as delegated to the states in 1975.  (b) All collections resulting from such a program shall be placed in a special account for each county, namely a child support enforcement account, and distributed in keeping with the requirements of Pub. L. No. 93-647 and rules and regulations promulgated by the department.  (c)  (1) In all cases when any circuit court shall levy a fine or forfeiture as a result of an appearance by the prosecutor or his or her deputy, the fine or forfeiture shall be deposited directly with the county treasurer, who shall enter the exact amount into a separate account and deposit the funds into the prosecuting attorney's fund.  (2) The county treasurer of those counties composing the Sixth Judicial District shall account for the prosecuting attorney's fund on a separate ledger sheet and shall provide a monthly statement to the prosecuting attorney of the district, itemizing the total by amount of fines, fees, forfeitures, and costs assessed for the month.    (d)  (1) In each case in which the prosecuting attorney shall make an appearance and the defendant is judged guilty, the court shall assess the defendant costs, which shall be paid directly to the prosecuting attorney's fund.  (2) The prosecuting attorney shall enforce the provisions of this section by action to compel assessment of costs, where necessary.    (e)  (1) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District shall submit a proposed budget to the quorum courts of the counties composing the Sixth Judicial District for their advice and counsel.  (2) The quorum court shall then make advisory recommendations to both houses of the General Assembly concerning the prosecuting attorney's proposed budget.
AR Code § 16-21-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-109. Fees in felony cases paid to general revenue fund of county

 The prosecuting attorney's fees provided by law shall be charged against the defendants in felony cases, and when they are collected shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund.
AR Code § 16-21-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-110. Report of, and payment over of, moneys received — Penalty for noncompliance

 (a) Each prosecuting attorney shall, on or before January 1 in each year, file in the office of the Auditor of State, and in the offices of the several county treasurers in his district, an account in writing, verified by the affidavit of such attorney, of all the moneys received by him by virtue of his office, during the preceding year, for the use of the state or any county and, at the same time, shall pay over all such moneys to the Treasurer of State or to any county treasurer entitled to receive the moneys.  (b) If any prosecuting attorney neglects to perform the duties required of him in subsection (a) of this section, he shall be deemed guilty of negligence in his office and shall be proceeded against accordingly.
AR Code § 16-21-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-111. Law library

 (a) In all judicial districts in this state in which there is a county with more than one hundred twenty thousand (120,000) inhabitants according to the most recent federal census and where there are more than two (2) divisions of the circuit court and more than one (1) municipal court with countywide jurisdiction, and in which county the office of the prosecuting attorney is maintained permanently in the county courthouse, the prosecuting attorney may expend from the contingent fund provided by the county such sums as are necessary for the purchase and maintenance of an adequate law library.  (b) The law library, when purchased, shall become the property of the county.
AR Code § 16-21-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-112. Prosecuting attorney pro tempore

 (a) If any prosecuting attorney neglects, or fails from sickness or any other cause, to attend any of the courts of the district for which he was elected and to prosecute as required by law, it shall be the duty of the court to appoint some proper person, being an attorney at law, to prosecute for the state during the term. That person shall, on taking the oath of office, perform all the duties of the regular prosecuting attorney for the term.  (b)  (1) The person so appointed shall be entitled to receive the same fees on convictions as the prosecuting attorney, and the sum of forty dollars ($40.00) for each term of the court, for prosecuting as provided in subsection (a) of this section, to be paid by the Treasurer of State out of any money appropriated for that purpose.  (2) It shall be the duty of the Auditor of State, on receiving the certificate of the judge of the circuit court making the appointment of the prosecuting attorney pro tempore, to audit and allow the account and draw his warrant on the Treasurer of State for the payment thereof.  (3) The amounts allowed in this subsection for prosecuting attorneys pro tempore shall be deducted from the regular prosecuting attorney's salary whenever a failure occurs on his part which is not occasioned by sickness of himself or family.    (c) Judges of municipal courts shall have the same authority as judges of circuit courts to appoint a special prosecutor under the circumstances as prescribed in this section.
AR Code § 16-21-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-113. Deputies

 (a)  (1) The prosecuting attorneys of the several judicial districts of this state may appoint one (1) deputy in each of the several counties composing their districts. In counties having two (2) judicial districts, a deputy may be appointed for each district.  (2) The appointment shall not take effect until approved, in writing, by the judge of the circuit court of the district. The approval shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county for which such deputy is appointed.    (b) In judicial districts which contain a county which has two (2) levying courts or in those judicial districts where the prosecuting attorney and the circuit judge concur in the necessity therefor, the prosecuting attorney of the judicial districts may appoint one (1) or more deputies whose jurisdiction shall be the same as that of the prosecuting attorney.  (c)  (1) The deputy prosecuting attorney provided for in this section shall have authority to file an information with any justice of the peace, municipal court judge, or the circuit court of his judicial district, in the name of the prosecutor charging any person with the commission of any offense against the laws of this state.  (2) Upon the filing of the information, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace or municipal court judge, or the clerk of the circuit court, to issue a warrant for the arrest of the offender. In such a case, no bond for cost of prosecution shall be required.    (d) When any person shall have been arrested under a warrant issued in accordance with the provisions of this section, it shall be the duty of the deputy prosecuting attorney to attend and prosecute such charges on behalf of the state. He shall in a similar manner attend and prosecute on behalf of the state in any criminal case pending before any justice of the peace or municipal court judge or in the circuit court of his judicial district, when so requested by the justice of the peace, municipal court judge, or the prosecuting attorney of the judicial district.  (e) In the event of a conviction, he shall be allowed the same fees as provided by law for the prosecuting of misdemeanor cases. However, the deputy prosecuting attorney shall not be entitled to fees for the prosecution of felony cases.  (f) The deputy prosecuting attorney shall receive no fees or salary from the state for his services and may be removed at any time by the prosecuting attorney appointing him.  (g) The special deputy prosecuting attorney for the Eleventh Judicial District shall be available to provide services to any other judicial district in the state in which state penal facilities are located or in which state penal matters are involved, when called upon by the prosecutor of any such judicial district.
AR Code § 16-21-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-114. County attorneys

 (a) A county civil attorney or county attorney may be selected pursuant to ordinance of the quorum court for each county in the state.  (b) The county attorney shall commence and prosecute or defend all civil actions in which his county is concerned.  (c) The county attorney shall give his opinion, without fee or reward, to any township or county official on any question of civil law concerning the county which is pending before the official.  (d) All civil duties provided by the laws of the State of Arkansas or the ordinances of the several counties to be performed by the prosecuting attorney shall be performed by the county attorney in those counties which have established the office of civil attorney.  (e) The office of county attorney shall be funded pursuant to ordinance of the quorum court of the county.  (f)  (1) In counties having a full-time office of county civil attorney or a contract county civil attorney, every municipality, school district, and other local taxing unit receiving ad valorem or other tax funds collected by county collectors shall reimburse the county for the taxing unit's pro rata share of the necessary legal costs incurred by the county in assessing property, collecting taxes, and receiving and disbursing revenues for the unit.  (2) Such legal costs shall include:  (A) Reasonable expenses incurred by a county civil attorney and his staff while providing tax-related legal services for the unit; and  (B) A percentage of the salaries and fringe benefits of a full-time county civil attorney and his staff based on the ratio between time spent on tax-related legal services for the taxing unit and time spent on all legal services; and  (C) A reasonable fee charged by a contract county civil attorney for services rendered regarding the assessment, collection, receipt, or disbursement of taxes.    (3) The amount to be reimbursed annually by each taxing unit, as its pro rata share of the county's necessary legal costs, shall be based on the proportion that the total of taxes collected for the benefit of each taxing unit bears to the total of taxes collected for the benefit of all taxing units.  (4) To facilitate reimbursement, there is hereby created a county attorney's fund, which shall be administered in the same manner as the county assessor's fund established in § 14-15-204.
AR Code § 16-21-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 21 - Prosecuting Attorneys|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-21-115. City attorneys

 A prosecuting attorney may designate the duly elected or appointed city attorney of any municipality within the prosecutor's district to prosecute in the name of the state in the district and city courts violations of state misdemeanor laws, which violations occurred within the limits of the municipality, if the city attorney agrees to the appointment.