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AR Code § 25-15-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 15 - Administrative Procedures|Subchapter 5 - Rules Impacting Medicaid Costs|§ 25-15-503. Additional rule procedure

 (a)  (1) In addition to filing requirements under the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., and § 10-3-309, the Department of Human Services shall, at least thirty (30) days before the expiration of the period for public comment, file a proposed rule impacting state Medicaid costs or a proposed amendment to an existing rule impacting state Medicaid costs with the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor.  (2) A review of the proposed rule or proposed amendment to an existing rule by the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor shall occur within forty-five (45) days of the date the proposed rule or proposed amendment to an existing rule is filed with the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor.    (b)  (1) If adopting an emergency rule impacting state Medicaid costs, in addition to the filing requirements under the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., and § 10-3-309, the department shall notify the following individuals of the emergency rule and provide each individual with a copy of the rule within five (5) business days of adopting the rule:  (A) The Speaker of the House of Representatives;  (B) The President Pro Tempore of the Senate;  (C) The Chair of the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor; and  (D) The Chair of the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor.    (2) A review of the emergency rule by the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor shall occur within forty-five (45) days of the date that the emergency rule is provided to the chairs.
AR Code § 25-16-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 25-16-103. Registration of certain agency officials as lobbyists

 An individual employed as an executive head of a state agency or as a chief deputy of an executive head of a state agency is not eligible to be registered as a lobbyist under § 21-8-601 et seq. until one (1) year after the expiration of the individual's employment in that capacity.
AR Code § 25-16-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 2 - Governor|§ 25-16-201. Reorganization of agencies to meet federal program requirements

 (a) In order to protect the state's participation in various federal programs and to continue to obtain the benefits of those programs for the people of this state or where necessary to obtain the benefits of new or expanded federal programs, the Governor is authorized, by executive order, to establish, combine, abolish, or otherwise reorganize any of the agencies, departments, divisions, sections, or units within the executive department of government where the changes or reorganizations are necessary to comply with the applicable federal law or regulations governing federal programs.  (b) However, whenever any executive order may move from the jurisdiction of any office, department, institution, or other agency any authority or jurisdiction of the agency in effect at the time of the order, the order shall be subject to confirmation by the General Assembly in the next following regular session, fiscal session, or special session, and the General Assembly by joint resolution may rescind the executive order.
AR Code § 25-16-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 2 - Governor|§ 25-16-203. Reports to Governor — Inclusion in message to General Assembly

 The Auditor of State and Treasurer of State shall make their respective reports for each regular session to the Governor on or before October 10 next preceding the regular session of the General Assembly. The Governor shall cause the reports to be printed with his or her biennial message and have them ready for the General Assembly on or before the Wednesday of the first week of the regular session of the General Assembly.
AR Code § 25-16-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 2 - Governor|§ 25-16-204. Appointment of commissioners in other states

 (a) The Governor may nominate, appoint, and commission, under the Great Seal of Arkansas, or may continue in office one (1) or more commissioners within any other state or territory of the United States. The commissioners shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor then in office and shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations and to take depositions, affidavits, and the proof and acknowledgment of deeds or other instruments of writing, under seal, to be used or recorded in this state.  (b) All oaths administered by the commissioners, all affidavits and depositions taken by them, and all acknowledgments, etc., certified by them shall be as effectual in law, to all intents and purposes, as if done and certified by any justice of the peace or other authorized officer within this state.  (c) Before any commissioner shall proceed to discharge any of the duties of his or her appointment, he or she shall take and subscribe an oath before some justice of the peace, or other officer authorized to administer oaths in the state for which the commissioner is appointed, that he or she will well and faithfully discharge all the duties of his or her appointment. The oath, together with the signature and an impression of the seal of the commissioner, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State within six (6) months after its taking.
AR Code § 25-16-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 2 - Governor|§ 25-16-205. Transition funds

 (a) For the purpose of this section, “transition funds” shall mean any funds advanced to an individual who has been elected Governor during the general election of each election year. However, this section shall not apply to a person who is reelected during the general election to the Office of Governor.  (b) The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration shall issue limitations and guidelines on the expenditure of transition funds and make those limitations and guidelines a part of any appropriation.  (c)  (1) The expenditure of transition funds is limited to the direct expenses of the activities relating to the new office holder preparing to take office in January following the general election.  (2) The expenditure of transition funds and other related charges incurred by a newly elected officer in the performance of his or her duties to prepare for service as a public official shall be limited to those expenditures which are directly related to his or her assuming office in January. It is prohibited to use any transition funds for the purpose of paying a salary to a newly elected official prior to his or her assuming the office.    (d) Arkansas Legislative Audit is authorized and directed to perform an audit on the expenditures of transition funds. The audit shall be presented to the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee and the Legislative Council during the biennium following the expenditure of the funds.
AR Code § 25-16-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 3 - Lieutenant Governor|§ 25-16-301. Custodian of Senate Chamber and records

 The Lieutenant Governor is the custodian of the Senate Chamber, all Senate rooms, and the records, machines, furniture, fixtures, and supplies therein.
AR Code § 25-16-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 4 - Secretary of State|§ 25-16-401. Bond

 The Secretary of State, before he or she enters upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall enter into bond, with good and sufficient security to the Governor and his or her successors in office, in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000). The bond shall be approved by the Governor and conditioned that the Secretary of State will well and truly perform and discharge the several trusts and duties of Secretary of State and in all things touching and concerning the office shall well, truly, and faithfully execute and perform them. This bond shall be filed with the Auditor of State.
AR Code § 25-16-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 4 - Secretary of State|§ 25-16-402. Deputy

 (a) The Secretary of State may appoint a deputy to aid him or her in the discharge of his or her duties whose acts, performed in the name of the Secretary of State, shall have the same validity as the acts of his or her principal.  (b) The deputy, before he or she enters upon the performance of his or her duties, shall take an oath, which will be endorsed upon his or her letter of appointment, that he or she will perform all the duties of his or her office faithfully and according to law.  (c) The corporation clerk of the office of Secretary of State shall also be a deputy Secretary of State.
AR Code § 25-16-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 4 - Secretary of State|§ 25-16-403. Powers and duties generally

 (a) The Secretary of State shall reside and keep his or her office at the seat of government and shall have the custody of all records, rolls, and documents which properly belong to the state.  (b) He or she shall keep a register of all the official acts and proceedings of the Governor and, when required, shall lay the register and all papers, minutes, and vouchers relative to the register before the General Assembly.  (c) He or she shall affix the seal of the state and attest all commissions issued by the Governor and all other official acts of the Governor which require the seal of the state.  (d) In addition to the other duties required by law of the Secretary of State, he or she shall receive from the Secretary of the Senate and Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives the records, books, papers, and rolls of the General Assembly and file them as records of his or her office.  (e)  (1) The Secretary of State shall keep a seal of office surrounded with the words “Seal of the Secretary of State, Arkansas” and shall make out and deliver, to any person requiring them, copies of any act, resolution, or order of the General Assembly, commissions, or other official acts of the Governor and of all rolls, records, documents, papers, bonds, and recognizances deposited in his or her office and required by law to be kept there.  (2) He or she shall certify the copies under his or her hand and affix the seal of his or her office thereto. The copies so authenticated shall be received in evidence in any court in this state with like effect as the original.
AR Code § 25-16-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 4 - Secretary of State|§ 25-16-405. Arkansas Ambassador's Certificate

 The Secretary of State shall have the authority to issue an Arkansas Ambassador's Certificate, which may be given to citizens of the State of Arkansas who will be traveling outside the state. The Secretary of State may adopt such reasonable rules as may be necessary for the effective implementation of this section.
AR Code § 25-16-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-501. Violation of law by Auditor of State

 If the Auditor of State shall willfully neglect or refuse to perform any duty enjoined by law, or shall be guilty of any oppression or extortion in the performance of any legal duty, or shall receive any fee or reward for the performance of any legal duty not allowed by law, or shall by color of his or her office knowingly do any act not authorized by law, or shall use any of the moneys belonging to the state, or shall perform any other duty of his or her office in any other manner than is required by law, then he or she shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office and upon conviction, he or she shall forfeit for the use of the state any sum not less than one hundred dollars ($100).
AR Code § 25-16-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-502. Bond

 (a) Immediately after his or her election, the Auditor of State shall execute and deliver to the Governor a bond to the State of Arkansas, with good and sufficient securities, in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), conditioned for the faithful performance of all the duties required, or which may be required, of him or her by law.  (b) The Governor shall endorse on the bond of the Auditor of State his or her approval of the bond, stating the time of approval, and deliver the endorsed bond to the Secretary of State, who shall file it among the records of his or her office.  (c) If any Auditor of State shall neglect or refuse to enter into bond within ten (10) days after the Governor is officially informed of his or her election, then the Office of Auditor of State shall be deemed and considered vacant.
AR Code § 25-16-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-503. Seal

 The Auditor of State shall keep a seal of office, which shall be used to authenticate all writings, papers, and documents required by law to be certified from his or her office.
AR Code § 25-16-504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-504. Deputy

 (a) The Auditor of State is authorized to appoint one (1) deputy. The appointment shall be made in writing.  (b) The deputy so appointed shall take the oath prescribed by law. The oath shall be endorsed on the letter of appointment, and the letter of appointment shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.  (c) The Auditor of State shall be responsible on his or her official bond for all the acts done and performed by his or her deputy in the performance of his or her official duties.  (d) Every deputy appointed under this section shall possess all the powers of his or her principal and may perform any of the duties required by law to be performed by his or her principal.
AR Code § 25-16-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-505. Duties generally

 It shall be the duty of the Auditor of State:   (1) To audit, adjust, and settle all claims against the state payable out of the State Treasury, except those claims which may be expressly required by law to be audited and settled by some other officer or person;  (2) To draw all warrants upon the State Treasury for money, except in cases otherwise expressly provided by law;  (3) To audit, settle, and adjust the accounts of all collectors of revenue and other holders of public money who are required by law to pay the money into the State Treasury;  (4) To keep an account between the state and the Treasurer of State;  (5) To keep an account of all moneys paid into the State Treasury for the use of every county;  (6) To keep an account between the state and the United States, and between the state and every officer or person with whom the state may have dealings, and to keep an account of any separate fund in the State Treasury authorized by law;  (7) To direct prosecutions in the name of the state for all official delinquencies in relation to the assessment, collection, and payment of the revenue against all persons who by any means become possessed of public money or property and fail to pay over and deliver it and to direct prosecutions against all debtors of the state;  (8) To annually procure from the proper officer an abstract and description of all taxable lands within the state;  (9) To annually furnish the proper officer in each county in the month of January a descriptive list of all taxable lands in the county not previously furnished;  (10) To give information in writing to either house of the General Assembly, whenever required, upon any subject relating to the fiscal affairs of the state or touching any duty of his or her office; and  (11) To perform all such other duties as may be required by law.
AR Code § 25-16-506 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-506. Access to other offices

 The Auditor of State shall have free access to all the other offices of the state for the inspection, concerning his or her duties, of all books, accounts, and papers which they respectively contain.
AR Code § 25-16-507 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-507. Power to administer oaths

 The Auditor of State shall have power to administer oaths required or allowed by law in all matters touching the duties of his or her office.
AR Code § 25-16-509 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-509. Certification of payments

 Whenever any person indebted to the state, on any account whatever, shall present to the Auditor of State the Treasurer of State's receipt for the full payment of the amount due, it shall be the duty of the Auditor of State to furnish that person with a certificate, under the Auditor of State's hand and official seal, of the person having made full payment of all demands against him or her in favor of the state.
AR Code § 25-16-510 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-510. Auditor of State as state accountant

 The Auditor of State shall be the general accountant of the state and shall keep all public accounts, books, vouchers, documents, and all papers relating to the contracts of the state and its debts, revenue, and fiscal affairs which are not required by law to be placed in some other office or kept by some other person.
AR Code § 25-16-511 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-511. Recordkeeping requirements

 (a) The Auditor of State shall keep a letter book in which he or she shall copy all official letters which may be written by him or her.  (b)  (1) All accounts, vouchers, and documents settled by the Auditor of State shall be preserved in his or her office, and copies of these records, authenticated by the official seal, shall be given to any person interested who may require them.  (2) However, the Auditor of State is authorized to destroy all vouchers and Treasurer of State's receipts on file in his or her office after the expiration of five (5) years from the date of their filing, provided that no vouchers of any department or institution shall be destroyed while any legislative investigation of the department or institution is in progress.    (c)  (1) The Auditor of State is authorized and directed to keep a register in his or her office of all checks which have been drawn upon state agency bank funds and approved for payment by the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration.  (2) The secretary is directed to transmit to the Auditor of State all documents and information necessary to prepare this register.  (3) The Auditor of State's register of bank fund checks and document files shall in all respects be equal to the records of state-appropriated funds required by law to be kept and maintained by the Auditor of State.
AR Code § 25-16-515 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-515. Accounting at expiration of term of appropriation

 (a) It shall be the duty of the Auditor of State at the expiration of the time for which each and every appropriation is made to report to the Treasurer of State the total amount of the warrants drawn on the appropriations during the term. If any balance remains unexpended of any appropriation for which no warrant has been drawn, the Treasurer of State shall balance the accounts and cover the balance into the State Treasury.  (b) In no case shall the Auditor of State carry forward from one (1) term to another an unexpended balance of any appropriation after the time for which it was made has expired.
AR Code § 25-16-516 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-516. Warrants — Form and record

 (a) In all cases of accounts audited and allowed against the state and in all cases of grants, salaries, and expenses allowed by law, the Auditor of State shall draw warrants upon the State Treasury for the amount due, in the following form:  (b) The Auditor of State shall number progressively all the warrants issued by him or her during each year, commencing on January 1 and ending on December 31.  (c) The Auditor of State shall enter in a book to be kept for that purpose each warrant drawn by him or her on the State Treasury for the payment of money in the order in which the warrant shall be issued. The entry shall be in such manner as to show the number and date of each warrant, the name of the person in whose favor drawn, and for what it was drawn.    “No. STATE OF ARKANSAS. Auditor's Office, Little Rock, , 20 I certify that the sum of dollars and cents is due by the State of Arkansas to , and do hereby direct that the Treasurer of said State pay to the said , or bearer, the sum of dollars and cents, out of . , Auditor. $ ”   Click to view form.
AR Code § 25-16-517 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-517. Warrants — Restrictions on issuance

 (a) No warrant shall be drawn by the Auditor of State unless the money has been previously appropriated by law, nor shall the amount drawn for under any one (1) head ever exceed the amount appropriated by law for that purpose.  (b) The Auditor of State is denied authority to draw any warrant on the Treasurer of State to be paid out of the general revenue of the state for the support of common schools.  (c) If the Auditor of State shall knowingly issue any warrant upon the State Treasury not authorized by law, he or she shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor in office. Upon conviction thereof, he or she shall forfeit, for the use of the state, any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00).
AR Code § 25-16-518 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 25 - State Government|Chapter 16 - State Officers|Subchapter 5 - Auditor of State|§ 25-16-518. Warrants — Prohibitions against receipt in payment of debt to state, use as offset, and bearing of interest

 No warrant issued by the Auditor of State shall be received in payment of debts due the state, nor shall the warrants, under any circumstances, bear interest or be received or allowed as an offset in any suit commenced for the recovery of money due the state, but the warrant shall only be received and paid by the Treasurer of State.