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AR Code § 27-19-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-603. Determination and notice of amount of security required

 (a)  (1) Within thirty (30) days after an accident has occurred, and provided the accident has been reported to the Office of Driver Services within thirty (30) days, the office shall determine the amount of security which shall be deposited to satisfy any judgment for damages resulting from the accident as may be recovered against each driver or owner based on an amount equal to the minimum limits specified in § 27-19-605. The amount of security required to be deposited shall be:  (A) If the accident resulted in bodily injury or death to one (1) person, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000);  (B) If the accident resulted in bodily injury or death to two (2) or more persons in any one (1) accident, fifty thousand dollars ($50,000);  (C) If the accident resulted in the injury to or the destruction of property of others in any one (1) accident, twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000); or  (D) If the accident resulted in both bodily injury or death and in the destruction of property, a combination of the amounts specified in subdivisions (a)(1)(A)-(C) of this section.    (2) Determination shall not be made with respect to drivers or owners who are exempt under provisions of any other section of this chapter from the requirements as to security or suspension of motor vehicle registration and driving privilege.    (b)  (1) The office shall determine the amount of security deposit required of any person upon the basis of the reports or other information submitted. The office's determination shall be limited to whether the accident resulted in bodily injury or death to one (1) person or two (2) or more persons in any one (1) accident or to injury to or destruction of property of others in any one (1) accident, or a combination of these.  (2) In the event a person involved in an accident as described in this chapter fails to make a report or submit information indicating the existence of any injuries or damage to his or her property within thirty (30) days after the accident and the office has issued reasonable notice to the person if it is possible to give the notice, otherwise without notice, then the office shall not require any deposit of security for the benefit or protection of the person.    (c) The office, no sooner than fifty (50) days after the date of an accident as referred to in this chapter, and upon determining the amount of security to be required of any person involved in the accident or to be required of the owner of any vehicle involved in the accident, shall give written notice to every person of the amount of security required to be deposited by him or her and then an order of suspension will be made upon the expiration of twenty (20) days after the sending of the notice unless within that time security is deposited as required by the notice.
AR Code § 27-19-604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-604. Exceptions to security requirement

 The requirements as to security and suspension in this subchapter shall not apply to:   (1) The driver or owner if the owner had in effect at the time of the accident an automobile liability policy or bond with respect to the vehicle and the driver's operation of the vehicle involved in the accident providing the minimum coverage required under § 27-22-104, except that a driver shall not be exempt under this subdivision (1) if at the time of the accident, the vehicle was being operated without the owner's permission, express or implied;  (2) The driver, if not the owner of the vehicle involved in the accident, if there was in effect at the time of the accident an automobile liability policy or bond with respect to his or her driving of vehicles not owned by him or her;  (3) A driver or owner whose liability for damages resulting from the accident is, in the judgment of the Office of Driver Services, covered by any other form of liability insurance policy or bond;  (4) Any person qualifying as a self-insurer under § 27-19-107 or any person operating a vehicle for the self-insurer;  (5) The driver or the owner of a vehicle involved in an accident wherein no injury or damage was caused to the person or property of anyone other than the driver or owner;  (6) The driver or owner of a vehicle which at the time of the accident was parked, unless the vehicle was parked at a place where parking was at the time of the accident prohibited under any applicable law or ordinance;  (7) The owner of a vehicle if at the time of the accident the vehicle was being operated without his or her permission, express or implied, or was parked by a person who had been operating the vehicle without permission;  (8) The owner of a vehicle involved in an accident if at the time of the accident the vehicle was owned by or leased to the United States, this state, or any political subdivision of this state, or a municipality thereof, or the driver of the vehicle if operating the vehicle with permission; or  (9) The driver or the owner of a vehicle in the event at the time of the accident the vehicle was being operated by or under the direction of a police officer who, in the performance of his or her duties, shall have assumed custody of the vehicle.
AR Code § 27-19-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-605. Requirements as to policy or bond

 (a) No policy or bond shall be effective under § 27-19-604 unless issued by an insurance company or surety company authorized to do business in this state except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, nor unless the policy or bond is subject, if the accident resulted in bodily injury or death, to a limit, exclusive of interest and costs, of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) because of bodily injury or death of one (1) person in any one (1) accident and subject to said limit for one (1) person, to a limit of not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) because of bodily injury or death of two (2) or more persons in any one (1) accident, and if the accident has resulted in injury to or destruction of property, to a limit of not less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) because of injury to or destruction of property of others in any one (1) accident.  (b) No policy or bond shall be effective under § 27-19-604 with respect to any vehicle which was not registered in this state or was a vehicle which was registered elsewhere than in this state at the effective date of the policy or bond or the most recent renewal thereof, unless the insurance company or surety company issuing the policy or bond is authorized to do business in this state, or if the company is not authorized to do business in this state, unless it shall execute a power of attorney authorizing the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration to accept service on its behalf of notice or process in any action upon the policy or bond arising out of an accident.  (c) The Office of Driver Services may rely upon the accuracy of the information in a required report of an accident as to the existence of insurance or a bond unless and until the office has reason to believe that the information is erroneous.
AR Code § 27-19-606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-606. Designation of persons covered

 Every depositor of security shall designate in writing every person in whose name the deposit is made and may at any time change the designation, but any single deposit of security shall be applicable only on behalf of persons required to furnish security because of the same accident.
AR Code § 27-19-607 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-607. Form and amount of security

 The security required under this subchapter shall be in such form as the Office of Driver Services may require and shall be in such amount equal to the minimum amounts specified in § 27-19-605 based on the determination of whether the accident resulted in bodily injury or death to one (1) or more people, or injury to or destruction of property of others, or both.
AR Code § 27-19-608 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-608. Reduction in premium for certain persons completing accident prevention course

 (a)  (1) Any schedule of rates or rating plan for automobile liability and physical damage insurance submitted to or filed with the Insurance Commissioner shall provide for an appropriate reduction in premium charges for those insured who are fifty-five (55) years of age and older for a three-year period after successfully completing a motor vehicle accident prevention course meeting the Office of Motor Vehicle's criteria.  (2) All insurance companies writing automobile liability and physical damage insurance in Arkansas shall allow an appropriate reduction in premium charges to all eligible persons subject to this section.    (b) The approved course shall be taught by an instructor approved by the office.  (c) There shall be no reduction in premiums for a self-instructed course or a course which does not provide for actual classroom or field driving instruction for a minimum number of hours as determined by the office.  (d) Upon successfully completing the approved course, each participant shall be issued by the course's sponsoring agency a certificate which shall be the basis of qualification for the discount on insurance.  (e) Each participant shall take an approved course each three (3) years to continue to be eligible for the discount on insurance.
AR Code § 27-19-609 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-609. Authority to adjust amount limited

 (a) The Office of Driver Services may adjust the amount of security ordered in any case within six (6) months after the date of the accident, but only if and limited to the extent it determines a mistake was made in determining whether the accident resulted in bodily injury or death to one (1) person or two (2) or more persons in any one (1) accident or to the injury to or the destruction of property of others in any one (1) accident, or a combination of these.  (b) In case the security originally ordered has been deposited, the excess deposit over the reduced amount ordered shall be returned to the depositor or his or her personal representative forthwith.
AR Code § 27-19-610 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-610. Suspension for failure to deposit security

 (a) In the event that any person required to deposit security under this subchapter fails to deposit the security within twenty (20) days after the Office of Driver Services has sent the notice as provided in § 27-19-603, the office shall thereupon suspend:  (1) The license of each driver in any manner involved in the accident;  (2) The registration of all vehicles owned by the owner of each vehicle of a type subject to registration under the laws of this state;  (3) If the driver is a nonresident, the privilege of operating within this state a vehicle of a type subject to registration under the laws of this state; and  (4) If the owner is a nonresident, the privilege of the owner to operate or permit the operation within this state of a vehicle of a type subject to registration under the laws of this state.    (b) Suspensions shall be made in respect to persons required by the office to deposit security who fail to deposit the security, except as otherwise provided under this subchapter.  (c) In the discretion of the office, the suspension of the motor vehicle registration and driving privilege shall not wholly deprive innocent persons of their livelihood.
AR Code § 27-19-611 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-611. Duration of suspension

 Unless a suspension is terminated under other provisions of this subchapter, any order of suspension by the Office of Driver Services under this subchapter shall remain in effect and no license shall be renewed for or issued to any person whose license is so suspended and no registration shall be renewed for or issued to any person whose vehicle registration is so suspended until:   (1) The person shall deposit or there shall be deposited on his or her behalf the security required under this subchapter; or  (2)  (A) One (1) year shall have elapsed following the date of the suspension, and evidence satisfactory to the Office of Driver Services has been filed with it that during the period no action for damages arising out of the accident resulting in the suspension has been instituted.  (B)  (i) An affidavit of the applicant that no action at law for damages arising out of the accident has been filed against him or her or, if filed, that it is not still pending shall be prima facie evidence of that fact.  (ii) The office may take whatever steps are necessary to verify the statement set forth in any affidavit.
AR Code § 27-19-612 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-612. Agreements for payment of damages

 (a) Any two (2) or more of the persons involved in, or affected by, an accident as described in § 27-19-601 may, at any time, enter into a written agreement for the payment of an agreed amount with respect to all claims of any of such persons because of bodily injury or death or property damage arising from the accident, which may provide for payment in installments, and may file a signed copy thereof with the Office of Driver Services.  (b) In the event any such written agreement is filed with the office, the office shall not require the deposit of security and shall terminate any prior order of suspension, or, if security has previously been deposited, the office shall immediately return the security to the depositor or his or her personal representative.  (c)  (1) In the event of a default in any payment under the agreement and upon notice of default within one (1) year, the office shall take action suspending the license or the registration or both the license and registration of the person in default as would be appropriate in the event of failure of the person to deposit security when required under this subchapter.  (2) The suspension shall remain in effect and the license or registration shall not be restored unless and until:  (A) Security is deposited as required under this subchapter in such amount as the office may then determine is required under this subchapter;  (B) When, following any such default and suspension, the person in default has paid the balance of the agreed amount; or  (C) One (1) year has elapsed following the effective date of the suspension, and evidence satisfactory to the office has been filed with the office that during that period no action at law upon the agreement has been instituted and is pending.
AR Code § 27-19-613 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-613. Release from liability

 (a) A person shall be relieved from the requirement for deposit of security for the benefit or protection of another person injured or damaged in the accident in the event he or she is released from liability by the other person.  (b) A covenant not to sue shall relieve the parties thereto as to each other from the security requirements of this subchapter.  (c) In the event the Office of Driver Services determines the injuries or damage to any minor is less than the amount required for depositing security for an accident under § 27-19-601, the office may accept, for the purposes of this subchapter only, evidence of a release from liability executed by a natural guardian or a legal guardian on behalf of the minor without the approval of any court or judge.
AR Code § 27-19-614 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-614. Adjudication of nonliability

 A person shall be relieved from the requirement for deposit of security in respect to a claim for injury or damage arising out of the accident in the event the person has been finally adjudicated not to be liable in respect to such claim.
AR Code § 27-19-615 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-615. Payment upon judgment

 The payment of a judgment arising out of an accident or the payment upon the judgment of an amount equal to the maximum amount which could be required for deposit under this subchapter shall, for the purposes of this subchapter, release the judgment debtor from the liability evidenced by the judgment.
AR Code § 27-19-616 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-616. Termination of security requirements

 (a) The Office of Driver Services, if satisfied as to the existence of any fact which under §§ 27-19-612 — 27-19-615 would entitle a person to be relieved from the security requirements of this subchapter, shall not require the deposit of security by the person so relieved from the requirements and shall terminate any prior order of suspension in regard to the person, or, if security has previously been deposited by the person, the office shall immediately return the deposit to him or her or to his or her personal representative.  (b) If any person under suspension has received a settlement from the adverse party or his or her liability insurance carrier reimbursing him or her for his or her property damages and personal injuries, then the office shall not suspend his or her license and registration, and if his or her license and registration have been suspended, they shall be reinstated, and, if any such person has deposited security with the office and a settlement is subsequently made, he or she shall be entitled to the return of his or her security deposit upon proof satisfactory to the office of the settlement.
AR Code § 27-19-617 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-617. Disposition of security

 (a) Security provided under this subchapter shall be applicable and available only for:  (1) The payment of any settlement agreement covering any claim arising out of the accident upon instruction of the person who made the deposit; or  (2) The payment of a judgment rendered against the person required to make the deposit for damages arising out of the accident in an action at law begun not later than one (1) year after the deposit of the security, or within one (1) year after the date of deposit of any security following failure to make payments under an agreement to pay.    (b) Every distribution of funds from the security deposits shall be subject to the limits of the amounts required under this subchapter.
AR Code § 27-19-618 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-618. Return of deposit

 (a) Upon the expiration of one (1) year from the date of any deposit of security, any security remaining on deposit shall be returned to the person who made the deposit, or to his or her personal representative, if an affidavit or other evidence satisfactory to the Office of Driver Services has been filed with it that:  (1) No action for damages arising out of the accident for which deposit was made is pending against any person on whose behalf the deposit was made; and  (2) There does not exist any unpaid judgment rendered against any person in such an action.    (b) Subsection (a) of this section shall not be construed to limit the return of any deposit of security under any other provision of this subchapter authorizing the return.
AR Code § 27-19-619 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing|Chapter 19 - Motor Vehicle Safety Responsibility Act|Subchapter 6 - Security Following Accident|§ 27-19-619. Forfeiture when not claimed within certain period

 (a)  (1) Whenever any person shall be required to deposit security for the payment of damages arising out of a motor vehicle accident as described in this chapter and the requirement for the depositing of the security is terminated, the Office of Driver Services shall, by ordinary mail at his or her last known address, notify the person within ninety (90) days that he or she may claim the deposit.  (2)  (A) If the person fails to claim the deposit within five (5) years from the date of the termination of the requirement for the deposit of the security, then the amount so deposited shall be forfeited to the State of Arkansas.  (B) Any and all amounts forfeited shall be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the General Revenue Fund Account of the State Apportionment Fund.    (3) Not less than ninety (90) days before the expiration of the five-year period, the office shall notify the owner of the deposit by certified or registered mail at his or her last known address that unless he or she claims the deposit within ninety (90) days, it shall be forfeited to the state.    (b) If any person whose deposit of security is forfeited pursuant to this section makes request therefor and furnishes to the office satisfactory proof that he or she was an active member of the United States Armed Forces at the time of the forfeiture, the office shall by memorandum so notify the Auditor of State, and the amount of the forfeited deposit shall be paid to the depositor upon voucher and warrant drawn upon and payable from any funds appropriated for miscellaneous tax refunds.