Arkansas Code of 1987 (2023) › Title 11 - LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS (§§ 11-1-201 — 11-15-105) › Chapter 10 - DEPARTMENT OF WORKFORCE SERVICES LAW (§§ 11-10-101 — 11-10-1018) › Subchapter 7 - CONTRIBUTIONS (§§ 11-10-701 — 11-10-723) › Section 11-10-720 - Collection - Certificate of assessment

(a)
(1)
If any person, firm, or corporation shall become delinquent in the payment of any contribution, interest, or penalties required to be paid by this chapter, it shall be the duty of the Director of the Division of Workforce Services, when the amount of the contribution, interest, and penalties is determined, either by the report of the employer or by such investigations as the director may have made, to assess the contributions, interest, and penalties so determined against the delinquent employer and to certify the amount of the contributions, interest, and penalties and mail or otherwise deliver a copy of the assessment to the delinquent employer.
(2)
(A)
At the end of ten (10) days thereafter, the assessment shall become prima facie correct, and the director shall certify the amount of the delinquent contributions, interest, and penalties to the clerk of the circuit court of the county wherein the employer is domiciled or has a place of business, and it shall be the duty of the clerk to file the certificate of record and to enter it in the record of the circuit court for judgment and decree under the procedure prescribed for filing transcripts of judgments by §
16-19-1011
[repealed].
(B)
Thereupon, the assessment shall have the force and effect of a judgment of the circuit court and shall bear interest at the rate of ten percent (10%) a year.
(3)
Execution shall be issuable, at the request of the director, his or her agent or attorney, or any other employee of the Division of Workforce Services, forthwith by the clerk of the circuit court, directed to the sheriff, who shall make a levy on any property, assets, or effects of the employer against whom the contribution is assessed.
(b)
No exemption shall be allowed to the employer from the levy of an execution issued for contributions, interest, and penalties, and no indemnifying bond shall ever be required by the sheriff before making levy.
(c)
(1)
If any officer to whom any execution, as provided for in this section, shall be delivered shall neglect or refuse to execute or levy it according to law, or shall take in execution any property, or if any property be delivered to him or her by any person against whom an execution may have been issued, and the officer shall neglect or refuse to make sale of the property so taken or delivered according to law, or if any officer shall not return any execution on or before the return day therein specified, or shall make a false return thereof, then, and in any of the cases aforesaid, the officer shall be liable and bound to pay the whole amount of money in the execution specified, or thereon endorsed and directed to be levied.
(2)
It shall be the duty of the clerk of the court from which any execution may be issued to endorse thereon the time when the execution was returned.
(d)
(1)
An aggrieved employer may have a review of the action of the director in making an assessment for contributions, interest, or penalties, by filing, within ten (10) days after the filing of the assessment with the clerk, a petition for review in the circuit court having jurisdiction.
(2)
All actions for review shall have precedence on the docket of the court where filed, and all appeals from the action of any court on the review shall be prosecuted within thirty (30) days after the final order of the court is made.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 308, eff. 7/1/2019.
Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 307, eff. 7/1/2019.
Acts 1941, No. 391, § 14; 1943, No. 138, § 19; 1947, No. 398, § 12; 1977, No. 376, § 16; 1985, No. 8, § 28; 1985, No. 9, § 28; A.S.A. 1947, § 81-1117; Acts 1991, No. 100, §§ 50, 51.