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16-87-302. Funding of public defenders.
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16-87-302. Funding of public defenders.
(a) The Arkansas Public Defender Commission shall be responsible for the payment of the following:
(1) The salaries of public defenders;
(2) The salaries of secretaries and other support staff of the public defender's office;
(3) The payment of the costs of certain expenses, as authorized by § 16-87-212.
(b) Each county or counties within a judicial district shall be responsible for the payment of the following:
(1)(A) The cost of facilities, equipment, supplies, and other office expenses necessary to the effective and efficient operation of the public defender's office.
(B) Funding for these expenditures may be from:
(i) A county administration of justice fund;
(ii) A county's general fund;
(iii) A county's public defender fund;
(iv) A county's indigent defense fund;
(v) A county's public defender investigator fund; or
(vi) Any other fund authorized by law for that purpose.
(C) These expenditures shall comply with an itemized, line-item budget appropriated by the quorum court; and
(2) The compensation of additional personnel within the office of the public defender, when approved in advance by the quorum court.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-87-302
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16-87-302. Funding of public defenders.
(a) The Arkansas Public Defender Commission shall be responsible for the payment of the following:
(1) The salaries of public defenders;
(2) The salaries of secretaries and other support staff of the public defender's office;
(3) The payment of the costs of certain expenses, as authorized by § 16-87-212.
(b) Each county or counties within a judicial district shall be responsible for the payment of the following:
(1)(A) The cost of facilities, equipment, supplies, and other office expenses necessary to the effective and efficient operation of the public defender's office.
(B) Funding for these expenditures may be from:
(i) A county administration of justice fund;
(ii) A county's general fund;
(iii) A county's public defender fund;
(iv) A county's indigent defense fund;
(v) A county's public defender investigator fund; or
(vi) Any other fund authorized by law for that purpose.
(C) These expenditures shall comply with an itemized, line-item budget appropriated by the quorum court; and
(2) The compensation of additional personnel within the office of the public defender, when approved in advance by the quorum court.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
16-87-212. Court fees and expenses.
(a)(1) The Arkansas Public Defender Commission is authorized to pay for certain expenses regarding the defense of indigents.
(2)(A) The expenses shall include, but shall not necessarily be limited to, fees for counsel appointed by the court, expert witnesses, temporary investigators, testing, and travel.
(B)(i) Expenses shall not include attorney's fees for counsel privately retained for the benefit of an indigent defendant for that defendant's defense.
(ii) The commission may authorize the payment of expenses of counsel privately retained for the benefit of an indigent defendant, provided counsel complies with the standards set by the commission under this subchapter governing counsel appointed by the court or employed or contracted by the commission.
(3)(A) Whenever a judge orders an authorized payment in a case involving an indigent person, a copy of the order accompanied by a detailed explanation of services rendered, time spent, and expenses incurred shall be transmitted to the commission, and the commission shall set the amount of compensation.
(B) Orders as authorized throughout this chapter shall be paid by the commission provided sufficient funds are available.
(b)(1) With the approval of the Executive Director of the Arkansas Public Defender Commission, trial public defenders, appointed private attorneys, and the Capital, Conflicts, and Appellate Office are authorized to utilize the services of the State Crime Laboratory for pathology and biology, toxicology, criminalistics, raw drug analysis, latent fingerprint identification, questioned documents examination, firearms and toolmarks identification, and in other such areas as the trial judge may deem necessary and appropriate.
(2) If approved by the executive
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-87-212
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 16-87-212. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.