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21-2-104. District, county, and township officers — Issuance of commissions — Collection of fees.
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21-2-104. District, county, and township officers — Issuance of commissions — Collection of fees.
(a)(1) The Secretary of State is authorized, after each general election in this state, and as soon as the full returns of the election in any county are received by him or her, to issue and forward the commissions of all the newly elected district, county, and township officers required by law to be commissioned to the county or circuit clerks of the respective counties for delivery to the person entitled to them.
(2) The clerks shall collect the fees required to be paid for the commissions, before the delivery thereof, and return the fee, or the commissions when default is made, to the Secretary of State.
(3) The Secretary of State shall account for the fee to the State Treasury as directed in § 21-6-202.
(b) It shall be the duty of the county clerk, upon receipt of the commissions from the Secretary of State for the several officers of his or her county, to notify each elected officer of the receipt of the commission and to enter the commission in a well-bound book which shall be kept for that purpose and shall be ruled and divided into columns in the following order:
(1) Name of officer;
(2) Title of office;
(3) Date of commission;
(4) Date of qualification; and
(5) Mailing address.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-2-104
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Source file: gov.ar.code.title.21.odt
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21-2-104. District, county, and township officers — Issuance of commissions — Collection of fees.
(a)(1) The Secretary of State is authorized, after each general election in this state, and as soon as the full returns of the election in any county are received by him or her, to issue and forward the commissions of all the newly elected district, county, and township officers required by law to be commissioned to the county or circuit clerks of the respective counties for delivery to the person entitled to them.
(2) The clerks shall collect the fees required to be paid for the commissions, before the delivery thereof, and return the fee, or the commissions when default is made, to the Secretary of State.
(3) The Secretary of State shall account for the fee to the State Treasury as directed in § 21-6-202.
(b) It shall be the duty of the county clerk, upon receipt of the commissions from the Secretary of State for the several officers of his or her county, to notify each elected officer of the receipt of the commission and to enter the commission in a well-bound book which shall be kept for that purpose and shall be ruled and divided into columns in the following order:
(1) Name of officer;
(2) Title of office;
(3) Date of commission;
(4) Date of qualification; and
(5) Mailing address.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
21-6-202. Secretary of State.
(a) The following fees shall be allowed for services performed by the Secretary of State and paid into the State Treasury in the same manner that all other fees are or shall be directed to be paid:
(1) For affixing the Great Seal of the State, or the Seal of the Secretary of State to any instrument $ 5.00
(2) For every commission issued to a citizen of another state or apostilles 10.00
(3) For every commission issued to a state officer other than prosecuting attorneys 15.00
(4) For every commission issued to prosecuting attorneys 15.00
(5) For every commission issued to a sheriff, collector, clerk, county judge, treasurer, assessor, coroner, or surveyor 10.00
(6) For every commission issued to any other county officer or justice of the peace other than members of the General Assembly 5.00
(7) For all copies of records or other written or printed files in the office of the Secretary of State, and for recording, for every page .80
(8) For all copies of maps, profiles, or other files of a similar nature, such fee as may be established by the Secretary of State, to be determined with reference to the amount of clerical labor and stationery required to make such copies, at the rate of not less than one dollar ($1.00) per hour for the time employed in making the copies.
(b) All fees specified in this section shall be paid at the time the commission, certificate, instrument, or copy is delivered.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-6-202
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 21-6-202. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.