21-2-701. Purpose.

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21-2-701. Purpose.

21-2-701. Purpose. It is found and determined that: (1) The State of Arkansas and the counties, municipalities, and school districts of the State of Arkansas are expending large sums of money each year for premiums on blanket bonds for officers and employees; (2) Considerable savings might be effected by the establishment of a self-insured fidelity bond program for state officials and employees, county officials and employees, municipal officials and employees, and school district officials and employees; (3) This subchapter is designed to establish a governmental bonding board to develop a self-insured fidelity bond program for those officials and employees; and (4) This subchapter is designed to provide that self-insured fidelity bonds would be in lieu of the various blanket bonds which are presently required under this chapter for various officials and employees and to thereby effectuate substantial savings in the cost of blanket bonds for those officials and employees.

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-2-701

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. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.