Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
21-7-209. Credit for fees prohibited — Exception.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
21-7-209. Credit for fees prohibited — Exception.
(a)(1) Except as stated in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, no officer coming within the purview of this subchapter shall give credit to any person for fees or other emoluments or perquisites of his or her office unless in cases where parties are permitted by law to give bond for costs and the bond has been given as prescribed by law.
(2) In case any such prohibited credit shall be given, the amount thereof shall be charged to the officer as cash.
(b) A public officer performing services for an agency of the State of Arkansas for which a fee is provided in § 21-6-307 or § 21-6-406 may extend credit to that agency provided that statements demanding payment are submitted on at least a quarterly basis.
(c)(1) Circuit court clerks and probate clerks of the circuit court, sheriffs, and other elected county officials are authorized to extend credit for the payment of court costs and fees to licensed attorneys, financial institutions, improvement districts, and state and federal agencies and may extend credit for payment of recording fees to the Commissioner of State Lands.
(2) Each official may establish policies within his or her office to implement the provisions of this section, which shall include a provision that withdraws this privilege from any person whose account remains past due and unpaid for thirty (30) days until the delinquent account is paid in full.
(d) When elected county officials are authorized to extend credit to attorneys or other persons or entities or agencies for court costs and fees and the official does so and is unable to collect such court costs or fees from the person, entity, or agency, the official shall not be personally liable for payment of such court costs and fees.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-7-209
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.
Issuing source page ↗
Authority boundary: historical statutory source snapshot not current law.
Open the recorded source website ↗
Record provenance
Stable record: arkansas_code:legal_authorities:21-7-209
Source file: gov.ar.code.title.21.odt
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: 33372ff8de7ccbe4c6f07b96e690dcd1bfc777ef6345e42bbb5950ae0d3a6cd2
Source location: content.xml paragraph 6246
Stored source content
21-7-209. Credit for fees prohibited — Exception.
(a)(1) Except as stated in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, no officer coming within the purview of this subchapter shall give credit to any person for fees or other emoluments or perquisites of his or her office unless in cases where parties are permitted by law to give bond for costs and the bond has been given as prescribed by law.
(2) In case any such prohibited credit shall be given, the amount thereof shall be charged to the officer as cash.
(b) A public officer performing services for an agency of the State of Arkansas for which a fee is provided in § 21-6-307 or § 21-6-406 may extend credit to that agency provided that statements demanding payment are submitted on at least a quarterly basis.
(c)(1) Circuit court clerks and probate clerks of the circuit court, sheriffs, and other elected county officials are authorized to extend credit for the payment of court costs and fees to licensed attorneys, financial institutions, improvement districts, and state and federal agencies and may extend credit for payment of recording fees to the Commissioner of State Lands.
(2) Each official may establish policies within his or her office to implement the provisions of this section, which shall include a provision that withdraws this privilege from any person whose account remains past due and unpaid for thirty (30) days until the delinquent account is paid in full.
(d) When elected county officials are authorized to extend credit to attorneys or other persons or entities or agencies for court costs and fees and the official does so and is unable to collect such court costs or fees from the person, entity, or agency, the official shall not be personally liable for payment of such court costs and fees.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
21-6-307. Sheriffs.
(a) The following fees shall be charged by each of the sheriffs of the several counties of the State of Arkansas:
(1) For serving every summons, capias, scire facias, attachment, writ of garnishment, writ of injunction, or subpoena $ 30.00
(2) For serving a writ of execution 100.00
(3) For commission for receiving and paying money on execution or process when lands or goods have been taken into custody, advertised, or sold 10%
(4) For every return of a writ, summons, or subpoena, original or judicial 20.00
(5) For executing a writ of inquiry 20.00
(6) For executing a certificate of purchase for real estate under execution 20.00
(7) For making, executing, and subscribing a sheriff's deed to be paid by purchaser 30.00
(8) For serving each order, notice, or rule of any court 30.00
(9) For serving each notice to vacate 30.00
(10) For advertising goods or lands for sale 30.00
(11) For returning each execution or attachment 20.00
(12) For advertising elections in each voting precinct 20.00
(13) For delivering voter registration books for each voting
precinct 20.00
(14) For serving warrant or order of arrest from any court 50.00
(15) For taking and entering every bail or delivery bond 20.00
(16) For attending every trial of a criminal or civil case of confession in open court 20.00
(17) For serving subpoena for special jurors 20.00.
(b)(1) Seventy-five percent (75%) of all fees collected by the sheriff shall be paid into the county treasury in the manner provided by law, or to the person entitled to receive the money, or to his or her order, or to his or her attorney of record.
(2)(A) The remaining twenty-five percent (25%) of all fees collected by
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-6-307
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 21-6-307. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
21-6-406. Clerks of county courts — Miscellaneous fees.
(a) A clerk of a county court may charge the following maximum fees:
(1) For each order to erect or repair bridge $ .50
(2) For making out and issuing an order for the appointment of a commissioner to erect or repair any bridge .50
(3) For filing a bond of any contractor .10
(4) For reading and filing every petition and recording the order to be made thereon, for every one hundred (100) words .20
(5) For making copy of petition, order, and other papers pertaining thereto, for every one hundred (100) words .20
(6) For reading and filing a remonstrance against any road or bridge .25
(7) For each certificate of appointment of road reviewers .25
(8) For issuing a precept of inquiry of damages in the case of
roads .50
(9) For entering order for the appointment of a justice of the peace to apportion hands to work on roads, and copy of same, for every one hundred (100) words .20
(10) For entering the appointment of each overseer of a road .25
(11) For each notice to overseers and justices of the peace .25
(12) For entering each order concerning the erection or repairing of any county building, for every one hundred (100) words .20
(13) For entering the appointment of any commissioner to superintend the erection or repairing of any county building, for every one hundred (100) words .20
(14) For issuing the certificate of appointment to commissioner
.50
(15) For entering every order for ascertaining any county line, for every one hundred (100) words .20
(16) For recording a return of any survey of a county line, for every one hundred (100) words .20
(17) For entering every order fixing the place of holding electio
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-6-406
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 21-6-406. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.