Ark. Code Ann. § 26-2-103
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Loaning or using public money by officials
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If any county treasurer, county collector, or county sheriff loans any money belonging to the state or county, with or without interest, or uses it for his or her own purposes, he or she shall forfeit and pay for every such offense a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor less than five hundred dollars ($500), to be recovered in a civil action at the suit of the state, for the use of the state, county, city, town, or body politic. Acts 1883, No. 114, § 205, p. 199; C. & M. Dig., § 10167; Pope's Dig., § 13949; A.S.A. 1947, § 84-1615.
If any county treasurer, county collector, or county sheriff loans any money belonging to the state or county, with or without interest, or uses it for his or her own purposes, he or she shall forfeit and pay for every such offense a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor less than five hundred dollars ($500), to be recovered in a civil action at the suit of the state, for the use of the state, county, city, town, or body politic.
Acts 1883, No. 114, § 205, p. 199; C. & M. Dig., § 10167; Pope's Dig., § 13949; A.S.A. 1947, § 84-1615.
If any county treasurer, county collector, or county sheriff loans any money belonging to the state or county, with or without interest, or uses it for his or her own purposes, he or she shall forfeit and pay for every such offense a sum not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor less than five hundred dollars ($500), to be recovered in a civil action at the suit of the state, for the use of the state, county, city, town, or body politic.
Acts 1883, No. 114, § 205, p. 199; C. & M. Dig., § 10167; Pope's Dig., § 13949; A.S.A. 1947, § 84-1615.
Status: in_force
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