2014 Arkansas Code
Title 21 - Public Officers and Employees
Chapter 12 - Termination of Service
Subchapter 3 - Removal or Suspension of Local Officers
§ 21-12-301 - Suspension upon charge of shortage of funds.
(a) (1) Whenever any information or indictment shall be filed in any circuit court of this state against any county or township officer on any charge involving a shortage of funds in his or her office when the shortage has been reported by the Division of Legislative Audit, the circuit court shall immediately order that the officer be suspended from his or her office until the information or indictment is tried.
(2) The suspension shall not extend beyond the next term after the information or indictment is filed in the circuit court, unless the cause is continued on the application of the defendant.
(b) (1) Whenever any such officer is confined in a jail on a charge involving a shortage of funds in his or her office when the shortage has been reported by the division, he or she shall be suspended from office by the circuit court upon the filing of information of the imprisonment.
(2) The suspension shall last until the officer is discharged from prison by due process of law, on bail, or otherwise.
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