§ 19-11-603 — Service charge

(a) The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management is authorized to add to the cost of surplus properties secured by the State Agency for a Surplus Property an amount necessary to defray the expense of this service and to repay into the Revolving Loan Fund loans made to the agency as provided in this section. (b) The department is also authorized to establish service charges in such amounts as may be necessary to cover the expenses of the department in administering special federal service programs for schools and agencies. These charges are to be paid by the school, institution, or agency in the amount designated by the department. (c) The department is authorized and directed to take such action as is necessary to collect such charges and may, in its discretion, withhold from any state moneys over which the department has control funds necessary to pay the amounts owing by such school districts and agencies. (d) It is the intention of the General Assembly that the schools and agencies shall pay for such services amounts sufficient to reimburse the department for expenses incurred in the operation of the federal Surplus Property Program and in the operation of special federal service programs.

Legislative History

Acts 1959, No. 357, § 12; A.S.A. 1947, § 80-135.1; Acts 2009, No. 1187, § 4.