§ 19-5-206 — Service charges against state agencies

Arkansas § 19-5-206

• Jurisdiction: Arkansas
• Title: 19

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(a) (1) For the purpose of this section, the term "state agency" shall include all boards, commissions, departments, agencies, institutions, offices, or officers, and any other office or unit of the State of Arkansas created or established pursuant to law or pursuant to any action of the Governor, functioning under appropriation of the General Assembly or functioning as a representative of the State of Arkansas without appropriation of the General Assembly. (2) (A) "State agency" shall not include the Department of Education and any of its divisions, community colleges and branches thereof, universities and branches thereof, technical colleges, technical institutes, postsecondary vocational-technical schools, and comprehensive lifelong learning centers. (B) "State agency" shall not include the office of the Commissioner of State Lands or the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism. (b) Each state agency, whose annual income or revenue as reflected by the previous fiscal year's audit exceeds twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), shall remit by check on the first day of each calendar quarter to the Treasurer of State an amount equal to one and one-half percent (1 1/2%) of the total expenditures of the previous calendar quarter from those cash funds as defined under § 19-4-801 , excluding funds received from the United States Government or those held in trust by the state agency or those funds of the various state retirement systems. Funds received by the Division of Arkansas Heritage from voluntary donations shall also be excluded. In the event that a state agency elects to deposit its cash funds into the State Treasury under the provisions of § 19-4-503 , then the amount required under this section shall be transferred from the state agency's treasury fund to the State Central Services Fund. (c) The Treasurer of State shall deposit each check as a nonrevenue receipt to the credit of the State Central Services Fund in order to provide financial support for certain required administrative functions of state government.

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 5669, eff. 7/1/2019. Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 5668, eff. 7/1/2019. Acts 1993, No. 1230, § 1; 1997, No. 1115, § 58; 1997, No. 1248, § 3.