Arkansas Code Title 16, Subtitle 2, Chapter 10, Subchapter 3 - Uniform Filing Fees and Court Costs

• § 16-10-301 - Legislative Intent.
  (a) It is hereby found by the General Assembly that the current system of funding the state judicial system has created inequity in the...
• § 16-10-302 - Court Costs and Filing Fees -- Generally.
  (a) Except as otherwise provided by this act, all filing fees and all court costs shall be uniform for each type of case in...
• § 16-10-303 - Filing Fees. [Repealed Effective January 1, 2012.]
  (a) (1) The uniform filing fee to be charged by clerks for initiating a civil cause of action in city courts in this state...
• § 16-10-304 - State Actions Exempt From Filing Fees.
  Prosecuting attorneys filing actions on behalf of the state, with the exception of child support cases, shall be exempt from paying filing fees.
• § 16-10-305 - Court Costs.
  (a) There shall be levied and collected the following court costs from each defendant upon each conviction, each plea of guilty or nolo contendere,...
• § 16-10-306 - Administration of Justice Funds Section.
  (a) There is created in the Department of Finance and Administration an Administration of Justice Funds Section.(b) The court costs and filing fees enumerated...
• § 16-10-307 - County Administration of Justice Fund.
  (a) There is hereby created in each county a fund in the office of the county treasurer to be known as the "county administration...
• § 16-10-308 - City Administration of Justice Fund.
  (a) (1) There is hereby created in each town or city which operates a district court a fund in the office of the city...
• § 16-10-309 - Failure to Submit Funds or Reports.
  (a) In the event a town, city, or county fails to timely or adequately submit funds and reports required by § 16-10-306, § 16-10-307(d),...
• § 16-10-310 - State Administration of Justice Fund -- Distribution of Revenue.
  (a) At the close of books on or before the twentieth working day of each month, the Department of Finance and Administration shall distribute...
• § 16-10-311 - Transfer of Funds From State Administration of Justice Fund.
  The Department of Finance and Administration may transfer funds, from time to time, from the State Administration of Justice Fund to the State Central...
• § 16-10-312 - [Repealed.]
• § 16-10-313 - Support for State Crime Laboratory.
  Notwithstanding §§ 16-10-306, 16-10-307, 16-10-603, 16-10-604, and 19-5-993 or any other law to the contrary, twenty-five dollars ($25.00) of the uniform filing fee collected...
• § 16-10-314 - Support for Arkansas Publicly Funded Law Schools.
  (a) Notwithstanding §§ 16-10-306, 16-10-307, 16-10-603, 16-10-604, and 19-5-993 or any other law to the contrary, fifteen dollars ($15.00) of the uniform filing fee...
• § 16-10-315 - City Courts -- Loss of Authority -- Enforcement by Department of Finance and Administration. [Effective Until January 1, 2012.]
  (a) If the Department of Finance and Administration determines that a city court is not in substantial compliance with § 16-10-306 or § 16-10-308,...

Last modified: November 15, 2016