Arkansas Code Title 19, Chapter 11, Subchapter 7 - Ethics

• § 19-11-701 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Blind trust" means an independently managed trust in which the employee-beneficiary has no management rights and in which...
• § 19-11-702 - Penalties.
  Any employee or nonemployee who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction...
• § 19-11-703 - Statement of Policy.
  (a) Public employment is a public trust. It is the policy of the state to promote and balance the objective of protecting government integrity...
• § 19-11-704 - General Standards of Ethical Conduct.
  (a) (1) General Ethical Standards for Employees. Any attempt to realize personal gain through public employment by conduct inconsistent with the proper discharge of...
• § 19-11-705 - Employee Conflict of Interest.
  (a) (1) Conflict of Interest. It shall be a breach of ethical standards for any employee to participate directly or indirectly in any proceeding...
• § 19-11-706 - Employee Disclosure Requirements.
  (a) Disclosure of Benefit Received from Contract. Any employee who has or obtains any benefit from any state contract with a business in which...
• § 19-11-707 - Gratuities and Kickbacks.
  (a) Gratuities. It is a breach of ethical standards for any person to offer, give, or agree to give any employee or former employee,...
• § 19-11-708 - Prohibition Against Contingent Fees.
  (a) Contingent Fees. It shall be a breach of ethical standards for a person to be retained, or to retain a person, to solicit...
• § 19-11-709 - Restrictions on Employment of Present and Former Employees.
  (a) Contemporaneous Employment Prohibited. It shall be a breach of ethical standards for any employee who is involved in procurement to become or be,...
• § 19-11-710 - Use of Confidential Information.
  It shall be a breach of ethical standards for any employee or former employee knowingly to use confidential information for actual or anticipated personal...
• § 19-11-711 - Public Access to Procurement Information.
  Procurement information shall be public record to the extent provided in the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq., except as...
• § 19-11-712 - Civil and Administrative Remedies Against Employees Who Breach Ethical Standards.
  (a) Existing Remedies Not Impaired. Civil and administrative remedies against employees which are in existence on July 1, 1979, shall not be impaired.(b) Supplemental...
• § 19-11-713 - Civil and Administrative Remedies Against Nonemployees Who Breach Ethical Standards.
  (a) Existing Remedies Not Impaired. Civil and administrative remedies against nonemployees which are in existence on July 1, 1979, shall not be impaired.(b) Supplemental...
• § 19-11-714 - Recovery of Value Transferred or Received in Breach of Ethical Standards.
  (a) General Provisions. The value of anything transferred or received in breach of the ethical standards of this subchapter, or regulations promulgated thereunder, by...
• § 19-11-715 - Duties of Director of Department of Finance and Administration.
  (a) Regulations. The Director of the Department of Finance and Administration shall promulgate regulations to implement this subchapter and shall do so in accordance...
• § 19-11-716 - Participation in Business Incubators -- Regulations and Guidelines.
  (a) The provisions of this subchapter shall not be applicable to faculty or staff of state-supported institutions of higher education participating in business incubators...
• § 19-11-717 - State-Supported Institutions of Higher Education.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding anything in this subchapter to the contrary, if, in either of the events in subdivisions (a)(1)(A) and (B) of this section,...
• § 19-11-718 - Special State Employees -- Conflicts of Interest.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) (A) "Conflict of interest" means a special state employee's direct or indirect pecuniary or other interest in...

Last modified: November 15, 2016