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§ 26-2-109. County collector purchasing tax land

(a) No county collector or his or her deputy, either directly or indirectly, shall be concerned in the purchase of any tract of land or town lot sold for the payment of taxes. (b) A person violating this section shall be guilty of a violation and subject to a fine of five hundred dollars ($500).

§ 26-3-305. Nonprofit waterworks

Waterworks systems owned by nonprofit property owners associations are public property used for public purposes and therefore exempt from ad valorem taxation.

§ 26-2-110. Improper tax collecting

If any county collector shall collect taxes not stated on the tax book or shall collect a greater amount than is therein stated, except as authorized by this act, he or she shall be guilty of a Class C felony.

§ 26-2-111. Fraudulent statement of accounts by collecting officer

Any county sheriff, collector of revenues, constable, or other officer collecting moneys belonging to the State of Arkansas, or to any county therein, who fraudulently states his or her account for settlement and thereby deprives the State of Arkansas, or any county therein, of its just revenues; or any county clerk who keeps fraudulent accounts […]

§ 26-2-112. Removal of county judge

Any county judge who willfully approves any false and fraudulent account made by the county sheriff, county collector, county clerk, county treasurer, or other officer collecting or holding revenues belonging to the State of Arkansas, or to any county therein, or receives a bribe for doing an unlawful act shall, upon conviction, be removed from […]

§ 26-2-113. Prosecution by state

Nothing contained in this section and §§ 26-2-111, 26-2-112, and 26-2-114 shall preclude the State of Arkansas from prosecuting county officers or others for the acts complained of under any of the criminal laws of this state.

§ 26-2-114. Taxpayer suit to recover taxes lost by corruption in office

(a) If any taxpayer in any county in this state has knowledge of corruption in office whereby the State of Arkansas, or any county therein, has been deprived of its just revenues, he or she shall have the right, in his or her own name as a taxpayer, to institute legal proceedings against the officer, […]

§ 26-3-201. Property subject to taxes generally

All property, whether real or personal, in this state; all moneys, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint-stock companies, or otherwise, of persons residing therein; the property of corporations; and the property of all banks or banking companies and of all bankers and brokers shall be subject to taxation. Such property, moneys, credits, investments in bonds, […]

§ 26-3-202. Money

(a) All circulation notes of national banking associations, United States legal tender notes, all other notes and certificates of the United States payable on demand and circulating or intended to circulate, as currency, and gold, silver, or other coin held or owned by any citizen or resident of the State of Arkansas are made taxable […]