Arkansas Code Title 14. Local Government § 14-22-112. Judicial order of approval

(a) No contract shall be awarded or any purchase made until it has been approved by the county court, and no contract shall be binding on any county until the court shall have issued its order of approval.

(b) The order of the court shall be properly docketed. All documents and bids pertaining to the solicitation of bids and awarding of contracts under the purchasing procedure of this chapter shall be filed with the county clerk, together with the order of the court, which shall be filed by the clerk.

(c) No claim filed with the county for payment of any commodity, the purchase of which is regulated by this chapter, shall be paid; or no warrant shall be issued by the county clerk for the payment of it until the order of the court approving it shall have been issued and filed with the clerk.