Arkansas Code Title 19. Public Finance § 19-4-2002. Payment by surety

(a) Within a reasonable time after the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State has given notice and made proof of loss and demand for payment as prescribed in this subchapter, the surety shall make payment to the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State of the amount so found to be due. The Chief Fiscal Officer of the State shall forthwith transmit the amounts so received to the Treasurer of State with instructions to credit it to the fund, fund accounts, or accounts entitled to such funds.

(b) If the amounts so recovered are funds that are not required by law to be deposited into the State Treasury, then the funds shall be transmitted by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State to the agency to which the recovered funds belong, with instructions to credit it to the accounts entitled to such funds.