Arkansas Code Title 19. Public Finance § 19-9-402. Intent

(a) The Internal Revenue Code provides that interest with respect to certain obligations may not be exempt from federal income taxation unless the obligations are in registered form. It is therefore a matter of state concern that public entities be authorized to provide for the issuance of obligations in such form. It is a purpose of this subchapter to empower all public entities to establish and maintain a system pursuant to which obligations may be issued in registered form within the meaning of the applicable provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

(b) Obligations have traditionally been issued in bearer rather than in registered form, and a change from bearer to registered form may affect the relationships, rights, and duties of issuers of and the persons that deal with obligations and, by such effect, the costs of issuing obligations. Such effects will impact the various issuers and varieties of obligations differently depending upon their legal and financial characteristics, their markets, and their adaptability to recent and prospective technological and organizational developments. It is therefore a matter of state concern that public entities be provided flexibility in the development of such systems and control over system incidents so as to accommodate the different impacts. It is a purpose of this subchapter to empower the establishment, maintenance, and amendment, from time to time, of differing systems of registration of obligations so as to accommodate the differing impacts upon issuers and varieties of obligations. It is further a purpose of this subchapter to authorize systems that will facilitate the prompt and accurate transfer of registered public obligations and develop practices with regard to the registration and transfer of registered public obligations.