Arkansas Code Title 26. Taxation § 26-39-501. Failure to pay county

(a) Every county collector of the county revenue, having made settlement according to law of the county revenue received and collected by him or her, shall pay the amount found due from him or her into the county treasury, and the county treasurer shall give duplicate receipts therefor, one (1) of which shall be filed by the county collector in the office of the county clerk.

(b) Every county collector or county sheriff who shall fail to make payment of the amount due from him or her on settlement, in the time and manner prescribed in this section, shall forfeit and pay to the county the sum of five percent (5%) per month on the sum wrongfully withheld, to be computed from the time the payment ought to have been made until actual payment, which may be recovered by suit on his or her official bond.