§ 12-62-302 - Service on boards, commissions, and courts. - Arkansas Statutes

12-62-302. Service on boards, commissions, and courts.

(a) Members of boards and commissions created by this code and all military personnel, detailed to serve on any board or commission ordered by the Governor, or under his authority by the commanding general of the National Guard, or on any court of inquiry, court-martial, or summary court, ordered by proper authority in pursuance of any provision of this code, shall be paid for each day actually employed in such board, commission, or court, or engaged in the business thereof, or in traveling to and from the same, and mileage necessarily traveled in going to and returning from such duty shall be allowed.

(b) The pay shall be the same as for officers and enlisted personnel of the armed forces of the United States of equal grade, rating, and length of service, or at a flat daily rate of forty dollars ($40.00) for each day of twenty-four (24) hours or less actually spent on active duty, whichever is greater.

(c) Mileage payment shall be allowed for going and returning to serve any process or mandate of a military court, the distance to be computed from the place where it is served to the place where it is returnable.