§ 2-35-208 - Filing and acknowledgment of record required. - Arkansas Statutes

2-35-208. Filing and acknowledgment of record required.

(a) (1) When the transfer record shall have been sworn and subscribed to by the seller and before any of the animals mentioned in this subchapter shall be carried, delivered, or transported across any county line, the original of the transfer record shall be filed by the seller or his or her duly authorized agent with the notary public or other person authorized in this subchapter who took the acknowledgment.

(2) The notary public or other person authorized in this subchapter shall affix his or her name and seal of office, if any, thereto.

(3) (A) The notary public or other person authorized in this subchapter to take acknowledgments shall file, within forty-eight (48) hours after acknowledging the transfer, one (1) copy of the transfer record in the office of the county clerk.

(B) The transfer record shall be subject to inspection by any interested person.

(b) Any person authorized to take acknowledgments under this section failing to file a transfer record as provided in this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).

(c) The notary public or any other person authorized by law to take acknowledgments, or any two (2) owners of real property residing in the seller's township, taking the acknowledgment on a transfer record may charge a fee of ten cents (10cent(s)) for each transfer record, irrespective of the number of animals contained thereon, and the county clerk may charge a fee of ten cents (10cent(s)) for filing it.