§ 6-43-109 - Clothing and traveling expenses -- Generally. - Arkansas Statutes

6-43-109. Clothing and traveling expenses -- Generally.

(a) When such persons, upon proper application, are admitted as pupils of either the Arkansas School for the Blind or the Arkansas School for the Deaf, it shall be the duty of their parents, guardians, or other friends to suitably provide them with clothing at the time of their entrance into the school, and during their continuance therein, and to defray their traveling expenses to and from the institution, not only at the time of their first entrance and final departure but at any other time when it shall become necessary for them to leave or return to the school.

(b) (1) In all cases in which suitable clothing and means for defraying traveling expenses are not otherwise supplied to the pupils of the schools, suitable clothing and means of defraying travel expenses shall be provided by the superintendent or principal of the respective schools, who shall make out and file with the Auditor of State accounts for the clothing and travel expenses, separate in each case, against the respective counties from which such pupils are sent, in an amount not exceeding forty dollars ($40.00) per annum for any one (1) pupil. The accounts shall be severally signed by the proper superintendent or principal.

(2) The Auditor of State shall draw his or her warrant on the Treasurer of State for the amounts, which shall be paid out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

(3) However, the amount drawn by either institution for the aforesaid purposes per year shall not exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000).

(4) Each account thus certified shall be charged to the county from which the pupil named therein was sent.

(5) The Auditor of State shall forward a certified copy of each account so filed with him or her to the sheriff of the proper county, who shall proceed to collect the account in the name of the State of Arkansas, as other debts are collected, and the money so collected shall be paid over to the Treasurer of State, who shall give receipts therefor as in case of other moneys paid into the State Treasury. However, if the sheriff shall be unable to collect the amount of any bill from the parents or estate of any pupil, then the bill shall be refunded to the state out of the county treasury.