Ark. Code Ann. § 21-12-301: Suspension upon charge of shortage of county funds

(a) If an information, presentment, or indictment is filed in a circuit court against a county elective, county quorum court district, or township officer on a charge involving a shortage of county funds in his or her office reported by Arkansas Legislative Audit, the circuit court shall order that the officer be immediately suspended from his or her office during the pendency of the judicial proceeding.

(b) If a county elective, county quorum court district, or township officer is jailed in connection with a shortage of county funds reported by Arkansas Legislative Audit, he or she shall be suspended immediately from office during the pendency of the judicial proceeding by the circuit court upon the filing of information of the imprisonment.