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Ark. Code Ann. § 16-43-806

State employee as a witness

Acts 2005, No. 1845, § 5.

(1) If a state employee is subpoenaed as a witness to give a deposition or testimony at a hearing in state or federal court or before any body with power to issue a subpoena, the state employee is: Entitled to retain any witness fees that may be tendered to him or her under state or federal law or court rules only if the matter is: Outside the employee's scope of state employment; or

(2) The employee is a party to the matter other than as a representative of the state employer; and

(3) Entitled to retain any mileage fees that may be tendered to him or her under state or federal law or court rules only if the matter is: Within the employee's scope of state employment and the employee uses a personal vehicle for travel in obeying the subpoena and the employee's employer does not reimburse the employee for travel expenses; or

(4) Outside the employee's scope of state employment and the employee does not use a state-owned vehicle for travel in obeying the subpoena.

(5) If the state employee is subpoenaed for purposes under subsection (a) of this section to appear on a nonwork day, the employee may retain any witness and mileage fees tendered to him or her.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.