§ 6-81-710 - Funding of loans.

6-81-710. Funding of loans.

(a) (1) All payments for rural practice loans and community match loans under this subchapter shall be made on requisitions signed by the Chair of the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Board drawn against the funds held for the purpose of this subchapter.

(2) These funds, consisting of state appropriations so designated, revolving amounts received from repayment of loans and interest, and all funds and property and income therefrom received by the board under its authority to accept and apply gifts, bequests, and devises shall be held in trust and disbursed by the fiscal officers of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences for the aforesaid purposes.

(b) Funds collected as a result of a recipient's breach of a rural practice loan contract or community match loan contract shall be held in trust for the use of the Arkansas Rural Medical Practice Student Loan and Scholarship Program and the Community Match Loan and Rural Physician Recruitment Program, or as otherwise deemed appropriate by the board in its discretion, and disbursed by the fiscal officer of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences under this subchapter.