(a) The Tax Division of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, having ascertained and fixed the assessed valuation of the cars of each private car company as provided in § 26-26-1705, shall levy and extend against each valuation the average rate of ad valorem levy prevailing throughout the state for the respective assessment year, this rate to be determined as provided by § 26-26-1615, whereupon, the division, ten (10) days before due date, shall certify the tax so extended to the Director of the Department of Finance and Administration for collection.
(b) The director shall immediately forward by first-class mail to each private car company against which a tax has been extended and so certified a notice showing the assessed valuation, the applicable rate of levy, the amount of tax charged, and the due date thereof.
(c)
(1) If the taxes are not paid on or before the date on which taxes, ad valorem, or any part thereof, on personal property become delinquent, the director shall add a penalty of ten percent (10%) and mail to each company so delinquent a statement of the tax and penalty.
(2)
(A) If the tax and penalty are not paid on or before the date on which county collectors are authorized to collect taxes by distraint, the director shall, in lieu of the ten percent (10%) penalty, add to the tax a penalty of twenty-five percent (25%) and certify the tax and penalty to the Attorney General for collection.
(B) The director's statement of tax and ten percent (10%) penalty shall warn that if the tax and penalty are not paid within the time therein stated, in lieu of the ten percent (10%) penalty, a penalty of twenty-five percent (25%) will be added, and the tax and penalty shall be certified to the Attorney General for collection.
(d) For the purpose of collecting these taxes and penalties, the director or the Attorney General, in addition to the powers in them vested for the collection of taxes, shall have all the powers vested in county collectors for the purpose of collecting delinquent personal property taxes.
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