Arkansas Code Title 1, Chapter 2, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

• § 1-2-101 - Legislative Intent of Code.
  (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that this Code, the Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated, be a recodification, revision, modernization, and...
• § 1-2-102 - Enactment of Code.
  (a) The statutory portion of the codification of Arkansas laws prepared by the Arkansas Code Revision Commission and the Michie Company pursuant to a...
• § 1-2-103 - Repeal of Prior Laws by Code -- Exceptions.
  (a) All acts, codes, and statutes, and all parts of them and all amendments to them of a general and permanent nature in effect...
• § 1-2-104 - Omission of Validating and Curative Acts From Code.
  The omission from this Code of any act or section or part of a section of an act passed prior to the adoption of...
• § 1-2-105 - Adoption of Code Not to Affect Certain Acts.
  The adoption of this Code shall not be construed to repeal any act or section or part of a section of an act in...
• § 1-2-106 - Adoption of Code Not to Validate Constitutionally Invalid Acts.
  The adoption of this Code shall not validate an act or validate any section or part of a section of an act, which act...
• § 1-2-107 - Repealed Acts Not Revived by Code.
  All acts or parts of acts which are repealed or superseded by this Code or are repugnant to any act repealed by this Code...
• § 1-2-108 - Adoption of Code Not to Affect Rules and Regulations.
  Unless otherwise provided, the adoption of this Code shall not invalidate or affect any rules or regulations which were in effect on December 31,...
• § 1-2-109 - Adoption of Code Not to Validate Invalid, Unauthorized, or Defective Rules and Regulations.
  The adoption of this Code shall not validate or authorize a rule or regulation, cure any defect in a rule or regulation, or validate,...
• § 1-2-110 - Adoption of Code Not to Affect Terms of Office, Compensation, Expenses, Etc.
  (a) The adoption of this Code shall not affect the term of office or the right to hold office of any person who is...
• § 1-2-111 - Adoption of Code Not to Affect Existing Rights, Liabilities, Contracts, Actions, Etc.
  (a) The adoption of this Code shall not affect or impair any existing right, remedy, or defense nor affect, impair, discharge, or release any...
• § 1-2-112 - Adoption of Code Not to Toll Limitations.
  When a limitation or period of time prescribed in any act in effect on December 31, 1987, for acquiring a right, barring a remedy,...
• § 1-2-113 - Designation and Citation of Code.
  (a) This codification of the laws of Arkansas, consisting of this title and the following titles, subtitles, chapters, subchapters, and sections, as amended from...
• § 1-2-114 - References to Code Titles, Subtitles, Chapters, Etc.
  (a) Unless the context otherwise requires, references in this Code to titles, subtitles, chapters, subchapters, or sections shall mean titles, subtitles, chapters, subchapters, or...
• § 1-2-115 - Code Classification and Organization Not to Be Construed -- Notes, Headings, Etc., Not Part of Law.
  (a) The classification and organization of the titles, subtitles, chapters, subchapters, sections, subsections, and subdivisions of this Code, and any headings thereto, are made...
• § 1-2-116 - Amendments to Code.
  (a) All acts enacted after December 31, 1987, of a general and permanent nature shall be enacted as amendments to this Code. No local,...
• § 1-2-117 - Severability of Provisions of Code.
  Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Code, in the event any title, subtitle, chapter, subchapter, section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, subparagraph, item, sentence, clause,...
• § 1-2-118 - Effective Date of Code.
  This Code is effective at midnight, December 31, 1987.
• § 1-2-119 - Common and Statute Law of England Adopted.
  The common law of England, so far as it is applicable and of a general nature, and all statutes of the British Parliament in...
• § 1-2-120 - Effect of Repeal of Statute.
  (a) When a statute is repealed and the repealing statute is afterwards repealed, the first statute shall not thereby be revived unless by express...
• § 1-2-121 - Bills and Laws to Be Clear and Unambiguous.
  No bill shall be considered and no law enacted unless the bill or law is written in clear, unambiguous language.
• § 1-2-122 - Laws Requiring Use of Registered Mail -- Alternative Use of Certified Mail.
  (a) Anything permitted or required by the laws of this state to be served or transmitted by registered mail, except when required by any...
• § 1-2-123 - Official Printed Version of Code -- Official Electronic Version of Code -- Printed Version to Take Precedence.
  If the official electronic version of the Arkansas Code differs from the official hard copy version of the Arkansas Code, the hard copy version...
• § 1-2-124 - Respectful Language -- Disabilities.
  (a) (1) The General Assembly recognizes that language used in reference to individuals with disabilities shapes and reflects society's attitudes toward people with disabilities....

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