Arkansas Code Title 16, Subtitle 2, Chapter 10, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
- § 16-10-101 - Administrative Responsibilities of the Supreme Court.
(a) The Supreme Court shall have general superintending control over the administration of justice in all courts in the State of Arkansas. The Chief...
- § 16-10-102 - Administrative Office of the Courts -- Director -- Cooperation of Court Officers.
(a) (1) There shall be an office for the administration of the nonjudicial business of the judicial branch which shall be known as the...
- § 16-10-103 - Training and Education of Court Personnel.
(a) The state's responsibility for training and providing additional judicial education to circuit judges, district judges, city judges, circuit clerks, municipal clerks, case coordinators,...
- § 16-10-104 - Courts of Record.
The Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, and all circuit and county courts shall be courts of record and shall keep just and faithful records...
- § 16-10-105 - Sittings of Courts to Be Public.
The sittings of every court shall be public, and every person may freely attend the sittings of every court.
- § 16-10-106 - Power to Issue Writs and Process.
All courts shall have power to issue all writs and process which may be necessary in the exercise of their respective jurisdiction, according to...
- § 16-10-107 - Process and Proceedings to Be in English Language.
All writs, process, proceedings, and records in any court shall be in the English language, except that the proper and known name of process...
- § 16-10-108 - Contempt.
(a) Every court of record shall have power to punish, as for criminal contempt, persons guilty of the following acts and no others: (1)...
- § 16-10-109 - Reading of Record -- Signing.
Full entries of the orders and proceedings of all courts of record of each day shall be read in open court on the morning...
- § 16-10-110 - Seals.
(a) The Supreme Court and each of the circuit, district, city, and county courts shall preserve and keep a seal, with such emblems and...
- § 16-10-111 - [Repealed.]
- § 16-10-112 - Proceedings Not Affected by Lapse of Term.
No writ, process, plea, or proceeding whatsoever, civil or criminal, shall be deemed discontinued or abated by the failure of any term or session...
- § 16-10-113 - Change of Term Not to Affect Proceedings.
When any change is made by law in the times of holding any court in this state, the change shall in no way operate...
- § 16-10-114 - Courts Not to Open on Sunday -- Exceptions.
(a) No court shall be opened or transact business on Sunday unless it is for the purpose of receiving a verdict or discharging a...
- § 16-10-115 - Trial by Temporary Judge.
(a) On stipulation of the litigant parties, any court of this state, except in criminal causes, may order a cause to be tried by...
- § 16-10-116 - [Repealed.]
- § 16-10-117 - Judge Temporarily Assigned in District -- Jury List.
A judge assigned pursuant to § 16-10-101 on a temporary basis to a judicial district other than his or her own may share by...
- § 16-10-118 - Judicial Officeholder As Candidate for Nonjudicial Office -- Resignation -- Warrants Void.
(a) Whenever the holder of a judicial office in the State of Arkansas becomes a candidate at any primary or general election for a...
- § 16-10-119 - Travel Expenses of Judges.
(a) From the appropriation provided to the Auditor of State for trial judges' expenses, a circuit judge is authorized to be reimbursed for those...
- § 16-10-120, 16-10-121 - [Repealed.]
- § 16-10-122 - Sheriffs of Courts.
The sheriffs of the several counties shall be sheriffs of the several courts in their respective counties, and the sheriff in the county in...
- § 16-10-123 - Furnishing Fuel, Blank Books, and Stationery.
The several sheriffs are authorized and required to furnish the fuel which may be necessary for the use of the several courts in their...
- § 16-10-124 - Enforcement of Return of Writ or Process and Payment of Moneys.
Each court may enforce by attachment the return of any writ or process issued out of the same court and the payment of moneys...
- § 16-10-125 - Audit of Accounts of Sheriff and Clerk.
The several courts shall audit and adjust the accounts of the sheriff and clerk for all expenditures made under this act and certify the...
- § 16-10-126 - [Repealed.]
- § 16-10-127 - [Repealed.]
- § 16-10-128 - Transcripts -- Bills of Exceptions.
In making out transcripts of records, except on writs of error and appeals, the bills of exception shall not be inserted unless specially required...
- § 16-10-129 - [Repealed.]
- § 16-10-130 - Precedence Given to Criminal Trials When Victim Under Age of Fourteen.
Notwithstanding any rule of court to the contrary and in furtherance of the purposes of Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 27.1, all courts of...
- § 16-10-131 - Exemption From Overtime Parking Penalties.
(a) No judge or his or her court reporter of any court of this state shall be subject to a fine or other penalty...
- § 16-10-132 - Addresses of Parties.
The records of all judgments rendered in any circuit, county, district, or city court shall contain the addresses of all parties when reasonably ascertainable.
- § 16-10-133 - [Repealed.]
- § 16-10-134 - [Repealed.]
- § 16-10-135 - Aids for the Hearing or Visually Impaired.
(a) The Administrative Office of the Courts shall employ the most cost-efficient method of procuring auxiliary aids for persons with hearing and visual impairments.(b)...
- § 16-10-136 - Extrajudicial Activities of Justices and Judges.
Restrictions on extrajudicial activities found in Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 80, shall not preclude a justice or judge from: (1) Being a member of a...
- § 16-10-137 - Administrative Office of the Courts -- Annual Report.
(a) On July 31 of each year, the Administrative Office of the Courts shall submit an annual report to the Legislative Council showing the...
- § 16-10-138 - [Repealed.]
- § 16-10-139 - Specialty Court Program Evaluation and Approval.
(a) As used in this section, "specialty court program" means one of the following: (1) A pre-adjudication program under § 5-4-901 et seq.; (2)...
Last modified: November 15, 2016