Arkansas Code Title 16, Subtitle 5, Chapter 58 - Commencement of Action -- Process

• § 16-58-101 - Payment of Fees Prerequisite to Entry of Action or Issuance of Writ.
  (a) No action shall be entered upon the docket of any court nor any original mesne or final process issued in the action, except...
• § 16-58-102 - Style of Process Issued by Judge, Justice, or Other Officer.
  All writs and process issued by any judge, justice of the peace, or other officer authorized to issue the writ or process shall run...
• § 16-58-103 - [Repealed.]
• § 16-58-104 - Alias or Pluries Writs.
  When any writ or other process issued out of any court of this state is not executed, the clerk of the court shall issue...
• § 16-58-105 - Seal.
  All writs shall be sealed with the judicial seal of the court.
• § 16-58-106 - Issuance and Execution of Process, Writ, Summons, Etc., on Sunday or a Holiday.
  (a) It shall be no objection to any process, writ, summons, affidavit, or order for a provisional remedy that it was issued, made, or...
• § 16-58-107 - [Superseded.]
• § 16-58-108 - [Superseded.]
• § 16-58-109 - [Superseded.]
• § 16-58-110 - Sheriff to Attend Clerk's Office to Receive Process.
  It shall be the duty of the sheriff or one (1) of his or her deputies to attend at the clerk's office daily, Sundays...
• § 16-58-111 - Endorsement of Day and Hour of Receipt on Process.
  The sheriff shall endorse upon every summons, order of arrest, or order for the delivery of property, or of attachment or injunction in his...
• § 16-58-112 - [Superseded.]
• § 16-58-113 - [Superseded.]
• § 16-58-114 - [Repealed.]
• § 16-58-115 - Sheriff to Note Time of Service.
  When a sheriff serves a summons, he or she shall note on the copy of the summons delivered or offered to the defendant or...
• § 16-58-116 - Acknowledgment of Service.
  Service may be acknowledged by the defendant by an endorsement upon the summons, signed and dated by him or her, and attested by a...
• § 16-58-117 - Return.
  (a) (1) Each sheriff, coroner, and constable, on the return made by him or her on any writ or other process, shall state at...
• § 16-58-118 - [Superseded.]
• § 16-58-119 - [Superseded.]
• § 16-58-120 - Method of Service -- Resident and Nonresident Defendants Out of State -- Secretary of State Agent.
  (a) Any cause of action arising out of acts done in this state by an individual in this state or by an agent or...
• § 16-58-121 - Method of Service -- Nonresident or Absent Owner, Chauffeur, Driver, or Operator -- Survival of Action.
  (a) (1) The acceptance by a nonresident owner, chauffeur, driver, or operator, or by a resident owner, chauffeur, driver, or operator of any motor...
• § 16-58-122 - Method of Service -- Owner or Operator of Motor Buses or Trucks.
  (a) When the defendant is the owner or operator of any motor bus or buses, motor coach or coaches, or motor truck or trucks...
• § 16-58-123 - Method of Service -- Owner or Officer of Steamboat or Watercraft.
  When any action to recover judgment against the owners or officers of any steamboat, vessel, or other watercraft for any debt or liability created...
• § 16-58-124 - Method of Service -- Corporations.
  (a) When the defendant is a corporation created by the laws of this state, the service of the summons may be upon the president,...
• § 16-58-125 - Method of Service -- Corporate Agent At Branch Office.
  (a) (1) Any and all foreign and domestic corporations which keep or maintain in any of the counties of this state a branch office...
• § 16-58-126 - Method of Service -- Corporations -- Secretary of State.
  Whenever process in any suit against a domestic corporation cannot be served in the county of the corporation's domicile upon any officer authorized to...
• § 16-58-127 - Method of Service -- Foreign Corporations.
  Where the defendant is a foreign corporation having an agent in this state, the service may be upon the agent.
• § 16-58-128 - [Repealed.]
• § 16-58-129 - Method of Service -- Insurance Company.
  Where the defendant is an incorporated insurance company and the action is in a county in which there is an agency of the company,...
• § 16-58-130 - [Repealed.]
• § 16-58-131 - [Superseded]
• § 16-58-132 - Refusal to Accept Process Served by Mail.
  Where service of summons, process, or notice is provided for or permitted by registered or certified mail, under the laws of Arkansas, and the...
• § 16-58-133 - [Superseded.]
• § 16-58-134 - [Repealed.]

Last modified: November 15, 2016