Title 16 — Practice, Procedure, And Courts

(a) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Fifth Judicial District shall be entitled to an operating expense of not less than seventeen thousand five hundred dollars ($17,500) to cover the cost of printing, supplies, equipment, janitorial services, cleaning supplies, food, service contr…

Each prosecuting attorney shall reside in the judicial district for which he may be elected, under the provisions of the Constitution of this state.

The prosecuting attorney, without fee or reward, shall give his opinion to any county or township office in his judicial district, on matters of criminal law in which the state or county is concerned, pending before the official.

Each prosecuting attorney shall commence and prosecute all criminal actions in which the state or any county in his district may be concerned.

It shall be the duty of each prosecuting attorney, whenever he has information of the commission of any offense against the criminal and penal laws of this state or has reason to believe that any offense has been committed, to cause to be summoned all persons that he may think ne…

A.C.A. § 16-21-105Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) (1) The prosecuting attorneys shall, upon request, provide to a victim and the immediate family members of all homicide victims, whether or not they are witnesses in criminal proceedings, notice of critical events in the criminal justice process, which shall include, but not …

(a) This section shall be known as the “Victim/Witness Coordinator Act”. (b) There is created a Victim/Witness Coordinator to provide technical assistance and support to all victims of crimes and their families and to witnesses to crimes who are involved in the criminal justice s…

(a) The prosecuting attorneys of the several judicial districts in the State of Arkansas shall be designated as local units of government for the express purpose of permitting contracting with the Department of Finance and Administration for the provision of legal services under …

The prosecuting attorney's fees provided by law shall be charged against the defendants in felony cases, and when they are collected shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the general revenue fund.

(a) Each prosecuting attorney shall, on or before January 1 in each year, file in the office of the Auditor of State, and in the offices of the several county treasurers in his district, an account in writing, verified by the affidavit of such attorney, of all the moneys received…

This subchapter shall apply to the Sixth Judicial District, which is composed of Pulaski County and Perry County.

(a) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District shall be entitled to the following assistants and employees:(1) To be paid by the county in which they serve:(A) A minimum of thirty-five (35) deputy prosecuting attorneys, whose salaries shall be as follows:(i) One (1) …

(a) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District may designate a part-time deputy prosecuting attorney to represent the office of the Prosecuting Attorney in Perry County. (b) Perry County shall reimburse the deputy prosecuting attorney on a monthly basis for said repr…

Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to prohibit the Quorum Court of Pulaski County and the Quorum Court of Perry County from providing additional personnel or funds from whatever source available, whether federal, state, county, or municipal, if deemed necessary for the…

(a) The state may provide for supplemental funding directly to the office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District, including, but not limited to, funds collected under the provisions of §§ 5-64-505, 16-21-120, and 21-6-411. (b) These funds shall be in addition …

The Pulaski County Quorum Court shall appropriate not less than one hundred eighty-two thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($182,250) in funds for the maintenance and operations account of the Pulaski County Division of the office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial …

(a) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District shall have the power to appoint the following employees without confirmation of any court or tribunal, if the prosecutor receives a federal grant award therefor, at such salaries as are indicated in this subsection or as…

The office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District is authorized to receive funds from the federal government in the name of the office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District and to receive both federal and state asset forfeiture funds and t…

The office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Sixth Judicial District is hereby authorized to establish a hot check program pursuant to state statute to collect fees for the hot check fund as authorized by the General Assembly and to expend those funds in official uses for the be…

(a) In all judicial districts in this state in which there is a county with more than one hundred twenty thousand (120,000) inhabitants according to the most recent federal census and where there are more than two (2) divisions of the circuit court and more than one (1) municipal…

(a) If any prosecuting attorney neglects, or fails from sickness or any other cause, to attend any of the courts of the district for which he was elected and to prosecute as required by law, it shall be the duty of the court to appoint some proper person, being an attorney at law…

(a) (1) The prosecuting attorneys of the several judicial districts of this state may appoint one (1) deputy in each of the several counties composing their districts. In counties having two (2) judicial districts, a deputy may be appointed for each district.(2) The appointment s…

(a) A county civil attorney or county attorney may be selected pursuant to ordinance of the quorum court for each county in the state. (b) The county attorney shall commence and prosecute or defend all civil actions in which his county is concerned. (c) The county attorney shall …

A prosecuting attorney may designate the duly elected or appointed city attorney of any municipality within the prosecutor's district to prosecute in the name of the state in the district and city courts violations of state misdemeanor laws, which violations occurred within the l…

(a) Prosecuting attorneys may be indicted for any misdemeanor in office or neglect of duty and punished by fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000). (b) (1) When a bill of indictment has been found against any prosecuting attorney, …

(1) For the purposes of fixing just and equitable salaries for the several prosecuting attorneys of the State of Arkansas, the judicial districts of the State of Arkansas are divided as follows:(1) (A) All judicial districts having a population in excess of one hundred fifteen th…

The prosecuting attorneys in the Division A Judicial Districts shall not engage in the private practice of law during their terms in office.

(a) The prosecuting attorney of each judicial district shall be allowed a contingent expense of his office, including telephone, telegraph, postage, printing, office supplies and equipment, office rent, stationery, traveling expense, special service, operation of automobiles, and…

(a) Fees collected under this act shall be deposited in a special fund to be administered by the prosecuting attorney. (b) Expenditures from this fund shall be at the sole discretion of the prosecuting attorney and may be used only to defray the salaries and expenses of the prose…

(a) The Prosecuting Attorney of the Seventh Judicial District shall be entitled to a contingent expense allowance of not less than eleven thousand sixty-three dollars ($11,063) per annum to be paid by the respective counties of the Seventh Judicial District as follows:(1) Saline …

(a) The office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Seventh Judicial District shall receive not less than a contingent expense reimbursement for the expenses of the office including, but not limited to, maintenance and operation, capital outlay, office supplies, telephone, postage,…

Pursuant to the direction of the Prosecution Coordination Commission, a part-time deputy prosecuting attorney from any additional personnel provided to the commission by the Eighty-Fourth General Assembly, at such rates and terms as may be determined by the commission and the ele…

(a) Searcy County shall continue to bear the responsibility and expense of providing at the county's expense through an annual appropriation the following at sufficient levels for operation, but not less than the amounts appropriated by ordinance in effect February 1, 2003, the c…

The First Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District.

The Second Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District.

The Third Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District.

The Fourth Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District.

The Fifth Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District.

The Sixth Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District.

(a) The Seventh Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District. (b) The Twenty-second Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District.

(a) The Eighth Judicial District-North shall be a Division A Judicial District. (b) Effective January 1, 1999, the Eighth Judicial District-South shall be a Division A Judicial District.

The Ninth Judicial District-East shall be a Division B Judicial District.

The Ninth Judicial District-West shall be a Division A Judicial District.

(a) (1) In lieu of any other contingent expense allowance now provided by law for the Prosecuting Attorney of the Eighth Judicial District-North and the Prosecuting Attorney of the Eighth Judicial District-South, the office of the Prosecuting Attorney of the Eighth Judicial Distr…

The Tenth Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District.

The Eleventh Judicial District-East shall be a Division A Judicial District.

The Eleventh Judicial District-West shall be a Division A Judicial District.

The Twelfth Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District.

The Thirteenth Judicial District shall be a Division A Judicial District.