Title 16 — Practice, Procedure, And Courts

(1) Each approved drug court program established under this subchapter, subject to an appropriation, funding, and position authorization, both programmatic and administrative, shall be provided with the following resources:(1) The Division of Community Correction shall provide th…

(a) (1) An approved drug court program shall collect and provide monthly data on drug court program applicants and all participants as required by the Specialty Court Program Advisory Committee in accordance with the rules promulgated under § 10-3-2901.(2) The data may include:(A…

A.C.A. § 16-98-307Current 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) Both state and local agencies that implement criminal justice practices resulting in outcomes that reduce commitments to the Division of Correction should be rewarded. (b) If a state agency, county, or judicial district has implemented proven risk-reduction strategies that re…

(a) Costs averted due to a reduction in commitments to the Division of Correction or a reduction in the period of time served in the Division of Correction, to the extent possible, shall be reinvested into those state agencies, counties, or judicial districts as an incentive to f…

(a) (1) The Division of Community Correction shall receive additional funding for committing to a reduction in the number of probation revocations that result from a technical violation or a new crime.(2) The baseline for comparing probation revocation data shall be based on the …

(1) The Board of Corrections shall:(1) Establish rules for counties, multicounty partnerships, or judicial districts to apply for funds under this subchapter;(2) Calculate and determine the baseline for the Division of Community Correction's revocation rate and for the Division o…

(a) (1) The Division of Community Correction shall provide data and information as requested by the Board of Corrections.(2) That data and information shall include without limitation:(A) The total number of probationers from each of the Division of Community Correction's individ…

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Evidence-based practices” means supervision, policies, procedures, and practices proven through research to reduce recidivism;(2) “Mental illness” means a condition of a person who has or has had in the past a diagnosable mental, behavioral, or em…

(a) A judicial district may establish a mental health specialty court program, which shall consist of at least one (1) mental health specialty court, subject to approval by the Supreme Court in the administrative plan submitted under Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 14. (b)…

(a) The goals of a mental health specialty court program established under this subchapter include the following:(1) Integration of mental health treatment with criminal justice system case processing;(2) Use of a nonadversarial approach in which the prosecution and defense promo…

(a) A mental health specialty court is a specialized court within the existing structure of the court system. (b) A mental health specialty court program shall offer judicial monitoring of intensive mental health treatment and strict supervision of mental health specialty court p…

(a) A mental health specialty court program may require a separate judicial processing system differing in practice and design from the traditional adversarial criminal prosecution and trial systems. (b) (1) The administrative judge of the judicial circuit shall designate one (1)…

(a) A person is eligible for participation in a mental health specialty court program if:(1) The person has a mental illness;(2) The person is charged with a criminal offense other than a criminal offense listed in subsection (b) of this section;(3) The person waives his or her r…

(a) A circuit court or district court that determines, on the circuit court's or district court's own motion or upon application by a person charged with but not yet convicted of a criminal offense in the court, that the person may be better served in a mental health specialty co…

(a) (1) A mental health specialty court shall order mental health treatment for a mental health specialty court program participant for at least six (6) months.(2) Any mental health treatment ordered under subdivision (a)(1) of this section shall meet the minimum standards of men…

If a mental health specialty court program participant has successfully completed the program and has his or her case dismissed under § 16-90-1602, he or she may petition the mental health specialty court for relief from disability to restore the mental health specialty court pro…

(a) The mental health specialty court may order the mental health specialty court program participant to pay:(1) Court costs as provided in § 16-10-305;(2) Healthcare and treatment costs not otherwise covered by the health insurance of the mental health specialty court program pa…

(a) A circuit court may establish a veterans treatment specialty court program, subject to approval by the Supreme Court in the administrative plan submitted under Supreme Court Administrative Order Number 14. (b) A veterans treatment specialty court is a specialized court within…

(a) A veterans treatment specialty court program may require a separate judicial processing system differing in practice and design from the traditional adversarial criminal prosecution and trial system. (b) Each veterans treatment specialty court shall develop a policy and proce…

(1) A person is eligible for participation in a veterans treatment specialty court program if the person:(1) Has a substance use disorder or mental health disorder;(2) Is eighteen (18) years of age or older;(3) Is a veteran or a service member of the United States Armed Forces or…

(a) The veterans treatment specialty court judge presiding over a veterans treatment specialty court program that has been approved by the Supreme Court may order a veterans treatment specialty court program participant to pay:(1) Court costs as provided in § 16-10-305;(2) Treatm…

(a) If a judicial district chooses to create and administer a veterans treatment specialty court, subject to Arkansas Constitution, Amendment 80, the administrative judge of the judicial district shall designate one (1) or more circuit judges to be the veterans treatment specialt…

A.C.A. § 16-101-106Current 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) A district court may establish a DWI/BWI specialty court program for persons convicted of driving or boating while intoxicated, § 5-65-103, subject to approval by the Supreme Court in the administrative plan submitted under Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 18. (b) A DWI…

(a) A DWI/BWI specialty court program may require a separate judicial processing system differing in practice and design from the traditional adversarial criminal prosecution and trial system. (b) Each DWI/BWI specialty court shall develop a policy and procedure manual for the DW…

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “owner” means any person, persons, or corporation having an actual legal interest, vested in possession, in any building or place that may become a public nuisance under the provisions of this subchapter.

This subchapter shall not repeal any law or laws prohibiting or regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors now in force, but shall be cumulative to all laws now in force.

(a) If any person shall break into or enter or use any building or place while closed under a preliminary injunction granted under the provisions of this subchapter or shall violate any permanent injunction under the provisions of this subchapter, he or she shall be subject to pu…

(a) The conducting, maintaining, carrying on, or engaging in the sale of alcoholic liquors, including wines and beer of all kinds, in violation of any of the laws of this state, in any building, structure, or place within this state, and the conducting, maintaining, carrying on, …

Jurisdiction is conferred upon the circuit courts of this state to abate the public nuisances defined in § 16-105-204, upon petition in the name of the state, upon relation of the Attorney General or any prosecuting attorney of the state, or without the concurrence of the officer…

(a) Whenever a public nuisance, as defined in this subchapter, is kept, maintained, carried on, or exists in any county in this state, a bill or petition may be filed in any circuit court of the county, in the name of the state, by and upon the relation of any persons named in § …

(a) (1) In the proceedings, the circuit court, upon the presentation of a bill therefor alleging that the public nuisance complained of exists, shall award a temporary injunction, with such bond as required by law in cases where the bill is filed by citizens and freeholders.(2) H…

(a) Upon the trial of all causes pursuant to this subchapter, evidence of the general reputation of the building or place where the public nuisance is alleged to exist shall be admissible for the purpose of proving or tending to prove the existence of the public nuisance. (b) (1)…

(a) If, upon the trial of a cause pursuant to this subchapter, the existence of the public nuisance is established, an order of abatement shall be entered as part of the judgment or decree of the circuit court. (b) (1) The order shall direct the removal from the building or place…

(a) When one (1) of two (2) or more joint owners has been served with the notice prescribed in this subchapter, the cause shall proceed against the owner on whom notice has been served, and the proceeding shall not be a bar to subsequent proceedings against one (1) or all of the …

In all cases wherein the bill or petition is filed upon the relation of a prosecuting attorney of this state and a permanent injunction is granted therein, the officer shall receive such fees as are now provided by law for convictions for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors.…

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Dance hall” means any building, premise, pavilion, or place of business wherein dancing is permitted, conducted, or engaged in, by the public in general, either for profit or not; and(2) “Owner” means any …

(a) If any person shall break into or enter or use any building or place while closed under a preliminary injunction granted under the provisions of this subchapter or shall violate any permanent injunction under the provisions of this subchapter, he or she shall be subject to pu…

The operation of a dance hall in which, or around which, public disturbances, the unlawful drinking of intoxicating liquors, quarrels, affrays, or general breaches of the peace are frequent is declared to be a public nuisance and detrimental to the public morals and may be abated…

(a) Jurisdiction is conferred upon the circuit courts of this state to abate the public nuisance defined in § 16-105-303, upon petition in the name of the State of Arkansas on relation of the Attorney General or any prosecuting attorney of the state or without the concurrence of …

(a) Whenever a public nuisance, as defined in this subchapter, is kept, maintained, carried on, or exists in any county in this state, a bill or petition may be filed in any circuit court of the county, in the name of the State of Arkansas, by and upon the relation of any person …

(a) (1) The circuit court, upon the presentation of a bill in the proceedings alleging that the public nuisance complained of exists, shall award a temporary injunction, with such bond as required by law in cases in which the bill is filed by citizens and electors and freeholders…

Upon the trial of all causes pursuant to this subchapter, evidence of the general reputation of the building or place where the public nuisance is alleged to exist shall be admissible for the purpose of proving or tending to prove the existence of the public nuisance.

(a) If upon the trial of a cause pursuant to this subchapter, the existence of the public nuisance is established, an order of abatement shall be entered as part of the judgment or decree of the circuit court. (b) The order shall direct the removal from the building or place wher…

(a) When one (1) of two (2) or more joint owners has been served with the notice prescribed in this subchapter, the cause shall proceed against the owner on whom notice has been served. The proceeding shall not be a bar to subsequent proceedings against one (1) or all of the join…

This subchapter shall be called the “Arkansas Drug Abatement Act of 1989”.

(a) As used in this section, “owner” means a person in whom is vested the ownership and title of property and who is the owner of record, including without limitation a local, city, state, or federal governmental entity. (b) (1) A store, shop, warehouse, dwelling house, building,…

(a) As used in this section, “established neighborhood or community organization” means a group, whether or not incorporated, that:(1) Consists of persons who reside or work at or in a building, complex of buildings, street, block, or neighborhood any part of which is located on …

Unless filed by the prosecuting attorney, or the city attorney of an incorporated city, the complaint in the action shall be verified.