Title 3 — Alcoholic Beverages

(a) A license shall not be issued to any person authorizing the sale of beer at retail unless the person shall file a verified application, accompanied by the fee required by law, and shall state in the application that he or she possesses the following qualifications:(1) (A) The…

Any misstatement or concealment of fact in the application shall be grounds for revocation of any license issued pursuant to the application.

(a) (1) After filing an acceptable application with the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division, the applicant shall cause to be published at least once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks in a legal newspaper of general circulation in the city in which the premises …

Upon receipt by the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division within the thirty (30) days of a protest against issuance of a permit by a governing official of the city or county to whom the notice of an application for permit has been mailed, the director shall not issu…

(a) Any appeal from an order of the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division or the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board shall be made to the circuit court of the county in which the premises are situated or the Pulaski County Circuit Court. (b) Appeals shall be governed b…

(1) No holder of a license authorizing the sale of beer for consumption on the premises where sold or any servant, agent, or employee of the licensee shall do any of the following upon the licensed premises:(1) Knowingly sell beer or wine to a minor;(2) Knowingly sell beer or win…

(a) (1) The General Assembly finds and determines that, due to extremely high prices of cane sugar and in view of the difficulty Arkansas wineries experience in obtaining dependable supplies of liquid corn sugar used as fermentation sugars in the production of native wines in thi…

(a) The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration is authorized and directed to adopt and issue rules to protect the revenues of this state by prescribing a reporting method for paying and collecting the tax on wines. (b) Rules shall provide a method of tax credit…

The rules shall require reports to be filed with the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration on or before the fifteenth day of the month following the month in which the wholesaler or importer of wines shall obtain delivery of wines from the supplier. The tax du…

A.C.A. § 3-7-503Current 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) If any licensee or permittee shall fail to file the report and pay the taxes required by § 3-7-502 within the time provided herein, a penalty of five percent (5%) shall be added to the tax. (b) If the delinquency continues for more than thirty (30) days, the licensee or permi…

The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration and the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division or its successor agency shall jointly enforce the provisions of this subchapter.

(a) All producers and manufacturers of native Arkansas wine shall report monthly on all sales made in Arkansas to Arkansas wholesalers, retailers, or consumers and shall remit the gallonage tax provided by law with the report. However, wine manufactured in Arkansas for export fro…

Local option elections to determine the legality or illegality of the manufacture, sale, bartering, loaning, or giving away of intoxicating liquors shall be held only on the regular biennial November general election days.

(a) Retail dealers in alcoholic beverages shall be allowed a period of sixty (60) days in which to dispose of stock after the final determination of the results of local option election by which the political subdivision in which the dealer is located shall have voted against the…

(a) It shall be lawful for any warehousing and office facility used by an authorized wholesaler of alcoholic beverages or manufacturing facility of a producer of native wines, or the manufacturing facility of a producer of beer, or the facilities of an alcoholic beverage distille…

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “intoxicating liquor” includes any beverage containing more than one-half of one percent (0.5%) of alcohol by weight.

It is expressly declared that §§ 3-8-201 — 3-8-203 and 3-8-205 — 3-8-209 shall be cumulative to the liquor laws now in force in this state. These sections shall at all times be construed so as to permit, upon petition of fifteen percent (15%) of the qualified electors in any area…

Nothing in §§ 3-8-201 — 3-8-203 and 3-8-205 — 3-8-209 is to be construed to affect manufacturers who sell their product exclusively to wholesalers.

A.C.A. § 3-8-204Current 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) If the petition is determined to be sufficient under § 3-8-801 et seq., the county clerk shall certify that finding to the county board of election commissioners, and the question shall be placed on the ballot in the county, township, municipality, ward, or precinct at the ne…

(a) (1) The county board of election commissioners of the particular county shall cause the question to be placed on the ballot at the general election in the following form:“[ ] FOR the Manufacture or Sale of Intoxicating Liquors[ ] AGAINST the Manufacture or Sale of Intoxicatin…

Upon petition of ten (10) interested legal voters in the territory affected, filed with the circuit clerk of the county in which proceedings are pending, the circuit court shall immediately by mandamus compel the county court or other officials to perform the duties imposed upon …

(a) If the majority of the electors voting on the issue at the election vote for the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors, then it shall be lawful for the Director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division to continue to issue licenses or permits for such manufacture or s…

(a) Except as provided in § 3-5-1901 et seq., it is unlawful for a person, firm, or corporation to manufacture, sell, barter, loan, or give away intoxicating liquor in a county, township, municipality, ward, or precinct in which the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor is p…

The Alcoholic Beverage Control Division shall have the authority to continue to issue permits for the sale of beer and of vinous, spirituous, and malt liquors in any political subdivision of the State of Arkansas of the same kind and type issued prior to July 4, 1996, provided th…

The provisions of this act shall not apply to any manufacturer or wholesale dealer who, in good faith and in the usual course of trade, sells, by the wholesale, in quantities of not less than five gallons (5 gals.), delivered at one (1) time, not to be drunk on the premises. The …

A.C.A. § 3-8-302Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

The county court shall not make the order for the election until the persons signing the petition have deposited with the county judge, in money, an amount sufficient to pay for printing or posting advertisements as provided for, and the fees of the clerk making entries in the or…

A.C.A. § 3-8-304Current 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) No election in any town, city, district, or precinct of a county shall be held under this subchapter on the same day on which an election for the entire county is held.(2) When an election is held in an entire county and a majority of the legal votes cast at the election …

(a) If it shall be found that a majority of the legal votes cast at any election provided for in this subchapter were given for or against the manufacture, sale, barter, loan, or giving away of any intoxicating liquors in the county, city, town, district, or precinct, it shall be…

If, at any election provided for in this act, a majority of the legal votes cast are against the sale, barter, or loan of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, then the sale, barter, or loan of any such liquors shall be unlawful in such county, city, town, district, or precinct, a…

(a) If, at any election provided for in this act, any person shall vote who is not entitled to vote under the laws of this state at elections for county officers, he or she shall be punished as for a violation of the general laws on elections. (b) All general laws to protect the …

(a) Any election held under this act may be contested as provided for in this section. (b) (1) Any number of the citizens and legal voters, but not less than ten (10), of the county, city, town, district, or precinct in which the elections have been held, shall have the right to …

(a) (1) Whenever a local option election shall be held in any county, city, town, district, or precinct in this state and a majority of the votes cast at the election shall be in favor of prohibiting the sale of liquor in the territory in which the election shall have been held, …

A.C.A. § 3-8-311Current 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) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell or barter, or possess for purposes of sale or barter, any intoxicating liquor or beverage in any county, township, municipality, ward, or precinct in which the sale or barter of intoxicating liquor or beverage …

(a) In an indictment for a violation of any provision of this act or for a violation of any act amendatory hereof, it shall not be necessary to allege that a vote was taken or any election held, or any other step relative thereto. (b) It may be simply stated that the act or acts …

(a) On the second or any subsequent conviction for a violation of this act or any of its amendments, the court shall require the defendant to execute bond in the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) to be of good behavior for the period of twelve (12) months. (b) The court may, in i…

(a) All the shipments of spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors to be paid for on delivery, commonly called “C.O.D. shipments”, into any county, city, town, district, or precinct where this act is in force shall be unlawful and shall be deemed sales of such liquors at the place wher…

It shall be the duty of the judges of the circuit courts to give this act in charge to the grand juries of the counties within their jurisdiction.

(a) (1) It shall be unlawful to sell by wholesale any spirituous, vinous, malt, or other intoxicating liquor, regardless of the name by which it is called, except manufacturers selling liquor of their own make at the place of manufacture to a wholesale dealer or a licensed retail…

(a) At each general election for state and county offices, there may be submitted to the qualified electors of any county in the State of Arkansas so desiring, in the manner provided for the submission in a county of the question under the initiative and referendum provisions of …

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Dry” means that the manufacture, sale, barter, loan, or giving away of intoxicating liquors is unlawful in a prescribed area;(2) “Intoxicating liquors” means all beverages containing more than one-half of one percent (0.5%) of alcohol by weight…

(a) (1) (A) If an area meets the qualifications provided in subdivision (a)(1)(B) of this section, the residents of the area may petition the county clerk of the county for a local option election to determine whether off-premises retail beer permits and off-premises Arkansas nat…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) (A) “Beer” means a fermented liquor made from malt or a malt substitute and containing not more than ten percent (10%) alcohol by weight.(B) “Beer” includes malt beverages having an alcoholic content not in excess of ten percent (10%) by weight;…

(a) (1) Under subsection (b) of this section, an area within the boundaries of a defunct voting district may conduct an election to permit the sale of alcoholic beverages identified in subdivision (a)(2) of this section.(2) The sale of alcoholic beverages under this section shall…

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Disclosure Act for Initiative Proceedings”.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) (A) “Contribution” means, whether direct or indirect, advances, deposits, transfers of funds, contracts, or obligations, whether or not legally enforceable, payments, gifts, subscriptions, assessments, payments for services, dues, advancements, …