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AR Code § 16-7-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 7 - Dispute Resolution|Subchapter 2 - Dispute Resolution Processes|§ 16-7-204. Counseling by attorneys

 An attorney licensed in this state when practicing in this state is encouraged to advise his or her client about the dispute resolution process options available to him or her and to assist him or her in the selection of the technique or procedure, including litigation, deemed appropriate for dealing with the client's dispute, case, or controversy.
AR Code § 16-7-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 7 - Dispute Resolution|Subchapter 2 - Dispute Resolution Processes|§ 16-7-205. Duty to keep records of dispute resolution efforts and to file annual reports

 The courts and all the other elements of government expressed or implied by § 16-17-201(3) may keep information concerning all their efforts to use dispute resolution processes, whether or not such efforts lead to successful outcomes.
AR Code § 16-7-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 7 - Dispute Resolution|Subchapter 2 - Dispute Resolution Processes|§ 16-7-206. Confidentiality of communications in dispute resolution procedures

 (a) Except as provided by subsection (c) of this section, a communication relating to the subject matter of any civil or criminal dispute made by a participant in a dispute resolution process, whether before or after the institution of formal judicial proceedings, is confidential and is not subject to disclosure and may not be used as evidence against a participant in any judicial or administrative proceeding.  (b) Any record or writing made at a dispute resolution process is confidential, and the participants or third party or parties facilitating the process shall not be required to testify in any proceedings related to or arising out of the matter in dispute or be subject to process requiring disclosure or production of information or data relating to or arising out of the matter in dispute.  (c) If this section conflicts with other legal requirements for disclosure of communications or materials, the issue of confidentiality may be presented to the court having jurisdiction of the proceedings to determine in camera whether the facts, circumstances, and context of the communications or materials sought to be disclosed warrant a protective order of the court or whether the communications or materials are subject to disclosure.
AR Code § 16-7-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 7 - Dispute Resolution|Subchapter 2 - Dispute Resolution Processes|§ 16-7-207. Immunity of impartial third parties

 No impartial third party administering or participating in a dispute resolution process shall be held liable for civil damages for any statement or decision made in connection with or arising out of the conduct of a dispute resolution process unless the person acted in a manner exhibiting willful or wanton misconduct.
AR Code § 16-10-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|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 Justice of the Supreme Court shall be directly responsible for the efficient operation of the judicial branch and of its constituent courts and for the expeditious dispatch of litigation therein and the proper conduct of the business of the courts.  (b)  (1) Under rules prescribed by the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice may require reports from all courts of the state and may issue such orders, rules, and regulations as may be necessary for the efficient operation of those courts to ensure the prompt and proper administration of justice and may assign, reassign, and modify assignments of circuit and district court judges to hold, upon a temporary basis, regular or special sessions for the transaction of civil or criminal business within any other such court.  (2) The lower courts shall keep such adequate and uniform records as are required by law or as may be required by rule or order of the Supreme Court.    (c) The Supreme Court, with the assistance of the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall devise a uniform system of numbering, cataloging, and classifying cases in all the courts of record in this state, and the courts of record shall utilize the system in conducting the business of the courts.  (d) In the event of the absence of the Chief Justice or his or her inability to perform the duties described in this section, or as required by rule or order of the Supreme Court, the duties may be performed by the several associate justices of the Supreme Court in the order of their seniority of service on the Supreme Court.
AR Code § 16-10-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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, court reporters, and all other personnel directly associated with the state's courts shall be administered by the Administrative Office of the Courts.  (b) The Administrative Office of the Courts shall have the authority to assess and collect fees for tuition and registration for educational programs it offers.
AR Code § 16-10-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 of their proceedings.
AR Code § 16-10-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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.
AR Code § 16-10-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 the principles and usages of law.
AR Code § 16-10-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 and technical words may be expressed in the language commonly used. They shall be made out on paper or parchment, in a fair and legible character, in words at length and not abbreviated; but such abbreviations as are commonly used in the English language may be used. Numbers may be expressed by Arabic figures or Roman numerals in the customary way.
AR Code § 16-10-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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) Disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent behavior committed during the court's sitting, in its immediate view and presence, and directly tending to interrupt its proceedings or to impair the respect due to its authority;  (2) Any breach of the peace, noise, or disturbance directly tending to interrupt its proceedings;  (3) Willful disobedience of any process or order lawfully issued or made by it;  (4) Resistance willfully offered by any person to the lawful order or process of the court; and  (5) The contumacious and unlawful refusal of any person to be sworn as a witness and when so sworn a similar refusal to answer any legal and proper interrogatory.    (b)  (1) Punishment for contempt is a Class C misdemeanor.  (2) A court shall always have power to imprison until its adjournment.  (3) When any person is committed to prison for the nonpayment of any such fine, he or she shall be discharged at the expiration of thirty (30) days.    (c) Contempts committed in the immediate view and presence of the court may be punished summarily. In other cases, the party charged shall be notified of the accusation and shall have a reasonable time to make his or her defense.  (d)  (1) Whenever any person is committed for a contempt under the provisions of this section, the substance of his or her offense shall be set forth in the order or warrant of commitment.  (2) Nothing in subdivision (d)(1) of this section shall be construed to extend to any proceedings against parties or officers, as for contempt, for the purpose of enforcing any civil right or remedy.    (e) A person punished for contempt under subsections (a)-(d) of this section shall, notwithstanding, be liable to an indictment for the contempt if the contempt is an indictable offense, but the court before which a conviction may be had on such an indictment shall, in forming its sentence, take into consideration the punishment previously inflicted.
AR Code § 16-10-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 of the succeeding day. However, on the last day of the term, the minutes shall be read and signed at the rising of the court.
AR Code § 16-10-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 devices as the court shall think proper.  (b) The impression of the seal of any court by stamp shall be sufficient sealing in all cases where sealing is required.  (c) When no official seal is provided, the clerk may use his or her private seal for the authentication of any record, process, or proceeding required by law to be authenticated by the seal of his or her court. The attestation of the clerk stating that he or she has no seal of office and that he or she has affixed his or her private seal shall be received as sufficient authentication without requiring any proof of the private seal or that it was affixed by the clerk.
AR Code § 16-10-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 of any court, nor by the failure to enter a continuance of any suit or cause on the record. The suit or cause shall be continued and proceed as if no such failure had happened.
AR Code § 16-10-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 to affect or impair, avoid, annul, or discontinue any suit, action, appeal, recognizance, bail bond, notice, or process, original, mesne, or final, taken, instituted, or pending in that court, or returnable to or in that court. However, the suit, action, appeal, etc., shall be and stand valid and effectual in the court at the new term, in every respect, as if no change had been made in the time of holding court.
AR Code § 16-10-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 jury.  (b) Every adjournment of a court on Saturday shall always be to some other day than Sunday, except such adjournment as may be made after a cause has been committed to a jury.  (c) This section shall not prevent the exercise of the jurisdiction of any magistrate when it may be necessary in criminal cases to preserve the peace or arrest the offenders; nor shall this section inhibit the exercise of the jurisdiction of any magistrate on Sunday in disposing of misdemeanor cases where the defendant desires to and does enter a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere.
AR Code § 16-10-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 a temporary judge who is licensed in Arkansas to practice law. The temporary judge shall be sworn and empowered to act until final determination of the cause.  (b) The stipulation of the litigant parties shall include the amount of compensation to be paid the temporary judge for trying the cause and the method of paying the compensation.  (c) The Supreme Court may adopt rules setting forth the procedure for implementing this section.
AR Code § 16-10-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 concurrence with the judge of any division of the circuit court within that district the division's set of commissioners, jury wheel or box, list of jurors, and panel of jurors.
AR Code § 16-10-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 nonjudicial office, he or she shall immediately resign his or her judicial office and thereafter shall be ineligible to hold that judicial office for the balance of the term for which he or she was elected or appointed.  (b) Any warrant issued to the holder of the judicial office after he or she shall become a candidate for a nonjudicial office shall be void.  (c) As used in this section, “judicial office” is defined to mean the office of district judge, circuit judge, Judge or Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, and Associate Justice or Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
AR Code § 16-10-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 travel expenses at the rate as authorized for state employees and for mileage at the rate established in the state travel rules for state employees while traveling within the state in the performance of their official duties.  (b) When a circuit judge is appointed by the Chief Justice to hear a case or cases in a jurisdiction outside of that in which he or she is elected, he or she shall be entitled to reimbursement for travel expenses and mileage as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
AR Code § 16-10-122 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 which the Supreme Court is held shall be sheriff of that court.
AR Code § 16-10-123 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 respective counties, and the clerks shall furnish all blank books and stationery for the use of the several courts in their respective counties.
AR Code § 16-10-124 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 had and received by any sheriff, coroner, constable, attorney, or collector in his or her official capacity, and the delivery of papers entrusted to him or her officially, and unlawfully withheld.
AR Code § 16-10-125 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 balance accordingly.
AR Code § 16-10-128 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 by the applicant therefor.
AR Code § 16-10-130 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 this state having jurisdiction of criminal offenses, except for extraordinary circumstances, shall give precedence to the trials of criminal offenses over other matters before the court, civil or criminal, when the alleged victim is a person under the age of fourteen (14).
AR Code § 16-10-131 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 for the offense of overtime parking incurred while the person was on duty as a judge or court reporter.  (b) Any person attempting to enforce any fine or other penalty notwithstanding the provisions of this section shall be subject to contempt proceedings before the judge of the court being served by the person so charged.  (c) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to give immunity from fine or penalty other than for the offense of overtime parking.
AR Code § 16-10-132 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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.
AR Code § 16-10-135 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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) These methods may include entering into a contractual arrangement with another state agency or with a private entity that is capable of providing these services.
AR Code § 16-10-136 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 reserve unit of any branch of the United States armed forces;  (2) Being a member of the National Guard;  (3) Teaching;  (4) Serving on any state or United States boards or commissions which relate to the law for the administration of justice;  (5) Serving in an extrajudicial capacity that is not prohibited by the Arkansas Code of Judicial Conduct; or  (6) Serving as judge of a city court.
AR Code § 16-10-137 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers|Chapter 10 - General Provisions|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 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 number of persons charged in circuit court for each criminal offense classification, comparing the state and each judicial district.  (b) The report shall include a breakdown by race of all persons charged in each criminal offense classification.  (c) The report shall include the same data for those cases in which a final disposition has been entered by the court.