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AR Code § 27-50-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 5 - Traffic Citations|§ 27-50-505. Information from owner regarding operation of motor vehicle ticketed for violation — Definition

 (a) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, “police authority” means any municipal, county, or state police enforcement agency.  (b) When the registered owner of a motor vehicle receives notice from any police authority that the motor vehicle has been ticketed for a violation of any state law or municipal ordinance regulating motor vehicle operation or usage, the registered owner shall provide the notifying police authority with such information as he or she has available regarding the operation of the vehicle at the time it was ticketed, within fourteen (14) days of receipt of notice therefor.  (c) Failure or refusal of any registered owner of a motor vehicle to comply with the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor. Upon conviction, the person shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00).
AR Code § 27-50-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-601. Procedure not exclusive

 The provisions of this subchapter shall govern all police officers in making arrests without a warrant for violations of this act for offenses committed in their presence, but the procedure prescribed in this subchapter shall not otherwise be exclusive of any other method prescribed by law for the arrest and prosecution of a person for an offense of like grade.
AR Code § 27-50-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-602. Cases in which person arrested must be taken immediately before magistrate

 Whenever any person is arrested for any violation of this act punishable as a misdemeanor, the arrested person shall be immediately taken before a magistrate or other proper officer within the county in which the offense charged is alleged to have been committed and who has jurisdiction of the offense and is nearest or most accessible with reference to the place where the arrest is made, in any of the following cases:   (1) When a person arrested demands an immediate appearance before a magistrate;  (2) When the person is arrested and charged with an offense under this act causing or contributing to an accident resulting in injury or death to any person;  (3) When the person is arrested upon a charge of negligent homicide;  (4) When the person is arrested upon a charge of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor or narcotic drugs;  (5) When the person is arrested upon a charge of failure to stop in the event of an accident causing death, personal injuries, or damage to property; or  (6) In any other event when the person arrested refuses to give his or her promise to appear in court as provided.
AR Code § 27-50-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-603. Release upon promise to appear

 (a) When a person is arrested for any violation of this act punishable as a misdemeanor and the person is not immediately taken before a magistrate as required, the arresting officer may issue an electronic citation or prepare in duplicate written notice to appear in court containing:  (1) The name and address of the person;  (2) The license number of his or her vehicle, if any;  (3) The offense charged; and  (4) The time when and place where the person shall appear in court, and if the officer is a bonded officer, he or she may require the person to post a bail bond and give receipt therefor.    (b) The time specified to appear must be at least five (5) days after the arrest unless the person arrested shall demand an earlier hearing.  (c) The place specified to appear shall be before a magistrate:  (1) Within the township or county in which the offense charged is alleged to have been committed; and  (2) Who has jurisdiction of the offense.    (d)  (1) If issued a written citation, the arrested person in order to secure release, as provided in this section, must give his or her written promise so to appear in court by signing in duplicate the written notice prepared by the arresting officer or post a bail bond as may be required by the arresting officer.  (2) If issued an electronic citation, the arrested person in order to secure release, as provided in this section, acknowledges receipt of the notice to appear in court and gives his or her promise to appear in court by acceptance of the electronic citation.  (3)  (A) The original of the notice to appear and of the receipt for bail shall be retained by the officer or electronically transmitted to the court, and the copy of each delivered to the person arrested.  (B) Thereupon, the officer shall forthwith release the person arrested from custody.      (e) An officer violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of misconduct in office and shall be subject to removal from office.
AR Code § 27-50-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-605. Appearance by counsel

 A written promise to appear in court may be complied with by an appearance by counsel.
AR Code § 27-50-606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-606. Deposit of operator's license in lieu of bond — Issuance of receipt

 (a) Every person who is arrested for a violation of a traffic law, rule, or regulation punishable as a misdemeanor, who is not permitted to appear for trial on his or her own recognizance may in lieu of posting bond be admitted to bail upon depositing his or her current motor vehicle operator's or chauffeur's license.  (b)  (1) If the person is admitted to bail by depositing his or her current motor vehicle operator's or chauffeur's license with the arresting officer or clerk of the court, an official receipt shall be issued for the license, which shall be upon a form approved by the Director of the Office of Driver Services of the Department of Finance and Administration.  (2) The receipt shall serve in lieu of the operator's or chauffeur's license for the period of time and under the conditions provided in § 27-50-607.    (c) The motor vehicle operator's or chauffeur's license deposited as bail shall be retained by the clerk of the court before which the person is cited to appear for trial upon the charge.
AR Code § 27-50-607 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-607. Receipt to serve as license — Forfeiture of license

 (a) The official receipt received from the arresting officer shall serve in lieu of a driver's or operator's license for a time not in excess of twenty (20) days.  (b) If a defendant posts bail under the provisions of §§ 27-50-606 — 27-50-608 and upon an appearance to answer the charge or upon electing to plead guilty, the defendant's operator's or chauffeur's license shall be returned to him or her by the court clerk, unless revoked or suspended by a court of competent jurisdiction.  (c) If the defendant does not appear to answer the charge within twenty (20) days, or such later date as may be fixed by the court, then his or her motor vehicle operator's or chauffeur's license shall be determined to have been forfeited. The license shall be revoked by the court, or, in the event of a revocation or suspension of the motor vehicle operator's or chauffeur's license as a result of the trial of the case by the court, it shall be transmitted by the clerk of the court with a statement of the reason for the forfeiture, revocation, or suspension to the Director of the Office of Driver Services within one (1) day after the order or decision of the court revoking or suspending it.
AR Code § 27-50-608 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-608. Application for duplicate license after deposit unlawful

 (a) It shall be unlawful to make application for a duplicate license to operate a motor vehicle during the period when the original license is posted for an appearance in a court.  (b) Any person convicted thereof may be punishable by imprisonment of not less than seven (7) days nor more than six (6) months and by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500), or both such fine and imprisonment.
AR Code § 27-50-609 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-609. Optional posting of bond or bond card — Exception

 (a) When any law enforcement officer in this state arrests or issues a citation for any traffic law violation or motor vehicle accident and the officer is authorized by law to take possession of and retain the operator's or chauffeur's license of the person so charged or cited, the person arrested or to whom the citation is issued shall have the option to either surrender his or her operator's or chauffeur's license or post a bond or a bond card to assure his or her appearance in court on the offense charged.  (b) The option to post a bond card shall not be available to a person charged with driving while intoxicated.  (c) As used in this section, the term “law enforcement officer” shall mean any member of the Arkansas State Police, a sheriff or a deputy sheriff, a member of a municipal police force, or a constable.
AR Code § 27-50-610 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-610. Issuance of bond card

 A professional bail bond company as defined in § 17-19-101 et seq., a qualified surety pursuant to §§ 27-50-611 and 27-50-612, and an automobile club or association as defined in §§ 23-77-101 — 23-77-109, may issue a bond card to a person licensed as an operator or chauffeur which shall constitute evidence of the undertaking of bond by the company to assure the appearance in court for the offense charged of a person arrested or issued a traffic citation for a motor vehicle accident or traffic law violation up to and including the amount in dollars stated upon the face of the bond card.
AR Code § 27-50-611 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-611. Right of qualified surety company to become surety with respect to guaranteed arrest bond certificates

 (a) Any domestic or foreign surety company which has qualified to transact surety business in this state may, in any year, become surety in an amount not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200) with respect to any guaranteed arrest bond certificates issued in that year by an automobile club or association by filing with the Insurance Commissioner of this state an undertaking thus to become surety.  (b) Such undertaking shall be in form to be prescribed by the commissioner and shall state the following:  (1) The name and address of the automobile club or automobile association with respect to the guaranteed arrest bond certificates of which the surety company undertakes to be surety;  (2) The unqualified obligation of the surety company to pay the fine or forfeiture in an amount not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200) of any person who, after posting a guaranteed arrest bond certificate with respect to which the surety company has undertaken to be surety, fails to make the appearance to guarantee which the guaranteed arrest bond certificate was posted.    (c) The term “guaranteed arrest bond certificate”, as used in this section, means any printed card or other certificate issued by an automobile club or association to any of its members, which is signed by the member and contains a printed statement that the automobile club or association and a surety company guarantee the appearance of the person whose signature appears on the card or certificate and that they will, in the event of failure of the person to appear in court at the time of trial, pay any fine or forfeiture imposed on the person in an amount not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200).
AR Code § 27-50-612 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 6 - Arrest and Release|§ 27-50-612. Guaranteed arrest bond certificates as cash bail

 (a) Any guaranteed arrest bond certificate with respect to which a surety company has become surety, as provided in § 27-50-611, when posted by the person whose signature appears thereon, shall be accepted in lieu of cash bail in an amount not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200) as a bail bond to guarantee the appearance of the person in any court, including district courts, in this state at such time as may be required by the court, when the person is arrested for violation of any motor vehicle law of this state or ordinance of any municipality in this state except for the offense of driving while intoxicated or for any felony when the violation is committed prior to the date of expiration shown on such guaranteed arrest bond certificates.  (b) Any guaranteed arrest bond certificate so posted as a bail bond in any court in this state shall be subject to the forfeiture and enforcement provisions with respect to bail bonds posted in criminal cases, and that any guaranteed arrest bond certificate posted as a bail bond in any municipal court in this state shall be subject to the forfeiture and enforcement provisions of the charter or ordinance of the particular municipality pertaining to bail bonds posted.
AR Code § 27-50-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 7 - Trial and Judgment|§ 27-50-701. Postponement of judgment

 In traffic misdemeanor cases, other than cases involving driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, the judge shall have authority to postpone judgment for not more than one (1) year, during which period the defendant shall be in a probationary status, supervised or unsupervised, and shall remain in probationary status until judgment is entered.
AR Code § 27-50-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 7 - Trial and Judgment|§ 27-50-702. Request for entry or postponement of judgment

 (a) At the request of the defendant, parent of a minor defendant, or counsel for the defense, judgment shall be entered as quickly as feasible and not more than ten (10) days following such request.  (b) At the request of the defendant, parent of a minor defendant, or counsel for the defense, probation may be continued and judgment postponed for more than one (1) year.
AR Code § 27-50-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 8 - Convictions|§ 27-50-802. Certain speeding convictions not included in report — Exception for chauffeurs

 (a) All courts in this state required by law to furnish records of convictions of all motor vehicle violations to the Office of Driver Services of the Department of Finance and Administration shall continue to furnish the records, but in compiling reports of convictions of traffic violations, the Office of Driver Services shall not include in the traffic violation report of any individual any conviction for the offense of speeding if the conviction is based on speeding upon a public highway in excess of fifty-five miles per hour (55 m.p.h.) speed limit as established pursuant to Public Law 93-239 of January 2, 1974, but less than seventy-five miles per hour (75 m.p.h.).  (b) The Office of Driver Services shall include in the traffic violation report of any person holding a chauffeur's license any conviction for the offense of speeding in excess of the fifty-five miles per hour (55 m.p.h.) speed limit as established pursuant to Public Law 93-239 of January 2, 1974, to the employer of the person and shall furnish the complete driver history record of the person pursuant to a written authorization as provided in § 27-50-908 to the employer of the person holding a chauffeur's license.
AR Code § 27-50-803 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 8 - Convictions|§ 27-50-803. Notification when minor convicted

 Whenever any court in this state shall convict any person under the age of eighteen (18) years of any moving traffic violation under the laws of this state, or under any municipal ordinance, whether the fine and sentence imposed shall be collected or whether it may be suspended, the convicting court shall notify in writing the parents, guardian, or other person who signed the application of the person for an instructor's permit or operator's license as required by the provisions of § 27-16-702. If the convicted person does not have an instructor's permit or operator's license, the court shall notify the father or mother of the person, if living, or the guardian or other person having custody of the person of the conviction.
AR Code § 27-50-804 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 8 - Convictions|§ 27-50-804. Records inadmissible in civil actions

 No record of the forfeiture of a bond or of the conviction of any person for any violation of this subtitle shall be admissible as evidence in any court in any civil action.
AR Code § 27-50-805 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 8 - Convictions|§ 27-50-805. Credibility as witness not affected

 The forfeiture of a bond or the conviction of a person upon a charge of violating any provision of this act or other traffic regulation or rule less than a felony shall not affect or impair the credibility of the person as a witness in any civil or criminal proceeding.
AR Code § 27-50-901 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 9 - Central Driver's Records File|§ 27-50-901. Establishment

 The Office of Driver Services of the Department of Finance and Administration shall establish and maintain a central driver's records file on every driver who receives a conviction for a moving traffic violation while operating any motor vehicle subject to registration for highway use, whether such conviction occurred within this state or in another state.
AR Code § 27-50-902 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 9 - Central Driver's Records File|§ 27-50-902. Report from courts required

 (a) All courts in this state which have jurisdiction over such offenses shall report all final convictions to the Office of Driver Services utilizing the uniform traffic ticket as provided for under the provisions of §§ 27-50-501 and 27-50-504.  (b) In compiling and maintaining a central driver record file, the office shall ascertain to the best of its ability the authenticity of all final convictions reported to the office by requiring that all final dispositions by the courts dealing with these matters be signed by an official of the court.
AR Code § 27-50-903 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 9 - Central Driver's Records File|§ 27-50-903. Responsibility to properly file conviction reports

 (a) It shall be the responsibility of the Office of Driver Services to properly file all traffic violation convictions received from the courts of this state or any other state and assign the conviction report to the named driver in the report.  (b) In the event a conviction report is improperly filed or reported, it shall be the responsibility of the office to correct the record and to notify the driver and any other party who has received the report of the incorrect filing and the fact that the record in question has been corrected.
AR Code § 27-50-904 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 9 - Central Driver's Records File|§ 27-50-904. Conviction for offense arising out of railroad accident

 The Office of Driver Services shall not include in the traffic violation report of a railroad engineer, conductor, fireman, or brakeman any conviction for an offense arising out of a railroad accident occurring while the engineer, conductor, fireman, or brakeman was performing duties as an engineer, conductor, fireman, or brakeman of a railroad.
AR Code § 27-50-905 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 27 - Transportation|Subtitle 4 - Motor Vehicular Traffic|Chapter 50 - Penalties And Enforcement|Subchapter 9 - Central Driver's Records File|§ 27-50-905. Procedure for driver's right to contest entries

 (a)  (1) Every driver on whom a record of traffic violations has been compiled shall have the right to contest any entry made in his driver's record.  (2) If the driver disputes any entry on his or her record he or she must, in order to preserve his or her rights under this section, notify in writing the Office of Driver Services within thirty (30) days of receipt of the report provided for in § 27-50-902.    (b)  (1) The notification, as required, shall set forth in detail the ground upon which the driver bases his or her objections to the entry.  (2) Within thirty (30) days after receipt of the notice, the office shall either remove the entry from the driver's record or notify the driver that the office finds the entry to be correct and that the entry shall remain a part of the driver's record.  (3) If the office finds the entry to be correct, the notification of this fact to the driver shall state the grounds for the finding.    (c)  (1) In the event the office finds the entry to be correct, the aggrieved driver may file suit in the circuit court of the county in which the driver resides within twenty (20) days after receiving notice from the office that the entry was found to be correct to seek an order from the court requiring the office to change or delete the entry from the driver's record.  (2) The court's review of such an action shall be limited to a determination of whether the office had just cause to record the traffic violation in question on the record of the aggrieved driver and whether the office acted in compliance with §§ 27-50-902 and 27-50-903.  (3) The burden of proof in the action shall be upon the driver instituting the action.    (d)  (1) If the court finds the entry to be incorrect, it shall order the office to amend the entry or delete the entry entirely.  (2)  (A) A driver who has brought suit to require a change in his or her record and who has obtained an order of the court requiring the change may file a claim for his or her attorney's fees and any other damages he or she may have suffered with the Arkansas State Claims Commission.  (B) The claim shall be filed in the manner required by law.