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AR Code § 1-2-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-101. Legislative intent of Code

 (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that this Code, the Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated, be a recodification, revision, modernization, and reenactment of the laws of Arkansas of a general and permanent nature which are currently in force.  (b) It is the intent of the General Assembly that this Code resolve conflicts which exist in the laws and to repeal those laws which:  (1) Are obsolete as a result of the passage of time or other causes;  (2) Have been declared unconstitutional or invalid; or  (3) Have been superseded by the enactment of later laws.    (c) Except as otherwise specifically provided, the enactment of this Code by the General Assembly is not intended to alter the substantive law in existence on the effective date of this Code. It is not the purpose of the enactment of this Code to change or alter the effect of any law in existence on December 31, 1987.
AR Code § 1-2-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-102. Enactment of Code

 (a) The statutory portion of the codification of Arkansas laws prepared by the Arkansas Code Revision Commission and the Michie Company pursuant to a contract entered into on August 1, 1984, is enacted and shall have the effect of statutes enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas.  (b) The statutory portion of the codification shall be merged with annotations, captions, catchlines, history lines, editorial notes, cross references, indices, title, chapter, and subchapter analyses, and other materials pursuant to the contract and shall be published by authority of the state pursuant to the contract.
AR Code § 1-2-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-103. Repeal of prior laws by Code — Exceptions

 (a) All acts, codes, and statutes, and all parts of them and all amendments to them of a general and permanent nature in effect on December 31, 1987, are repealed unless:  (1) Expressly continued by specific provision of this Code;  (2) Omitted improperly or erroneously as a consequence of compilation, revision, or both, of the laws enacted prior to this Code, including, without limitation, any omissions that may have occurred during the compilation, revision, or both, of the laws composing this Code; or  (3) Omitted, changed, or modified by the Arkansas Code Revision Commission, or its predecessors, in a manner not authorized by the laws or the constitutions of Arkansas in effect at the time of the omission, change, or modification.    (b) In the event one of the above exceptions should be applicable, the law as it existed on December 31, 1987, shall continue to be valid, effective, and controlling.
AR Code § 1-2-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-104. Omission of validating and curative acts from Code

 The omission from this Code of any act or section or part of a section of an act passed prior to the adoption of this Code shall in no way operate or be construed to repeal or destroy the effect of any act or section or part of a section where the act or section or part of a section has been otherwise lawfully passed, is not in conflict with the United States Constitution or the Arkansas Constitution of 1874, and:   (1) Validates any bonds, notes, warrants, certificates, or other evidences of indebtedness issued by any officer, political subdivision, or instrumentality of this state;  (2) Validates any action or cures any defect of any action of any public officer, political subdivision, or instrumentality of this state;  (3) Cures any defect in any title to property; or  (4) Validates any action or cures any defect in any action of any person, natural or artificial, public or private.
AR Code § 1-2-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-105. Adoption of Code not to affect certain acts

 The adoption of this Code shall not be construed to repeal any act or section or part of a section of an act in effect on December 31, 1987, and omitted from this Code, which:   (1) Is of a local or special nature;  (2) Relates to or applies to only one (1) county, municipality, political subdivision, district, or territory;  (3) Applies to one (1) or more counties, municipalities, political subdivisions, districts, or territories on the basis of population;  (4) Applies to one (1) or more counties, municipalities, political subdivisions, districts, or territories on the basis of the number of counties, municipalities, political subdivisions, districts, or territories;  (5) Applies to one (1) or more judicial districts or one (1) or more counties within a judicial district, whether by specific reference thereto or by some other method of identification or classification;  (6) Establishes the amount or rate of salary or compensation of any state officer or employee or any other person whose salary or compensation is paid by this state, in whole or in part, or which establishes minimum or maximum amounts or sets specific amounts of salary or compensation or which provides additional compensation for the performance of specified services or duties; or  (7) Appropriates funds from any source.
AR Code § 1-2-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-106. Adoption of Code not to validate constitutionally invalid acts

 The adoption of this Code shall not validate an act or validate any section or part of a section of an act, which act or section or part of a section of an act is constitutionally invalid.
AR Code § 1-2-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-107. Repealed acts not revived by Code

 All acts or parts of acts which are repealed or superseded by this Code or are repugnant to any act repealed by this Code and which have not been reenacted or consolidated shall continue to be so repealed or superseded.
AR Code § 1-2-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-108. Adoption of Code not to affect rules and regulations

 Unless otherwise provided, the adoption of this Code shall not invalidate or affect any rules or regulations which were in effect on December 31, 1987, promulgated pursuant to authority given by law. These rules and regulations shall remain in force until repealed, replaced, or invalidated.
AR Code § 1-2-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-109. Adoption of Code not to validate invalid, unauthorized, or defective rules and regulations

 The adoption of this Code shall not validate or authorize a rule or regulation, cure any defect in a rule or regulation, or validate, authorize, or cure any section or part of a section of any rule or regulation, which rule or regulation or section or part of a section of the rule or regulation is invalid, unauthorized, or defective.
AR Code § 1-2-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-110. Adoption of Code not to affect terms of office, compensation, expenses, etc

 (a) The adoption of this Code shall not affect the term of office or the right to hold office of any person who is in office on December 31, 1987, unless otherwise expressly provided or unless the office is abolished by the adoption of this Code.  (b) The adoption of this Code shall not affect the compensation, expenses, per diem, allowances, retirement, or other rights of any officer or employee of this state or of any county, municipality, district, improvement district, school district, institution of higher education, political subdivision, authority, or other governmental entity within this state, or of any agency, department, division, section, board, commission, committee, or council of any of the above, unless otherwise provided in this Code.
AR Code § 1-2-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-111. Adoption of Code not to affect existing rights, liabilities, contracts, actions, etc

 (a) The adoption of this Code shall not affect or impair any existing right, remedy, or defense nor affect, impair, discharge, or release any existing contract, obligation, duty, or liability of any kind. It shall not affect any pending suit or action, or prosecution now commenced or which shall be hereafter commenced, for any offense committed prior to January 1, 1988. As to all such suits, actions, and prosecutions, the law in force on December 31, 1987, shall continue in force.  (b) The repeal, repeal and reenactment, or the revision, amendment, or consolidation of any act, or of any section or part of a section of any act, civil or criminal, shall not release, extinguish, alter, modify, or change, in whole or in part, any penalty, forfeiture, or liability, either civil or criminal, which shall have been incurred under the act, section, or part thereof unless the repealing, repealing and reenacting, revising, amending, or consolidating act shall expressly so provide. The repealed, repealed and reenacted, revised, amended, or consolidated act, or any section or part of a section of that act, shall be treated and held as still remaining in force for the purpose of sustaining any and all suits, actions, or prosecutions, civil or criminal, for the enforcement of any penalty, forfeiture, or liability, as well as for the purpose of sustaining any judgment, decree, or order that can or may be rendered, entered, or made in such suits, actions, or prosecutions imposing, inflicting, or declaring a penalty, forfeiture, or liability.
AR Code § 1-2-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-112. Adoption of Code not to toll limitations

 When a limitation or period of time prescribed in any act in effect on December 31, 1987, for acquiring a right, barring a remedy, or for any other purpose has begun to run before January 1, 1988, and when a limitation or period of time is prescribed in this Code for acquiring the right, barring the remedy, or for any other purpose, then the time which has already run shall be deemed to be part of the time prescribed by the limitation or period in this Code.
AR Code § 1-2-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-113. Designation and citation of Code

 (a) This codification of the laws of Arkansas, consisting of this title and the following titles, subtitles, chapters, subchapters, and sections, as amended from time to time, shall constitute and be known as the “Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated”.  (b) As used in acts and resolutions of the General Assembly, and within this Code, “Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated”, “Arkansas Code of 1987”, “Arkansas Code Annotated”, “Arkansas Code”, “the Code”, or “this Code”, unless the context otherwise requires, shall be construed to refer to this enactment of the Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated and amendments and revisions thereof and additions and supplements thereto.  (c) Sections of the Code may be cited by the abbreviation “A.C.A.” followed by the number of the section. For example, this section would be cited as “A.C.A. § 1-2-113”.
AR Code § 1-2-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-114. References to Code titles, subtitles, chapters, etc

 (a) Unless the context otherwise requires, references in this Code to titles, subtitles, chapters, subchapters, or sections shall mean titles, subtitles, chapters, subchapters, or sections of this Code.  (b) Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in this Code or in any law of this state to another provision of this Code or the law of this state shall mean and be construed to refer to the Code or the law as it now or hereafter exists.
AR Code § 1-2-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-115. Code classification and organization not to be construed — Notes, headings, etc., not part of law

 (a) The classification and organization of the titles, subtitles, chapters, subchapters, sections, subsections, and subdivisions of this Code, and any headings thereto, are made for the purpose of convenient reference and orderly arrangement, and no implication, inference, or presumption of a legislative construction shall be drawn therefrom.  (b) Unless otherwise provided in this Code, title, chapter, and subchapter analyses, and the descriptive headings or catchlines immediately preceding or within the text of the individual sections of this Code, except the section numbers included in the headings or catchlines immediately preceding the text of the sections, do not constitute part of the law and shall in no manner limit or expand the construction of any section.  (c) All title, chapter, and subchapter analyses, historical citations, annotations, and notes set out in this Code are given for the purpose of convenient reference and do not constitute part of the law.
AR Code § 1-2-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-116. Amendments to Code

 (a) All acts enacted after December 31, 1987, of a general and permanent nature shall be enacted as amendments to this Code. No local, private, or temporary acts or provisions and no provisions appropriating funds shall be enacted as amendments to this Code. If the subject matter of any law is already generally embodied in one of the titles of this Code or can be appropriately classified therein, that new law shall be enacted as an amendment to that title of the Code. If it is not possible to classify the subject matter of a new law in an existing title, a new title shall be enacted containing the new law as a chapter or chapters, each chapter to contain a proper designation and descriptive name or heading, as provided in subsection (c) of this section.  (b) A new title shall be created only as a last resort and only when it would be unreasonable to include the new law in an existing title. If a new title is created, it shall be given a name and a number sequentially following that of the last title number. New titles shall be given names which are broad and comprehensive in scope so that each will accommodate the greatest number of new laws having related subject matter.  (c) The reserved sections, subchapters, chapters, and subtitles are for the purpose of accommodating future growth and expansion of the law, thereby permitting the insertion in the Code of new laws in their most logical positions with respect to existing related laws. When a new unit is enacted it shall be given a name, which shall be sufficiently broad and comprehensive to describe generally its subject matter, and a number designating its position within a title. The name is not to be confused with the title of a bill.  (d) A unit should be repealed, as distinct from amended, when an outright repeal thereof is intended or when the subject matter of the proposed new law is more than a mere amendment or revision of the old unit.  (e) When sections of this Code are amended, the descriptive headings or catchlines immediately preceding or within them need not be amended. When new sections are enacted, descriptive headings or catchlines need not be enacted to accompany them except that any desired changes in the section numbers contained in the headings or catchlines shall be made by specific statutory amendments of the numbers and new sections shall be assigned proper title section numbers by the law which enacts them.  (f) In the enactment of new laws, the plan, scheme, style, format, arrangement, and classification of this Code shall be followed as closely as possible with the result that the Code and all amendments to it will compose a harmonious entity containing all the laws of the State of Arkansas of a general and permanent nature.
AR Code § 1-2-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-117. Severability of provisions of Code

 Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Code, in the event any title, subtitle, chapter, subchapter, section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, subparagraph, item, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this Code is declared or adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such declaration or adjudication shall not affect the remaining portions of this Code which shall remain in full force and effect as if the portion so declared or adjudged invalid or unconstitutional was not originally a part of this Code.
AR Code § 1-2-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-118. Effective date of Code

 This Code is effective at midnight, December 31, 1987.
AR Code § 1-2-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-119. Common and statute law of England adopted

 The common law of England, so far as it is applicable and of a general nature, and all statutes of the British Parliament in aid of or to supply the defects of the common law made prior to March 24, 1606, which are applicable to our own form of government, of a general nature and not local to that kingdom, and not inconsistent with the United States Constitution and the laws of the United States or the Arkansas Constitution and laws of this state, shall be the rule of decision in this state unless altered or repealed by the General Assembly of this state.
AR Code § 1-2-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-120. Effect of repeal of statute

 (a) When a statute is repealed and the repealing statute is afterwards repealed, the first statute shall not thereby be revived unless by express words.  (b) When any criminal or penal statute is repealed, all offenses committed or forfeitures accrued under it while it was in force shall be punished or enforced as if it were in force, notwithstanding the repeal, unless otherwise expressly provided in the repealing statute.  (c) No action, plea, prosecution, or proceeding, civil or criminal, pending at the time any statutory provision is repealed shall be affected by the repeal but shall proceed in all respects as if the statutory provision had not been repealed.
AR Code § 1-2-121 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-121. Bills and laws to be clear and unambiguous

 No bill shall be considered and no law enacted unless the bill or law is written in clear, unambiguous language.
AR Code § 1-2-122 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-122. Laws requiring use of registered mail — Alternative use of certified mail

 (a) Anything permitted or required by the laws of this state to be served or transmitted by registered mail, except when required by any law promulgated by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and referred to as a uniform state law, may be transmitted either by registered mail or by certified mail with return receipt requested, and return receipts for the delivery of certified mail shall be received in the courts as evidence of delivery to the same extent as return receipts for the delivery of registered mail.  (b) When service of summons, process, or notice is provided for and permitted by registered or certified mail under the laws of Arkansas, delivery shall not be restricted to the United States Postal Service. It shall be deemed an actual and valid service of the summons, process, or notice when an alternative mail carrier delivers the summons, process, or notice by the same or similar process as required by law.
AR Code § 1-2-123 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-123. Official printed version of Code — Official electronic version of Code — Printed version to take precedence

 If the official electronic version of the Arkansas Code differs from the official hard copy version of the Arkansas Code, the hard copy version shall take precedence over the electronic version.
AR Code § 1-2-124 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - The Code and Regulations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 1-2-124. Respectful language — Disabilities — Definition

 (a)  (1) The General Assembly recognizes that language used in reference to individuals with disabilities shapes and reflects society's attitudes toward people with disabilities. Many of the terms currently used demean the humanity and natural condition of having a disability. Certain terms are demeaning and create an invisible barrier to inclusion as equal community members.  (2) The General Assembly finds it necessary to clarify preferred language for new and revised laws by requiring the use of terminology that puts the person before the disability.    (b)  (1) In any bill or resolution, the Bureau of Legislative Research shall avoid all references to:  (A) “Disabled”;  (B) “Developmentally disabled”;  (C) “Mentally disabled”;  (D) “Mentally ill”;  (E) “Mentally retarded”;  (F) “Handicapped”;  (G) “Cripple”; and  (H) “Crippled”.    (2) The Arkansas Code Revision Commission shall change such references in any existing statute or resolution as sections including these references are republished or otherwise amended by law.  (3) The Bureau of Legislative Research and the Arkansas Code Revision Commission shall replace the inappropriate terms in subdivision (b)(1) of this section with the following terms:  (A) “Individuals with disabilities”;  (B) “Individuals with developmental disabilities”;  (C) “Individuals with mental illness”; and  (D) “Individuals with intellectual disabilities”.      (c)  (1) In any administrative rule, a state agency shall avoid the inappropriate terms in subdivision (b)(1) of this section and shall use the terms in subdivision (b)(3) of this section.  (2) If a state agency identifies a use of an inappropriate term under subdivision (b)(1) of this section in a rule, the state agency shall promulgate a revision to the rule to replace the inappropriate term with a term under subdivision (b)(3) of this section.  (3) As used in this subsection, “state agency” means any office, board, commission, department, council, bureau, or other agency of state government having authority by statute enacted by the General Assembly to promulgate or enforce administrative rules.    (d) A statute, resolution, or rule is not invalid because it does not comply with this section.