Little Rock, AR

Little Rock prohibits trucks, buses, tractors, trailers, and semitrailers rated over one ton from parking on public residential streets overnight unless actively performing a direct…

Little Rock requires vehicles parked on curbed streets to sit within 18 inches of the right-hand curb, facing the direction of travel, and bans stopping in front of driveways, at…

Little Rock bans open storage of an abandoned automobile on any lot unless it's part of a licensed auto business, and lets police impound cars left on a street more than 48 hours.

Little Rock does not license wrecker companies and does not cap what a private tow operator may charge. Its own towing rules live in Chapter 32 and are built around the parking boot…

Little Rock caps freight curb loading zone stops at 30 minutes and reserves passenger and freight zones for expeditious loading during business hours.

Little Rock gives a boat, boat trailer or camping trailer 24 hours in the public right-of-way and no more, while motorized or self-propelled recreational vehicles are written out of…

Little Rock's zoning code bars parking heavy commercial trucks, tow rigs, and trailers on residential-zoned property, with narrow exceptions for active service and repair work.

Little Rock caps front-yard vehicle parking outside the driveway to 25% of the yard, and unpaved parking pads must be gravel or hard-packed, not bare dirt.

Little Rock does not ban retail sale of dogs or cats. Sec. 6-47 lets any licensed pet shop sell live animals as pets, provided the shop meets minimum sanitation and cage-size standards.

Little Rock's zoning code files a veterinary practice under the term "animal clinic (enclosed)" and where one can open depends entirely on the district. In the C-1 neighborhood…

Little Rock caps households at four cats, requires an annual license and rabies tag for every cat, and mandates microchipping plus sterilization for any cat allowed outdoors.

Little Rock requires every free-roaming cat to be sterilized, with a narrow exception for cats a licensed vet certifies can't safely be spayed or neutered.

Keeping animals on a property that becomes unclean, odorous, or fecal-fouled is a separate violation from Little Rock's headcount cap, and it's the tool used against hoarding-type…

Little Rock lets residents keep backyard chickens, rabbits, and other small fowl citywide with no permit, but coops must meet minimum floor-space rules and stay at least 5 feet from…

Little Rock regulates pet grooming businesses as "kennels" under Sec. 6-46, requiring compliance with facility standards to keep a privilege license.

Little Rock requires owners of free-roaming cats to have them microchipped and registered with a national recovery network, under the city's animal confinement ordinance alongside…

Little Rock City Code Sec. 6-16(a) gives dog owners two duties: keep the dog securely confined behind a fence or otherwise restrained on your own property, and keep it under effective…

Little Rock classifies pit bulls as a potentially dangerous breed and requires an annual permit, microchip, and sterilization to keep one in city limits.

Little Rock caps hobby beekeeping at two hives per residential lot and requires 25-foot setbacks from dwellings and sidewalks.

Little Rock Sec. 6-42 makes the sale, possession, maintenance or keeping of carnivora, innately wild animals, nonhuman primates and venomous reptiles unlawful within the city. The…

Running a family day care home in Little Rock requires a special use permit, caps at 10 children, and comes with a 300-foot spacing rule from other day cares.

Little Rock caps home-based businesses at 500 square feet or 49% of a dwelling's floor area and bars exterior signage, product display, outside storage, and accessory-building use…

Little Rock's zoning code bars home-based businesses from having any signage beyond what another government agency independently requires, and prohibits product displays visible from…

Little Rock caps home-based businesses to normal residential traffic and parking, bars street-visible product display, and requires an accessory use permit for anything not on the…

Since Act 1040 of 2021 Arkansas has run one of the least restrictive homemade food laws in the country. The Food Freedom Act, A.C.A. § 20-57-501 et seq., exempts homemade food and…

Arkansas has never created a microenterprise home kitchen category, and it has no exemption that lets a private home cook meals to order for paying customers. A.C.A. §…

Three or more confirmed violations of Little Rock's short-term rental rules in a calendar year lets the city revoke the business license and block reapplying for up to a year.

Little Rock's STR-1 permit requires the owner to live at the rental or within 1,500 feet, proven by two documents matching the deed; non-owner-occupied rentals must instead pursue a…

Little Rock will only issue an STR-1 bed-and-breakfast/short-term-rental special use permit if the owner actually lives at the property, or within fifteen hundred feet of it, as a…

Little Rock lets a home-share guest pay to stay for up to twenty-nine consecutive days under both bed and breakfast house/short-term rental types. STR-1 covers an owner-occupied home…

Every Little Rock bed-and-breakfast/short-term-rental applicant, STR-1 or STR-2, must submit proof of homeowner's, fire, hazard and liability insurance as part of the development…

Little Rock requires every short-term rental operator to hold a city business license before listing or renting a property, renewed annually, with unlicensed operation barring new…

Little Rock STR operators must collect and remit the city's hotel/motel tax (also called the accommodation tax) on all short-term rental bookings. Arkansas also imposes a state sales…

Short-term rental occupancy in Little Rock is capped by the Arkansas Fire Prevention Code, posted at the door, and only one paying party may rent the unit at a time.

STR guests in Little Rock must observe quiet hours from 10 PM to 7 AM with no excessive noise audible from off the property at any time. Operators are responsible for informing guests…

Little Rock's short-term rental development standards at Rev. Code § 36-603(b)(5) require a parking plan with the permit application. The off-street standard is not written into the…

Little Rock does not require a permit for backyard cooking fires, barbecues, or outdoor fireplaces, but any other open burning, like a bonfire or brush pile, needs a fire department…

Little Rock bans aboveground liquefied petroleum gas storage tanks in the city's designated fire districts, though tanks installed before the 1990 ordinance and compliant with state…

Little Rock bans possessing, selling, manufacturing or using fireworks anywhere in the city except as the fire prevention code allows. Section 18-103 sets a blanket local restriction…

Little Rock adopts the 2021 Arkansas Fire Prevention Code's Residential volume, built on the International Residential Code, making working smoke alarms mandatory in dwellings and…

Little Rock requires a fire department permit before any open burning, with cooking fires and outdoor fireplaces exempted.

Little Rock's 10-inch weed-height limit only applies to uncultivated growth, so residents can plant native wildflower beds, pollinator gardens, or other maintained natural landscaping…

Little Rock lets residents compost yard waste and animal waste from their own property, but the pile can't become a nuisance and must follow state ADPC&E Regulation 22, with animal…

Little Rock allows rain barrels for collecting roof runoff, but the code sets screening, covering, and mosquito-proofing requirements under the city's nuisance ordinance.

Little Rock bans grass, weeds, or uncultivated plants taller than 10 inches on any lot, along sidewalks, parkways, or alleys, with escalating fines starting at $50 for property owners…

Little Rock requires required or preserved trees that die or are removed to be replaced, either one-for-one within the first year or by a credit-based formula after that.

Little Rock requires owners to prune trees along public roadways to keep 14 feet of clearance over streets and 8 feet over sidewalks, and bans tree topping.

Little Rock bans loud radios, audio equipment, or musical instruments that disturb neighbors, with tighter limits from 10:30 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. citywide except a later cutoff for the…

Industrial zoning districts in Little Rock (I-1, I-2, I-3) cannot emit noise, odor, or vibration exceeding the general level from surrounding uses, measured at the site's property line.

Little Rock bans discharging vehicle exhaust without an effective muffler and outlaws cars so out of repair they grind, rattle, or roar.

Little Rock bans loud radios, stereos, and musical instruments between 10:30 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. if the noise disturbs the peace of nearby homes, hotels, hospitals, or offices.

Little Rock makes it unlawful to keep a dog on your property, or under your control, that disturbs the peace through loud and frequent barking or howling. Sec. 6-18 sets no decibel or…

Little Rock restricts construction work to set daytime hours under its noise ordinance, with a narrower interior-work window at night if openings are sealed and no permit obtained.

Little Rock bans barbed, razor, and concertina wire on residential fences and bans electric fences outside heavily regulated industrial sites.

Any retaining wall in Little Rock built four feet or taller to hold back dirt or fill must be designed, approved, and stamped by a licensed design professional before the city will…

Little Rock caps fences at 4 feet in the zone between the required front setback line and the street, but allows up to 8 feet everywhere else on a residential lot.

Little Rock requires a building permit for fence work that trips either test in Sec. 8-31(c)(1)a, but residential fences less than seven feet in height are written into that same…

Arkansas Code 2-39-105 governs partition fences statewide. When a neighbor encloses adjoining land using an existing fence as a partition, both owners share maintenance and repair…

Little Rock allows one accessory dwelling unit by right on any single-family lot under Sec. 36-204, adopted in 2025 to carry out Arkansas Act 313, and that unit can be rented on a…

Little Rock's by-right accessory dwelling unit rule, Sec. 36-204, allows one ADU on a single-family residential lot without conditioning it on the owner living on the property, and it…

Little Rock requires accessory buildings, including backyard sheds, to sit at least 3 feet from side and rear property lines under the zoning code, though sheds 200 square feet or…

Little Rock allows accessory dwelling units only in the R-2, R-3, R-4, and R-7A residential districts, and caps their floor area at no more than the principal home's square footage.

A factory-built tiny home sold in Arkansas is a manufactured home under the Arkansas Manufactured Homes Standards Act. It must move through a licensed dealer and a certified installer…

Little Rock treats above-ground and below-grade pools as accessory structures, so they must sit inside the same 60-foot front and 15-foot side-street setbacks as sheds and garages.

Little Rock adopts the 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code by reference, setting the barrier, drain-cover, and equipment safety standards enforced on every pool built or…

City zoning code requires lighting on office and commercial properties to be aimed away from neighboring residential districts, with stricter footcandle limits and full cutoff fixtures…

Little Rock City Code Sec. 36-547 lets signs be illuminated but bans four specific light sources on them: unshielded reflector lamps, exposed incandescent bulbs over 300 watts…

Granite Mountain Corridor development in Little Rock must submit a lighting plan reviewed under dark-sky principles, with fixtures shielded to point light downward and capped at 20…

Little Rock bans animated billboards citywide and permits digital conversion only in one capped Interstate 630 corridor segment.

Little Rock exempts political signs from the city's sign permit process, but they still must meet all other sign chapter standards for size, placement, and safety.

In Little Rock's River Market design overlay district, window signage can't cover more than 25% of any single glass panel: a design standard reviewed under the city's overlay sign…

Billboards near Little Rock freeways are confined to C-3/C-4 commercial and I-2/I-3 industrial zones, capped in height, and must sit within 660 feet of an expressway or freeway under…

Street fairs and festivals in Little Rock need a public assembly permit from the city manager before setup, with a $25 nonrefundable filing fee.

Little Rock requires a city manager permit for any block party or public assembly of more than 20 people that closes or occupies a public street, with a $25 filing fee and a five-day…

Little Rock zoning caps permanent outdoor dining areas at eating places to 50% of indoor seating, bars them from the public right-of-way, and requires matching on-site parking under…

Little Rock requires a permit from the director of parks and recreation before anyone can use a recreational building, hold a special event on park property, or stage a lecture…

Little Rock requires a permit from the city manager for any parade or public assembly of more than 20 people that blocks streets, sidewalks, or parks, filed at least 5 days ahead for a…

Little Rock requires a building permit for any deck or patio job over $5,000 in labor and materials, or any job that needs an inspection, no matter the cost.

Little Rock requires a city permit before any plumbing or gas piping work, issued under the adopted 2018 Arkansas Plumbing Code.

Little Rock's fire department inspects licensed daycare centers alongside nursing homes and homes for exceptional children, and the city manager can set fees for those inspections…

Little Rock's building codes division inspects permitted work in defined stages before it can be closed out: footing, framing and final for building work, with parallel rough/final…

Little Rock requires an electrical permit from the permit and records office before any electrical work begins, and only the master electrician on the job, or an authorized…

Little Rock reins in oversized houses inside the Hillcrest neighborhood through a floor area ratio (FAR) formula scaled to the number of floors, not a flat square-footage cap. Under…

Little Rock doesn't stop at installing a sprinkler system: Sec. 12-70 makes the owner keep testing it. Any automatic fire sprinkler system already installed or required by the fire…

Little Rock's housing code requires every exterior door on a dwelling to have proper locking hardware kept in sound working condition.

Little Rock requires carbon monoxide detectors in short-term rental units that have fuel-fired appliances or an attached garage, installed as directed by city staff before the property…

Little Rock's AF Agriculture and Forestry zoning district permits farming, livestock, forestry, and on-farm produce sales as a matter of right on qualifying land.

Arkansas Code 2-4-101 et seq. shields farms and agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits when operations existed before nearby non-farm land uses. The law protects established…

Little Rock's curbside recycling program accepts glass, metal, paper, and plastic bottles in city-issued containers, but yard waste, bulk items, and household garbage are barred from…

Little Rock gives residential customers four free bulky-item pickups a year; extra collections cost a $25 minimum for up to two cubic yards, plus $10 per additional cubic yard of…

Sec. 28-5 makes it a violation of Little Rock's solid waste chapter to dump waste on any road or right-of-way, on private property, in a public park or on other public property, or on…

The City of Little Rock provides curbside solid waste collection to single dwellings and small apartment buildings, funded by a mandatory monthly fee billed on the water account…

Little Rock requires solid waste and recycling containers to be set at the curb no earlier than 4 p.m. the day before pickup and removed by midnight on collection day.

Little Rock requires city-issued supercarts to sit within five feet of the curb, bars setting them out before 4 p.m. the day before pickup, and requires removal by midnight of…

Little Rock collects yard waste separately by hand: grass, leaves and trimmed brush must be bagged or containerized, and limbs can't exceed 6 feet or 60 pounds.

Little Rock automatically provides curbside recycling to every dwelling unit that gets city solid waste collection, and residents must use only approved recycling containers, prepared…

Every commercial, industrial, and institutional site in Little Rock must contract with a licensed hauler and keep watertight, covered dumpsters on-site, screened from street view.

Little Rock zoning bans mobile canteen units, food trucks, trailers, and push carts, from parking on any residential-zoned lot, while allowing them as a permitted use in O-1, O-2, and…

Little Rock's zoning code allows mobile canteen units, food trucks, trailers, and push carts, as a permitted use in commercial and industrial districts, but only when operated in…

Little Rock merchants need a written city manager permit before displaying goods for sale on the sidewalk outside their business.

Little Rock inspects at least 20% of all registered rental units every year through a systematic, random program, not just in response to tenant complaints.

A complaint about conditions in a Little Rock rental pulls that unit out of the systematic random rotation and makes it subject to its own inspection, and unresolved life-safety…

Little Rock caps residential building height at 35 feet in the R-1 single-family district under Sec. 36-253(c): no house may be erected or structurally altered above that limit, no…

In Little Rock's R-1 single-family zoning district, the house plus every accessory building on a lot can together cover no more than 30 percent of the total lot area.

Little Rock's R-2 single-family district requires a 25-foot front yard, 25-foot rear yard, and side yards of 10% of lot width capped at 8 feet.

Little Rock's landscaping code lists tree of heaven (Ailanthus altissima) as an invasive plant species, and it cannot be used to satisfy required site landscaping.

Little Rock's landscaping code names over 30 invasive plants -- kudzu, Bradford pear, privet, English ivy, tree of heaven and more -- that cannot be used to satisfy the city's…

Little Rock's landscaping code lists bamboo (Phyllostachys spp.) as an invasive species that cannot be used to satisfy any required landscape planting.

Little Rock's River Market Design Overlay District requires developers to meet with the Design Review Committee and get its approval before any building permit for exterior work in the…

Little Rock requires a planting strip at least 9 feet wide along any street-facing edge of a parking lot or development site, with trees spaced no more than 30 feet apart, enforced…

City ordinance sets a floor, not a ceiling. HOA covenants can impose stricter rules, and whichever standard is more restrictive controls.

Arkansas has no homeowners' association act, so an Arkansas HOA's meeting and record duties come from the Arkansas Nonprofit Corporation Act of 1993, Ark. Code § 4-33-101 et seq., if…

Act 1106 of 2003, approved April 7, 2003, makes it unlawful for a homeowner's association, property owner's association or any other private entity in Arkansas to adopt a rule or enter…

Arkansas has never passed a homeowners' association act, so no statute caps what an Arkansas association may fine you, sets a cure period, or requires a hearing before a monetary…

Arkansas has no homeowners association act and no assessment lien statute of any kind. A full-text search of the Arkansas Code returns no section creating a lien for community…

Arkansas has no statute restricting an association's power to ban or cap leasing. There is no grandfathering for owners already renting, no minimum lease term, no percentage cap on…

Little Rock's zoning code flatly prohibits engine or motor repair shops as a home occupation in any residential district, no permit available.

Every pawnshop, pawnbroker and secondhand goods dealer doing business in unincorporated Pulaski County must run an electronic inventory tracking system that reports required…

Pulaski County lets the sheriff's office, general services, or a county-judge-designated employee call a wrecker company to remove vehicles illegally parked in county-owned lots. The…

Pawnshops, pawnbrokers and secondhand-goods dealers in unincorporated Pulaski County must run an electronic inventory tracking system that reports required transaction data to the…

Arkansas regulates retail sale of vapor products and e-cigarettes, requiring permits, age verification, and compliance with state tobacco laws. Sales to anyone under 21 are prohibited…

Sec. 34-67 of the Little Rock Code stops licensed tour service vehicles from sitting with the engine idling while stopped or parked, allowing it only while passengers are getting on or…

Little Rock requires a city grading permit before major land disturbance, with drainage and erosion controls mandatory citywide and no exceptions in the floodplain.

New and substantially improved residential structures in Little Rock's AE and A1-30 flood zones must sit at least one foot above the published base flood elevation, certified by a…

Little Rock requires a grading permit before clearing, filling, cutting, or construction disturbing land, and mandates erosion and sediment control measures to protect neighboring…

Any grading, fill, construction or utility work in a Little Rock special flood hazard area needs a floodplain development permit under Sec. 13-55, reviewed by the mayor as floodplain…

Little Rock's Dockless Mobility Technology Code caps shared e-scooters at 15 MPH, bans sidewalk riding except signed zones, and lets the city limit fleet size or area for safety.

Little Rock requires cyclists to use an adjacent usable bike path instead of the roadway when one exists, and caps roadside riding to two abreast outside those lanes.

Arkansas has no statewide golf cart registration and no low-speed vehicle plate. A golf cart may be driven on a city street only if that municipality has adopted an ordinance under…

Little Rock caps garage and yard sales at two events per year, each lasting no more than two days, under the R-1 single-family zoning district's temporary-use rules that also govern…

Little Rock bans drinking in one specific category of park facility: Little League Baseball Parks. Section 22-36 of the City Code makes it unlawful to "consume or have on his person…

Little Rock's park rules flatly ban asking anyone for money in a city park. Section 22-29 of the City Code makes it unlawful to "solicit money (alms) or contributions" anywhere the…

Little Rock bans loitering, lingering or congregating on the street in front of any closed business, or on a closed drive-in lot, between midnight and 6:00 a.m. Section 18-55 targets…

City code bars anyone on roller skates, a coaster, or similar wheeled device, skateboards included, from riding in the roadway, except when crossing at a marked crosswalk under…

Little Rock bars pedestrians from suddenly leaving the curb into a vehicle's path when the driver can't stop in time, and from walking along a roadway where a sidewalk exists, under…

Little Rock City Code Sec. 14-2 makes smoking unlawful in a listed set of indoor public places, including performance venues, public meeting rooms, grocery sales floors and public…

Little Rock bans unreasonably loud noise from parties and stereo equipment that disturbs neighbors, especially between 10:30 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., under the city's general noise…

Little Rock's Department of Housing and Neighborhood Programs runs the clock the moment a rental inspection finds a violation. Sec. 8-583 gives owners seven days to fix any life-safety…

When someone reports a manufactured home or mobile home park violation to Little Rock, Section 20-75 requires the code enforcement division of the department of housing and…

Little Rock treats medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivation facilities as ordinary permitted uses rather than banning or specially conditioning them. Sec. 36-301(c)(1) lists both…

Arkansas prohibits all home cultivation of marijuana, including by registered medical patients. Amendment 98 and Title 5 Chapter 64 make any unlicensed cannabis growing a felony. Only…

Little Rock closes every city park to parking and to people from 10:00 p.m. until 5:00 a.m. unless a specific park has posted different hours. Sec. 32-321 exempts through traffic on…

Minors under 18 must be off Little Rock streets and public places by 10 p.m. on school nights and midnight on weekends, with a separate school-hours curfew.

Little Rock bans loud and excessive noise from loading or unloading delivery trucks and other vehicles, including the banging open of bales, boxes, crates, and containers, anywhere in…

Little Rock outlaws sounding a car horn, alarm siren or any other vehicle signal device while the vehicle sits still. City Code Sec. 18-52(b)(1) allows a horn only as a danger signal…

Little Rock can placard, order repaired, or demolish any dangerous or dilapidated building and bill the owner for the cost.

Little Rock bans grass and weeds over 10 inches on any lot, including vacant land, under Sec. 20-2: the city can cut it and bill the owner.

Little Rock's housing code makes occupants and owners responsible for exterminating rodents and requires garbage stored so it can't feed them, plus rodentproof windows, doors, and…

Little Rock will not pick up sharps, needles or lancets in your curbside cart, and anyone who wants to build a facility that disposes of that waste faces a separate zoning gauntlet…

Every rental housing unit in Little Rock must hold a valid certificate of compliance before it can be leased or occupied.

Little Rock Code Sec. 8-591 writes a habitability standard into every residential lease in the city, requiring hot and cold water, electricity, a sanitary sewer and plumbing system, a…

Arkansas offers two eviction tracks. The civil unlawful-detainer route (Ark. Code 18-60-304) requires 3 days' written notice to quit before suit, with no chance to pay and stay. The…

Arkansas Code 18-17-901 governs eviction grounds statewide under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act. Landlords may evict for nonpayment, material lease violations, illegal activity…

Arkansas has no statute requiring a landlord to give advance notice (such as 24 hours) before entering an occupied unit. Ark. Code 18-17-602 only obligates the tenant not to…

Ark. Code 18-17-704 lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days' written notice, or a week-to-week tenancy with 7 days. Federal SCRA allows military members to…

Rent control is illegal at the local level in Arkansas. Ark. Code § 14-16-601 bars any local governmental unit, including a county, city, village, or township, from enacting…

Arkansas caps a residential security deposit at two months' rent under Ark. Code § 18-16-304. The landlord must return the deposit, with an itemized written notice of any deductions…

Arkansas adverse possession under Ark. Code 18-11-106 requires 7 years of actual or constructive possession with color of title plus payment of ad valorem taxes during that period. A…

Merchants can't put goods on the sidewalk without a written city manager permit and a 6-foot clearance from the curb.

In Little Rock, the owner of the lot next to the street builds and maintains the sidewalk in front of it. Sec. 30-36 triggers that duty on notice from the public works department and…

Little Rock bans blocking streets, alleys, and sidewalks with stored goods or unpermitted right-of-way items; unremoved articles get tagged, seized after three days, and cost owners a…

Little Rock exempts fires used for cooking food, including barbecues, smokers, and outdoor fireplaces, from the city's open burning permit requirement, so backyard grilling and smoking…

Little Rock requires a building permit for solar panel installations, since permits are mandatory for any work over $5,000 or that needs an inspection, per City Code Sec. 8-31.

Pulaski County has no data center-specific noise ordinance: the county's general nuisance-noise law, Section 13-2, bans any unreasonably loud noise that disturbs residents in the…

Commercial drone operations in Arkansas require FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot certification and compliance with state critical-infrastructure and privacy laws. Federal preemption controls…

Act 643 of 2017 reserves wage regulation to the state, barring Arkansas cities and counties from setting a local minimum wage above the state rate. Local wage ordinances are void and…

Arkansas issues concealed handgun carry licenses through Arkansas State Police. Enhanced licenses allow carry in additional locations. Permitless carry is also recognized for…

Arkansas law preempts cities and counties from regulating firearms, ammunition, and components. Local rules conflicting with state law are void, with limited exceptions for public…

Arkansas permits open carry of handguns by qualifying adults under state interpretation of Act 746. Local governments cannot restrict open carry beyond state law due to firearms…

Arkansas allows lawful adults to carry handguns in personal vehicles without a license under state law. Local governments cannot impose additional vehicle-carry restrictions due to…

Arkansas Constitutional Amendment 100 confines casino gaming to four locations statewide: Southland in Crittenden County, Oaklawn in Garland County, and one Racing Commission-awarded…

Arkansas allows charitable bingo and raffles only under Ark. Code Ann. § 23-114-101 et seq., administered by the Department of Finance and Administration under DFA Rule 2007-4. A…

Arkansas legalized sports wagering under Amendment 100, but only casino licensees may take the action. Racing Commission Rule 23 CAR § 358-2002 bars anyone from operating a race book…

The Arkansas Code authorises no sobriety checkpoint and prohibits none: the words checkpoint and roadblock do not appear anywhere in it in a traffic-stop sense, and the Code of…

Arkansas never enacted an express right to record the police, and it never enacted a stand-back distance either. Two other sections do the work. Ark. Code § 5-60-120 makes Arkansas a…

Arkansas never enacted a general duty to give your name to a police officer. The one place refusing to identify yourself is an element of a crime is the loitering offense at Ark. Code…

Arkansas Code § 14-1-104, enacted by Act 751 of 2021, preempts cities and counties from regulating 'auxiliary containers' including plastic bags. Local taxes, fees, and bans on…

Arkansas Code 4-89-101 et seq. (Home Solicitation Sales Act) governs door-to-door sales statewide, requiring written contracts with three-day cancellation rights and applying…

Arkansas Code 5-27-227 prohibits selling, giving, or furnishing tobacco, vapor, or alternative nicotine products to anyone under 21. Retailers must verify age and post required…

Arkansas does not impose a statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vape products beyond federal restrictions on certain cartridge-based e-cigarettes. Sales of flavored products remain…

Arkansas is one of the few states that makes it unlawful to switch auxiliary driving lights on at all unless they fit a closed list. Ark. Code § 27-36-221 permits them only where they…

Arkansas has no dash cam statute, so a camera is judged by two windshield obstruction sections that Act 1251 of 1999 rewrote together. Under Ark. Code § 27-37-304(a)(1)(A) anything…

No Arkansas statute uses the words lane splitting, filtering, or lane sharing, and the General Assembly has never written a motorcycle-specific lane rule of any kind. What governs…

A.C.A. § 27-14-716(c)(1) prohibits placing any type of cover over an Arkansas license plate that makes the plate more difficult to read or that reduces its reflective properties. The…

Arkansas has never written a radar detector law. The phrase does not appear anywhere in the Arkansas Code or in the Code of Arkansas Rules, and neither does any jamming offense. The…

Arkansas lets you run metal studded tires on public highways for five months a year, from November 15 through April 15, and only if the studs protrude no more than one-sixteenth of an…

On 1994 and newer vehicles Arkansas allows aftermarket film down to 25 percent net light transmission on the side windows and side wings beside the driver and immediately behind, and…