Sebastian County, AR Parking Rules: Abandoned Vehicles (2026)

Chapter 110, adopted by Ordinance 90-8 on May 15, 1990, does not target a single abandoned car the way a typical impound ordinance does; instead it regulates the property once junked vehicles accumulate. Section 110.01 defines SALVAGE YARD to include any place maintained for storing, dismantling, or selling inoperable, wrecked, scrapped, ruined, or discarded automobiles, and specifies that if junked or wrecked automobiles remain outside a building for more than 30 days as inoperable, partially dismantled, wrecked, or junked vehicles, the area is deemed a salvage yard for purposes of the chapter.

Once that threshold is crossed, Section 110.03 requires the owner to obtain a certificate of operation from the County Judge's Office and to screen the yard so it is not visible from the main travel way of any state secondary highway, county road, or public road; storing junk in the highway right-of-way is barred outright, and screening must be an eight-foot opaque fence (reducible to six feet at higher elevation) under Section 110.03(H). Burning wrecked or discarded automobiles is prohibited. A property owner notified by the County Judge's Office that the accumulation is out of compliance gets 30 days to fix it before enforcement proceeds; an unscreened yard is declared a public nuisance under Section 110.03(J), and the County Sheriff's Office and County Prosecuting Attorney's Office assist with prosecution and fine collection under Section 110.04.