Little Rock, AR Public Conduct: Aggressive Panhandling (2026)

Little Rock's park rules ordinance, codified at Chapter 22, Article II ("Park Rules") of the City Code, flatly bars anyone from asking park visitors for money. " The rule traces to Code of 1961 § 26-5(26) and sits among more than twenty numbered park-conduct prohibitions in the same article, covering everything from camping (Sec. 22-30) to commercial vending (Sec. 22-27). Section 22-22 fixes the article's reach: it "applies to all city parks and recreation facilities," so the alms-and-contributions ban is citywide wherever the parks and recreation department operates property, from War Memorial Park to the Big Dam Bridge trailheads and the Little Rock Zoo grounds.

Because Article II carries its own penalty section, prosecutors do not need to rely on the Code's general misdemeanor clause by inference: Section 22-21 expressly punishes "any person convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this article" under Section 1-9, the citywide fine schedule. 00 for each day it continues. 00 credited per day under police department supervision instead of paying cash. Little Rock police officers and parks and recreation staff enforce the section on sight; there is no permit or registration path that allows solicitation once inside park boundaries, unlike the facility-use permits available under Section 22-23 for vending or events.