Just cause eviction rules in Fayetteville, AR — sometimes called tenant protection or "for cause" eviction ordinances — list the specific legal reasons a landlord can end a tenancy.
Fayetteville has no just-cause eviction law; Arkansas landlord-tenant rules apply and are the nation's most landlord-friendly. Arkansas is the only state with a criminal failure-to-vacate statute (Ark. Code Sec. 18-16-101), alongside civil unlawful detainer under Sec. 18-60-301.
Fayetteville follows Arkansas eviction law and cannot impose local just-cause protections. A landlord may end a month-to-month tenancy without stating a reason by giving proper written notice; a fixed-term lease simply expires. Arkansas offers two eviction routes: the criminal failure-to-vacate remedy under Ark. Code Sec. 18-16-101, unique to Arkansas, and civil unlawful detainer under Sec. 18-60-301 et seq. Retaliatory and discriminatory evictions remain illegal under state and federal fair-housing law, and self-help lockouts or utility shutoffs are prohibited. Act 1052 of 2021 added minimum residential habitability standards, effective November 2021.
A self-help eviction (changing locks, removing belongings, cutting utilities) exposes a landlord to tenant damages. Improper notice gets an eviction case dismissed. A tenant prosecuted under the criminal failure-to-vacate statute faces a fine for each day of holdover.
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