Little Rock, AR Special Events & Permits: Park Event Permits (2026)

Section 22-23 sits in Chapter 22, Article II, Park Rules, and covers three categories of park use that need a permit first: recreational buildings for any purpose, special events on park property, and lectures, concerts, political rallies, speeches or addresses. Anyone who obtains a permit gets priority use of the facility for the time block stated on the permit, to the exclusion of everyone else who does not hold one, and the parks and recreation director or a designee can revoke a facility use permit for any violation of Chapter 22.

A related requirement sits in Section 22-27: any person, firm or corporation that wants to sell, peddle, rent or otherwise distribute merchandise in a city park, the vendor stalls a festival or concert typically brings in, needs a separate permit from the parks and recreation department, and the city manager sets that permit's fee. Section 22-24 layers on a use fee: no one may enter or participate in a park facility or program that carries a board-set fee schedule without paying it. All of this traces to the Little Rock Master Parks Plan adopted by Ordinance No. 18,528 in 2001, and Section 22-21 punishes any Article II violation, permit or otherwise, as provided in the citywide penalty at Section 1-9.