Jonesboro, AR Special Events & Permits: Street Fair Rules (2026)

Section 6-55 of the Code of Ordinances requires any person or corporation that wants to hold an event or festival within the Jonesboro Entertainment District to complete the special event permit application posted on the city's website and follow its procedures. The Jonesboro Police Department keeps sole discretion over canceling or postponing any approved event held on city property, and it can revoke an already-approved permit before the event date if the applicant fails to meet the permit's conditions. Once an application comes in, the police department has ten business days to contact the Entertainment District Oversight Committee chairperson or the Downtown Jonesboro Alliance Executive Director to check for scheduling conflicts within the district, and applications are evaluated strictly in the order they were submitted, first come, first served.

, Thursday-through-Saturday window, must separately apply for a special event Entertainment District permit under Section 6-50(7), again routed through the police department with sign-off from the oversight committee. Because the permit process sits inside Chapter 6's Entertainment District article, its text is written for events held within that specific downtown footprint rather than as a citywide festival-vendor code; a festival planned elsewhere in Jonesboro would fall under the city's general street-closure and special-event-permit-by-reference process in Section 66-5 instead.