Arkansas Ordinances (2026)

Arkansas Act 313 of 2025 requires every municipality to permit at least one accessory dwelling unit by right on residential lots and prohibits cities from imposing parking…

A factory-built tiny home sold in Arkansas is a manufactured home under the Arkansas Manufactured Homes Standards Act. It must move through a licensed dealer and a certified installer…

The Arkansas Apiary Act gives the State Plant Board exclusive authority to regulate honeybee health, registration, and movement. Beekeepers must register colonies and submit to…

Arkansas Code 2-38-301, rewritten by Act 594 of 2023, makes it unlawful statewide for any livestock to run at large. An owner who is notified that an animal is loose has 24 hours to…

Arkansas prohibits private possession of large carnivores, defined as bears, lions, and tigers, acquired after August 12, 2005. Animals lawfully held before that date could be…

Arkansas regulates retail sale of vapor products and e-cigarettes, requiring permits, age verification, and compliance with state tobacco laws. Sales to anyone under 21 are prohibited…

Arkansas prohibits all home cultivation of marijuana, including by registered medical patients. Amendment 98 and Title 5 Chapter 64 make any unlicensed cannabis growing a felony. Only…

Commercial drone operations in Arkansas require FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot certification and compliance with state critical-infrastructure and privacy laws. Federal preemption controls…

Act 643 of 2017 reserves wage regulation to the state, barring Arkansas cities and counties from setting a local minimum wage above the state rate. Local wage ordinances are void and…

Arkansas participates in the National Flood Insurance Program through the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission. State law requires participating communities to adopt floodplain…

Arkansas regulates stormwater discharges through the Department of Energy and Environment Division of Environmental Quality under federal Clean Water Act delegation. Construction and…

Arkansas Code 14-56-204 preempts cities from dictating residential exterior cladding materials, roof materials, colors, and architectural ornamentation. The statute applies statewide…

Arkansas Code 2-39-105 governs partition fences statewide. When a neighbor encloses adjoining land using an existing fence as a partition, both owners share maintenance and repair…

Arkansas Code § 20-22-701 et seq. governs consumer fireworks sales, permitting, and seasonal use statewide. Retail sales run June 13–July 10 and December 10–January 5; permanent stores…

Arkansas Code 20-22-301 and ADEQ Regulation 18 govern outdoor burning statewide. The Arkansas Forestry Division and county judges may declare burn bans during dry conditions, applying…

Arkansas Code § 15-75-101 et seq. establishes the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board with exclusive statewide authority over propane storage, container standards, and dealer licensing…

Arkansas issues concealed handgun carry licenses through Arkansas State Police. Enhanced licenses allow carry in additional locations. Permitless carry is also recognized for…

Arkansas law preempts cities and counties from regulating firearms, ammunition, and components. Local rules conflicting with state law are void, with limited exceptions for public…

Arkansas permits open carry of handguns by qualifying adults under state interpretation of Act 746. Local governments cannot restrict open carry beyond state law due to firearms…

Arkansas allows lawful adults to carry handguns in personal vehicles without a license under state law. Local governments cannot impose additional vehicle-carry restrictions due to…

Arkansas Constitutional Amendment 100 confines casino gaming to four locations statewide: Southland in Crittenden County, Oaklawn in Garland County, and one Racing Commission-awarded…

Arkansas allows charitable bingo and raffles only under Ark. Code Ann. § 23-114-101 et seq., administered by the Department of Finance and Administration under DFA Rule 2007-4. A…

Arkansas legalized sports wagering under Amendment 100, but only casino licensees may take the action. Racing Commission Rule 23 CAR § 358-2002 bars anyone from operating a race book…

Arkansas has no homeowners' association act, so an Arkansas HOA's meeting and record duties come from the Arkansas Nonprofit Corporation Act of 1993, Ark. Code § 4-33-101 et seq., if…

Act 1106 of 2003, approved April 7, 2003, makes it unlawful for a homeowner's association, property owner's association or any other private entity in Arkansas to adopt a rule or enter…

Arkansas has never passed a homeowners' association act, so no statute caps what an Arkansas association may fine you, sets a cure period, or requires a hearing before a monetary…

Arkansas has no homeowners association act and no assessment lien statute of any kind. A full-text search of the Arkansas Code returns no section creating a lien for community…

Arkansas has no statute restricting an association's power to ban or cap leasing. There is no grandfathering for owners already renting, no minimum lease term, no percentage cap on…

Since Act 1040 of 2021 Arkansas has run one of the least restrictive homemade food laws in the country. The Food Freedom Act, A.C.A. § 20-57-501 et seq., exempts homemade food and…

Arkansas requires state licensing or registration for home-based child care serving non-relative children. The Department of Human Services Division of Child Care administers uniform…

Arkansas has never created a microenterprise home kitchen category, and it has no exemption that lets a private home cook meals to order for paying customers. A.C.A. §…

The Arkansas Code authorises no sobriety checkpoint and prohibits none: the words checkpoint and roadblock do not appear anywhere in it in a traffic-stop sense, and the Code of…

Arkansas never enacted an express right to record the police, and it never enacted a stand-back distance either. Two other sections do the work. Ark. Code § 5-60-120 makes Arkansas a…

Arkansas never enacted a general duty to give your name to a police officer. The one place refusing to identify yourself is an element of a crime is the loitering offense at Ark. Code…

Arkansas allows rainwater harvesting statewide for non-potable purposes under Arkansas Code 17-38-201. Systems must be designed by a licensed engineer, include cross-connection…

Arkansas statutes impose statewide civil and criminal liability for unlawfully cutting trees on another's land, including treble or double damages and protections for trees on…

Arkansas has no statewide golf cart registration and no low-speed vehicle plate. A golf cart may be driven on a city street only if that municipality has adopted an ordinance under…

Arkansas law governs how abandoned, unclaimed, or junked vehicles are handled statewide. State statutes authorize towing, impoundment, lien procedures, and eventual sale or destruction…

Arkansas sets no statewide ceiling on hookup, mileage or storage charges, and it has no statutory drop fee for a driver who returns before the truck leaves. What it does give you…

Arkansas offers two eviction tracks. The civil unlawful-detainer route (Ark. Code 18-60-304) requires 3 days' written notice to quit before suit, with no chance to pay and stay. The…

Arkansas was long the only state with no implied warranty of habitability. A 2021 law (Ark. Code 18-17-502) now imposes minimum standards for leases entered or renewed after Nov. 1…

Arkansas Code 18-17-901 governs eviction grounds statewide under the Residential Landlord-Tenant Act. Landlords may evict for nonpayment, material lease violations, illegal activity…

Arkansas has no statute requiring a landlord to give advance notice (such as 24 hours) before entering an occupied unit. Ark. Code 18-17-602 only obligates the tenant not to…

Ark. Code 18-17-704 lets either party end a month-to-month tenancy with at least 30 days' written notice, or a week-to-week tenancy with 7 days. Federal SCRA allows military members to…

Rent control is illegal at the local level in Arkansas. Ark. Code § 14-16-601 bars any local governmental unit, including a county, city, village, or township, from enacting…

Arkansas Act 459 of 2025 strips cities and counties of authority to regulate rental application fees or security deposit amounts on private residential or commercial property, applying…

Arkansas caps a residential security deposit at two months' rent under Ark. Code § 18-16-304. The landlord must return the deposit, with an itemized written notice of any deductions…

Arkansas adverse possession under Ark. Code 18-11-106 requires 7 years of actual or constructive possession with color of title plus payment of ad valorem taxes during that period. A…

Arkansas limits local zoning authority over agricultural operations through the Right to Farm Act and related land-use statutes. Counties and cities cannot enforce zoning that…

Arkansas Code 2-4-101 et seq. shields farms and agricultural operations from nuisance lawsuits when operations existed before nearby non-farm land uses. The law protects established…

Arkansas requires short-term rental operators to collect state sales tax (6.5%) and a 2% statewide tourism tax on all lodging rentals under 30 days, regardless of platform or local…

Arkansas Code 27-67-304 prohibits political campaign signs and other private signage within state highway rights-of-way. The Arkansas Department of Transportation removes violating…

Arkansas Code § 14-1-104, enacted by Act 751 of 2021, preempts cities and counties from regulating 'auxiliary containers' including plastic bags. Local taxes, fees, and bans on…

Every Arkansas electric utility must let a customer interconnect a solar net-metering facility through a two-channel bidirectional meter, with rates, terms, and excess-generation…

Arkansas Code 4-89-101 et seq. (Home Solicitation Sales Act) governs door-to-door sales statewide, requiring written contracts with three-day cancellation rights and applying…

Every public swimming pool in Arkansas must hold a written operating permit from the State Health Officer. The Department of Health inspects each pool for compliance before issuing the…

Arkansas Code 5-27-227 prohibits selling, giving, or furnishing tobacco, vapor, or alternative nicotine products to anyone under 21. Retailers must verify age and post required…

Arkansas does not impose a statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vape products beyond federal restrictions on certain cartridge-based e-cigarettes. Sales of flavored products remain…

Arkansas Code § 8-9-403 bans open burning of tires, forbids maintaining a waste tire site, and requires used or waste tires to go only to a permitted processing facility, collection…

Arkansas is one of the few states that makes it unlawful to switch auxiliary driving lights on at all unless they fit a closed list. Ark. Code § 27-36-221 permits them only where they…

Arkansas has no dash cam statute, so a camera is judged by two windshield obstruction sections that Act 1251 of 1999 rewrote together. Under Ark. Code § 27-37-304(a)(1)(A) anything…

No Arkansas statute uses the words lane splitting, filtering, or lane sharing, and the General Assembly has never written a motorcycle-specific lane rule of any kind. What governs…

A.C.A. § 27-14-716(c)(1) prohibits placing any type of cover over an Arkansas license plate that makes the plate more difficult to read or that reduces its reflective properties. The…

Arkansas has never written a radar detector law. The phrase does not appear anywhere in the Arkansas Code or in the Code of Arkansas Rules, and neither does any jamming offense. The…

Arkansas lets you run metal studded tires on public highways for five months a year, from November 15 through April 15, and only if the studs protrude no more than one-sixteenth of an…

On 1994 and newer vehicles Arkansas allows aftermarket film down to 25 percent net light transmission on the side windows and side wings beside the driver and immediately behind, and…