Arkansas Implied Residential Quality Standards (Habitability)

(a) For all lease agreements or rental agreements entered into or renewed after November 1, 2021, and exclusive of a lease to purchase or a lease with a purchase right and except when temporarily prevented by an act of God, the failure of, or caused by, public utility service, or other force majeure events to include without limitation any epidemic or pandemic that causes work stoppages, labor or material shortages, or required social distancing that impacts the ability to maintain or repair a premises, there shall be implied in all leases and rental agreements for residential purposes a requirement that a dwelling unit or single-family residence have, both at the time possession is delivered to the tenant or tenants named in the lease or rental agreement and throughout the term of the lease or rental agreement: (1) An available source of hot and cold running water; (2) An available source of electricity; (3) A source of potable drinking water; (4) A sanitary sewer system and plumbing that conform to applicable building and housing codes in existence at the time of installation; (5) A functioning roof and building envelope; and (6) A functioning heating and air conditioning system to the extent the heating and air conditioning system served the premises at the time the landlord and the tenant entered into the lease or rental agreement.