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Ark. Code Ann. § 16-10-114

Courts not to open on Sunday — Exceptions

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case James v. Pulaski County Circuit Court, Fifth Division (2014)

Most recently applied in James v. Pulaski County Circuit Court, Fifth Division (June 2014)

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(1) No court shall be opened or transact business on Sunday unless it is for the purpose of receiving a verdict or discharging a jury.

(2) Every adjournment of a court on Saturday shall always be to some other day than Sunday, except such adjournment as may be made after a cause has been committed to a jury.

(3) This section shall not prevent the exercise of the jurisdiction of any magistrate when it may be necessary in criminal cases to preserve the peace or arrest the offenders; nor shall this section inhibit the exercise of the jurisdiction of any magistrate on Sunday in disposing of misdemeanor cases where the defendant desires to and does enter a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.