{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-10-114","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 16-10-114","heading":"Courts not to open on Sunday - Exceptions","body":"(a) No court shall be opened or transact business on Sunday unless it is for the purpose of receiving a verdict or discharging a jury.\n\n(b) 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.\n\n(c) 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.","path":["AR Code","Title 16","Chapter 10","Subchapter 1"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:41Z","sha256":"eb431cdc938f7b27b360ce9b59411ba307faa2b31f3e0757e1bc5a7538db94d9","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-10-113","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-10-115"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}