{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-13-2704","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 16-13-2704","heading":"Bailiffs","body":"(a) The circuit, chancery, and circuit-chancery judges of the Nineteenth Judicial District may each appoint one (1) court bailiff. (b) (1) The duties of the bailiffs shall include the supervision and maintenance of order in their respective courtrooms, providing security for the judges, officers of the court, jurors, and other individuals involved in court proceedings, administering oaths, and other incidental and related duties at the direction of the respective judges. (2) When acting within the scope of their duties, the court bailiffs shall exercise all the powers necessary and proper to the performance of their duties, including the powers of a deputy sheriff and the power to make arrests, carry a weapon, and serve a summons. (3) A bailiff may maintain law enforcement certification existing or acquired during his or her service as bailiff. (c) The pay of the bailiffs shall be determined by the quorum courts. Acts 1993, No. 789, § 1.\n\n(a) The circuit, chancery, and circuit-chancery judges of the Nineteenth Judicial District may each appoint one (1) court bailiff.\n\n(b) (1) The duties of the bailiffs shall include the supervision and maintenance of order in their respective courtrooms, providing security for the judges, officers of the court, jurors, and other individuals involved in court proceedings, administering oaths, and other incidental and related duties at the direction of the respective judges. (2) When acting within the scope of their duties, the court bailiffs shall exercise all the powers necessary and proper to the performance of their duties, including the powers of a deputy sheriff and the power to make arrests, carry a weapon, and serve a summons. (3) A bailiff may maintain law enforcement certification existing or acquired during his or her service as bailiff.\n\n(1) The duties of the bailiffs shall include the supervision and maintenance of order in their respective courtrooms, providing security for the judges, officers of the court, jurors, and other individuals involved in court proceedings, administering oaths, and other incidental and related duties at the direction of the respective judges.\n\n(2) When acting within the scope of their duties, the court bailiffs shall exercise all the powers necessary and proper to the performance of their duties, including the powers of a deputy sheriff and the power to make arrests, carry a weapon, and serve a summons.\n\n(3) A bailiff may maintain law enforcement certification existing or acquired during his or her service as bailiff.\n\n(c) The pay of the bailiffs shall be determined by the quorum courts.","path":["AR Code","Title 16","Chapter 13","Subchapter 27"],"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 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"4c0ab188afeb0f6bb1a35b9cdd3023bd92a3c4aa24c787a1e67496e1279f401e","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-13-2703","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-13-2801","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}