{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-17-137","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 16-17-137","heading":"Jurisdiction over certain criminal matters","body":"(a) If authorized by the administrative plan for the judicial circuit required by Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 14, a state district court judge may preside over the following criminal matters: (1) A drug court program authorized under the Arkansas Drug Court Act, § 16-98-301 et seq.; (2) A probation supervision program; and (3) A parole or post-release supervision program. (b) The administrative judge of the judicial district may withdraw authorization under this section at any time. Amended by Act 2023, No. 659,§ 119, eff. 1/1/2024. Acts 2011, No. 1137, § 2.\n\n(a) If authorized by the administrative plan for the judicial circuit required by Supreme Court Administrative Order No. 14, a state district court judge may preside over the following criminal matters: (1) A drug court program authorized under the Arkansas Drug Court Act, § 16-98-301 et seq.; (2) A probation supervision program; and (3) A parole or post-release supervision program.\n\n(1) A drug court program authorized under the Arkansas Drug Court Act, § 16-98-301 et seq.;\n\n(2) A probation supervision program; and\n\n(3) A parole or post-release supervision program.\n\n(b) The administrative judge of the judicial district may withdraw authorization under this section at any time.","path":["AR Code","Title 16","Chapter 17","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 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"42d5d0ce346fdb581f0f0639f9065b7cd71e4f04d4f92655fda63b377738fd3c","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-17-136","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-16-17-138","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."}