{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-17-908","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 20-17-908","heading":"Responsibilities of county abandoned cemetery registration boards","body":"(a) A county abandoned cemetery registration board shall have the authority to register abandoned cemeteries within the county as defined in § 20-17-905 , but only after a petition has been filed pursuant to § 20-17-907 . (b) At any time, the board may conduct an examination of a petitioned abandoned cemetery within the county. (c) (1) If funds and voluntary manpower are available, the board shall provide for the cleaning of petitioned abandoned cemeteries within the county that meet minimum requirements for maintenance at least one (1) time in the spring and one (1) time in the fall. (2) Cleaning is intended to remove weeds, debris, and foreign material that degrade the burial site. (d) The board may post a small sign to inform the public that the abandoned cemetery is under the care of the board. Acts 2005, No. 2001, § 2.\n\n(a) A county abandoned cemetery registration board shall have the authority to register abandoned cemeteries within the county as defined in § 20-17-905 , but only after a petition has been filed pursuant to § 20-17-907 .\n\n(b) At any time, the board may conduct an examination of a petitioned abandoned cemetery within the county.\n\n(c) (1) If funds and voluntary manpower are available, the board shall provide for the cleaning of petitioned abandoned cemeteries within the county that meet minimum requirements for maintenance at least one (1) time in the spring and one (1) time in the fall. (2) Cleaning is intended to remove weeds, debris, and foreign material that degrade the burial site.\n\n(1) If funds and voluntary manpower are available, the board shall provide for the cleaning of petitioned abandoned cemeteries within the county that meet minimum requirements for maintenance at least one (1) time in the spring and one (1) time in the fall.\n\n(2) Cleaning is intended to remove weeds, debris, and foreign material that degrade the burial site.\n\n(d) The board may post a small sign to inform the public that the abandoned cemetery is under the care of the board.","path":["AR Code","Title 20","Chapter 17","Subchapter 9"],"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":"91d5a52f6e90dde7c1bc33426ceca0df4af52ed7d0241a1bdd323fce4e6c330e","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-17-907","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-17-909","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."}