{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-27-101-1026","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 27-101-1026","heading":"Transferor not liable for negligent operation","body":"(a) The owner of a motorboat who has made a bona fide sale or transfer of his or her certificate of title or interest and who has delivered possession of the motorboat to the purchaser or transferee is not liable for any damages resulting from negligent operation of the motorboat by another person. (b) The selling or transferring owner, upon delivery of possession of the motorboat, is not liable for any damage or negligence if the selling or transferring owner: (1) Delivers the certificate of title, properly endorsed and dated with the date of the endorsement, to the purchaser or transferee; (2) Delivers to the Office of Motor Vehicle or places in the United States mail, addressed to the Office of Motor Vehicle, the notice as provided in § 27-101-1027 ; or (3) Delivers to the Office of Motor Vehicle or places in the United States mail, addressed to the Office of Motor Vehicle, the appropriate documents and fees for registration of the motorboat to the new owner under the sale or transfer. Added by Act 2019, No. 733,§ 16, eff. 7/24/2019.\n\n(a) The owner of a motorboat who has made a bona fide sale or transfer of his or her certificate of title or interest and who has delivered possession of the motorboat to the purchaser or transferee is not liable for any damages resulting from negligent operation of the motorboat by another person.\n\n(b) The selling or transferring owner, upon delivery of possession of the motorboat, is not liable for any damage or negligence if the selling or transferring owner: (1) Delivers the certificate of title, properly endorsed and dated with the date of the endorsement, to the purchaser or transferee; (2) Delivers to the Office of Motor Vehicle or places in the United States mail, addressed to the Office of Motor Vehicle, the notice as provided in § 27-101-1027 ; or (3) Delivers to the Office of Motor Vehicle or places in the United States mail, addressed to the Office of Motor Vehicle, the appropriate documents and fees for registration of the motorboat to the new owner under the sale or transfer.\n\n(1) Delivers the certificate of title, properly endorsed and dated with the date of the endorsement, to the purchaser or transferee;\n\n(2) Delivers to the Office of Motor Vehicle or places in the United States mail, addressed to the Office of Motor Vehicle, the notice as provided in § 27-101-1027 ; or\n\n(3) Delivers to the Office of Motor Vehicle or places in the United States mail, addressed to the Office of Motor Vehicle, the appropriate documents and fees for registration of the motorboat to the new owner under the sale or transfer.","path":["AR Code","Title 27","Chapter 101","Subchapter 10"],"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":"06cb2475d33dea321965d87e562e8ef19eeac36f5ea4375b8ac6a5fa7f1db1f4","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-27-101-1025","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-27-101-1027","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."}