{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-4-31-204","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 4-31-204","heading":"Actions - Service of process - Venue","body":"(a) (1) Any bank, trust company, foreign mutual savings bank, pension fund, foreign mutual savings fund society, mutual banking association, foreign insurance company, or any other type of organization defined in this subchapter and investing funds in Arkansas may sue or be sued within this state in relation to such mortgages or deeds of trust on real properties, securities, or debts, and service of process may be performed by service upon any custodian or agent appointed within the state. (2) If no custodian or agent has been appointed, the bank, trust company, foreign mutual savings bank, pension fund, foreign mutual savings fund society, mutual banking association, foreign insurance company, or other type of organization may be served with process under § 4-20-113 . (b) The venue of an action under subsection (a) of this section is: (1) In the county of the residence of a plaintiff; or (2) If a subject of the action is land, in the county in which any part of the land is located. Acts 1989, No. 947, § 4; 2009, No. 814, § 3.\n\n(a) (1) Any bank, trust company, foreign mutual savings bank, pension fund, foreign mutual savings fund society, mutual banking association, foreign insurance company, or any other type of organization defined in this subchapter and investing funds in Arkansas may sue or be sued within this state in relation to such mortgages or deeds of trust on real properties, securities, or debts, and service of process may be performed by service upon any custodian or agent appointed within the state. (2) If no custodian or agent has been appointed, the bank, trust company, foreign mutual savings bank, pension fund, foreign mutual savings fund society, mutual banking association, foreign insurance company, or other type of organization may be served with process under § 4-20-113 .\n\n(1) Any bank, trust company, foreign mutual savings bank, pension fund, foreign mutual savings fund society, mutual banking association, foreign insurance company, or any other type of organization defined in this subchapter and investing funds in Arkansas may sue or be sued within this state in relation to such mortgages or deeds of trust on real properties, securities, or debts, and service of process may be performed by service upon any custodian or agent appointed within the state.\n\n(2) If no custodian or agent has been appointed, the bank, trust company, foreign mutual savings bank, pension fund, foreign mutual savings fund society, mutual banking association, foreign insurance company, or other type of organization may be served with process under § 4-20-113 .\n\n(b) The venue of an action under subsection (a) of this section is: (1) In the county of the residence of a plaintiff; or (2) If a subject of the action is land, in the county in which any part of the land is located.\n\n(1) In the county of the residence of a plaintiff; or\n\n(2) If a subject of the action is land, in the county in which any part of the land is located.","path":["AR Code","Title 4","Chapter 31","Subchapter 2"],"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":"1c81c358762ac9a59b7cffa217fb4d6209a3dd1fd5b18365c2e373e680b3efca","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-4-31-203","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-4-31-205","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."}