(a) No court shall be opened or transact business on Sunday unless it is for the purpose of receiving a verdict or discharging a jury.
(b) Every adjournment of a court on Saturday shall always be to some other day than Sunday, except such adjournment as may be made after a cause has been committed to a jury.
(c) This section shall not prevent the exercise of the jurisdiction of any magistrate when it may be necessary in criminal cases to preserve the peace or arrest the offenders; nor shall this section inhibit the exercise of the jurisdiction of any magistrate on Sunday in disposing of misdemeanor cases where the defendant desires to and does enter a plea of guilty or a plea of nolo contendere.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 2 - Courts and Court Officers
Chapter 10 - General Provisions
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 16-10-101. Administrative responsibilities of the Supreme Court
§ 16-10-102. Administrative Office of the Courts — Director — Cooperation of court officers
§ 16-10-103. Training and education of court personnel
§ 16-10-105. Sittings of courts to be public
§ 16-10-106. Power to issue writs and process
§ 16-10-107. Process and proceedings to be in English language
§ 16-10-109. Reading of record — Signing
§ 16-10-112. Proceedings not affected by lapse of term
§ 16-10-113. Change of term not to affect proceedings
§ 16-10-114. Courts not to open on Sunday — Exceptions
§ 16-10-115. Trial by temporary judge
§ 16-10-117. Judge temporarily assigned in district — Jury list
§ 16-10-118. Judicial officeholder as candidate for nonjudicial office — Resignation — Warrants void
§ 16-10-119. Travel expenses of judges
§ 16-10-122. Sheriffs of courts
§ 16-10-123. Furnishing fuel, blank books, and stationery
§ 16-10-124. Enforcement of return of writ or process and payment of moneys
§ 16-10-125. Audit of accounts of sheriff and clerk
§ 16-10-128. Transcripts — Bills of exceptions
§ 16-10-130. Precedence given to criminal trials when victim under age of fourteen
§ 16-10-131. Exemption from overtime parking penalties
§ 16-10-132. Addresses of parties
§ 16-10-135. Aids for the hearing or visually impaired
§ 16-10-136. Extrajudicial activities of justices and judges
§ 16-10-137. Administrative Office of the Courts — Annual report
§ 16-10-139. Specialty court program evaluation and approval — Definition
§ 16-10-140. Accumulation of data concerning sexual offenses — Definitions
§ 16-10-141. District court costs and fees — Specialty courts