Arkansas Code
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 16-10-115. Trial by temporary judge

(a) On stipulation of the litigant parties, any court of this state, except in criminal causes, may order a cause to be tried by a temporary judge who is licensed in Arkansas to practice law. The temporary judge shall be sworn and empowered to act until final determination of the cause.
(b) The stipulation of the litigant parties shall include the amount of compensation to be paid the temporary judge for trying the cause and the method of paying the compensation.
(c) The Supreme Court may adopt rules setting forth the procedure for implementing this section.

Structure Arkansas Code

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

§ 16-10-104. Courts of record

§ 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

§ 16-10-108. Contempt

§ 16-10-109. Reading of record — Signing

§ 16-10-110. Seals

§ 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