(a) As used in this section, “owner” means a person in whom is vested the ownership and title of property and who is the owner of record, including without limitation a local, city, state, or federal governmental entity.
(b)
(1) A store, shop, warehouse, dwelling house, building, boat, airplane, or other property or structure used for the purpose of unlawfully selling, storing, keeping, manufacturing, using, or donating a controlled substance, precursor, or analog under the Uniform Controlled Substances Act, § 5-64-101 et seq., is detrimental to the public morals and is a common nuisance, and a court shall order that the common nuisance be enjoined, abated, and prevented.
(2) Costs of enjoinment, abatement, and prevention and damages may be recovered against a person or entity found to be the owner of the common nuisance property.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies
Chapter 105 - Abatement of Nuisances
Subchapter 4 - Arkansas Drug Abatement Act of 1989
§ 16-105-402. Common nuisance declared — Definition
§ 16-105-403. Action to abate — Permanent injunction — Definition
§ 16-105-404. Verification of complaint
§ 16-105-405. Temporary injunction
§ 16-105-406. Bond required — Exceptions
§ 16-105-407. Precedence of action — Exceptions
§ 16-105-408. Dismissal for want of prosecution
§ 16-105-410. Order of abatement — Lien for costs — Enforcement
§ 16-105-411. Violations — Criminal penalties
§ 16-105-412. Order of abatement — Civil penalty — Damages
§ 16-105-413. Custody of building
§ 16-105-414. Fees — Closing of building or place
§ 16-105-415. Disposition of sale proceeds