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Chapter 27 - Rights in Personal Property
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 18-27-101. Joint tenancy in stock certificate - (a) In any instance in which any corporation or cooperative...
§ 18-27-102. Safe-deposit boxes - (a) Any state, national or private bank, savings and loan...
§ 18-27-103. Abandonment of personal property - (a) Upon the purchase of land at a judicial sale,...
Subchapter 2 - Pawnbrokers
§ 18-27-204. Limitations on the purchase and disposition of personal property — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “pawnbroker” means any person,...
Subchapter 3 - Dealer in Secondhand Goods Reform and Disclosure Act
§ 18-27-301. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 18-27-302. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Dealer” means an individual...
§ 18-27-303. Recovery of personal property and identifiable stolen personal property — Liability - (a) An owner of stolen personal property may request that...
§ 18-27-304. Notice concerning recovery of personal property and identifiable stolen personal property - (a) Once an owner requests the return of stolen property,...
§ 18-27-305. Limitations on the purchase, maintenance, and disposition of personal property — Defacing identifiable stolen personal property - A dealer shall not: (1) Purchase or receive personal property...
§ 18-27-306. Penalties - A violation of this subchapter by a dealer is a...
Chapter 28 - Unclaimed Property
§ 18-28-101. Abandonment of property with service or repair shops — Disposition - (a) Any item of clothing left at a dry cleaners...
§ 18-28-102. Abandonment of jewelry with jeweler or merchant for service, repair, or on consignment — Disposition - (a) An item of jewelry left with a jeweler or...
Subchapter 2 - Unclaimed Property Act
§ 18-28-201. Definitions - In this subchapter: (1) “Administrator” means the Auditor of State....
§ 18-28-202. Presumptions of abandonment - (a) Property is presumed abandoned if it is unclaimed by...
§ 18-28-203. Contents of safe deposit box or other safekeeping depository - Tangible property held in a safe deposit box or other...
§ 18-28-204. Rules for taking custody - Except as otherwise provided in this subchapter or by other...
§ 18-28-205. Dormancy charge - A holder may deduct from property presumed abandoned a charge...
§ 18-28-206. Burden of proof as to property evidenced by record of check or draft - A record of the issuance of a check, draft, or...
§ 18-28-207. Report of abandoned property - (a) A holder of property presumed abandoned shall make a...
§ 18-28-208. Payment or delivery of abandoned property - (a) Except for property held in a safe deposit box...
§ 18-28-209. Notice and publication of lists of abandoned property - The administrator shall publish a notice not later than November...
§ 18-28-210. Custody by state — Recovery by holder — Defense of holder - (a) In this section, payment or delivery is made in...
§ 18-28-211. Crediting of dividends, interest, and increments to owner's account - If property other than money is delivered to the administrator...
§ 18-28-212. Public sale of abandoned property - (a) (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the...
§ 18-28-213. Deposit of funds. — Definition - (a) (1) The funds received under this subchapter, including the...
§ 18-28-214. Claim of another state to recover property - (a) After property has been paid or delivered to the...
§ 18-28-215. Filing claim with administrator — Handling of claims by administrator - (a) A person, excluding another state, claiming property paid or...
§ 18-28-216. Action to establish claim - A person aggrieved by a decision of the administrator or...
§ 18-28-217. Election to take payment or delivery - (a) The administrator may decline to receive property reported under...
§ 18-28-218. Destruction or disposition of property having no substantial commercial value — Immunity from liability - If the administrator determines after investigation that property delivered under...
§ 18-28-219. Periods of limitation - (a) The expiration, before or after July 30, 1999, of...
§ 18-28-220. Requests for reports and examination of records - (a) The administrator may require a person who has not...
§ 18-28-221. Retention of records - (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), a holder...
§ 18-28-222. Enforcement - The administrator may maintain an action in this or another...
§ 18-28-223. Interstate agreements and cooperation — Joint and reciprocal actions with other states - (a) The administrator may enter into an agreement with another...
§ 18-28-224. Interest and penalties - (a) A holder who fails to report, pay, or deliver...
§ 18-28-225. Agreement to locate property - (a) An agreement by an owner, the primary purpose of...
§ 18-28-226. Foreign transactions - This subchapter does not apply to property held, due, and...
§ 18-28-227. Transitional provisions - (a) An initial report filed under this subchapter for property...
§ 18-28-228. Rules - The administrator may adopt pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure...
§ 18-28-229. Uniformity of application and construction - This subchapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its...
§ 18-28-230. Periods of limitation not a bar - Any statute of limitations that would vest the ownership of...
§ 18-28-231. Escheatment — United States savings bond - (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, including § 18-28-202(a)(10)...
Subchapter 4 - Mineral Proceeds
§ 18-28-401. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Holder” means a person,...
§ 18-28-402. Escrow accounts - (a) (1) A holder of mineral proceeds shall establish an...
§ 18-28-403. Abandoned mineral proceeds — Disposition of funds - (a) (1) (A) All mineral proceeds that are held or...
§ 18-28-404. Reports - A report required to be made to the Auditor of...
Chapter 29 - Property Sales
Subchapter 2 - Unused Property
§ 18-29-201. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Baby food” or “infant...
§ 18-29-202. Prohibited unused property sale items - (a) No unused property merchant shall offer for sale at...
§ 18-29-203. Receipts - (a) (1) Every unused property merchant shall maintain receipts for...
§ 18-29-204. Penalty - The penalty for violation of this subchapter shall be as...