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Chapter 32 - Inspection of Motor Vehicles
Subchapter 1 - Motor Vehicle Safety
§ 27-32-101. Vehicles to be in safe mechanical condition - (a) (1) No person shall drive or move any vehicle...
§ 27-32-102. Penalty for operating unsafe vehicle - Any person found guilty of operating an unsafe vehicle shall...
Chapter 33 - Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact
§ 27-33-101. Adoption of compact - The Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact is enacted into law and...
§ 27-33-102. Executive head defined - The term “executive head” as used in Article IX(b) of...
§ 27-33-103. Legislative findings - The General Assembly finds that: (1) The public safety necessitates...
§ 27-33-104. Compact commissioner — Alternate - (a) The commissioner of this state on the Vehicle Equipment...
§ 27-33-105. Cooperation by state entities - (a) Within appropriations available therefor, the departments, agencies, and officers...
§ 27-33-106. Submission of budget - Pursuant to Article VI(a) of the Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact,...
§ 27-33-107. Inspection of accounts - Pursuant to Article VI(e) of the Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact,...
§ 27-33-108. Filing of documents — Notices - (a) Filing of documents as required by Article III(j) of...
§ 27-33-109. Approval required for rules and regulations - Pursuant to Article V(e) of the Vehicle Equipment Safety Compact,...
Chapter 34 - Child Passenger Protection Act
§ 27-34-101. Title - This chapter shall be known as the “Child Passenger Protection...
§ 27-34-102. Legislative intent - It is the legislative intent that all state, university, county,...
§ 27-34-103. Penalty - (a) Any person who violates this chapter shall, upon conviction,...
§ 27-34-104. Requirements - (a) While operating a motor vehicle on a public road,...
§ 27-34-105. Exceptions to provisions - The provisions of this chapter shall not apply when any...
§ 27-34-106. Effect of noncompliance - (a) The failure to provide or use a child passenger...
§ 27-34-107. Arkansas Child Passenger Protection Fund - (a) (1) A special revenue fund is created which shall...
§ 27-34-108. Public safety fund — Creation - (a) A town or city that collects fines pursuant to...
Chapter 35 - Size and Load Regulations
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 27-35-101. Violations - It is a misdemeanor for any person to drive or...
§ 27-35-102. Certain vehicles exempted — Definition - (a) As used in this subchapter, “emergency vehicle” means a...
§ 27-35-103. Scope and effect of regulations - (a) The maximum size and weight of vehicles specified in...
§ 27-35-104. Riding in spaces not for passengers - (a) No person shall ride on any vehicle upon any...
§ 27-35-105. Projecting loads on passenger vehicles - No passenger-type vehicle shall be operated on any highway with...
§ 27-35-106. Extension of load beyond vehicle front - The load upon any vehicle operated alone, or the load...
§ 27-35-107. Registration of gross weight - (a) (1) Upon registering any vehicle under the laws of...
§ 27-35-108. Authority to weigh vehicles and require removal of excess loads - (a) (1) Any police officer having reason to believe that...
§ 27-35-109. Liability for damage to highway or structure - (a) Any person driving any vehicle, object, or contrivance upon...
§ 27-35-110. Spilling loads on highways prohibited — Covers required for loads of sand, gravel, and rock — Exceptions - (a) No vehicle shall be driven or moved on any...
§ 27-35-111. Trailers and towed vehicles - (a) (1) When one (1) vehicle is towing another, the...
§ 27-35-112. Towing vehicles licensed in other states - (a) (1) A vehicle licensed in another state for use...
Subchapter 2 - Weights and Dimensions
§ 27-35-201. Operating vehicle exceeding size or weight limitations unlawful - Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, it shall be...
§ 27-35-202. Penalties for overweight vehicles - (a) (1) Any operator found violating the provisions of this...
§ 27-35-203. Single and tandem axle load limits — Definition - (a) Maximum Single Axle Load. The total gross load imposed...
§ 27-35-206. Width of vehicles - (a) (1) Except as provided in § 27-35-210(p), a vehicle...
§ 27-35-207. Height of vehicles - No vehicle operated upon the highways of this state, unladen...
§ 27-35-208. Length of vehicles — Definitions - (a) (1) No single truck operated on the highways of...
§ 27-35-209. Forestry machinery exemptions - (a) Forestry machinery shall be exempt from the width and...
§ 27-35-210. Permits for special cargoes — Definition - (a) (1) (A) The State Highway Commission, with respect to...
§ 27-35-211. Disposition of fees and penalties - All fees and penalties collected under the provisions of §§...
§ 27-35-213. Persons permitted to stop and direct traffic - (a) In addition to the requirements on persons and payloads...
Subchapter 3 - Manufactured Homes and Houses
§ 27-35-301. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) [Repealed.] (2) “Insurance” means...
§ 27-35-302. Limitations on movement - Manufactured home units eight feet (8') or less in width...
§ 27-35-303. Rules - The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall promulgate rules covering the...
§ 27-35-304. Special permit to move — Fee - (a) (1) Manufactured home units may be lawfully moved interstate...
§ 27-35-305. Issuance of permits - (a) Special permits shall be issued to any licensed carrier,...
§ 27-35-306. Times and places for moving overwidth or overlength manufactured homes - (a) Overwidth or overlength manufactured home units shall be moved...
§ 27-35-307. Payment of fees on monthly basis - (a) Persons posting a surety bond with the Arkansas Department...
§ 27-35-308. Disposition of fees - (a) All fees collected under the provisions of this subchapter...
§ 27-35-309. Transportation of houses and other structures - (a) Qualified house or structural movers in this state who...
§ 27-35-310. Persons permitted to stop and direct traffic - (a) In addition to the requirements on persons and payloads...
Chapter 36 - Lighting Regulations
§ 27-36-101. Violations - It is a misdemeanor for any person to drive or...
§ 27-36-102. Exemptions from provisions - The provisions of this chapter with respect to lamps on...
Subchapter 2 - Lighting Requirements Generally
§ 27-36-204. When lighted lamps required - (a) (1) Every vehicle, except motorcycles and motor-driven cycles, upon...
§ 27-36-205. Use of parking lights - (a) No motor vehicle shall be operated on the public...
§ 27-36-206. Lamps on parked vehicles - (a) Whenever a vehicle is parked or stopped upon a...
§ 27-36-207. Number of driving lamps required or permitted - (a) At all times specified in § 27-36-204, at least...
§ 27-36-208. Special restrictions on lamps - (a) Any lighted lamp or illuminating device upon a motor...
§ 27-36-209. Headlamps - (a) (1) Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle or...
§ 27-36-210. Multiple-beam road lighting equipment - (a) Except as otherwise provided, the headlamps or the auxiliary...
§ 27-36-211. Use of multiple-beam road lighting equipment - Whenever a motor vehicle is being operated on a roadway...
§ 27-36-214. Spot lamps, fog lamps, and auxiliary passing and driving lamps - (a) Spot Lamps. (1) Any motor vehicle may be equipped...
§ 27-36-215. Tail lamps and reflectors - (a) (1) Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, and pole trailer,...
§ 27-36-216. Signal lamps and signal devices - (a) (1) Any motor vehicle may be equipped, and when...
§ 27-36-217. Additional lighting equipment generally - (a) Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more...
§ 27-36-218. Additional lamps and reflectors on buses, trucks, tractors, and trailers - (a) In addition to other equipment required by this subchapter,...
§ 27-36-219. Lamps on farm tractors and equipment - (a) (1) Every farm tractor and every self-propelled farm equipment...
§ 27-36-220. Lamps on bicycles - (a) Every bicycle shall be equipped with a lamp on...
§ 27-36-221. Auxiliary driving lights - It is unlawful to operate any motor vehicle on a...
§ 27-36-222. Penalty for violation of § 27-36-221 - Any person violating the provisions of § 27-36-221 shall be...
§ 27-36-223. Motorcycle headlamp modulation systems - (a) As used in this section, “motorcycle equipped with a...
§ 27-36-224. Display of lighting devices generally - A motor vehicle shall not be operated on a street,...
Subchapter 3 - Lights for Emergency Vehicles
§ 27-36-301. Violations - (a) (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm,...
§ 27-36-302. Exempted devices - Devices that may be used by the state, city, or...
§ 27-36-303. Police vehicles - All state, county, or city and municipal police agencies shall...
§ 27-36-304. Fire department vehicles and ambulances - (a) All state, county, city, and municipal or privately owned...
§ 27-36-305. Other emergency vehicles - (a) All state, county, and municipal agencies and private persons...
§ 27-36-306. Other nonemergency vehicles — Funeral processions - (a) (1) A funeral escort vehicle engaged in leading or...
Chapter 37 - Equipment Regulations
§ 27-37-101. Violations - It is a misdemeanor for any person to drive, or...
§ 27-37-102. Exemptions from provisions - The provisions of this chapter with respect to equipment on...
Subchapter 2 - Safety and Emergency Equipment
§ 27-37-202. Horns and warning devices — Flashing lights on emergency vehicles - (a) (1) (A) Every motor vehicle when operated upon a...
§ 27-37-203. Vehicles transporting explosives - (a) Any person operating any vehicle transporting any explosive or...
§ 27-37-204. Lamp or flag on projecting load - (a) Whenever the load upon any vehicle extends to the...
§ 27-37-205. Certain vehicles to carry flares or other warning devices - (a) No person shall operate any motor truck, passenger bus,...
§ 27-37-206. Display of warning devices when vehicle disabled - (a) Whenever any motor truck, passenger bus, truck tractor, trailer,...
Subchapter 3 - Glass and Mirrors
§ 27-37-302. Windshields, etc., to be unobstructed - No person shall drive any motor vehicle with any sign,...
§ 27-37-303. Windshield wipers required - (a) The windshield on every motor vehicle shall be equipped...
§ 27-37-304. Obstruction of interior prohibited - (a) (1) (A) It is unlawful for any person to...
§ 27-37-305. Mirrors - (a) Every motor vehicle shall be equipped with a rearview...
§ 27-37-306. Light transmission levels for tinting of motor vehicle windows - (a) It shall be unlawful to operate a vehicle on...
§ 27-37-307. Window tinting on chauffeur-driven sedans - (a) (1) As used in this section, “sedan” means a...
Subchapter 4 - Tires
§ 27-37-401. Only pneumatic rubber tires permitted — Exceptions — Special permits - (a) (1) The wheels of all motor vehicles, including trailers...
§ 27-37-402. Metal studded tires lawful during prescribed period - (a) It is lawful to use metal studded tires with...
Subchapter 5 - Brakes
§ 27-37-501. Equipment required - (a) (1) Every motor vehicle, other than a motorcycle or...
§ 27-37-502. Performance ability - (a) Every motor vehicle or combination of vehicles, at all...
Subchapter 6 - Mufflers
§ 27-37-601. Noise or smoke producing devices prohibited - (a) Every motor vehicle shall, at all times, be equipped...
§ 27-37-602. Cutouts prohibited - (a) The sale or use of cutouts on any motor-driven...
Subchapter 7 - Mandatory Seat Belt Use
§ 27-37-701. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Motor vehicle” means any...
§ 27-37-702. Seat belt use required — Applicability of subchapter - (a) Each driver and front seat passenger in any motor...
§ 27-37-703. Effect of noncompliance - (a) (1) The failure of an occupant to wear a...
§ 27-37-706. Penalties — Court costs - (a) (1) A person who violates this subchapter shall be...
§ 27-37-707. Traffic violation report and driver's license suspension - The Office of Driver Services shall not: (1) Include in...
Subchapter 8 - Eric's Law: The Nitrous Oxide Prohibition Act
§ 27-37-801. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 27-37-802. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Motorcycle” means a...
§ 27-37-803. Use prohibited - (a) (1) Except as provided under subdivision (a)(2) of this...
Chapter 38 - Automotive Fluids Regulation
Subchapter 1 - Antifreeze
§ 27-38-101. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Methanol” means the products...
§ 27-38-102. Penalty - Any person violating any of the provisions of this subchapter...
§ 27-38-103. Certain sales exempted - Nothing contained in this subchapter shall be construed to apply...
§ 27-38-104. Regulation of disposition — Markings required - It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, offer...
§ 27-38-105. Record of deliveries — Exception - (a) It shall be unlawful for any person conducting a...