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13-4-302. Court records.
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13-4-302. Court records.
If a county of the State of Arkansas maintains records for the county courts, the county shall maintain these records as follows:
(1)(A) For circuit court, civil and criminal, domestic relations, and probate records:
(i) The county shall permanently maintain:
(a) Complete case files and written exhibits for all courts;
(b) Case indices for all courts;
(c) Case dockets for all courts;
(d) Grand jury reports;
(e) Grand juror lists;
(f) Petit jury lists in criminal cases;
(g) Original records, documents, and transcripts relating to the summoning of jurors and jury selection for a petit jury in a criminal case; and
(h) All probate records required to be maintained under § 28-1-108;
(ii) The county shall maintain for ten (10) years, after audit by Arkansas Legislative Audit:
(a) Records and reports of costs; and
(b) Fees assessed and collected; and
(iii) The county shall maintain for three (3) years, after audit by Arkansas Legislative Audit:
(a) Canceled checks;
(b) Bank statements;
(c) Petit jury lists in civil cases and original records, documents, and transcripts relating to the summoning of jurors and jury selection for a petit jury in a civil case; and
(d) Served and quashed warrants.
(B) The county shall maintain records of the juvenile division of circuit court, in accordance with § 9-27-309 and other provisions of Title 9 and the Arkansas Juvenile Code of 1989, § 9-27-301 et seq.;
(2) For county court records:
(A) The county shall permanently maintain:
(i) County court records;
(ii) Cemetery permits;
(iii) Statements of receipt and expenditures; and
(iv) County improvement district reports; and
(B) The county shall maintain for ten (10) years, after audit by Arkansas Legislative Audit:
(i
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 13-4-302
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13-4-302. Court records.
If a county of the State of Arkansas maintains records for the county courts, the county shall maintain these records as follows:
(1)(A) For circuit court, civil and criminal, domestic relations, and probate records:
(i) The county shall permanently maintain:
(a) Complete case files and written exhibits for all courts;
(b) Case indices for all courts;
(c) Case dockets for all courts;
(d) Grand jury reports;
(e) Grand juror lists;
(f) Petit jury lists in criminal cases;
(g) Original records, documents, and transcripts relating to the summoning of jurors and jury selection for a petit jury in a criminal case; and
(h) All probate records required to be maintained under § 28-1-108;
(ii) The county shall maintain for ten (10) years, after audit by Arkansas Legislative Audit:
(a) Records and reports of costs; and
(b) Fees assessed and collected; and
(iii) The county shall maintain for three (3) years, after audit by Arkansas Legislative Audit:
(a) Canceled checks;
(b) Bank statements;
(c) Petit jury lists in civil cases and original records, documents, and transcripts relating to the summoning of jurors and jury selection for a petit jury in a civil case; and
(d) Served and quashed warrants.
(B) The county shall maintain records of the juvenile division of circuit court, in accordance with § 9-27-309 and other provisions of Title 9 and the Arkansas Juvenile Code of 1989, § 9-27-301 et seq.;
(2) For county court records:
(A) The county shall permanently maintain:
(i) County court records;
(ii) Cemetery permits;
(iii) Statements of receipt and expenditures; and
(iv) County improvement district reports; and
(B) The county shall maintain for ten (10) years, after audit by Arkansas Legislative Audit:
(i) County court files;
(ii) County general claims dockets;
(iii) County road claims dockets;
(iv) Contracts for lease-purchase on rental payments;
(v) County school board financial reports;
(vi) Solid waste disposal revenue bonds; and
(vii) Allocations of state funds for solid waste disposal; and
(3) For quorum court records:
(A) The county shall permanently maintain:
(i) Ordinance, appropriation ordinance, and resolution registers;
(ii) Records of proceedings;
(iii) Codification of ordinances;
(iv) Registers of county advisory and administrative boards;
(v) Appointments to subordinate service districts; and
(vi) Quorum court minutes; and
(B) The county shall maintain for one (1) year the county treasurer's monthly financial report.
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28-1-108. Records.
The following records of the court shall be maintained:
(1) An index in which files pertaining to estates of deceased persons shall be indexed under the name of the decedent, and those pertaining to guardianships under the name of the ward. The file and docket number shall be shown after the name of each file;
(2) A docket in which shall be listed in chronological order under the name of the decedent or ward all documents filed or issued and all orders made pertaining to the estate, including:
(A) The dates thereof;
(B) The names and addresses of fiduciaries and of attorneys for parties in interest when and as known to the clerk;
(C) Reference to the volume and page of any record which shall have been made of the document or order; and
(D) Other data as the court may direct;
(3) A record of wills, properly indexed, in which shall be recorded all wills admitted to probate with the certificate of probate thereof;
(4) Other records as may be required by law or the court.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 28-1-108
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9-27-301. Title.
This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Juvenile Code of 1989”.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-27-301
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9-27-309. Confidentiality of records — Definition.
(a) All records may be closed and confidential within the discretion of the circuit court, except:
(1) Adoption records, including any part of a dependency-neglect record that includes adoption records, shall be closed and confidential as provided in the Revised Uniform Adoption Act, § 9-9-201 et seq.;
(2) Records of delinquency adjudications for which a juvenile could have been tried as an adult shall be made available to prosecuting attorneys for use at sentencing if the juvenile is subsequently tried as an adult or to determine if the juvenile should be tried as an adult; and
(3) The Administrative Office of the Courts shall provide the Arkansas Crime Information Center with records of delinquency adjudications for a juvenile adjudicated delinquent for an offense for which juvenile fingerprints shall be taken under § 9-27-320.
(b)(1)(A) Records of delinquency adjudications for which a juvenile could have been tried as an adult shall be kept for ten (10) years after the last adjudication of delinquency or the date of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere or a finding of guilt as an adult.
(B) Thereafter they may be expunged.
(2) The court may expunge other juvenile records at any time and shall expunge all the records of a juvenile upon his or her twenty-first birthday, in other types of delinquency, dependency-neglect, or families in need of services cases.
(3) For purposes of this section, “expunge” means to destroy.
(c) Records of juveniles who are designated as extended juvenile jurisdiction offenders shall be kept for ten (10) years after the last adjudication of delinquency, date of plea of guilty or nolo contendere, or finding of guilt as an adult or until the juvenile's twenty-first birthday, w
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 9-27-309
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 9-27-309. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.