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14-140-101. Maintenance and regulation of markets.
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14-140-101. Maintenance and regulation of markets.
(a) The governing body may erect, establish, and regulate the markets and marketplaces for the sale of vegetables and other articles necessary for the sustenance, convenience, and comfort of the city and the inhabitants thereof.
(b) The governing body shall have power to prescribe:
(1) The times of opening and closing the markets or marketplaces;
(2) The kind and description of articles that may be sold therein; and
(3) The stands or places to be occupied by the vendors.
(c) The governing body may have full power to:
(1) Prevent forestalling;
(2) Prohibit or regulate huckstering in the markets; and
(3) Adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to prevent fraud, to preserve order in the market, and to ensure the health and safety of the citizens.
(d)(1) The governing body may authorize the immediate seizure, arrest, or removal from any market of any person violating its regulations, as established by ordinance, together with any article in that person's possession, and the immediate seizure and destruction of tainted or unsound meat, seafood, poultry, vegetable, fruit, or other provisions.
(2) Under § 20-57-101 et seq., the Department of Health is the entity authorized to regulate food safety.
(e) A charge or an assessment, other than those essential for operations and maintenance, shall not be made or levied against any farmer or producer that is selling items grown or produced on the farmer's or producer's land or property.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 14-140-101
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14-140-101. Maintenance and regulation of markets.
(a) The governing body may erect, establish, and regulate the markets and marketplaces for the sale of vegetables and other articles necessary for the sustenance, convenience, and comfort of the city and the inhabitants thereof.
(b) The governing body shall have power to prescribe:
(1) The times of opening and closing the markets or marketplaces;
(2) The kind and description of articles that may be sold therein; and
(3) The stands or places to be occupied by the vendors.
(c) The governing body may have full power to:
(1) Prevent forestalling;
(2) Prohibit or regulate huckstering in the markets; and
(3) Adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to prevent fraud, to preserve order in the market, and to ensure the health and safety of the citizens.
(d)(1) The governing body may authorize the immediate seizure, arrest, or removal from any market of any person violating its regulations, as established by ordinance, together with any article in that person's possession, and the immediate seizure and destruction of tainted or unsound meat, seafood, poultry, vegetable, fruit, or other provisions.
(2) Under § 20-57-101 et seq., the Department of Health is the entity authorized to regulate food safety.
(e) A charge or an assessment, other than those essential for operations and maintenance, shall not be made or levied against any farmer or producer that is selling items grown or produced on the farmer's or producer's land or property.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
20-57-101. Sale, importation, etc., of certain food prohibited.
(a) Whoever shall knowingly sell or offer or expose for sale, or bring or cause to be brought into this state to sell or offer for sale, or shall have in his, her, or their possession with intent to sell for food, the flesh of any animal dying otherwise than by slaughter, or slaughtered when diseased, or shall sell or offer for sale the flesh purported to be of one animal, knowing it to be of another species, or shall offer for sale or sell any tainted, diseased, corrupted, decayed, or unwholesome meat, fish, fowl, vegetable, produce, or provision of any kind whatever without making this fully known to the purchaser, or shall sell or offer to sell the meat of any calf which was killed before it had attained the age of six (6) weeks, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
(b) Upon conviction, the person shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six (6) months.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-57-101
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 20-57-101. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.