Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
16-10-1101. Purpose.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
16-10-1101. Purpose.
(a) The State of Arkansas requires that court proceedings be conducted in the English language under § 16-10-107.
(b) Recognizing that a person with limited English proficiency cannot fully participate in the legal process and exercise the rights afforded to him or her, a court shall appoint a qualified interpreter to assist a person with limited English proficiency in a court proceeding.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-10-1101
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. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.
Issuing source page ↗
Authority boundary: historical statutory source snapshot not current law.
Open the recorded source website ↗
Record provenance
Stable record: arkansas_code:legal_authorities:16-10-1101
Source file: gov.ar.code.title.16.odt
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: aeb49eb0310f64d9e469ce21667ffe470aec4701e3f7324acca189f79644c4f6
Source location: content.xml paragraph 3079
Stored source content
16-10-1101. Purpose.
(a) The State of Arkansas requires that court proceedings be conducted in the English language under § 16-10-107.
(b) Recognizing that a person with limited English proficiency cannot fully participate in the legal process and exercise the rights afforded to him or her, a court shall appoint a qualified interpreter to assist a person with limited English proficiency in a court proceeding.
Cross-references
Connections may be documented source relationships, shared citations or nearby passages. Each explains its basis; a connection alone does not establish applicability to your situation.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
16-10-107. Process and proceedings to be in English language.
All writs, process, proceedings, and records in any court shall be in the English language, except that the proper and known name of process and technical words may be expressed in the language commonly used. They shall be made out on paper or parchment, in a fair and legible character, in words at length and not abbreviated; but such abbreviations as are commonly used in the English language may be used. Numbers may be expressed by Arabic figures or Roman numerals in the customary way.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-10-107
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 16-10-107. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.