Browse Arkansas Code titles and sections
28-48-301. Sheriff.
Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
28-48-301. Sheriff.
(a) By virtue of his or her office, the sheriff shall be public administrator in his or her county.
(b) It shall be the duty of the public administrator to take custody of all property of every kind in the county belonging to a deceased person if:
(1) The person dies or is found dead in the county without known spouse or next of kin and no qualified person petitions the court for grant of administration;
(2) The person, though dying elsewhere, leaves any property in the county which is exposed to loss or damage or is not in the custody of some responsible person; or
(3) For any other reason, the circuit court shall direct him or her to take custody of property.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 28-48-301
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:28-48-301
Source file: gov.ar.code.title.28.odt
Pages: Not recorded – Not recorded
Passage SHA-256: 64c6dfddeecf49e5e16ca9a5365a0788cb18815656a709e0e52071cc15260c37
Source location: content.xml paragraph 5602
Stored source content
28-48-301. Sheriff.
(a) By virtue of his or her office, the sheriff shall be public administrator in his or her county.
(b) It shall be the duty of the public administrator to take custody of all property of every kind in the county belonging to a deceased person if:
(1) The person dies or is found dead in the county without known spouse or next of kin and no qualified person petitions the court for grant of administration;
(2) The person, though dying elsewhere, leaves any property in the county which is exposed to loss or damage or is not in the custody of some responsible person; or
(3) For any other reason, the circuit court shall direct him or her to take custody of property.
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.
No explicit source connection was found. This does not mean there are no relevant authorities.