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- Jurisdiction
- Arkansas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Police power of the State
- Issued
- 2024-03-28 Mar. 28, 2024
- Effective
- standing (read as 2024-03-28)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Mar. 28, 2024 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureStanding dutyOther
- Addressees
- owners or persons in control of premises; persons generally
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Arkansas DUT-AR
Operative words
the Governor, in relation to the matters or things found and certified by the State Board of Health to be a nuisance, may declare them to be public nuisances and order them to be changed as he or she shall direct, or be abated and removed. (c) Any violation of an order shall be held and punished as a misdemeanor
Penalty
Misdemeanor for violation of the Governor's order; county officers required to execute it
What it required
Authorizes the Governor, on the Board's certification, to declare conditions affecting the security of life and health public nuisances and to order them changed or abated, makes violation of such an order a misdemeanor, and binds the prosecuting attorney, sheriff and other county officers to execute the order.
Retrieval noteFindLaw text 'Current as of March 28, 2024'; the section has not been amended since codification (history: Acts 1881, No. 85), so the text equals the 2020 text (cross-checked against the Official Code of Arkansas Annotated, Release 78 (Nov. 6, 2020), UniCourt copy).