Arkansas Code Annotated

Ark. Code Ann. § 16-17-1116 (2026)

Reorganization of local district courts to state district courts as of January 1, 2025

✓ current as of May 2026

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1. Beginning January 1, 2025, the following cities and counties under this section that are currently being served by a local district court under § 16-17-901 et seq. shall be reorganized as a state district court and served by state district court judges as assigned.
2. The new state district court judgeship created by this section shall become effective January 1, 2025, and shall be placed on the ballot to be elected in the 2024 nonpartisan judicial election from the newly constructed state district court district.
3. The cities and counties that were previously served by local district courts and will be served by state district courts shall comply with the cost-sharing requirements established in § 16-17-1106, effective January 1, 2025.
1. The Fourteenth District is composed of the counties of Independence, Fulton, and Izard.
2. The Fourteenth District has six (6) departments as follows:
  1. One (1) located in Batesville;
  2. One (1) located in Melbourne;
  3. One (1) located in Calico Rock;
  4. One (1) located in Horseshoe Bend;
  5. One (1) located in Salem; and
  6. One (1) located in Mammoth Spring.
3. The Fourteenth District is served by one (1) state district court judge.
4. The Fourteenth District judge is elected districtwide.
5. The Fourteenth District court has districtwide jurisdiction.

History. Acts 2019, No. 909, § 2.

Subchapter 12 — City Court Consolidation

Effective Dates. Acts 2007, No. 663, § 56(b): Jan. 1, 2012.

Acts 2007, No. 663, § 56, as amended by Acts 2009, No. 345, § 7, provided:

“(a) Sections 2 through 15 of this act are effective January 1, 2008.

“(b) Sections 16 through 50 and 52 through 55 of this act are effective January 1, 2012.

“(c) Section 51 of Act 663 of 2007 is effective January 1, 2012, except:

“(1) That portion of Section 51 of Act 663 of 2007 that is referred to in Act 663 of 2007 as 16-17-933, establishing the Cleburne County District Court and departments of that court, codified as § 16-17-936 is effective July 1, 2009; and

“(2) That portion of Section 51 of Act 663 of 2007 that is referred to in Act 663 of 2007 as 16-17-950, establishing the St. Francis County District Court and departments of that court, codified as § 16-17-954 is effective July 1, 2009.”

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 1 case (1 in the last 5 years), 2026–2026 · leading case: Chaney Taylor, in His Off. Capacity as Indep. Cnty., Arkansas, Dist. Court Judge v. Indep. Cnty., Arkansas, Judge Robert Griffin, in His Off. Capacity as Indep. Cnty. Judge, 2026 Ark. App. 54 (Ark. Ct. App. 2026).

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Chaney Taylor, in His Off. Capacity as Indep. Cnty., Arkansas, Dist. Court Judge v. Indep. Cnty., Arkansas, Judge Robert Griffin, in His Off. Capacity as Indep. Cnty. Judge, 2026 Ark. App. 54 (Ark. Ct. App. 2026). · cites it 2× “Ark. Code Ann. § 16-17-1116 (a) (Supp. 2025).”

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