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Arkansas Code Title 16. Practice, Procedure, and Courts § 16-13-2104. Court divisions

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

(a) There shall be four (4) divisions of circuit court and five (5) divisions of chancery court in the Thirteenth Judicial District of Arkansas as established in § 16-13-2103.

(b) A judge shall be elected for each division of the circuit and chancery courts of the Thirteenth Judicial District, and candidates for the offices shall designate and qualify as candidates for the particular division of the court to which they seek election.

(c)(1) The judges of the circuit court may try cases, hear matters, make orders, and take action in any division of the court and may assign or reassign any case from one (1) division to another by administrative order of the judges of the Thirteenth Judicial District.

(2) The judges of the chancery court may try cases, hear matters, make orders, and take action in any division of the court and may assign or reassign any case from one (1) division to another by administrative order of the judges of the Thirteenth Judicial District.

(3) The clerks of the circuit and chancery courts shall assign cases to the divisions therein in accordance with administrative orders of the judges of the Thirteenth Judicial District.

(d) Each division may have separate petit juries, or the divisions by concurrence of the judges may share a single petit jury wheel or box, or a single list of petit jurors.

(e) If any additional judgeship is created, the divisions created in subsection (a) of this section shall increase in accordance with the number of additional judgeships created.

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