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§ 16-66-201. Property subject to execution

The following described property shall be liable to be seized and sold under any execution upon any judgment, order, or decree of a court of record: (1) All goods and chattels not exempted in this subchapter; (2) All improvements on the public lands of the United States; (3) The rights and shares in the stock […]

§ 16-66-203. Encumbered property

(a) Any property, real, personal, or mixed, may be subjected to seizure under execution, garnishment, attachment, or other process, even though the property is subject to mortgage, deed of trust, vendor’s lien, conditional sales contract, chattel mortgage, or other lien. Any officer authorized by law to execute process, may seize, levy upon, or otherwise take […]

§ 16-66-205. Exemption — Property of state

No property, whether real, personal, or mixed, or effects, credits, choses in action, assets of any description, securities or moneys belonging to the state, either legally or equitably, or the title of which may be in the state, shall be subject to judgment, decree, execution, or sequestration, or be seized on or sold by virtue […]

§ 16-66-206. Exemption — Improvements on public land

It is unlawful to levy upon and sell under any execution or decree any improvement, or right of preemption upon the public lands within this state, any law, usage, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding. However, no other improvement on the public lands, as provided for above, shall be so exempt, except those on which […]

§ 16-66-207. Exemption — Family or public graveyards

(a) The clerk and recorder of deeds of the proper county, when any description of the metes and bounds of a family graveyard or public burial place shall be filed in his or her office, shall make a record of the description in the record of deeds, which shall be sufficient to exempt the land […]

§ 16-66-208. Exemptions — Wages — Penalty

(a) (1) The wages of all laborers and mechanics not exceeding their wages for sixty (60) days shall be exempt from seizure by garnishment, or other legal process if the defendant in any case files with the court from which the process is issued a sworn statement that the sixty (60) days’ wages claimed to […]

§ 16-66-210. Homestead Exemption Act

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the “Homestead Exemption Act of 1981”. (b) The homestead of any resident of this state who is married or the head of a family shall not be subject to the lien of any judgment, or decree of any court, or to sale under execution […]

§ 16-66-213. Appraisal of property claimed as exempt

(a) Upon application to the justice or clerk by the plaintiff in whose favor such execution, process, or attachment shall have been issued, the justice or clerk, as the case may be, shall forthwith appoint three (3) disinterested appraisers, to be summoned and sworn by the officer levying the attachment, execution, or process. (b) (1) […]

§ 16-66-215. Evasion of exemption law in collection of debt — Penalty

Whoever, whether principal, agent, or attorney, under the statutes of this state on the subject of the exemption of property from levy and sale on execution, or in attachment or garnishment, with intent to deprive any resident of this state of his or her rights, sends or causes to be sent out of this state […]

§ 16-66-216. Assignment or transfer of debt — Penalty for evasion

Whoever, either directly or indirectly, assigns or transfers any claims for debts against a citizen of this state for the purpose of having the claims for debts collected by proceedings in attachment, garnishment, or other process out of the wages or personal earnings of the debtor in courts outside of this state when the creditor, […]

§ 16-66-217. Election of bankruptcy exemptions

Residents of this state having the right to claim exemptions in a bankruptcy proceeding pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 522 shall have the right to elect either: (i) The property exemptions provided by the Constitution and the laws of the State of Arkansas; or (ii) The property exemptions provided by 11 U.S.C. § 522(d).

§ 16-66-218. Exemptions from execution under federal bankruptcy proceedings

(a) The following property shall be exempt from execution under bankruptcy proceedings pursuant to Pub. L. No. 95-598: (1) The unmarried debtor’s aggregate interest, not exceeding eight hundred dollars ($800) in value, and the married debtor’s aggregate interest, not exceeding one thousand two hundred fifty dollars ($1,250) in value, in real or personal property that […]

§ 16-66-220. Pension and profit-sharing plans

(a) (1) A person’s right to the assets held in or to receive payments, whether vested or not, under a pension, profit-sharing, or similar plan or contract, including a retirement plan for self-employed individuals, or under an individual retirement account or an individual retirement annuity, including a simplified employee pension plan, is exempt from attachment, […]