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§ 27-53-402. Failure to pay small damage claims

(a) In all cases wherein loss or damage occurs to property resulting from motor vehicle collision amounting to one thousand dollars ($1,000) or less, and the defendant liable, without meritorious defense, shall fail to pay the loss or damage within sixty (60) days after written notice of the claim has been received, then the defendant […]

§ 27-53-206. Approved forms to be used

(a) (1) The Division of Arkansas State Police shall prepare and upon request supply to police departments, coroners, sheriffs, and other suitable agencies or individuals forms for accident reports required under this subchapter. (2) (A) The reports shall call for sufficiently detailed information to disclose with reference to a traffic accident the cause, conditions then […]

§ 27-53-207. Tabulation and analysis

(a) The Division of Arkansas State Police shall tabulate and may analyze all accident reports and shall publish annually, or at more frequent intervals, statistical information based thereon as to the number and circumstances of traffic accidents. (b) After collecting the data required by subsection (a) of this section, the division shall further report to […]

§ 27-53-405. Funeral homes not liable for acts of private vehicle operators

(a) It is the purpose and intent of this section to permit funeral homes to attach magnetic signs, pennants, or other identifying signs to privately owned automobiles in a funeral procession to identify the vehicles as part of the procession without assuming any liability or responsibility for acts of the operators of the private vehicles. […]

§ 27-53-208. Use of accident and supplemental reports

(a) (1) All required accident reports and supplemental reports shall be without prejudice to the individual so reporting and are for the use of the Division of Arkansas State Police. (2) (A) The division may disclose the identity of a person involved in an accident when the identity is not otherwise known or when the […]

§ 27-54-101. Adoption of compact

The Nonresident Violator Compact of 1977, as amended and in effect on January 1, 1985, hereinafter called “the compact,” is enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in the form substantially as follows: ARTICLE I Findings, Declaration of Policy and Purpose (a) The party jurisdictions find that: (1) In […]

§ 27-53-209. Reports open to public inspection

Except as provided under § 27-53-202(b)(2)(B), all motor vehicle accident reports made by the Division of Arkansas State Police and its records of traffic violations shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times.

§ 27-52-205. Arrangement of signals

(a) Whenever traffic upon any public road, street, or highway in the State of Arkansas is controlled by electrical traffic control signal devices exhibiting more than one (1) signal lens and color per signal face according to the signal legend set out in § 27-52-107, then the number of such signal lenses and colors shall […]