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What must an Arkansas landlord disclose to a tenant, and what must the lease say?

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Arkansas requires a residential landlord to disclose nothing at all: no owner or agent identity, no hazard, no flood risk, no utility or fee statement, and no document of any kind at or before signing.

Cited to A.C.A. § 18-17-201 (scope of the Arkansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 2007) and 19 more cited sources · Verified September 13, 2026

A lease need not be in writing unless it runs longer than a year, no statute requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of a signed lease, and nothing prescribes what a lease must say. One optional form matters: a landlord who hands the tenant a written defect list at the time possession is available is deemed to comply with the six implied quality standards if the tenant signs it without noting a defect or lets two business days pass. Since November 2021 a lease may not waive any right, duty or remedy under the residential act, but there is no roster of forbidden clauses, landlord exculpation for defects is written into the statutes rather than banned, and a one-way attorney-fee clause is lawful. After a methamphetamine-contaminated property is cleaned up and the owner is officially notified, the statute says in terms that nobody, landlord included, has to report or disclose the past contamination.

Arkansas lease disclosures at a glance

Which law governs Two chapters carry Arkansas's residential rules and a reader has to know which one a figure comes from. Chapter 18-17, the Arkansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 2007, is the residential act: it applies to, regulates and determines rights, obligations and remedies under a rental agreement, wherever made, for a dwelling unit located in the state, and a rental agreement includes an oral one. Chapter 18-16 is the older general landlord-and-tenant chapter; its subchapter 3 is the security-deposit law, which the residential act hands the whole deposit subject to, and its subchapter 4 is the self-storage act, which is not a residential tenancy law at all and whose electronic-signature sentence is often misquoted as one. The statute of frauds sits in Title 4 and the electronic-transactions act in Title 25. Arkansas adopted the skeleton of the uniform residential act but left out its disclosure section, its prohibited-provisions roster and its unconscionability section.
Who is covered The residential act reaches every dwelling unit in the state except the eight arrangements it excludes: residence at an institution, occupancy under a contract of sale, occupancy in a fraternal or social organization, transient occupancy in a hotel or motel, occupancy conditioned on employment, occupancy by an owner of a condominium or cooperative unit, occupancy under a rental agreement covering premises used primarily for agricultural purposes, and occupancy in a shelter. Two further limits matter on this page. The implied quality standards section, which carries both the optional move-in defect form and the chapter-wide anti-waiver clause, applies to lease or rental agreements entered into or renewed after November 1, 2021 and not to a lease to purchase or a lease with a purchase right. The security-deposit subchapter does not apply to dwelling units owned by an individual where that individual, a spouse and minor children, and any partnerships, corporations or other entities formed to rent dwelling units of which they are officers, owners or majority shareholders own, or collectively own, five or fewer dwelling units; that exemption does not apply to units managed, including rent collection, by third persons for a fee.
Written lease, copy and signature rules

No statute requires a residential lease to be in writing beyond the statute of frauds, so an oral tenancy is lawful. No statute requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of the lease.

No Arkansas statute requires a residential lease to be in writing. The residential act defines a rental agreement as an agreement written or oral, and its only lease-content section is permissive: a landlord and a tenant may include terms and conditions not prohibited by the chapter or other rule of law, including rent, the term of the agreement and provisions governing the parties' rights and obligations. A lease for longer than a year must be written and signed to be enforceable by action. Where the agreement fixes no definite term, the tenancy is week to week for a roomer paying weekly rent and month to month in every other case. Nothing requires the landlord to give the tenant a copy of the signed lease, nothing requires a lease or a notice in any language other than English, and Arkansas has no plain-language act, type-size rule or placement rule for leases.

Statute of frauds: No action may be brought against a person on any lease of lands, tenements or hereditaments for a longer term than one year unless the agreement, or some memorandum or note of it, is in writing and signed by the party to be charged or by a person that party properly authorized (section 4-59-101, subsection a, paragraph 5). A lease of one year or less may be oral.

Electronic leases and signatures: Arkansas's Uniform Electronic Transactions Act says a record or signature may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form, a contract may not be denied effect solely because an electronic record was used in its formation, an electronic record satisfies a law requiring a writing, and an electronic signature satisfies a law requiring a signature (section 25-32-107). A residential lease may therefore be signed electronically, though the residential act itself says nothing about it. The sentence some summaries quote, that a rental agreement may be delivered and signed electronically or in writing, is in the self-storage subchapter of the older chapter and is not a residential rule. The residential act's own notice provision names hand delivery and registered or certified mail and does not name e-mail.
Owner and agent identity

No.

No Arkansas statute requires a landlord to tell a tenant who owns or manages the property. There is no place, no deadline, no telephone-number requirement, no posting alternative, no duty on a successor owner and no consequence, and the state has no landlord or rental registration law. The gap is worth stating precisely, because Arkansas's own definitions section shows it was left deliberately: the residential act defines a landlord as the owner, lessor or sublessor of the premises, and also as a manager of the premises who fails to disclose as required by this chapter. The chapter contains no such requirement anywhere, so the sanction that would treat a silent manager as the landlord has nothing to attach to. Where a licensed real estate agent acts solely for a lessor, a commission rule requires the agent to disclose that agency relationship to a prospective lessee in writing before the lessee signs a lease or rental agreement, but that binds the licensee and tells the tenant who the agent works for, not who owns the building.
Required statements and lease text

No.

Arkansas prescribes nothing for a lease to carry and nothing for a landlord to hand over. There is no state tenant-rights statement, summary, handbook or model lease, no agency is directed to publish one, and no statute requires any document to be attached to or given with a lease. The residential act's lease-content section runs the other way: the parties may include terms not prohibited by the chapter or other law. The only form named anywhere in the chapter is the optional defect list described in the move-in row, and the only writing the older chapter prescribes is the itemized notice a landlord sends after the tenancy ends, which belongs to the security-deposits page. One duty comes close without reaching a landlord: a licensed real estate agent acting solely for a lessor must disclose that relationship in writing before the prospective tenant signs anything. That is a licensee's duty, so it is not counted here. The Attorney General publishes a landlord-tenant page describing the law, but it is a description rather than a document any landlord must deliver.
Move-in condition report

No mandatory report — a statute dictates the form only if the landlord chooses to require one.

Arkansas has a move-in defect form, and it sits in an unexpected place: inside the implied residential quality standards section rather than anywhere a move-in reader would look. No landlord has to use it. A landlord who does use it, supplying the tenant at the time possession is available with a written form on which to list any defects in the six implied standards, is deemed to be in compliance with those standards if the tenant either signs the form without noting a defect and takes possession or fails to return the form within two business days. The six standards are an available source of hot and cold running water; an available source of electricity; a source of potable drinking water; a sanitary sewer system and plumbing conforming to the building and housing codes in existence when they were installed; a functioning roof and building envelope; and a functioning heating and air conditioning system, to the extent one served the premises when the lease was made. No agency prescribes the form; the landlord writes it. Nothing happens to a landlord who never offers one except the loss of that safe harbor, and the tenant cannot demand it. The section reaches agreements entered into or renewed after November 1, 2021 and excludes a lease to purchase or a lease with a purchase right. Arkansas has no other condition report, inventory, checklist or walk-through duty, and the stricter housing standard of a local government is not answered by the form.

When and who signs: The form is supplied at the time possession is available to the tenant, and the tenant has two business days to return it. The tenant is the only person who signs; the statute names no landlord signature and no countersignature.

Deposit notice at signing: Arkansas prescribes no deposit receipt, no statement of where the money is held and no signing-time deposit notice of any kind. The residential act hands the whole subject to sections 18-16-301 and following, which cap the deposit at two months' periodic rent and require a written itemized notice of deductions within sixty days of termination; those rules, and the exemption for an owner of five or fewer dwelling units, are on the security-deposits page.
Hazard disclosures

No in-force state hazard disclosure duty applies at signing beyond the federal lead-paint rule. No state duty exists for lead, mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine, asbestos, or any other hazard.

Every state duty and every stated absence, hazard by hazard:

Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) — no state duty. Arkansas adds nothing to the federal lead-paint rule for landlords. Its lead law is agency-facing on both legs. After an inspection or investigation the Department of Health notifies the owner and the tenant of its findings, with abatement instructions where a lead hazard was found, so the notice runs from the state, not from the landlord. And for a lead-based paint abatement project on target housing or a child-occupied facility, the building owner or the licensed contractor gives written notice to the Department at least ten working days before the work starts, on the Department's own form; that is a filing with the agency, not a disclosure to a tenant. The Arkansas Lead-Based Paint-Hazard Act of 2011 is title, intent, definitions, penalties, powers, rules, fees, licensing and unlawful acts, with no disclosure section. One related protection is worth knowing: after receiving notice that lead hazards are present, an owner may not retaliate against an occupant, particularly by eviction or the threat of it.

Mold — no state duty. No Arkansas statute or rule requires a mold disclosure to a tenant, and the state has no housing mold law at all. Every mention of mold in its statutes is agricultural or food-related: the pesticide chapter defining fungus, the raw cream and milk testing section, and the cheese-ripening definition. The administrative rules are the same, covering agriculture, food and licensing. Mold reaches an Arkansas tenancy only through the implied quality standards and the landlord's repair obligations.

Bed bugs — no state duty. Arkansas has no bed-bug law of any kind. The term returns nothing in the landlord-tenant chapters, nothing in the public-health and environmental titles, and nothing in the entire Code of Arkansas Rules. No disclosure, no treatment duty and no notice at signing exists.

Radon — no state duty. Arkansas has no radon statute, no radon certification program and no radon rule. The word returns nothing in the landlord-tenant chapters, nothing in the public-health or environmental titles and nothing in the entire Code of Arkansas Rules, so there is nothing for a landlord to disclose, test or attach.

Methamphetamine — no state duty. Arkansas has a full contaminated-property clean-up regime and deliberately imposes no landlord disclosure. Before remediation, the notice is delivered by a law enforcement officer: an officer who finds a controlled-substance laboratory or arrests someone for manufacturing equipment on the property delivers a notice of removal to the property owner, the on-site manager, an on-site drop box or, for a space-rental mobile home or recreational vehicle park, the occupant or the on-site park landlord, mails it to the owner within five business days, orders everyone out of the contaminated portion and posts the notice conspicuously, with the word WARNING in large bold type at the top and bottom and a statement that the owner is responsible for remediation. The landlord is the recipient of that notice, not the person giving it, and disturbing or ignoring the posted notice is a Class B misdemeanor. After the property is remediated and the owner receives official notification from the Division of Environmental Quality, the statute says in terms that no person, including the property owner, landlord and real estate agent, is required to report or otherwise disclose the past contamination.

Asbestos — no state duty. No Arkansas statute or rule requires an asbestos disclosure to a tenant. The state asbestos provisions are a licensing, abatement work-practice and grant program, and the rules that sit under them govern contractors, schools and state property. No lessor notice exists anywhere in them.

Other hazard notices (pesticide, pool, ordnance, well water, detectors) — no state duty. No pesticide or pest-control notice, military-ordnance notice, pool-safety notice, well-water notice or carbon-monoxide notice runs to an Arkansas tenant, in statute or in rule. The one adjacent provision runs the other way and limits what a lease may say: nothing in the residential act, or in a lease or rental agreement, may stop a tenant from correctly installing a battery-powered or plug-in smoke or carbon monoxide detector at the tenant's own expense, though the tenant then carries maintenance and any damage.
Flood disclosure

No.

Arkansas imposes no flood disclosure on a residential landlord: no flood-zone statement, no flooding history, no elevation statement and no advisory that flood insurance is available. There is also no sales-side duty that could be mistaken for one, because Arkansas has no residential property condition disclosure act at all; the property title carries no seller's or lessor's disclosure statement. The word flood appears in that title only in eminent domain for flood-control improvements, levee and drainage district easements, a posted-land sign rule and the takings exception for regulating construction in a designated floodplain. The one closing-side disclosure in Arkansas law requires a closing agent to tell a buyer that the property may be located within or near a rural area where agricultural operations are protected from nuisance suits, and that section gives no cause of action against the closing agent for failing to give it; it reaches a buyer, never a tenant.
Disclosures about the property's situation No statutory disclosure of this kind
What need not be disclosed

Yes — the facts the rule names need not be disclosed.

Arkansas has exactly one statutory rule of this kind, and it removes a duty rather than forbidding a disclosure. After property contaminated by the manufacture of controlled substances is remediated and the property owner receives official notification from the Division of Environmental Quality, no person, including the property owner, landlord and real estate agent, is required to report or otherwise disclose the past contamination (section 8-7-1406, subsection a); the division then destroys its records of the property once it leaves the contaminated-properties list. The statute names landlords expressly. It does not forbid telling a tenant, and it does not bar a claim; it simply says nobody has to speak. Arkansas has no stigmatized-property statute, so a death, suicide or felony at the property is neither a required disclosure nor a protected silence.
Utility, fee and payment disclosures No statutory disclosure of this kind
Lease clauses that are void or prohibited

No enumerated list — Arkansas has no roster of prohibited lease provisions. It left out the uniform act's prohibited-provisions section, and the words unenforceable, void, confession of judgment, exculpatory and unconscionable return nothing in either landlord-tenant chapter. What it has instead is a chapter-wide anti-waiver clause, and it sits inside the implied quality standards section where a reader looking for void clauses would never find it: a landlord or tenant may not agree in a lease to waive or forego any of the rights, duties or remedies available under the residential act. Because the clause speaks of the chapter rather than the section, it reaches every right in the act, and it fits the lease-content section, which lets the parties add terms not prohibited by the chapter. One real limit travels with it: the section that carries the clause was created for agreements entered into or renewed after November 1, 2021, so in practice that is the earliest reach of the rule. The older chapter's rule that a tenant may not waive the right to call for law enforcement or emergency assistance stands on its own, outside the anti-waiver clause.

Sanction as the statute states it: The anti-waiver clause states a prohibition and stops: no damages figure, no rent multiple, no deliberate-use rule, no attempt-to-enforce rule, no cure window and no forfeiture. It is not toothless, though, because the chapter carries a general hook: remedies under the act are administered so that an aggrieved party may recover appropriate damages, and any right or obligation declared by the act is enforceable by action unless the provision declaring it specifies a different and limited effect. A claim or right arising under the act or on a rental agreement may still be settled by agreement if it is disputed in good faith.

The general provisions:

• A landlord or tenant may not agree in a lease or rental agreement to waive or forego any of the rights, duties or remedies available under the residential act, except as the act itself otherwise provides (section 18-17-502, subsection g).

• The six implied quality standards supersede any contrary provision of an oral or written lease, unless the tenant agrees in writing to accept responsibility to renovate, remodel or complete renovation, remodeling or construction of the dwelling unit or single-family residence (section 18-17-502, subsection b).

• Nothing in the residential act, or in a lease or rental agreement, may stop a tenant from correctly installing, at the tenant's own expense, a battery-powered or plug-in smoke or carbon monoxide detector (section 18-17-502, subsection e, paragraph 1).

• A residential tenant may not waive the right to request law enforcement assistance or other emergency assistance (section 18-16-112, subsection f, in the older chapter, which the residential act's anti-waiver clause does not reach).

Expressly permitted: Arkansas does not void exculpatory clauses; it enacts the exculpation itself. No landlord, or agent or employee of a landlord, is liable to a tenant or the tenant's licensee or invitee for death, personal injury or property damage proximately caused by a defect or disrepair on the premises, unless the landlord agreed for consideration, or assumed by conduct, an obligation to maintain or repair the leased premises and then failed to perform it reasonably (section 18-16-110). The residential act adds that nothing in it may be construed to expand a landlord's tort liability beyond those limits. The one clause the statute expressly lets a landlord bargain for is a written agreement under which the tenant accepts responsibility to renovate, remodel or complete construction, which switches off the implied quality standards.
Attorney-fee clauses

No statute addresses attorney-fee clauses in residential leases as such.

Arkansas has no reciprocity statute, no general prevailing-party rule and no ban on a fee clause, so a one-way clause charging the tenant the landlord's attorney fees stands as written. The statutory fee grants are remedy-specific and run both directions, which is why calling the state simply one-way is wrong. Inside the residential act they are landlord-side and keyed to fault: fees where the tenant's noncompliance is willful and is not nonpayment of rent, fees where nonpayment is not in good faith, fees with a claim for damages after the agreement is terminated, fees where a holdover is not in good faith or is willful, and fees where a tenant refuses access. Each of the first two is conditioned on the landlord actually being represented by an attorney. On the tenant's side, a landlord who fails to comply with the security-deposit subchapter owes the tenant the property and money due, damages equal to twice the amount wrongfully withheld, costs and reasonable attorney fees, subject to a good-faith-error defense that caps recovery at costs and the sum erroneously withheld. The nuisance-eviction subchapter awards fees to whichever plaintiff brings the action.
When, how, and what happens on a failure There is nothing on this page to time. Arkansas imposes no disclosure on a residential landlord before signing, at signing, within a stated number of days, on request, on renewal, annually, on an update, on transfer or on any event, and that emptiness is the answer. The one item with a clock is optional: the defect form is supplied at the time possession is available to the tenant, and the tenant has two business days to return it, with a failure to return having the same legal effect as signing it clean. Where the residential act does require a notice, a person gives it by taking steps reasonably calculated to inform the other in the ordinary course, whether or not the other actually learns of it; a tenant is notified by delivery in hand or by registered or certified mail to the place the tenant holds out for receipt or, failing that, the tenant's last known residence, and proof of mailing is notice without proof of receipt. Time is computed by the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure. E-mail is named nowhere in the residential act and there is no consent mechanism for electronic notice. The remedy posture follows from the absence: with no disclosure duty there is nothing for a remedy to attach to. Where the act does create a right, it is enforceable by action unless the provision declaring it says otherwise, and remedies are administered so that an aggrieved party may recover appropriate damages. The only place a writing changes a party's position is the implied quality standards machinery, whose own remedy is capped: after written notice and thirty calendar days without cure the tenant's sole remedy is to end the agreement without penalty and recover any deposit due, and rent may not be withheld or offset for a violation.
Can cities add their own rules Arkansas preempts one thing, authorizes another, preserves a third and says nothing about the rest. Preempted: as to leasing private residential or commercial property, a local governmental unit may not enact, maintain or enforce an ordinance or resolution that would have the effect of controlling the amount charged for rent, rental application fees or rental deposits, with the statutory deposit cap carved out; two identical sections do this, one for municipalities and one for counties, and both were broadened in 2025 to add the application-fee and deposit prongs and to state that the preemption applies to landlords, property owners, property managers, tenants, prospective tenants and real estate companies alike. The preemption reaches the amount charged and nothing else, so it does not touch lease disclosure, lease content, prohibited clauses, rental registration, inspection or licensing. Authorized: a political subdivision may enact and enforce ordinances or laws for the prevention and control of lead poisoning that are the same as, or more restrictive than, the state's. Preserved: the implied quality standards do not relieve a landlord from complying with any stricter applicable housing standard of a local government with jurisdiction, so the state floor is a floor and not a ceiling. Silent: nothing in either landlord-tenant chapter, in the local-government title or in the public-health title preempts or authorizes a local ordinance requiring a landlord to disclose anything to a tenant.
How state law refers to the federal rules State law adds nothing to, and refers to nothing in, the federal rules, which are listed further down this page
Changes already signed into law No signed act is waiting beyond any not-yet-in-force duty already stated on this page
Leading court decisions

Propst v. McNeill, 326 Ark. 623, 932 S.W.2d 766 (Arkansas Supreme Court; 1996; arose from a commercial lease; bears on the topic as a whole): The court kept the caveat lessee rule as the well-established law of Arkansas, declining to depart from it on these facts while not foreclosing a future review. On the exception that matters to a disclosure question, a hidden danger on the premises of which the landlord but not the tenant was aware, the court expressly declined to decide whether the latent-defect exception has ever been recognized in Arkansas and resolved the appeal on the evidence instead. The lease was commercial, of aircraft hangar space at a municipal airport, so the decision states the state's general landlord-tenant rule rather than a residential holding.

Thomas v. Stewart, 347 Ark. 33, 60 S.W.3d 415 (Arkansas Supreme Court; 2001; residential setting; bears on the topic as a whole): An apartment tenant injured by a balcony railing asked the court to overrule the caveat lessee doctrine; the court declined, saying it was being asked to overrule a long line of cases including Propst v. McNeill and that landlord liability was more properly a question for the General Assembly. The decision is the subsequent history that keeps Propst standing, so the question whether a landlord must tell a tenant about a known hidden defect remains unanswered by the Arkansas courts.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Arkansas Lease Disclosure Laws & Required Lease Terms (verified September 13, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/lease-disclosures/arkansas/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Arkansas hazard disclosures at a glance

No row below is an in-force state duty to disclose, hand over, attach or post a hazard notice; the federal lead-paint rule still applies to housing built before 1978. Each row's full text, trigger, threshold and remedy are in the table above.

Hazard Status When Form Prescribed document
Lead (state add-on to the federal rule) None — — —
Mold None — — —
Bed bugs None — — —
Radon None — — —
Methamphetamine None — — —
Asbestos None — — —
Other hazard notices (pesticide, pool, ordnance, well water, detectors) None — — —

Federal rules that apply in every state

The federal layer for the lease-disclosures topic, carried once for the whole site. Every row names who it binds: most federal lease attachments bind only a landlord who takes a voucher or holds HUD-assisted or HUD-insured property, and the one rule that binds every landlord (the lead-paint disclosure rule) is a floor that state law may add to. No state record restates these rows; a state record says only where its own law references or extends them. Each row below says who it binds before it says what it requires. The full text of each row, with its citations, is on the 50-state page.

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Arkansas lease disclosures

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

Does Arkansas require a landlord to give the tenant a written statement of tenant rights?
No. Arkansas prescribes nothing for a lease to carry and nothing for a landlord to hand over. There is no state tenant-rights statement, summary, handbook or model lease, no agency is directed to publish one, and no statute requires any document to be attached to or given with a lease.
Does an Arkansas landlord have to disclose the owner's name and address?
No. No Arkansas statute requires a landlord to tell a tenant who owns or manages the property. There is no place, no deadline, no telephone-number requirement, no posting alternative, no duty on a successor owner and no consequence, and the state has no landlord or rental registration law.
Is a move-in inspection checklist required in Arkansas?
No mandatory report — a statute dictates the form only if the landlord chooses to require one. Arkansas has a move-in defect form, and it sits in an unexpected place: inside the implied residential quality standards section rather than anywhere a move-in reader would look.
What hazards must an Arkansas landlord disclose to a tenant?
No in-force state hazard disclosure duty applies at signing beyond the federal lead-paint rule. No state duty exists for lead, mold, bed bugs, radon, methamphetamine, asbestos, or any other hazard.
Does Arkansas require flood disclosure to renters?
No. Arkansas imposes no flood disclosure on a residential landlord: no flood-zone statement, no flooding history, no elevation statement and no advisory that flood insurance is available. There is also no sales-side duty that could be mistaken for one, because Arkansas has no residential property condition disclosure act at all; the property title carries no seller's or lessor's disclosure statement.
Does Arkansas void or prohibit specific lease clauses?
No enumerated list — Arkansas has no roster of prohibited lease provisions. It left out the uniform act's prohibited-provisions section, and the words unenforceable, void, confession of judgment, exculpatory and unconscionable return nothing in either landlord-tenant chapter.

Citations

How this record was verified: Direct reading of the Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated, Official Edition, on the State of Arkansas's public-access code service, whose currency line reads: 'Current through the First Extraordinary Session, 2026, including revisions made by the Bureau of Legislative Research under the direction of the Arkansas Code Revision Commission.' The reading covers 98 section documents: the whole of chapter 18-17, the Arkansas Residential Landlord-Tenant Act of 2007 (all 38 sections), chapter 18-16 subchapters 1 through 5, and chapter 18-60 subchapter 3, each with its heading, text and History line, together with the rent, application-fee and deposit preemption sections 14-54-1409 and 14-16-601. Every section cited was located in that text before it was cited. Sections outside those chapters were read from the enrolled acts on the General Assembly's own site: Acts 2017, No. 980 (the statute of frauds), Acts 2001, No. 905 (electronic transactions), Acts 2007, No. 864 (the Controlled Substances Contaminated Property Cleanup Act), Acts 2019, No. 315 and Acts 2019, No. 910 (the lead-poisoning and contaminated-property sections as amended), Acts 2025, No. 459 (the preemption amendment) and Acts 2025, No. 662. Administrative law: the Code of Arkansas Rules, the official codification under section 25-15-218, which became effective January 1, 2025, is updated weekly and was last updated September 8, 2026; eighteen term sets were run against the whole code and every hit enumerated, radon returning zero results and bed bug zero results. Enactment currency by a per-title amendment ledger taken from the legislature's own amended-code data, enumerated row by row: Title 18 for the 2023 regular, 2023 first extraordinary, 2024 fiscal, 2024 second extraordinary, 2025 regular, 2026 fiscal and 2026 first extraordinary sessions, and Titles 4, 8, 14, 17, 20 and 25 for four of them. Chapter 18-17 has had no amendment since Acts 2021, No. 1052. Bill-text searches were run for both 2026 sessions; the term landlord returned no bills in either chamber in either session. Propst v. McNeill, 326 Ark. 623, 932 S.W.2d 766 (1996), was read in full in the official reporter text, and Thomas v. Stewart, 347 Ark. 33, 60 S.W.3d 415 (2001), was read in full for its subsequent history. Arkansas holds regular sessions in odd years; the 2026 fiscal session adjourned April 29, 2026 with no carryover. Verified September 13, 2026.

What was read to state each absence on this page: