§ 16-10-205 - Uniform traffic tickets. - Arkansas Statutes

16-10-205. Uniform traffic tickets.

(a) Each municipal police department, city or town marshal, and county sheriff's office shall maintain and issue uniform traffic ticket books, sometimes called citation books, summons books, or ticket books, for violation of all municipal and state laws.

(b) All uniform traffic ticket books must be prenumbered by the printer and a printer's certificate or other evidence shall be furnished to the police department, marshal's office, or sheriff's office, and the certificate or other evidence shall be made available for inspection.

(c) All void or spoiled tickets must be accounted for by attaching all copies to the hard copy in the uniform traffic ticket book.

(d) (1) All uniform traffic ticket books must have at least an original and three (3) copies used and distributed as follows:

(A) Hard copy: Violator's copy;

(B) White copy: Police department, marshal's office, or sheriff's office copy;

(C) (i) Yellow copy: Court clerk's copy, to be forwarded to the Office of Driver Services of the Revenue Division of the Department of Finance and Administration as provided in this subdivision (d)(1)(C).

(ii) Within five (5) business days after a conviction or forfeiture of bail of a person charged with a violation of any law regulating the operation of vehicles on a highway, 3-3-203(a) or 5-27-503(a)(3), the clerk shall forward the yellow copy covering the case in which the person was convicted or forfeited bail.

(iii) The yellow copy shall be certified by the person required to prepare it and shall include the name and address of the party charged, the registration number of the vehicle involved, the nature of the offense, the date of hearing, the plea, the judgment or whether bail was forfeited, and the amount of the fine or forfeiture.

(iv) Within five (5) business days after the disposition of any case, the clerk shall forward the yellow copy of the citation and the resulting disposition of the case.

(v) A court using the case management system provided by the Administrative Office of the Courts is not required to submit the yellow copy to the Office of Driver Services but must enter the disposition or judgment of conviction into the case management system within the time required in this section; and

(D) Pink copy: Remains in uniform traffic ticket book.

(2) Tickets issued but unprocessed shall be filed by the court date in the police department, marshal's office, or sheriff's office.