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DUI law in Arkansas

The criminal charge and your driving privileges are separate questions. Check both.

DUI law in Arkansas concerns both the criminal charge and the right to drive. The applicable licence process depends on the alleged conduct, test result or refusal, and the notice or court order. A criminal court date is not a substitute for checking a separate licence deadline. The cited rules below identify what has been verified for this jurisdiction.

The two legal questions

The criminal charge and driving privileges can involve different proceedings. The notice, order and cited rule identify the applicable process.

Driving privileges

The licence case

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The agency or court identified by the applicable licence proceeding
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Check the applicable notice or order for the deadline and its starting event
Deadline to request a hearing
The Office of Driver Services must receive the hearing request within 7 calendar days after the suspension, revocation, disqualification or denial notice is given.
  • This is the administrative challenge under § 5-65-402, not the date of the criminal court hearing.
Verified A.C.A. § 5-65-402Official source (opens in a new tab)
Suspension under the cited rule
Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Hearing procedure under the cited rule
Send a written hearing request to the Office of Driver Services within the notice's 7-calendar-day period.
  • The request must be received on time; requesting a hearing does not itself stay the licensing action.
  • The receipt/notice gives the office's address, telephone numbers and hearing-request procedure.
Verified A.C.A. § 5-65-402Official source (opens in a new tab)

Criminal charge

The criminal case

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A criminal court
Clock
Check court notices and orders; no case duration is predicted here
Alcohol-concentration threshold
0.08% or more while operating or in actual physical control of a motor vehicle.
Verified A.C.A. § 5-65-103Official source (opens in a new tab)
First-offense penalty rule
Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.The cited rule may describe a range or a minimum with conditions, not a predicted sentence.
Lookback period
Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.

Alcohol-concentration thresholds in Arkansas

The cited provision controls the threshold’s scope. Underage and commercial rules can concern licensing as well as criminal liability; they are not all the same offense.

Standard drivers
0.08% or more while operating or in actual physical control of a motor vehicle.
Verified A.C.A. § 5-65-103Official source (opens in a new tab)
Operating a commercial motor vehicle
Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Under-21 rule
Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.

Arkansas in detail

License suspensionThe administrative deadline to request a hearing, what happens if it passes, and how the licence case runs beside the criminal one.PenaltiesStatutory ranges by offense number, lookback-period aware — fines, jail, suspension length, interlock.Implied consent and refusalWhat refusing a test does to the licence case and to the criminal case.

8 further Arkansas topics — interlock, hardship licences, drug DUI, felony DUI, underage, commercial drivers, checkpoints and record relief — are part of the approved taxonomy and are not built yet.