10 Day Notice of Termination of Lease - Nonresidential - 10 Days Notice
Arkansas - Termination
of Leases
18-16-101. Failure to pay rent - Refusal to vacate upon
notice - Penalty.
(a) Any person who shall rent
any dwelling house or other building or any land situated in the State
of Arkansas and who shall refuse or fail to pay the rent therefor when
due according to contract shall at once forfeit all right to longer occupy
the dwelling house or other building or land.
(b) If, after ten (10) days'
notice in writing shall have been given by the landlord or his agent or
attorney to the tenant to vacate the dwelling house or other building or
land, the tenant shall willfully refuse to vacate and surrender the possession
of the premises to the landlord or his agent or attorney, the tenant shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction before any justice of the peace
or other court of competent jurisdiction in the county where the premises
are situated, the tenant shall be fined in any sum not less than one dollar
($1.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each offense. Each
day the tenant shall willfully and unnecessarily hold the dwelling house
or other building or land after the expiration of notice to vacate shall
constitute a separate offense.