An Arkansas 14 Day Notice To Comply or Vacate is a letter that complies with state legal requirements to begin eviction against a tenant for a violation of the lease, such as damaging property or violating health and safety rules. The tenant must take appropriate corrective action, or else move out within fourteen (14) calendar days of receiving notice.
When To Use an Arkansas 14 Day Notice To Comply or Vacate
An Arkansas 14 Day Notice To Comply or Vacate begin the eviction process against a tenant who has committed one of the following violations:
- Failure to maintain the premises in a clean and sanitary manner (health/safety violation)
- Refusal to allow the landlord lawful access to the premises
- Damage to the rental property
- Violation of any other lease terms or property rules
Some types of Arkansas lease termination notice may allow different reasons for termination, or different notice periods. This may also apply to an eviction notice issued because of a lease or legal violation.
How To Write an Arkansas 14 Day Notice To Comply or Vacate
To help ensure the legal compliance of a Notice To Comply or Vacate:
- Use the full name of the receiving parties, and address of record, if known
- Specify the basis upon which the tenancy will terminate, and what corrective actions are needed to prevent this
- Specify the termination date of the lease or tenancy
- Fill in the full address of the rental premises
- Provide updated/current address and phone number information
- Print name and sign the notice
- Complete the certificate of service by indicating the date and method of notice delivery, along with printed name and signature
It is easy to lose an otherwise justified legal action because of improper notice. Check carefully to ensure enough time after notice is delivered, not when it’s sent.
How To Serve an Arkansas 14 Day Notice To Comply or Vacate
Arkansas landlords may deliver an initial written Notice To Comply or Vacate by any method which effectively brings the information to the tenant’s attention. The law presumes the following methods are valid:
- Hand delivery to the tenant
- Delivery by registered or certified mail to the tenant’s address of record or (if unknown) last known residence
Proof of mailing does not prove the other party’s receipt of notice. To account for variable delivery times, mailed notice extends a notice period by three (3) calendar days.
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- 1 AR Code § 18-17-601
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A tenant shall:
- Comply with all obligations primarily imposed upon tenants by applicable provisions of building and housing codes materially affecting health and safety;
- Keep the dwelling unit and that part of the premises that he or she uses reasonably safe and reasonably clean;
- Dispose from his or her dwelling unit all ashes, garbage, rubbish, and other waste in a reasonably clean and safe manner;
- Keep all plumbing fixtures in the dwelling unit or used by the tenant reasonably clean;
- Use in a reasonable manner all electrical, plumbing, sanitary, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and other facilities and appliances, including elevators in the premises;
- Not deliberately or negligently destroy, deface, damage, impair, or remove any part of the premises or knowingly permit any person to do so who is on the premises with the tenant’s permission or who is allowed access to the premises by the tenant;
- Conduct himself or herself and require other persons on the premises with the tenant’s permission or who are allowed access to the premises by the tenant to conduct themselves in a manner that will not disturb other tenant’s peaceful enjoyment of the premises; and
- Comply with the lease and rules that are enforceable pursuant to this subchapter.
- 2 Ark. Code § 18-17-303
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(a) (1) A person has notice of a fact if: (A) The person has actual knowledge of it; (B) The person has received a notice or notification of it; or (C) From all the facts and circumstances known to him or her at the time in question, he or she has reason to know that it exists. (2) A person knows or has knowledge of a fact if he or she has actual knowledge of it. (b) (1) A person notifies or gives a notice or notification to another person by taking steps reasonably calculated to inform the other in ordinary course whether or not the other actually comes to know of it. (2) A person receives a notice or notification when: (A) It comes to his or her attention; or (B) In the case of the landlord, it is delivered at the place of business of the landlord through which the rental agreement was made or at any place held out by the landlord as the place for receipt of the communication; or (C) (i) In the case of the tenant, it is delivered in hand to the tenant or mailed by registered or certified mail to the tenant at the place held out by him or her as the place for receipt of the communication, or in the absence of the designation, to the tenant’s last known place of residence. (ii) Proof of mailing pursuant to this subsection constitutes notice without proof of receipt. (c) Notice, knowledge, or a notice or notification received by an organization is effective for a particular transaction from the time it is brought to the attention of the individual conducting that transaction, and in any event from the time it would have been brought to the individual’s attention if the organization had exercised reasonable diligence. (d) The time within which an act is to be done shall be computed by reference to the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure. - 3 Ark. R. Civ. P. 6(d)
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Whenever a party has the right or is required to do some act or take some proceedings within a prescribed period after the service of a notice or other paper upon him and the notice or paper is served upon him by mail, commercial delivery company, or electronic transmission, including e-mail pursuant to Rule 5(b)(2), three (3) days shall be added to the prescribed period. Provided, however, that this subdivision shall not extend the time in which the defendant must file an answer or pre-answer motion when service of the summons and complaint is by mail or commercial delivery company in accordance with Rule 4.