ENVIRONMENTAL, CAMMACK VILLAGE AND CIVIL/SMALL CLAIMS COURTS

State District 31, Little Rock 3
The Honorable Mark Leverett Presiding

Mission Statement

To provide impartial, courteous and timely adjudication of alleged city code violations.  Further, our court will impose monetary sanctions, when appropriate, for code violations.  Our mission is to ensure that neighborhood conditions are improved to comply with accepted health and safety standards.

Our civil and small claims division seeks to ensure that all claims and defenses are docketed in a timely fashion, and that all litigants have the opportunity to fully try and defend their cases.  Further, our aim is to provide timely and impartial adjudication of civil and small claim matters.

PLEASE NOTE: Court clerks are not permitted to give legal advice. They can answer general procedural, but not legal questions. Please contact an attorney to discuss legal questions.

Court Address: 600 W. Markham Street, Little Rock, AR 72201

Office Address: 500 W. Markham, Room 112, Little Rock, AR 72201

Phone: (501) 371-4454

 

Email: envcourt@littlerock.gov

 

Environmental Court is held weekly in the Traffic Courtroom. The schedule is as follows:

Mondays:
1:00 P.M. – Reports
2:00 P.M. – Trials

Wednesdays:
1:00 P.M. – Plea and Arraignment
1:30 P.M. – Parking Enforcement Trials

 

Thursdays:
1:00 P.M. – Reports
2:00 P.M. – Trials

Cammack Village (3rd Friday of each month):
9:00 A.M. – Plea and Arraignment
9:30 A.M. – Trials

 

This court hears all city code violations including, but not limited to the following:

  • Accumulation of trash
  • Parking in yard
  • Failure to demolish a structure
  • Illegal dumping
  • Abandoned/inoperable autos
  • Failure to maintain utilities
  • False alarms
  • Failure to obtain privilege license
  • Loud music
  • Animal charges (cruelty, failure to vaccinate, failure to register, etc.)
  • In city parks after hours
  • Parking tickets
  • Juvenile curfew violations

 

Civil/Small Claims

Office and Court Address: 600 W. Markham Street, Little Rock, AR 72201

Phone: (501) 371-4529 or (501) 371-4727

Cases are heard on Tuesday’s at 1:30 P.M. 

 

Filing Fees

  • For initiating a cause of action in the Civil Division $80.00
  • For initiating a cause of action in the Small Claims Division $65.00

NO PORTION OF THE FILING FEES SHALL BE REFUNDED.