Title 5, Criminal Offenses

(a) A person commits sexual assault in the fourth degree if the person:(1) Being twenty (20) years of age or older:(A) Engages in sexual intercourse or deviate sexual activity with another person who is:(i) Less than sixteen (16) years of age; and(ii) Not the person's spouse; or(…

(a) A sex offender who is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997, § 12-12-901 et seq., and who has been assessed as a:(1) Level 3 or Level 4 offender may not knowingly reside within two thousand feet (2,000′) of the property on which a public or priv…

(a) It is unlawful for a sex offender who is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997, § 12-12-901 et seq., and who has been assessed as a Level 3 or Level 4 offender to knowingly:(1) Engage in an occupation or participate in a volunteer position that …

(a) It is unlawful for a person who is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997, § 12-12-901 et seq., or required to register as a sex offender in any other state to knowingly:(1) Provide false information to obtain an identification card or a driver's…

(a) As used in this section, “victim” means a victim of a sex offense for which a person is required to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997, § 12-12-901 et seq. (b) It is unlawful for a person who is required to register under the Sex Offend…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Campus” means the real property, a building, or any other improvement in this state owned, leased, rented, or controlled by or for the operation of a public school;(2) “Private school” means a school offering instruction for a grade in kindergarte…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Children's playground” means a place with a specific design for children to be able to play there, whether indoor or outdoor;(2) (A) “Public park” means any property owned or maintained by this state or a county, city, town, or political subdivisi…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Costume” means an outfit worn to create the appearance or characteristic of a particular period, person, place, or thing; and(2) “Halloween-related event” means an event involving children organized around and concerning the celebration of Hallowe…

(a) As used in this section, “female genital mutilation” means a procedure that involves the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or any procedure harmful to the female genitalia, including without limitation:(1) A clitoridectomy;(2) The partial or total remo…

(a) As used in this section, “record” means to photograph, make, capture, generate, or save a print, negative, slide, motion picture, computer data file, videotape, or other mechanically, electronically, or chemically reproduced visual image or material. (b) It is unlawful for a …

(a) As used in this section, “unmanned aircraft” means an aircraft, including an aircraft commonly known as a drone, that is operated without the possibility of direct human intervention from within or on the aircraft and has the ability to photographically or electronically reco…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Deepfake visual material” means a photograph, image, video, or other visual depiction that:(A) Appears to an ordinary person to be an authentic depiction of an identifiable person; and(B) Is generated, modified, or adapted using technology to fals…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Relevant medical record” means a medical record of a person charged with having committed a sex crime that contains information that may reveal a health risk to the victim; and(2) “Sex crime” means any offense described in § 5-14-101 et seq., e…

(a) (1) Through a warrant issued by a judicial officer under Rule 13 of the Arkansas Rules of Criminal Procedure, a prosecuting attorney of this state is entitled access to a relevant medical record of a person charged with having committed a sex crime against another person, whi…

(a) It is unlawful for a person to use a camera, videotape, photo-optical, photoelectric, or other image recording device for the purpose of secretly observing, viewing, photographing, filming, or videotaping another person who is present in a residence, place of business, school…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Nude or partially nude” means a state of undress of a person who has less than a fully opaque covering over the genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or breast of a female;(2) “Private place” means a place where a person may reasonably expect to be safe…

(a) A person commits the offense of communicating a death threat concerning a school employee or student if:(1) The person communicates to any other person a threat to cause the death of a school employee or student;(2) The threat involves the use of a firearm or other deadly wea…

This chapter shall be known as and may be cited as the “Human Trafficking Act of 2013”.

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Abuse or threatened abuse of law or legal process” means the use or threatened use of a law or legal process, whether administrative, civil, or criminal, in any manner or for any purpose for which the law was not designed, in order to exert pressu…

(a) A person commits the offense of trafficking of persons if he or she knowingly:(1) Recruits, harbors, transports, obtains, entices, solicits, isolates, provides, or maintains a person when he or she knows or reasonably should know that the person will be subjected to involunta…

(a) A person commits the offense of patronizing a victim of human trafficking if he or she knowingly engages in commercial sexual activity with another person who he or she knows or reasonably should know is a victim of human trafficking. (b) (1) Patronizing a victim of human tra…

(1) In addition to any other statutorily authorized sentence or fine, an organization convicted of an offense under this chapter is subject to any combination of the following:(1) A suspension or revocation of a license, permit, or prior approval granted to the organization by a …

(a) A person commits grooming a minor for future sex trafficking if the person knowingly grooms a minor with a purpose to make it more likely that the minor can be enticed or induced into a future sex trafficking act with a person. (b) Grooming a minor for future sex trafficking …

(a) As used in this section, “travels” means to leave one's residence or locality to go away on a trip, tour, or journey. (b) A person commits traveling for the purpose of an unlawful sex act with a minor if the person is eighteen (18) years of age or older and knowingly travels …

(1) A person convicted of an offense under this chapter may be subject to an enhanced sentence of an additional term of imprisonment not to exceed five (5) years if the person recruited, enticed, or obtained a trafficked person from:(1) A shelter or facility operating as a reside…

(a) (1) As used in this section, “communication device” means any public or private instrumentality used or useful in the transmission of a writing, sign, signal, picture, or sound of any kind.(2) “Communication device” includes without limitation mail, telephone, wire, radio, an…

(1) As used in this subtitle:(1) “Adult” means any person eighteen (18) years of age or older;(2) “Deviate sexual activity” means any act of sexual gratification involving:(A) The penetration, however slight, of the anus or mouth of a person by the penis of another person; or(B) …

(a) A person commits bigamy if, being married, he or she purports to marry another person. (b) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that at the time of the alleged offense the actor:(1) Reasonably believed that the prior spouse was dead;(2) Had lived a…

(a) A person commits incest if the person, being sixteen (16) years of age or older, purports to marry, has sexual intercourse with, or engages in deviate sexual activity with another person sixteen (16) years of age or older whom the actor knows to be:(1) An ancestor or a descen…

(a) A person commits the offense of concealing birth if he or she hides the corpse of a newborn child with purpose to conceal the fact of the child's birth or to prevent a determination of whether the child was born alive. (b) Concealing birth is a Class D felony.

(a) (1) A person commits the offense of unlawful solicitation for the relinquishment of parental rights in the first degree if in exchange for consenting to the person's or another person's placing a baby who is not yet born for adoption the person offers anything of value prohib…

To the extent that any protected class of persons defined under this subchapter is afforded protection by any other existing or future statute of this state, this subchapter does not prevent a prosecution under any such existing or future statute.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) (A) “Dating relationship” means a romantic or intimate social relationship between two (2) individuals that is determined by examining the following factors:(i) The length of the relationship;(ii) The type of the relationship; and(iii) The frequ…

(a) A person commits domestic battering in the first degree if:(1) With the purpose of causing serious physical injury to a family or household member, the person causes serious physical injury to a family or household member by means of a deadly weapon;(2) With the purpose of se…

(a) A person commits domestic battering in the second degree if:(1) With the purpose of causing physical injury to a family or household member, the person causes serious physical injury to a family or household member;(2) With the purpose of causing physical injury to a family o…

(a) A person commits domestic battering in the third degree if:(1) With the purpose of causing physical injury to a family or household member, the person causes physical injury to a family or household member;(2) The person recklessly causes physical injury to a family or househ…

(a) A person commits aggravated assault on a family or household member if, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life, the person purposely:(1) Engages in conduct that creates a substantial danger of death or serious physical injury to a fami…

(a) A person commits first degree assault on a family or household member if the person recklessly engages in conduct that creates a substantial risk of death or serious physical injury to a family or household member. (b) First degree assault on a family or household member is a…

(a) A person commits second degree assault on a family or household member if the person recklessly engages in conduct that creates a substantial risk of physical injury to a family or household member. (b) Second degree assault on a family or household member is a Class B misdem…

(a) A person commits third degree assault on a family or household member if the person purposely creates apprehension of imminent physical injury to a family or household member. (b) Third degree assault on a family or household member is a Class C misdemeanor.

(a) The abused in any misdemeanor or felony domestic violence offense shall not bear the costs associated with the filing of a criminal charge against the domestic violence offender or the costs associated with the issuance or service of a warrant and witness subpoena, except as …

In a case involving domestic or family violence, a court shall not order residential confinement as a condition of bond or probation for a defendant in any household shared by the defendant and the alleged victim.

For purposes of § 5-26-303(b)(2), § 5-26-304(b)(2), and § 5-26-305(b)(2), a woman is considered pregnant four (4) weeks after conception.

A person who is convicted of any misdemeanor of domestic violence shall be notified by the court that it is unlawful for the person to ship, transport, or possess a firearm or ammunition pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) and (9), as they existed on January 1, 2007.

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Identifiable” means recognizable as a specific person by:(A) The person's face, likeness, or other distinguishing characteristic; or(B) Any additional information that states the identity or purported identity of the person; and(2) “Intimate image…

(a) A person commits the offense of nonsupport if he or she fails to provide support to the person's:(1) Spouse who is physically or mentally infirm or financially dependent;(2) Legitimate child who is less than eighteen (18) years of age;(3) Illegitimate child who is less than e…