Title 5 — Criminal Offenses

(a) A person commits the offense of defrauding a materialman if, being the principal contractor or subcontractor, the person knowingly or wilfully with the purpose to defraud fails to pay any supplier or subcontractor for a material or good furnished to the project within thirty …

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Catastrophe” means:(A) Serious physical injury or death to five (5) or more persons; or(B) Substantial damage to five (5) or more occupiable structures or property loss in excess of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000);(2) “Critical infrastruc…

A.C.A. § 5-38-201Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) (1) A person commits the offense of causing a catastrophe if he or she knowingly causes a catastrophe by:(A) Explosion;(B) Fire;(C) Flood;(D) Avalanche;(E) Collapse of building;(F) Distribution of a poison, radioactive material, bacteria, or virus; or(G) Another dangerous and…

(a) A person commits the offense of criminal mischief in the first degree if he or she purposely and without legal justification destroys or causes damage to any:(1) Property of another person;(2) Property, whether his or her own or the property of another person, for the purpose…

(a) A person commits criminal mischief in the second degree if the person:(1) Recklessly destroys or damages any property of another person; or(2) Purposely tampers with any property of another person and by the tampering causes substantial inconvenience to the owner or another p…

(a) A person commits the offense of impairing the operation of a vital public facility if, having no reasonable ground to believe he or she has a right to do so, the person knowingly causes a substantial interruption or impairment of an operation of a vital public facility by:(1)…

(a) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly damage, destroy, or pull down:(1) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power transmission pedestal or pole owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company;(2) A telephone, cable communications, or electric …

(a) It is unlawful for any person, corporation, company, or other entity to destroy or carry away any cemetery marker or grave marker. (b) Destruction or removal of a cemetery marker or grave marker is a Class C felony.

(a) (1) As used in this section, “automated teller machine” means an electronic information processing device located in this state that accepts or dispenses cash in connection with a financial transaction or credit card.(2) “Automated teller machine” includes a customer-bank com…

A.C.A. § 5-38-213Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) Any person who willfully cuts down, destroys, defaces, removes, or carries off any witness tree, monument, or other landmark established by legal survey and used to delineate a boundary line is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (b) Furthermore, in any civil suit involving dama…

(a) A person commits arson if he or she:(1) Starts a fire or causes an explosion with the purpose of destroying or otherwise damaging:(A) An occupiable structure or motor vehicle that is the property of another person;(B) Any property, whether his or her own or property of anothe…

(a) A person commits the offense of reckless burning if the person purposely starts a fire or causes an explosion, whether on his or her own property or property of another person, and thereby recklessly:(1) Creates a substantial risk of death or serious physical injury to any pe…

(a) A person commits the offense of failure to control or report a dangerous fire if the person knows that a fire is unattended and is endangering the life, physical safety, or a substantial amount of property of another person, and the person:(1) Fails to act in a reasonable man…

(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful burning if the person:(1) Sets on fire or causes or procures to be set on fire any forest, brush, or other inflammable vegetation on another person's land;(2) Allows a fire that he or she built or has charge of to escape from his or he…

(a) The following acts are Class C felonies:(1) Purposely setting on fire the land of another person;(2) Starting a fire on the person's own land that he or she has leased or is under his or her control with the intent of letting the fire escape to the land of another person; and…

(a) The purpose of this section is to:(1) Clarify that there is not a presumption as to the cause of fire related to a violation of this subchapter;(2) Abolish any common law contrary to this section, including without limitation Johnson v. State, 198 Ark. 871, 131 S.W.2d 934 (19…

(1) As used in this chapter:(1) “Artifact” means an object produced or shaped by human craft, such as a tool, weapon, coin, or ornament of archaeological, cultural, or historical interest or significance;(2) “Commercial occupiable structure” means a vehicle, building, or other st…

(a) (1) A person commits residential burglary if he or she enters or remains unlawfully in a residential occupiable structure of another person with the purpose of committing in the residential occupiable structure any offense punishable by imprisonment.(2) Residential burglary i…

(a) A person commits the offense of breaking or entering if for the purpose of committing a theft or felony he or she breaks or enters into any:(1) Building, structure, or vehicle;(2) Vault, safe, cash register, safety deposit box, or money depository;(3) Money vending machine, c…

(a) A person commits criminal trespass if he or she purposely enters or remains unlawfully in or upon:(1) A vehicle of another person;(2) The premises owned or leased by another person; or(3) Critical infrastructure. (1) A vehicle of another person; (2) The premises owned or leas…

(a) A person commits aggravated residential burglary if he or she commits residential burglary as defined in § 5-39-201 of a residential occupiable structure, and either:(1) The residential occupiable structure is occupied by another person; or(2) He or she is armed with a deadly…

Any person who takes or keeps possession of any real estate by actual force or violence without the authority of law, or who, being armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon, by violence to any person entitled to the possession, or by putting in fear of immediate danger to his or h…

(a) It is unlawful for any corporation, company, or individual to:(1) Mine, extract, or remove coal from under, beneath, or within the buffer zone for a cemetery, graveyard, or burying place in this state as specified in rules promulgated by the Arkansas Pollution Control and Eco…

(a) (1) It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or association to construct any fence on any property in such a manner as to enclose any cemetery, graveyard, or burying place unless reasonable access by automobile to the cemetery is provided by gate or othe…

(a) It is unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to place any advertising on any property in this state without first securing the written permission of the owner of the property. (b) Any person violating a provision of this section is guilty of a violation and upon convic…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Driver” means the operator of a school bus; and(2) “School bus” means any publicly or privately owned motor vehicle designed for transporting ten (10) or more passengers and operated for the transportation of children to or from school or a school…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Immediate family” means a person's spouse, children, parents or guardian, siblings, and grandparents, whether related by blood, adoption, or marriage;(2) “Premises” means a dwelling, commercial building, or vacant or unimproved real property; and(…

A person is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor if he or she pulls down or breaks a fence or opens a gate and fails to close the gate of a farm, plantation, or other enclosed ground of another person.

A.C.A. § 5-39-302Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

A.C.A. § 5-39-303Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) The owner, agent, lessee, or assignee of any land, including farm, timber, or otherwise, may notify any person by certified mail, deliver to addressee only or by notice served by any official authorized to serve process to cease any trespass or to stay off the premises of any…

(a) (1) A person shall not purposely enter without written permission of the owner or lessee upon another person's premises located outside the boundary of any city or town if those premises are:(A) Lawfully posted;(B) Crop land or timber land;(C) Enclosed with a fence sufficient…

A.C.A. § 5-39-401Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

A.C.A. § 5-39-402Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) If any land or town or city lot has been forfeited to the State of Arkansas for the nonpayment of taxes and the title of the state to the land or town or city lot has been confirmed, it is unlawful after the date of the confirmation decree for the former owner or any other pe…

A.C.A. § 5-40-104Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(1) It is found and determined that:(1) Computer-related crime poses a major problem for business and government;(2) Losses for each incident of computer-related crime are potentially astronomical;(3) The opportunities for computer-related crime in business and government through…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Access” means to instruct, communicate with, store data in, or retrieve data from a computer, computer system, or computer network;(2) “Computer” means an electronic device that performs a logical, arithmetic, or memory function by manipulating…

(a) A person commits computer fraud if the person intentionally accesses or causes to be accessed any computer, computer system, computer network, or any part of a computer, computer system, or computer network for the purpose of:(1) Devising or executing any scheme or artifice t…

(a) A person commits computer trespass if the person intentionally and without authorization accesses, alters, deletes, damages, destroys, or disrupts any computer, computer system, computer network, computer program, or data. (b) Computer trespass is a:(1) Class C misdemeanor if…

(1) For the purpose of venue under this subchapter, any violation of this subchapter is considered to have been committed in any county:(1) In which any act was performed in furtherance of any course of conduct that violated this subchapter;(2) In which any violator had control o…

(a) (1) Any person whose property or person is injured by reason of a violation of any provision of this subchapter may sue for the injury and recover for any damages sustained and the costs of suit.(2) Without limiting the generality of the term, “damages” includes loss of profi…

If requested to do so by a prosecuting attorney, the Attorney General may assist the prosecuting attorney in the investigation or prosecution of an offense under this subchapter or any other offense involving the use of a computer.

(a) A person commits the offense of unlawful computerized communications if, with the purpose to frighten, intimidate, threaten, abuse, or harass another person, the person sends a message:(1) To the other person on an electronic mail or other computerized communication system an…

An internet service provider shall disclose personally identifiable information concerning a consumer pursuant to a subpoena, warrant, or court order issued under authority of a law of this state, another state, or the United States Government.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Access” means to intercept, instruct, communicate with, store data in, retrieve from, or otherwise make use of any resource of a computer, network, or data;(2) (A) “Computer” means an electronic, magnetic, electrochemical, or other high-speed d…

(a) A person commits an unlawful act regarding a computer if the person knowingly and without authorization:(1) Modifies, damages, destroys, discloses, uses, transfers, conceals, takes, retains possession of, copies, obtains or attempts to obtain access to, permits access to or c…

(a) (1) A person commits unlawful interference with access to computers if the person knowingly and without authorization interferes with, denies, or causes the denial of access to or use of a computer, system, or network to a person who has the duty and right to use the computer…