Ark. Code Ann. § 12-9-102

Definitions

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case City of Pocahontas v. Huddleston (1992)

Most recently applied in City of Jacksonville v. Smith (March 2018)

Acts 1975, No. 452, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 42-1001; Acts 1989, No. 25, § 2; 2017, No. 497, § 2; 2019, No. 910, § 5809.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

As used in this subchapter:

(1) “Law enforcement agency” means: A private college or university law enforcement agency as described in § 12-20-101 et seq.;

(2) The Division of Law Enforcement Standards and Training and the Black River Technical College Law Enforcement Training Academy as designated under § 12-9-210; and

(3) Any other entity designated by law as a law enforcement agency;

(4) “Law enforcement officer” means an appointed law enforcement officer who is responsible for the prevention and detection of crime and the enforcement of the criminal, traffic, or highway laws of this state, excluding only those officers who are elected by a vote of the people; and

(5) “Political subdivision” means any county, municipality, township, or other specific local unit of general government.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.