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Ark. Code Ann. § 23-2-411

No person excused from testifying — Exemption from prosecution

Acts 1935, No. 324, § 26; Pope's Dig., § 2089; A.S.A. 1947, § 73-225.

(1) No person shall be excused from testifying or from producing any book, document, paper, correspondence, or account in any investigation, inquiry by, or hearing before the commission or any commissioner or examiner when ordered to do so upon the ground that the testimony or evidence, book, document, paper, correspondence, or account required of him or her may tend to incriminate him or her or subject him or her to penalty or forfeiture.

(2) However, no person shall be prosecuted, punished, or subjected to any forfeiture or penalty for, or on account of, any act, transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he or she shall have been compelled under oath to testify or produce documentary evidence.

(3) No person so testifying shall be exempt from prosecution or punishment for any perjury committed by him or her in his or her testimony.

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.