Operation of vehicles without license plates
Known as the Motor Vehicle Administration, Certificate of Title, and Antitheft Act
The act spans §§ 27–27 (209 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Owens v. State (2003)
Most recently applied in Stufflebeam v. Harris (April 2008)
Acts 1949, No. 142, § 76; 1965 (2nd Ex
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.
(1) No person shall operate, nor shall an owner knowingly permit to be operated, upon any highway any vehicle required to be registered under this chapter unless there shall be attached thereto and displayed thereon, when and as required by this chapter, a valid license plate issued therefor by the office for the current registration year, except as otherwise expressly permitted in this chapter.
(2) Any violation of this section is a misdemeanor.
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.