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Ark. Code Ann. § 27-16-302

Unlawful use of license

Known as the Motor Vehicle Driver's License Act

The act spans §§ 27–27 (100 sections).

Acts 1937, No. 280, § 35; Pope's Dig., § 6859; Acts 1969, No. 348, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-339; Acts 1993, No. 445, § 3; 2011, No. 194, § 1.

(1) It is a misdemeanor for a person: To display, or cause or permit to be displayed, or have in the person's possession a cancelled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, or fraudulently altered driver's license;

(2) To knowingly assist or permit another person to apply for or obtain through fraudulent application or other illegal means an Arkansas driver's license;

(3) To lend the person's driver's license to another person or knowingly permit its use by another;

(4) To display or represent as one's own a driver's license not issued to the person;

(5) To fail or refuse to surrender to the Office of Driver Services, upon its lawful demand, a driver's license that has been suspended, revoked, or cancelled;

(6) To use a false or fictitious name in an application for a driver's license, to knowingly make a false statement, or to knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in an application;

(7) To permit an unlawful use of a driver's license issued to the person; or

(8) To do an act forbidden or fail to perform an act required by this chapter.

(9) The court in which a person is convicted under subsection (a) of this section shall send to the Office of Driver Services a record of the conviction within ten (10) days of the filing of the conviction with the court clerk.

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.