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Ark. Code Ann. § 3-8-209

Sales or furnishing place for sale in dry territory prohibited — Penalty

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case K & S Corp. v. Greeley Liquor Licensing Authority (2008)

Most recently applied in K & S Corp. v. Greeley Liquor Licensing Authority (April 2008)

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(1) Except as provided in § 3-5-1901 et seq., it is unlawful for a person, firm, or corporation to manufacture, sell, barter, loan, or give away intoxicating liquor in a county, township, municipality, ward, or precinct in which the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquor is prohibited under Initiated Act No. 1 of 1942, §§ 3-8-201 — 3-8-203 and 3-8-205 — 3-8-209.

(2) Upon a first conviction, any person or officers of any firm or corporation that shall manufacture, sell, barter, loan, or give away any intoxicating liquor in any territory which has been made dry under the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).

(3) For a second conviction, he or she shall be guilty of a violation and fined not less than two hundred dollars ($200) nor more than two thousand dollars ($2,000), and for any subsequent conviction shall be guilty of a Class D felony.

(4) Any person or officers of a firm or corporation that knowingly furnishes or rents a house, room, wagon, vehicle, or any conveyance or thing in which intoxicating liquor is manufactured or sold, bartered, loaned, or given away in violation of prohibition secured under the provisions of this subchapter is declared to be a particeps criminis and upon conviction shall be subject to the same punishment as the principal. The house, room, wagon, vehicle, conveyance, or other thing in which the intoxicating liquor is manufactured or sold, bartered, loaned, or given away shall be liable for all fines adjudged against either the principal or the particeps criminis, or both, as defined in this subsection.

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.