The General Assembly declares that the purpose of this subchapter is to safeguard the public against the creation or perpetuation of monopolies and to foster and encourage competition by prohibiting unfair and discriminatory practices by which fair and honest competition is destroyed or prevented.
Ark. Code Ann. § 4-75-202
Purpose
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. American Abstract & Title Co. (2005)
Most recently applied in Stewart Title Guaranty Co. v. American Abstract & Title Co. (October 2005)
Acts 1937, No. 253, § 13; Pope's Dig., § 14323; A.S.A. 1947, § 70-313.
How often courts cite this section
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.
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.