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Ark. Code Ann. § 4-88-101

Applicability of chapter

Applied in 72 court decisions — leading case State ex rel. Bryant v. McLeod (1994)

Most recently applied in Tiktok Inc., Tiktok Pte Ltd., Bytedance Inc., and Bytedance Ltd. (May 2025)

Acts 1971, No. 92, § 13; A.S.A. 1947, § 70-913; Acts 1991, No. 1177, § 3; 1995, No. 836, § 6; 2017, No. 986, § 1.

How often courts cite this section

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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.

This chapter does not apply to:

(1) Advertising or practices which are subject to and which comply with any rule, order, or statute administered by the Federal Trade Commission;

(2) Broadcasters, printers, publishers, and other persons engaging in the dissemination of information who do not have actual knowledge of the intent, design, purpose, or deceptive nature of the advertising or practice;

(3) Actions or transactions specifically permitted under laws administered by the Insurance Commissioner, the Securities Commissioner, the State Highway Commission, the Bank Commissioner, or other regulatory body or officer acting under statutory authority of this state or the United States, unless a director of these divisions specifically requests the Attorney General to implement the powers of this chapter; or

(4) Actions or transactions of a public utility which have been authorized by the Arkansas Public Service Commission, a municipal authority, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, or other regulatory body or officer acting under statutory authority of the United States.

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.