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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-11-106

Permanent detention or restraint

Acts 1975, No. 280, § 1706, as added by Acts 1977, No. 360, § 6; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-1706.

(1) A person commits the offense of permanent detention or restraint if, without consent and without lawful authority, the person restrains a person with the purpose of holding or concealing the other person: Without ever releasing the other person; or

(2) Without ever returning the other person to the person or institution from whose lawful custody the other person was taken.

(3) Permanent detention or restraint is a Class B felony.

(4) However, permanent detention or restraint is a Class D felony if the person detained or restrained is the child of the defendant.

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.