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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-14-129

Registered offender working with children prohibited

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Parkman v. Sex Offender Screening & Risk Assessment Committee (2009)

Most recently applied in Newman v. State (March 2011)

Acts 2005, No. 1779, § 1; 2011, No. 1023, § 1; 2013, No. 1125, § 5.

(1) It is unlawful for a sex offender who is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997, § 12-12-901 et seq., and who has been assessed as a Level 3 or Level 4 offender to knowingly: Engage in an occupation or participate in a volunteer position that requires the sex offender to work or interact primarily and directly with a child under sixteen (16) years of age; or

(2) Accept work as a self-employed person, an independent contractor, or an employee or agent of a self-employed person or independent contractor that is to be performed at a privately owned daycare facility when the privately owned daycare facility has in its care a child.

(3) A violation of this section is a Class D felony.

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.