Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Ark. Code Ann. § 5-26-203

Concealing birth

Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2404; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2404; Acts 2001, No. 205, § 1.

(1) A person commits the offense of concealing birth if he or she hides the corpse of a newborn child with purpose to conceal the fact of the child's birth or to prevent a determination of whether the child was born alive.

(2) Concealing birth 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.