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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-38-206

Damaging wires and other fixtures of telephone, cable, and electric power companies

Acts 2009, No. 390, § 1; 2011, No. 1120, § 10; 2019, No. 311, § 2.

(1) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly damage, destroy, or pull down: A telephone, cable communications, or electric power transmission pedestal or pole owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company;

(2) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power line, wire, fiber insulator, power supply transformer, transmission, or other apparatus, equipment, or fixture, including without limitation a backup deep cycle battery or other power supply, used in the transmission of telephone, cable communications, or electric power owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company; or

(3) Equipment related to wireless communications that are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.

(4) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly damage, destroy, remove, or alter in a way that could result in physical injury any electric power line, gas line, water line, wire or fiber insulator, electric motor, or other similar apparatus connected to a farm shop, an on-farm grain drying and storage complex, a heating and cooling system, an environmental control system, an animal production facility, an irrigation system, or a dwelling.

(5) 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.