Ark. Code Ann. § 5-53-102

Perjury generally

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case 2010 Ark. App. 323 - Stewart v. State (2010)

Most recently applied in Ho Yim v. William Barr (August 2020)

Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2602; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2602; Acts 2015, No. 1166, § 1; 2017, No. 889, § 1.

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(1) A person commits perjury if in an official proceeding he or she knowingly: Makes a false material statement under an oath required or authorized by law;

(2) Applies for or submits an absentee ballot for a city, school district, county, state, or federal election knowing that he or she is unlawfully applying for or unlawfully submitting the absentee ballot; or

(3) Makes a false unsworn declaration under the Uniform Unsworn Foreign Declarations Act, § 16-2-201 et seq.

(4) Lack of knowledge of the materiality of the statement is not a defense to a charge of perjury under this section.

(5) Perjury is a Class C 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.