Operation of motor vehicle during period of license suspension or revocation
Known as the Omnibus DWI or BWI Act
The act spans §§ 5–5 (44 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Coleman v. Watt (1994)
Most recently applied in Jamar Conic v. State of Arkansas (March 2023)
Acts 1983, No. 549, § 14; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-2512; Acts 2001, No. 1715, § 1; 2015, No. 299, § 6; 2015, No. 1035, § 1.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A person whose driving privilege has been suspended or revoked under this subchapter who operates a motor vehicle in this state during the period of the suspension or revocation upon conviction is guilty of an unclassified misdemeanor and:
(1) Shall be imprisoned for not less than ten (10) days or more than ninety (90) days; and
(2) May be assessed a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000).
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.