Persons arrested to be tried on charges — No charges reduced — Filing citations
Known as the Omnibus DWI or BWI Act
The act spans §§ 5-65-101 to 5-65-403 (44 sections).
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Pyle v. State (2000)
Most recently applied in Baldridge v. Cordes (September 2002)
Acts 1983, No. 549, § 8; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-2508; Acts 2015, No. 299, § 6.
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.
(1) A person arrested for violating § 5-65-103 shall be tried on the charge of violating § 5-65-103 or plead to the charge of violating § 5-65-103, and the charge of violating § 5-65-103 shall not be reduced or dismissed.
(2) Furthermore, when a law enforcement officer issues a citation for violating § 5-65-103, the citation shall be filed with the court as soon as possible.
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.