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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-73-110

Disarming minors and mentally defective or mentally irresponsible persons — Disposition of property seized

Acts 1975, No. 280, § 3110; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-3110; Acts 2015, No. 688, § 1.

(1) Subject to constitutional limitation, nothing in this section and §§ 5-73-101 — 5-73-109 shall be construed to prohibit a law enforcement officer from disarming, without arresting, a minor or person who reasonably appears to be mentally defective or otherwise mentally irresponsible when that person is in possession of a deadly weapon.

(2) Property seized under subsection (a) of this section shall be: Held for seventy-two (72) hours by the law enforcement agency employing the law enforcement officer who seized the property; and

(3) After the seventy-two-hour hold and upon request and presentation of valid proof of ownership, returned to the: Owner, if he or she is eighteen (18) years of age or older and may lawfully possess the property; or

(4) Parent or legal guardian of the owner, if the owner is a minor and the parent or legal guardian may lawfully possess the property.

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.