§ 2-40-101 - Penalties. - Arkansas Statutes

2-40-101. Penalties.

(a) (1) Any person who assaults or by force or violence resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any employee of the Arkansas Livestock and Poultry Commission while the employee is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties or because the employee has carried out or is about to carry out his or her official duties shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and shall be punished accordingly.

(2) If the person uses a dangerous or deadly weapon in the commission of the acts, the person shall be guilty of a Class D felony and shall be punished accordingly.

(b) Any person who without the use of force or violence resists, opposes, impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any employee of the commission while the employee is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties or because the employee has carried out or is about to carry out his or her official duties shall be guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and shall be punished accordingly.

(c) (1) Any person who shall bring into or cause to be brought into the state any animal suffering from a contagious or infectious disease or any animal that has been exposed to the contagion or infection of any disease, knowing the animal to have been so diseased or to have been so exposed, shall be guilty of a violation.

(2) (A) Upon conviction, an offender shall be fined in any sum not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500).

(B) In addition, he or she shall be liable to others for damages due to infection from the animal.