§ 5-13-211 - Aggravated assault upon an employee of a correctional facility. - Arkansas Statutes

5-13-211. Aggravated assault upon an employee of a correctional facility.

(a) A person commits aggravated assault upon an employee of a correctional facility if, under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the personal hygiene of the employee of the correctional facility, the person purposely engages in conduct that creates a potential danger of infection to an employee of any state or local correctional facility while the employee of the state or local correctional facility is engaged in the course of his or her employment by causing the employee of the state or local correctional facility to come into contact with saliva, blood, urine, feces, seminal fluid, or other bodily fluid by throwing, tossing, or expelling the fluid or material.

(b) Aggravated assault upon an employee of a correctional facility is a Class D felony.