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11-4-404. Payment by sale of goods or supplies.
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11-4-404. Payment by sale of goods or supplies.
(a) If any corporation, company, firm, or person shall coerce or compel or attempt to coerce or compel any employee in its employment to purchase goods or supplies in payment of wages, whether the wages are earned or not, from any corporation, company, firm, or person, the first-named corporation, company, firm, or person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as provided in § 11-4-403.
(b) If any corporation, company, firm, or person shall directly or indirectly sell to any employee in payment of wages, whether earned or not, goods and supplies at prices higher than a reasonable or current market value thereof in cash, the corporation, company, firm, or person shall be liable to the employee in a civil action in double the amount of the charges made and paid for any goods and supplies in excess of the reasonable or current value in cash thereof.
(c) The provisions of this section do not apply to coal mines when fewer than twenty (20) men are employed under the ground.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-4-404
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11-4-404. Payment by sale of goods or supplies.
(a) If any corporation, company, firm, or person shall coerce or compel or attempt to coerce or compel any employee in its employment to purchase goods or supplies in payment of wages, whether the wages are earned or not, from any corporation, company, firm, or person, the first-named corporation, company, firm, or person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as provided in § 11-4-403.
(b) If any corporation, company, firm, or person shall directly or indirectly sell to any employee in payment of wages, whether earned or not, goods and supplies at prices higher than a reasonable or current market value thereof in cash, the corporation, company, firm, or person shall be liable to the employee in a civil action in double the amount of the charges made and paid for any goods and supplies in excess of the reasonable or current value in cash thereof.
(c) The provisions of this section do not apply to coal mines when fewer than twenty (20) men are employed under the ground.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
11-4-403. Payment by evidence of indebtedness.
(a) It shall be unlawful for any corporation, company, firm, or person engaged in any trade or business in this state, either directly or indirectly, to issue, sell, give, or deliver to any person employed by the corporation, company, firm, or person, in payment of wages, whether the wages are earned or not, any scrip, token, draft, check, or other evidence of indebtedness payable or redeemable otherwise than in lawful money, at the next regular payday of the corporation, company, firm, or person.
(b) If the scrip, token, draft, check, or other evidence of indebtedness is issued, sold, given, or delivered to the laborer, it shall be construed, taken, and held in all courts and places to be a promise to pay the sum specified therein in lawful money by the corporation, company, firm, or person issuing, selling, giving, or delivering the same to the person named therein or the holder thereof.
(c) The corporation, company, firm, or person issuing, selling, giving, or delivering the evidence of indebtedness in violation of subsection (a) of this section shall, moreover, be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and not more than one hundred dollars ($100). At the discretion of the court trying the action, the officer or agent of the corporation, company, firm, or person issuing, selling, giving, or delivering the evidence of indebtedness may be imprisoned not less than ten (10) nor more than thirty (30) days.
(d) In any suit by any holder of the scrip, token, draft, check, or other evidence of indebtedness or in any prosecution under the provisions of this section, it shall not be required of the plaintiff in the suit or the state in the prosecution to prove
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 11-4-403
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 11-4-403. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.