13-6-408. Desecration of burial grounds and burial furniture.

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13-6-408. Desecration of burial grounds and burial furniture.

13-6-408. Desecration of burial grounds and burial furniture. (a) Anyone who intentionally or knowingly desecrates or permits desecration of a burial ground and associated burial furniture is committing on the first offense a Class D felony and on the second or subsequent offenses a Class C felony. (b) The presence in the ground of grave markers, caskets, or casket hardware creates a rebuttable presumption that these are burial furniture and of the existence or presence of a human burial ground. (c) Exempted from this section is disturbance of human skeletal burial remains or burial furniture by landowners or agricultural tenants as a consequence of agricultural activity or any other activity unless the landowner or agricultural tenant knowingly desecrates or knowingly allows desecration of a cemetery or burial site.

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 13-6-408

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