15-43-205. Negligent discharge of firearms while hunting deer.

Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities

15-43-205. Negligent discharge of firearms while hunting deer.

15-43-205. Negligent discharge of firearms while hunting deer. (a) The General Assembly has become aware of the fact that many persons hunting deer in this state negligently allow their firearms to be discharged without exercising proper care to ascertain the object at which they shoot, thereby endangering the life, limb, and property of other persons. It is the intent of this section to deter the negligent use of firearms by deer hunters by imposing penalties therefor. (b) A person who, while hunting deer, negligently discharges a firearm in such circumstances as to endanger the person or property of another shall be fined in an amount not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) or may be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6) months, or be both fined and imprisoned.

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 15-43-205

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. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.