5-38-206. Damaging wires and other fixtures of telephone, cable, and electric power companies.

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5-38-206. Damaging wires and other fixtures of telephone, cable, and electric power companies.

5-38-206. Damaging wires and other fixtures of telephone, cable, and electric power companies. (a) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly damage, destroy, or pull down: (1) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power transmission pedestal or pole owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company; (2) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power line, wire, fiber insulator, power supply transformer, transmission, or other apparatus, equipment, or fixture, including without limitation a backup deep cycle battery or other power supply, used in the transmission of telephone, cable communications, or electric power owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company; or (3) Equipment related to wireless communications that are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. (b) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly damage, destroy, remove, or alter in a way that could result in physical injury any electric power line, gas line, water line, wire or fiber insulator, electric motor, or other similar apparatus connected to a farm shop, an on-farm grain drying and storage complex, a heating and cooling system, an environmental control system, an animal production facility, an irrigation system, or a dwelling. (c) A violation of this section is a Class D felony.

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-38-206

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.