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5-55-501. Lottery fraud.
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5-55-501. Lottery fraud.
(a) As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Lottery” means the same as defined in § 23-115-103 of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Act, § 23-115-101 et seq.; and
(2) “Ticket or share” means the same as defined in § 23-115-103 of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Act, § 23-115-101 et seq.
(b) A person commits the offense of lottery fraud if he or she:
(1) Falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, passes, or counterfeits a ticket or share in a lottery with a purpose to defraud the Office of the Arkansas Lottery; or
(2) Purposely influences the winning of a lottery prize through the use of coercion, fraud, deception, or tampering with lottery equipment or materials.
(c) A violation of this section is a Class D felony.
(d) In addition to the fine for a conviction under § 5-4-201, a person convicted of a violation of this section is subject to an additional fine of not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-55-501
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5-55-501. Lottery fraud.
(a) As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Lottery” means the same as defined in § 23-115-103 of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Act, § 23-115-101 et seq.; and
(2) “Ticket or share” means the same as defined in § 23-115-103 of the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Act, § 23-115-101 et seq.
(b) A person commits the offense of lottery fraud if he or she:
(1) Falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, passes, or counterfeits a ticket or share in a lottery with a purpose to defraud the Office of the Arkansas Lottery; or
(2) Purposely influences the winning of a lottery prize through the use of coercion, fraud, deception, or tampering with lottery equipment or materials.
(c) A violation of this section is a Class D felony.
(d) In addition to the fine for a conviction under § 5-4-201, a person convicted of a violation of this section is subject to an additional fine of not more than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
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23-115-101. Short title.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Scholarship Lottery Act”.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-115-101
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23-115-103. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Administrative expenses” means operating expenses, excluding amounts set aside for prizes, regardless of whether the prizes are claimed, and excluding amounts held as a fidelity fund under § 23-115-603;
(2) “Administrative order” means the final disposition of the Office of the Arkansas Lottery in any matter other than a claim in contract or in tort, including without limitation licensing, in which the office is required by law to make its determination after notice and a hearing;
(3)(A) “Casino gambling” means a location or business for the purposes of conducting illegal gambling activities, including without limitation activities under § 5-66-101 et seq. that are not authorized under this chapter.
(B) “Casino gambling” does not include the sale and purchase of tickets or shares;
(4)(A) “Compensation” means any money or anything of value received or to be received as a claim for future services, whether in the form of a retainer, fee, salary, expense, allowance, forbearance, forgiveness, interest, dividend, royalty, rent, or any other form of recompense or any combination thereof.
(B) “Compensation” includes without limitation a payment made under obligation for services or other value received.
(C) Subdivisions (4)(A) and (B) of this section do not apply to “compensation” as used in § 23-115-304;
(5) “Female-owned business” means a business:
(A) Whose management and daily business operations are under the control of one (1) or more females; and
(B) Either:
(i) Individually owned by a female who reports as her personal income for Arkansas income tax purposes the income of the business;
(ii) Which is a partnership in which a majority of the ownership interest is owned by one (1) or more fema
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 23-115-103
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5-4-201. Fines — Limitations on amount.
(a) A defendant convicted of a felony may be sentenced to pay a fine:
(1) Not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) if the conviction is of a Class A felony or Class B felony;
(2) Not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) if the conviction is of a Class C felony or Class D felony; or
(3) In accordance with a limitation of the statute defining the felony if the conviction is of an unclassified felony.
(b) A defendant convicted of a misdemeanor may be sentenced to pay a fine:
(1) Not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500) if the conviction is of a Class A misdemeanor;
(2) Not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) if the conviction is of a Class B misdemeanor;
(3) Not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) if the conviction is of a Class C misdemeanor; or
(4) In accordance with a limitation of the statute defining the misdemeanor if the conviction is of an unclassified misdemeanor.
(c) A defendant convicted of a violation may be sentenced to pay a fine:
(1) Not exceeding one hundred dollars ($100) if the violation is defined by the Arkansas Criminal Code or defined by a statute enacted subsequent to January 1, 1976, that does not prescribe a different limitation on the amount of the fine; or
(2) In accordance with a limitation of the statute defining the violation if that statute prescribes limitations on the amount of the fine.
(d)(1) Notwithstanding a limit imposed by this section, if the defendant has derived pecuniary gain from commission of an offense, then upon conviction of the offense the defendant may be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding two (2) times the amount of the pecuniary gain.
(2) As used in this subsection, “pecuniary gain” means the amount of money or the val
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 5-4-201
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 5-4-201. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.