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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 5 - Criminal Offenses
Subtitle 4 - Offenses Against Property
Chapter 38 - Damage or Destruction of Property
Subchapter 2 - Offenses Generally
§ 5-38-206. Damaging wires and other fixtures of telephone, cable, and electric power companies
Universal Citation: AR Code § 5-38-206 (2017)
- (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 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.
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