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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, and Courts
Subtitle 6 - Criminal Procedure Generally
Chapter 82 - Search and Seizure
Subchapter 3 - Body Cavity Searches
§ 16-82-303. Immunity from civil liability
Universal Citation: AR Code § 16-82-303 (2017)
- (a) Any physician or licensed nurse who, pursuant to Rule 12.3 of the Arkansas Rules of Criminal Procedure, when authorized by a search warrant and requested by a law enforcement officer, performs a search of the body cavity of any person is immune from civil liability of any kind arising from the search except for negligence.
- (b) Any hospital or clinic where a search pursuant to Rule 12.3 of the Arkansas Rules of Criminal Procedure, authorized by a search warrant, is performed is immune from civil liability of any kind arising from the search except for negligence.
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