2020 Arkansas Code
Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts
Subtitle 7 - Particular Proceedings And Remedies
Chapter 118 - Miscellaneous Actions
§ 16-118-114. Civil action against a person who engages in a riot or disorderly conduct, or who obstructs or interferes with emergency medical services personnel or first responder
(a) In addition to any other cause of action available to a person, a person who suffers injury to himself or herself or to his or her property as a direct or indirect result of:
(1) An act of obstructing or interfering with emergency medical personnel or a first responder, § 5-60-123, if the act of obstructing or interfering with emergency medical personnel or a first responder is a felony or Class A misdemeanor, may bring a civil action against a person who obstructed or interfered with the emergency medical personnel or first responder; or
(2) A riot or the activity of a rioter under § 5-71-201 et seq., may bring a civil action against the rioter or a person or entity that incites the riot.
(b) A court hearing a civil action under this section may award compensatory damages, punitive damages, costs, reasonable attorney's fees, and expenses to a plaintiff who prevails in the civil action.
