Arkansas Code of 1987 (2024)
Title 27 - TRANSPORTATION (§§ 27-1-101 — 27-117-105)
Subtitle 2 - MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION AND LICENSING (§§ 27-13-101 — 27-25-113)
Chapter 16 - DRIVER'S LICENSES GENERALLY (§§ 27-16-101 — 27-16-1309)
Subchapter 3 - PENALTIES (§§ 27-16-301 — 27-16-306)
Section 27-16-302 - Unlawful use of license

• (a) It is a misdemeanor for a person:
  • (1) To display, or cause or permit to be displayed, or have in the person's possession a cancelled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, or fraudulently altered driver's license;
  • (2) To knowingly assist or permit another person to apply for or obtain through fraudulent application or other illegal means an Arkansas driver's license;
  • (3) To lend the person's driver's license to another person or knowingly permit its use by another;
  • (4) To display or represent as one's own a driver's license not issued to the person;
  • (5) To fail or refuse to surrender to the Office of Driver Services, upon its lawful demand, a driver's license that has been suspended, revoked, or cancelled;
  • (6) To use a false or fictitious name in an application for a driver's license, to knowingly make a false statement, or to knowingly conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in an application;
  • (7) To permit an unlawful use of a driver's license issued to the person; or
  • (8) To do an act forbidden or fail to perform an act required by this chapter.

• (b) The court in which a person is convicted under subsection (a) of this section shall send to the Office of Driver Services a record of the conviction within ten (10) days of the filing of the conviction with the court clerk.

Acts 1937, No. 280, § 35; Pope's Dig., § 6859; Acts 1969, No. 348, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-339; Acts 1993, No. 445, § 3; 2011, No. 194, § 1.