Arkansas Code Title 4. Business and Commercial Law § 4-75-503. Furnishing or transmitting news

(2) No increase in the rate charged for such news service shall apply in this state unless the increased rates shall be made in conformity with the uniform increased rates made for all other points wherever the news service may be furnished by the persons, companies, corporations, associations, or companies associated.

(b)(1) Any person, association, company, or corporation associated violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a violation and fined in any sum not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000).

(2) Each day's violation shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punished as such.

(c)(1) Any telegraph company or telephone company transmitting or permitting to be transmitted over its lines, by lease or otherwise, or which shall receive for transmission over any of its lines from any persons, companies, corporations, associations, or persons associated, any news item, the transmission of which is prohibited by this section, shall be guilty of a violation and punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000).

(2) The Attorney General or any prosecuting attorney of the state is empowered, authorized, and directed to bring suit in the name of the State of Arkansas for the recovery of the penalty prescribed by subdivision (c)(1) of this section.