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Arkansas Code Title 6. Education § 6-24-115. Criminal penalties

Current as of March 28, 2024 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

<Text of section effective May 1, 2024. See, also, text of section 6-24-115 effective until May 1, 2024.>

(a)(1) Any board member, administrator, employee, or nonemployee who shall knowingly violate the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a felony.

(2) In addition, the court may fine the violator in any sum not to exceed the greater of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or double the dollar amounts involved in the transactions, sentence the violator to prison for not more than five (5) years, or impose both a fine and imprisonment.

(b) Any board member, administrator, employee, or nonemployee who should have known his or her actions would violate the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(c) Upon pleading guilty or nolo contendere to or being found guilty of violating this chapter, the court shall order restitution to the public educational entity in addition to any other penalty proscribed.

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