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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Arkansas
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Police power of the State; Department of Labor Act of 1937
- Issued
- 2024-03-28 Mar. 28, 2024
- Effective
- standing (read as 2024-03-28)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Mar. 28, 2024 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- employers; owners of places of employment
- Character
- workplace duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Arkansas DUT-AR
Operative words
Any employer or owner who violates or fails or refuses to comply with any provision of this subchapter, any lawful order of the Director of the Division of Labor, or any judgment or decree made by any court in connection with the provisions of this subchapter for which no penalty has been otherwise provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
Penalty
Misdemeanor: $10-$100 fine or imprisonment up to six months, or both; each day a separate offense
What it required
Enforces the 11-2-117 safe-workplace duty by misdemeanor: fine of $10 to $100 or imprisonment up to six months, or both, for each offense, with each day the violation continues a separate offense (subsecs. (b)-(c)); 11-2-105 allows the penalty to be recovered in a civil action.
Retrieval noteFindLaw text 'Current as of March 28, 2024'; unchanged since Acts 2019, No. 910 (cross-checked against the Official Code of Arkansas Annotated, Release 78 (Nov. 6, 2020), UniCourt copy).