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Ark. Code Ann. § 5-14-129: Registered offender working with children prohibited
Where this section sits in the code
- AR Code
- Title 5
- Chapter 14
- Subchapter 1
(a) It is unlawful for a sex offender who is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997, § 12-12-901 et seq., and who has been assessed as a Level 3 or Level 4 offender to knowingly: (1) Engage in an occupation or participate in a volunteer position that requires the sex offender to work or interact primarily and directly with a child under sixteen (16) years of age; or (2) Accept work as a self-employed person, an independent contractor, or an employee or agent of a self-employed person or independent contractor that is to be performed at a privately owned daycare facility when the privately owned daycare facility has in its care a child. (b) A violation of this section is a Class D felony. Amended by Act 2013, No. 1125,§ 5, eff. 8/16/2013. Acts 2005, No. 1779, § 1; 2011, No. 1023, § 1.
(a) It is unlawful for a sex offender who is required to register under the Sex Offender Registration Act of 1997, § 12-12-901 et seq., and who has been assessed as a Level 3 or Level 4 offender to knowingly: (1) Engage in an occupation or participate in a volunteer position that requires the sex offender to work or interact primarily and directly with a child under sixteen (16) years of age; or (2) Accept work as a self-employed person, an independent contractor, or an employee or agent of a self-employed person or independent contractor that is to be performed at a privately owned daycare facility when the privately owned daycare facility has in its care a child.
(1) Engage in an occupation or participate in a volunteer position that requires the sex offender to work or interact primarily and directly with a child under sixteen (16) years of age; or
(2) Accept work as a self-employed person, an independent contractor, or an employee or agent of a self-employed person or independent contractor that is to be performed at a privately owned daycare facility when the privately owned daycare facility has in its care a child.
(b) A violation of this section is a Class D felony.
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