{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-13-6-408","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 13-6-408","heading":"Desecration of burial grounds and burial furniture","body":"(a) Anyone who intentionally or knowingly desecrates or permits desecration of a burial ground and associated burial furniture is committing on the first offense a Class D felony and on the second or subsequent offenses a Class C felony.\n\n(b) The presence in the ground of grave markers, caskets, or casket hardware creates a rebuttable presumption that these are burial furniture and of the existence or presence of a human burial ground.\n\n(c) Exempted from this section is disturbance of human skeletal burial remains or burial furniture by landowners or agricultural tenants as a consequence of agricultural activity or any other activity unless the landowner or agricultural tenant knowingly desecrates or knowingly allows desecration of a cemetery or burial site.","path":["AR Code","Title 13","Chapter 6","Subchapter 4"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:41Z","sha256":"03f758cc18f73c8ea06e1e4b862c1d20e699fe561a35a9e9a11903f543c33d9c","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-13-6-407","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-13-6-409"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}