{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-42-105","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 17-42-105","heading":"Violations and criminal sanctions","body":"(a) It is unlawful to: (1) Engage in unlicensed real estate activity; or (2) Violate this chapter: (A) Individually; or (B) As an officer, agent, or member of a firm, corporation, partnership, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or other entity by participating in or being an accessory to a violation of this chapter by the firm, corporation, partnership, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or other entity. (b) A commissioner of the Arkansas Real Estate Commission, the Executive Director of the Arkansas Real Estate Commission, a commissioner's designee, the executive director's designee, or any licensee residing in the county where the violation occurs may by affidavit institute criminal proceedings for a violation of this chapter without filing a bond for costs. (c) The prosecuting attorney for each county shall prosecute any violation of this chapter that occurs in his or her county. (d) A violation of this chapter is a Class D felony. Acts 1993, No. 690, § 20; 2011, No. 865, § 3.\n\n(a) It is unlawful to: (1) Engage in unlicensed real estate activity; or (2) Violate this chapter: (A) Individually; or (B) As an officer, agent, or member of a firm, corporation, partnership, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or other entity by participating in or being an accessory to a violation of this chapter by the firm, corporation, partnership, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or other entity.\n\n(1) Engage in unlicensed real estate activity; or\n\n(2) Violate this chapter: (A) Individually; or (B) As an officer, agent, or member of a firm, corporation, partnership, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or other entity by participating in or being an accessory to a violation of this chapter by the firm, corporation, partnership, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or other entity.\n\n(A) Individually; or\n\n(B) As an officer, agent, or member of a firm, corporation, partnership, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or other entity by participating in or being an accessory to a violation of this chapter by the firm, corporation, partnership, copartnership, association, limited liability company, or other entity.\n\n(b) A commissioner of the Arkansas Real Estate Commission, the Executive Director of the Arkansas Real Estate Commission, a commissioner's designee, the executive director's designee, or any licensee residing in the county where the violation occurs may by affidavit institute criminal proceedings for a violation of this chapter without filing a bond for costs.\n\n(c) The prosecuting attorney for each county shall prosecute any violation of this chapter that occurs in his or her county.\n\n(d) A violation of this chapter is a Class D felony.","path":["AR Code","Title 17","Chapter 42","Subchapter 1"],"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 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"b1a34983ab28f5024082bb4497e54b7166ad3d66490fa8e19533cb3d5533ae14","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-42-104","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-42-106","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}