{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-21-14-111","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 21-14-111","heading":"Unlawful act - Penalty - Definition","body":"(a) It is unlawful for any notary public to witness any signature on any instrument unless the notary public either: (1) Witnesses the signing of the instrument and personally knows the signer or is presented proof of the identity of the signer; or (2) Recognizes the signature of the signer by virtue of familiarity with the signature. (b) Any notary public violating this section shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. (c) For purposes of this section, \"personally knows\" means having an acquaintance, derived from association with the individual, which establishes the individual's identity with at least a reasonable certainty. Acts 1989, No. 304, § 3; 2001, No. 1274, § 6.\n\n(a) It is unlawful for any notary public to witness any signature on any instrument unless the notary public either: (1) Witnesses the signing of the instrument and personally knows the signer or is presented proof of the identity of the signer; or (2) Recognizes the signature of the signer by virtue of familiarity with the signature.\n\n(1) Witnesses the signing of the instrument and personally knows the signer or is presented proof of the identity of the signer; or\n\n(2) Recognizes the signature of the signer by virtue of familiarity with the signature.\n\n(b) Any notary public violating this section shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.\n\n(c) For purposes of this section, \"personally knows\" means having an acquaintance, derived from association with the individual, which establishes the individual's identity with at least a reasonable certainty.","path":["AR Code","Title 21","Chapter 14","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":"4d11a77e347eaf9e48b4db12851415ae8d6f15b83b61b28850b028f526502b14","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-21-14-110","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-21-14-112","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."}