{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-1-105","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 5-1-105","heading":"Offenses - Court authority not limited","body":"(a) An offense is conduct for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment or fine or both is authorized by statute. (b) An offense is classified as follows: (1) Felony; (2) Misdemeanor; or (3) Violation. (c) Nothing in the Arkansas Criminal Code shall be construed to limit the power of a court to punish for contempt or to employ any sanction authorized by law for the enforcement of an order, judgment, or decree. Acts 1975, No. 280, § 111; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-111.\n\n(a) An offense is conduct for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment or fine or both is authorized by statute.\n\n(b) An offense is classified as follows: (1) Felony; (2) Misdemeanor; or (3) Violation.\n\n(1) Felony;\n\n(2) Misdemeanor; or\n\n(3) Violation.\n\n(c) Nothing in the Arkansas Criminal Code shall be construed to limit the power of a court to punish for contempt or to employ any sanction authorized by law for the enforcement of an order, judgment, or decree.","path":["AR Code","Title 5","Chapter 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":"c50bfb6363cf4f83c7bf4f95aa1fc20ebe107f1c46d2ff424bf6b77c4354d37d","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-1-104","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-1-106","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."}