{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-38-206","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 5-38-206","heading":"Damaging wires and other fixtures of telephone, cable, and electric power companies","body":"(a) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly damage, destroy, or pull down: (1) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power transmission pedestal or pole owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company; (2) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power line, wire, fiber insulator, power supply transformer, transmission, or other apparatus, equipment, or fixture, including without limitation a backup deep cycle battery or other power supply, used in the transmission of telephone, cable communications, or electric power owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company; or (3) Equipment related to wireless communications that are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. (b) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly damage, destroy, remove, or alter in a way that could result in physical injury any electric power line, gas line, water line, wire or fiber insulator, electric motor, or other similar apparatus connected to a farm shop, an on-farm grain drying and storage complex, a heating and cooling system, an environmental control system, an animal production facility, an irrigation system, or a dwelling. (c) A violation of this section is a Class D felony. Amended by Act 2019, No. 311,§ 2, eff. 7/24/2019. Acts 2009, No. 390, § 1; 2011, No. 1120, § 10.\n\n(a) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly damage, destroy, or pull down: (1) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power transmission pedestal or pole owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company; (2) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power line, wire, fiber insulator, power supply transformer, transmission, or other apparatus, equipment, or fixture, including without limitation a backup deep cycle battery or other power supply, used in the transmission of telephone, cable communications, or electric power owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company; or (3) Equipment related to wireless communications that are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.\n\n(1) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power transmission pedestal or pole owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company;\n\n(2) A telephone, cable communications, or electric power line, wire, fiber insulator, power supply transformer, transmission, or other apparatus, equipment, or fixture, including without limitation a backup deep cycle battery or other power supply, used in the transmission of telephone, cable communications, or electric power owned or operated by a telephone, cable, or electric power company; or\n\n(3) Equipment related to wireless communications that are regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.\n\n(b) It is unlawful for a person to knowingly damage, destroy, remove, or alter in a way that could result in physical injury any electric power line, gas line, water line, wire or fiber insulator, electric motor, or other similar apparatus connected to a farm shop, an on-farm grain drying and storage complex, a heating and cooling system, an environmental control system, an animal production facility, an irrigation system, or a dwelling.\n\n(c) A violation of this section is a Class D felony.","path":["AR Code","Title 5","Chapter 38","Subchapter 2"],"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":"8a268b1410ced500ac394df9674131ea4993c5a46a902a39f4079426b92ac613","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-38-205","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-38-207"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}