{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-53-111","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 5-53-111","heading":"Tampering with physical evidence","body":"(a) A person commits the offense of tampering with physical evidence if he or she alters, destroys, suppresses, removes, or conceals any record, document, or thing with the purpose of impairing its verity, legibility, or availability in any official proceeding or investigation. (b) (1) Tampering with physical evidence is a Class D felony if the person impairs or obstructs the prosecution or defense of a felony. (2) Otherwise, tampering with physical evidence is a Class B misdemeanor. Acts 1975, No. 280, § 2611; A.S.A. 1947, § 41-2611.\n\n(a) A person commits the offense of tampering with physical evidence if he or she alters, destroys, suppresses, removes, or conceals any record, document, or thing with the purpose of impairing its verity, legibility, or availability in any official proceeding or investigation.\n\n(b) (1) Tampering with physical evidence is a Class D felony if the person impairs or obstructs the prosecution or defense of a felony. (2) Otherwise, tampering with physical evidence is a Class B misdemeanor.\n\n(1) Tampering with physical evidence is a Class D felony if the person impairs or obstructs the prosecution or defense of a felony.\n\n(2) Otherwise, tampering with physical evidence is a Class B misdemeanor.","path":["AR Code","Title 5","Chapter 53","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":"083d89ed4c52f5225a8b51b9b628b8b86d175a6f072ec232763f41661d9017be","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-53-110","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-5-53-112","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."}