Arkansas § 11-3-201 Enticing away laborer prohibited - Penalty

Arkansas Statutes

§ 11-3-201 — Enticing away laborer prohibited - Penalty

Arkansas § 11-3-201

Title11

This text of Arkansas § 11-3-201 (Enticing away laborer prohibited - Penalty) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Arkansas primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

Ark. Code Ann. § 11-3-201 (2026).

Text

(a)If any person shall interfere with, entice away, knowingly employ, or induce a laborer who has contracted with another person for a specified time to leave his or her employer before the expiration of his or her contract without the consent of the employer, then, upon conviction before any justice of the peace or circuit court, he or she shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).

(b)In addition, he or she shall be liable to the employer for all advances made by him or her to the laborer by virtue of his or her contract, whether verbal or written, with the laborer and for all damages that he or she may have sustained by reason thereof.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

(a) If any person shall interfere with, entice away, knowingly employ, or induce a laborer who has contracted with another person for a specified time to leave his or her employer before the expiration of his or her contract without the consent of the employer, then, upon conviction before any justice of the peace or circuit court, he or she shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500). (b) In addition, he or she shall be liable to the employer for all advances made by him or her to the laborer by virtue of his or her contract, whether verbal or written, with the laborer and for all damages that he or she may have sustained by reason thereof.

Legislative History

Acts 1883, No. 96, § 8, p. 167; 1905, No. 298, § 1, p. 726; C. & M. Dig., § 2789; Acts 1923 (1st Ex. Sess.), No. 34, § 1; Pope's Dig., § 3493; A.S.A. 1947, § 81-210.