§ 16-118-114 — Civil action against a person who engages in a riot or disorderly conduct, or who obstructs or interferes with emergency medical services personnel or first responder

Arkansas § 16-118-114

• Jurisdiction: Arkansas
• Title: 16

Text

(a) In addition to any other cause of action available to a person, a person who suffers injury to himself or herself or to his or her property as a direct or indirect result of: (1) An act of obstructing or interfering with emergency medical personnel or a first responder, § 5-60-123 , if the act of obstructing or interfering with emergency medical personnel or a first responder is a felony or Class A misdemeanor, may bring a civil action against a person who obstructed or interfered with the emergency medical personnel or first responder; or (2) A riot or the activity of a rioter under § 5-71-201 et seq., may bring a civil action against the rioter or a person or entity that incites the riot. (b) A court hearing a civil action under this section may award compensatory damages, punitive damages, costs, reasonable attorney's fees, and expenses to a plaintiff who prevails in the civil action.

Legislative History

Added by Act 2017, No. 952,§ 2, eff. 8/1/2017.