§ 17-31-105 — Violations - Penalties

(a) Any person required to be registered under this chapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor if that person: (1) Practices or offers to practice forestry without a valid certificate of registration issued pursuant to this chapter; (2) Claims to be a forester certified under this chapter without being so certified; (3) In any way tends to convey the impression that he or she is a forester certified under the provisions of this chapter without being so registered; (4) Uses as his or her own the certificate of registration of another; (5) Gives false or forged evidence to the Department of Agriculture or the Arkansas Forestry Commission; (6) Uses an expired or revoked certificate; or (7) Violates any provision of this chapter. (b) A Class A misdemeanor shall also be charged against a registered forester, subject to penalties as prescribed in subsection (a) of this section, who endorses any plan, specification, estimate, report, or map unless he or she actually prepared the plan, specification, estimate, report, or map or has been in actual charge or supervision of the preparation of it.

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2023, No. 691,§ 77, eff. 7/1/2023. Acts 1969, No. 535, §§ 16, 22; A.S.A. 1947, §§ 71-2416, 71-2422; Acts 1999, No. 993, § 4; 2005, No. 1994, § 200.