§ 23-4-805 — Exemptions - Certain officials permitted to accept and use passes

(a) Sheriffs are exempt from the provision of § 23-4-803 [repealed], and it shall not be unlawful for railroad companies to furnish free passes to them. (b) The Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Director of the Division of Career and Technical Education and the prosecuting attorneys and judges of the circuit courts of the several judicial districts of this state shall be permitted to accept and use a free pass on any railroad in this state without incurring any penalty prescribed under § 23-4-803 [repealed]. (c) Any county judge or any constable or deputy sheriff within the State of Arkansas is permitted to accept and use a free pass on any railroad in the State of Arkansas without incurring the penalty prescribed in § 23-4-803 [repealed]. (d) No railroad company issuing such a pass shall be liable for the penalty set out in § 23-4-802 or liable to prosecution under any of the laws of the State of Arkansas because of the issuance of the pass.

Legislative History

Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 2347, eff. 7/1/2019. Acts 1895, No. 77, § 1, p. 102; 1903, No. 192, § 2, p. 376; 1917, No. 400, § 1, p. 1866; C. & M. Dig., § 893; Acts 1931, No. 151, § 1; 1935, No. 19, § 1; Pope's Dig., § 1096; A.S.A. 1947, § 73-1532.