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Arkansas Code 5-39-401.
Destruction or removal of a cemetery or grave marker.
(a) It is unlawful for any person, corporation, company, or other entity to destroy or carry away any cemetery
marker or grave marker.
(b) Destruction or removal of a cemetery or grave marker is a Class D felony.
History. Acts 1997, No. 1244, § 1; 2005, No. 1994, § 327; 2005, No. 2232, § 3.
Arkansas Code 13-6-402.
Definitions.
(2) "Burial furniture" means any items which were placed with human remains at the time of burial or in apparent
intentional association with the burial and would include burial markers, items of personal adornment, casket and casket hardware,
stone and bone tools, pottery vessels, or other similar objects or materials;
Desecration of burial grounds and burial furniture.
(a) Anyone who intentionally or knowingly desecrates or permits desecration of a burial ground and associated burial
furniture is committing on the first offense a Class D felony and on the second or subsequent offenses, a Class C felony.
(b) The presence in the ground of grave markers, caskets, or casket hardware creates a rebuttable presumption that
these are burial furniture and of the existence or presence of a human burial ground.
(c) Exempted from this section is disturbance of human skeletal burial remains or burial furniture by landowners
or agricultural tenants as a consequence of agricultural activity or any other activity unless the landowner or agricultural
tenant knowingly desecrates or knowingly allows desecration of a cemetery or burial site.
History. Acts 1991, No. 753, § 6; 1999, No. 1533, § 3; 2005, No. 2232, § 5.
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5-4-201. Fines
(2) Not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000) if the conviction is of a Class C or Class D felony;
5-4-401. Sentence
(4) For a Class C felony, the sentence shall be not less than three (3) years nor more than ten (10)
years;
(5) For a Class D felony, the sentence shall not exceed six (6) years;
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Mayor; town of Ozark
C.L. Coley
City Attorney - Neva Witt
Police Chief - David Kendrick
Code Enforcement Officer - Jonathan Little
Phone:(479)667-2238 Fax:(479)667-4515
Arkansas Code
5-39-401.
Destruction or removal of a cemetery or grave marker
13-6-408.
Desecration of burial grounds and burial furniture
13-6-402.
Definitions
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