§ 23-4-805 - Exemptions -- Certain officials permitted to accept and use passes.
23-4-805. Exemptions -- Certain officials permitted to accept and use passes.
(a) Sheriffs are exempt from the provision of 23-4-803, and it shall not be unlawful for railroad companies to furnish free passes to them.
(b) The Director of the Department of Education and the Director of the Department of Workforce 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.
(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.
(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.