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AR Code § 4-75-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 2 - Unfair Practices Act|§ 4-75-207. Destruction of competition by price discrimination prohibited

 (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation doing business in the State of Arkansas and engaged in the production, manufacture, distribution, or sale of any commodity or product or of service or output of a service trade of general use or consumption or of the product or service of any public utility with the intent to destroy the competition of any regular established dealer in the commodity, product, or service, or to prevent the competition of any person, firm, private corporation, or municipal or other public corporation who or which in good faith intends and attempts to become a dealer to discriminate between different sections, communities, or cities or portions thereof, or between different locations in the sections, communities, cities, or portions thereof in this state, by selling or furnishing the commodity, product, or service at a lower rate in one (1) section, community, or city or any portion thereof, or in one (1) location in the section, community, or city or any portion thereof, than in another, after making allowance for difference, if any, in the grade, quality, or quantity and in the actual cost of transportation from the point of production, if a raw product or commodity, or from the point of manufacture, if a manufactured product or commodity.  (b) The inhibition of this section against locality discrimination shall include any scheme of special rebates, collateral contracts, or any device of any nature whereby such discrimination is, in substance or fact, effected in violation of the spirit and intent of this subchapter.  (c) This subchapter shall not be construed to prohibit the meeting in good faith of a competitive rate, or to prevent a reasonable classification of service by public utilities for the purpose of establishing rates.
AR Code § 4-75-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 2 - Unfair Practices Act|§ 4-75-208. Secret payments or allowance of rebates, refunds, etc. — Penalty

 (a) The secret payment or allowance of rebates, refunds, commissions, or unearned discounts is an unfair trade practice, whether in the form of money or otherwise or secretly extending to certain purchasers special services or privileges not extended to all purchasers purchasing upon like terms and conditions to the injury of a competitor and where the payment or allowance tends to destroy competition.  (b) Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association resorting to such trade practice shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
AR Code § 4-75-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 2 - Unfair Practices Act|§ 4-75-210. Liability of directors, officers, agents, etc. — Proof of unlawful intent

 (a) Any person who, either as director, officer, or agent of any firm or corporation or as agent of any person violating the provisions of this subchapter, assists or aids, directly or indirectly, in the violation shall be responsible therefor equally with the person, firm, or corporation for whom or which he or she acts.  (b) In the prosecution of any person as officer, director, or agent, it shall be sufficient to allege and prove the unlawful intent of the person, firm, or corporation for whom or which he or she acts.
AR Code § 4-75-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 2 - Unfair Practices Act|§ 4-75-211. Remedies — Witnesses and documents — Immunity

 (a) Any person, firm, private corporation, or municipal or other public corporation, or trade association, may maintain an action to enjoin a continuance of any act or acts in violation of this subchapter and, if injured thereby, for the recovery of damages.  (b)  (1) If, in such action, the court shall find that the defendant is violating or has violated any of the provisions of this subchapter, it shall enjoin the defendant from a continuance thereof.  (2) It shall not be necessary that actual damages to the plaintiff be alleged or proved.  (3) In addition to injunctive relief, the plaintiff in the action shall be entitled to recover from the defendant three (3) times the amount of the actual damages, if any, sustained.    (c)  (1) Any defendant in an action brought under the provisions of this section or any witness desired by the state may be required to testify under § 16-43-211 and as otherwise provided by law.  (2) In addition, the books and records of any such defendant may be brought into court and introduced, by reference, into evidence.  (3) However, no information so obtained may be used against the defendant as a basis for a misdemeanor prosecution under the provisions of §§ 4-75-204 and 4-75-207 — 4-75-210.    (d) The remedies prescribed in this subchapter are cumulative and in addition to the remedies prescribed in the Public Utilities Act, § 23-1-101 et seq., for discrimination by public utilities. If any conflict shall arise between this subchapter and the Public Utilities Act, § 23-1-101 et seq., the latter shall prevail.
AR Code § 4-75-213 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 2 - Unfair Practices Act|§ 4-75-213. Person defined

 Unless otherwise defined, for purposes of this subchapter, “person” means any natural person, corporation, firm, partnership, limited partnership, trust, association, or any other legal or commercial entity.
AR Code § 4-75-214 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 2 - Unfair Practices Act|§ 4-75-214. Awards to the Attorney General — Use of moneys

 (a) There shall be established within the office of the Attorney General an Antitrust Enforcement Account into which all costs and fees recovered by the Attorney General under the terms of this subchapter or the federal antitrust laws shall be remitted.  (b) The costs and fees deposited into the account shall be used for the furtherance of the Attorney General's duties and activities under this subchapter.
AR Code § 4-75-215 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 2 - Unfair Practices Act|§ 4-75-215. Action not barred because it affects interstate or foreign commerce

 (a) This subchapter is to apply to any economic activity occurring wholly or partly within the State of Arkansas, or which affects economic activity within the State of Arkansas.  (b) No action instituted by the Attorney General under this subchapter shall be barred on the ground that the activity or conduct complained of in any way affects or involves interstate or foreign commerce.
AR Code § 4-75-216 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 2 - Unfair Practices Act|§ 4-75-216. Venue

 Any action, application, or motion brought by the Attorney General against a person under this subchapter shall be filed in Pulaski County Circuit Court unless the action, application, or motion is brought as part of an action containing claims of federal law violations, in which event the action shall be brought in the appropriate federal court.
AR Code § 4-75-217 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 2 - Unfair Practices Act|§ 4-75-217. Statute of limitations

 (a) Any action brought by the Attorney General pursuant to this subchapter is barred if it is not commenced within five (5) years after the cause of action accrues.  (b) The statute of limitations described in subsection (a) of this section shall be tolled during any period when the defendant in any action fraudulently concealed the events upon which the cause of action is based.  (c) This section is not intended to allow for the commencement of any action by the Attorney General under the provisions of this subchapter for events occurring prior to the enactment of this section of which the Attorney General had actual knowledge.
AR Code § 4-75-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-301. Definition

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “monopoly” means any union or combination or consolidation or affiliation of capital, credit, property, assets, trade, customs, skill, or acts of any other valuable thing or possession, by or between persons, firms, or corporations, or association of persons, firms, or corporations, whereby any one (1) of the purposes or objects mentioned in this subchapter is accomplished or sought to be accomplished, or whereby any one (1) or more of the purposes are promoted or attempted to be executed or carried out, or whereby the several results described herein are reasonably calculated to be produced. A monopoly, as thus defined and contemplated, includes not merely a combination by and between two (2) or more persons, firms, and corporations, acting for themselves, but is especially defined and intended to include all aggregations, amalgamations, affiliations, consolidations, or incorporations of capital, skill, credit, assets, property, custom, trade, or other valuable things or possessions, whether effected by the ordinary methods of partnership or by actual union under the legal form of a corporation or any incorporated body resulting from the union of one (1) or more distinct firms or corporations, or by the purchase, acquisition, or control of shares or certificates of stock or bonds or other corporate property or franchises; and all partnerships and corporations that have been or may be created by the consolidation or amalgamation of the separate capital, stock, bonds, assets, credit, property, customs, trade, corporate, or firm belongings of two (2) or more firms or corporations or companies are especially declared to constitute monopolies within the meaning of this subchapter, if so created or entered into for any one (1) or more of the purposes named in this subchapter.
AR Code § 4-75-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-302. Monopolies unlawful

 A monopoly, as defined in § 4-75-301, is declared to be unlawful and against public policy, and any and all persons, firms, corporations, or association of persons engaged therein shall be deemed and adjudged to be guilty of a conspiracy to defraud and shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in this subchapter.
AR Code § 4-75-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-303. Lawful commerce excepted

 The purchase, sale, delivery, or disposition of any article of commerce in a lawful manner within this state shall not be deemed an act done in pursuance of, or for the purpose of carrying into effect, any conspiracy prohibited by this subchapter.
AR Code § 4-75-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-308. Precedence of actions under subchapter

 All actions authorized and brought under this subchapter shall have precedence on motion of the Attorney General, of all other business, civil and criminal, except criminal cases where the defendants are in jail.
AR Code § 4-75-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-309. Fixing prices or quantities of products

 Any corporation organized under the laws of this or any other state or country and transacting or conducting any kind of business in this state, or any partnership or individual, or other association or persons whatsoever, who is, or creates, enters into, or becomes a member of, or a party to, any pool, trust, agreement, combination, confederation, or understanding, whether it is made in this state or elsewhere, with any other corporation, partnership, individual, or any other person or association of persons, to regulate or fix, either in this state or elsewhere, the price of any article of manufacture, mechanism, merchandise, commodity, convenience, repair, any product of mining, or any article or thing whatsoever, or the price or premium to be paid for insuring property against loss or damage by fire, lightning, or tornado, or to maintain the price when so regulated or fixed, or who is, or enters into, or becomes a member of, or a party to any pool, agreement, contract, combination, association, or confederation, whether made in this state or elsewhere, to fix or limit in this state or elsewhere, the amount or quantity of any article of manufacture, mechanism, merchandise, commodity, convenience, repair, any product of mining, or any article or thing whatsoever, or the price or premium to be paid for insuring property against loss or damage by fire, lightning, storm, cyclone, or tornado or any other kind of policy issued by any corporation, partnership, individual, or association of persons aforesaid, shall be deemed and adjudged guilty of a conspiracy to defraud and be subject to the penalties as provided by this subchapter.
AR Code § 4-75-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-310. Driving out or financially injuring competition

 If any person, company, partnership, association, corporation, or agent engaged in the manufacture or sale of any article of commerce or consumption produced, manufactured, or mined in this state or elsewhere shall, with the intent and purpose of driving out competition or for the purpose of financially injuring competitors, sell within this state at less than cost of manufacture or production or sell in such a way, or give away, in this state their productions for the purpose of driving out competition or financially injuring competitors engaged in similar business, then the person, or persons, company, partnership, association, corporation, or agent resorting to this method of securing a monopoly within this state in such business shall be deemed guilty of a conspiracy to form or secure a trust or monopoly in restraint of trade and on conviction shall be subjected to the penalties of this subchapter.
AR Code § 4-75-316 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-316. Person defined

 Unless otherwise defined, for purposes of this subchapter, “person” means any natural person, corporation, firm, partnership, limited partnership, trust, association, or any other legal or commercial entity.
AR Code § 4-75-317 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-317. Awards to the Attorney General — Use of moneys

 (a) There shall be established within the office of the Attorney General an Antitrust Enforcement Account into which all costs and fees recovered by the Attorney General under the terms of this subchapter or the federal antitrust laws shall be remitted.  (b) The costs and fees deposited into the account of the Attorney General's Office shall be used for the furtherance of the Attorney General's duties and activities under this subchapter.
AR Code § 4-75-318 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-318. Action not barred because it affects interstate or foreign commerce

 (a) This subchapter is to apply to any economic activity occurring wholly or partly within the State of Arkansas, or which affects economic activity within the State of Arkansas.  (b) No action instituted by the Attorney General under this subchapter shall be barred on the ground that the activity or conduct complained of in any way affects or involves interstate or foreign commerce.
AR Code § 4-75-319 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-319. Venue

 Any action, application, or motion brought by the Attorney General against a person under this subchapter shall be filed in the Pulaski County Circuit Court unless the action, application, or motion is brought as part of an action containing claims of federal law violations, in which event the action shall be brought in the appropriate federal court.
AR Code § 4-75-320 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 3 - Monopolies Generally|§ 4-75-320. Statute of limitations

 (a) Any action brought by the Attorney General pursuant to this subchapter is barred if it is not commenced within five (5) years after the cause of action accrues.  (b) The foregoing statute of limitations shall be tolled during any period when the defendant in any action fraudulently conceals the events upon which the cause of action is based.  (c) This section is not intended to allow for the commencement of any action by the Attorney General under the provisions of this subchapter for events occurring prior to the enactment of this section of which the Attorney General had actual knowledge.
AR Code § 4-75-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 4 - Automobile Dealer's Anti-Coercion Act|§ 4-75-401. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and shall be cited as the “Automobile Dealer's Anti-Coercion Act”.
AR Code § 4-75-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 4 - Automobile Dealer's Anti-Coercion Act|§ 4-75-402. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   (1) “Person” means any individual, firm, corporation, partnership, association, trustee, receiver, or assignee for the benefit of creditors;  (2) “Sell”, “sold”, “buy”, and “purchase” include exchange, barter, gift, and offer of contract to sell or buy; and  (3) “Wholesale distribution” means the sale or distribution of motor vehicles, or any interest therein, by the manufacturer thereof or by any person, directly or indirectly owned by the manufacturer.
AR Code § 4-75-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 4 - Automobile Dealer's Anti-Coercion Act|§ 4-75-403. Subchapter cumulative

 The provisions of this subchapter shall be held cumulative to each other and all other laws of this state in force as of June 10, 1937, in any way affecting them.
AR Code § 4-75-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 4 - Automobile Dealer's Anti-Coercion Act|§ 4-75-404. Penalties — Persons subject to penalties

 (a) Any person shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor if the person:  (1) Shall violate any of the provisions of this subchapter;  (2) Is a party to any agreement or understanding or to any contract prescribing any condition prohibited by this subchapter;  (3) Is any employee, agent, or officer of any person that shall participate in any manner in making, executing, enforcing, performing, or in urging, aiding, or abetting in the performance of any such contract, condition, agreement, or understanding;  (4) Shall pay or give or contract to pay or give any thing or service of value prohibited by this subchapter; and  (5) Shall receive or accept or contract to receive or accept any thing or service of value prohibited by this subchapter.    (b) Each day's violation of this subchapter shall constitute a separate offense.
AR Code § 4-75-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 4 - Automobile Dealer's Anti-Coercion Act|§ 4-75-405. Forfeiture of charter rights, etc., and dissolution for violations — Proceedings

 For a violation of any of the provisions of this subchapter by any corporation or association mentioned in this subchapter, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General or the prosecuting attorney of the proper county to institute proper suits or quo warranto proceedings in any court of competent jurisdiction for the forfeiture of its charter rights, franchises, or privileges and powers exercised by the corporation or association, and for the dissolution of the corporation or association under the general statutes of this state.
AR Code § 4-75-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 4 - Automobile Dealer's Anti-Coercion Act|§ 4-75-406. Foreign corporations violating subchapter prohibited from doing business

 Every foreign corporation, as well as every foreign association, exercising any of the powers, franchises, or functions of a corporation in this state, violating any of the provisions of this subchapter, is denied the right and prohibited from doing any business in this state. It shall be the duty of the Attorney General to enforce this provision by bringing proper proceedings by injunction or otherwise. The Secretary of State shall be authorized to revoke the license of any such corporation or association authorized by him or her to do business in this state.
AR Code § 4-75-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 4 - Business and Commercial Law|Subtitle 6 - Business Practices|Chapter 75 - Unfair Practices|Subchapter 4 - Automobile Dealer's Anti-Coercion Act|§ 4-75-407. Contracts violating subchapter void

 Any contract or agreement in violation of the provisions of this subchapter shall be absolutely void and shall not be enforceable either in law or equity.