# Arkansas Code § 12-12-1803 (2024) — Restrictions on use > *Verbatim extract of Arkansas Code Annotated § 12-12-1803, the use-restriction section of the Automatic License Plate Reader System Act (Title 12, Subtitle 2, Chapter 12, Subchapter 18), as reproduced by FindLaw from the Arkansas Code.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** FindLaw (Thomson Reuters), reproducing the Arkansas Code. - **URL:** https://codes.findlaw.com/ar/title-12-law-enforcement-emergency-management-and-military-affairs/ar-code-sect-12-12-1803.html - **Placement:** Title 12 → Subtitle 2 → Chapter 12 → Subchapter 18 (Use of Automatic License Plate Reader Systems). - **Archived:** 2026-05-22, retrieved in a browser (Playwright) and saved as a print-to-PDF capture of the FindLaw page. See `ark-code-12-12-1801.md` for the retrieval-method note. - **Wayback snapshot:** https://web.archive.org/web/20260606050422/https://codes.findlaw.com/ar/title-12-law-enforcement-emergency-management-and-military-affairs/ar-code-sect-12-12-1803.html — Save Page Now succeeded on the 2026-06-06 retry (the 2026-05-22 attempt failed when the connection closed before the crawl completed). ## Extract **12-12-1803. Restrictions on use.** (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, it is unlawful for an individual, partnership, corporation, association, or the State of Arkansas, its agencies, and political subdivisions to use an automatic license plate reader system. (b) An automatic license plate reader system may be used: (1) By a state, county, or municipal law enforcement agency for the comparison of captured plate data with data held by the Office of Motor Vehicle, the Arkansas Crime Information Center, the National Crime Information Center, a database created by law enforcement for the purposes of an ongoing investigation, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for any lawful purpose; (2) By parking enforcement entities for regulating the use of parking facilities; (3) For the purpose of controlling access to secured areas; or (4)(A) By the Arkansas Highway Police Division of the Arkansas Department of Transportation for the electronic verification of registration, logs, and other compliance data to provide more efficient movement of commercial vehicles on a state highway. (B) An automatic license plate reader system used under subdivision (b)(4)(A) of this section shall be installed at an entrance ramp at a weigh station facility for the review of a commercial motor vehicle entering the weigh station facility. ## Notes - **Tier 2 — primary public record.** Codified text of an Arkansas statute; see `ark-code-12-12-1801.md` for the source-tier and currency rationale. - **Currency.** FindLaw states this section is current as of March 28, 2024. - **Investigative relevance.** Subdivision (b)(1) enumerates the data sources a law-enforcement agency's ALPR system may be compared against — OMV, ACIC, NCIC, a law-enforcement database "for the purposes of an ongoing investigation," and the FBI. The provision authorizes comparison "for any lawful purpose," but the data sources it lists are finite; it is the anchor for examining whether the 1,384-organization sharing topology documented in Conway PD `PD-2026-354` operates within the Act's enumerated uses. - **Cited by:** see the `citing_pages:` frontmatter above.