(a) Any person or carrier, or any officer, employee, agent, or representative thereof, while operating any vehicle transporting medical waste or which is authorized to transport medical waste, who shall violate any of the regulations, including safety regulations, prescribed or hereafter prescribed by the State Highway Commission pursuant to § 23-1-101 et seq. or who shall violate any regulation of the Division of Health of the Department of Health and Human Services that specifically relates to the transportation of medical waste shall be guilty of a violation.
(b) Upon conviction, that person or carrier, or officer, employee, agent, or representative thereof, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500) for the first offense and not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) for any subsequent offense.
History. Acts 1993, No. 412, § 2; 2005, No. 1994, § 129.
A.C.R.C. Notes. References to “this chapter” in §§ 20-32-101 - 20-32-111 may not apply to this section which was enacted subsequently.
Amendments. The 2005 amendment, in (a), substituted “the Arkansas” for “this” and “violation” for “misdemeanor.”