§ 11-10-317 - Protection against self-incrimination.
11-10-317. Protection against self-incrimination.
(a) No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records before the Director of the Arkansas Employment Security Department, the Board of Review, the chair of an appeal tribunal, or any duly authorized representative of any of them or in obedience to the subpoena of any of them in any cause or proceeding before the director, the board, or an appeal tribunal on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him may tend to incriminate him or her or subject him or her to a penalty or forfeiture.
(b) However, no individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he or she is compelled, after having claimed his or her privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, except that the individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.