Arkansas Code
Subchapter 14 - Carter's Law: The Shaken Baby Syndrome Education Program
§ 20-9-1401. Definitions

As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Child care facility” means a facility licensed under the Child Care Facility Licensing Act, § 20-78-201 et seq.;
(2) “Freestanding birthing center” means a facility, institution, or place, which is not an ambulatory surgical center or a hospital or in a hospital, organized to provide family-centered maternity care for women and childbearing families in which births are planned to occur in a homelike atmosphere away from the mothers' residences following a low-risk pregnancy;
(3) “Hospital” means an institution that has been licensed, certified, or approved by the Division of Health Facilities Services as a hospital;
(4)
(A) “Maternity unit” means a unit or place in a hospital in which women are regularly received and provided care during all or part of the maternity cycle.
(B) “Maternity unit” does not include an emergency department or similar place dedicated to providing emergency health care;

(5) “Parent” means:
(A) Either parent;
(B) If the parents are separated or divorced or their marriage has been dissolved or annulled, the parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian of the child; and
(C) A prospective adoptive parent with whom a child is placed; and

(6) “Shaken baby syndrome” means signs and symptoms resulting from the violent shaking or the shaking and impacting of the head of an infant or child, including without limitation:
(A) Retinal hemorrhage;
(B) Subdural hematoma; and
(C) Cerebral edema.

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