(a) The State Board of Education may establish a reasonable system of charges as fees to be paid by students in the technical institutes or vocational-technical schools and adult education courses, with the system of charges to be established according to the type of course of instruction and the length thereof.
(b) The rate or fees to be paid by students shall be set by the state board, and all funds accruing in the fiscal year over and above the amount appropriated by the General Assembly from the fund shall be deposited into the State Treasury at the end of the fiscal year.
(c) Employees may not be paid from cash funds unless appropriated for this specific purpose by the General Assembly.
(d) No secondary student or school shall be made to pay a tuition charge as a condition of his or her enrollment in any vocational program funded by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education while enrolled in a regular high school program.
(e) When any person sixty (60) years of age or older is admitted and enrolls as a student in any state area vocational-technical school, the state board or other appropriate institutional officials shall waive all the general student fee charges for each such student on a space-available basis in existing classes.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education
Chapter 51 - Vocational and Technical Schools
Subchapter 2 - Establishment and Administration Generally
§ 6-51-201. Receipt and administration of federal funds
§ 6-51-202. Authority to establish schools
§ 6-51-203. Determining school location and establishing courses of instruction
§ 6-51-204. Public school or community branches — Special instruction
§ 6-51-205. Responsibility for school operation — Personnel and equipment
§ 6-51-206. Local board's authority to sell, convey, or lease unneeded lands
§ 6-51-207. Authority to accept gifts and donations
§ 6-51-209. Accident insurance for students
§ 6-51-210. Disposition of funds generally
§ 6-51-211. Acceptance of certain federal benefits promoting vocational education
§ 6-51-212. Custodian of certain funds — Disbursement
§ 6-51-213. Administration of certain federal and state vocational education laws
§ 6-51-214. Annual report and statement of finances
§ 6-51-215. Cooperation of various boards in establishing vocational programs — Use of tax moneys
§ 6-51-216. State board authority to acquire and maintain facilities — Bonded indebtedness