(a) Any person, admissions representative, each member of any association of persons, or each officer of any corporation who opens and conducts a school, satellite school, or extension course site, as defined in this subchapter, or an out-of-state school which offers to sell a program of study in Arkansas, without first having obtained a license required in this subchapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) or thirty (30) days' imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court.
(b) Each day said school continues to be open and operate shall constitute a separate offense.
Structure Arkansas Code
Subtitle 4 - Vocational and Technical Education
Chapter 51 - Vocational and Technical Schools
Subchapter 6 - Private Resident and Correspondence Schools
§ 6-51-601. Legislative intent
§ 6-51-604. Notice of possible violations — Responses — Injunctions
§ 6-51-605. State Board of Private Career Education
§ 6-51-606. School license generally
§ 6-51-607. Private Career School Student Protection Trust Fund
§ 6-51-608. Extension course sites and satellite schools — Additional school license
§ 6-51-609. Admissions representative’s license — Generally
§ 6-51-612. Penalty for operating school without license
§ 6-51-613. Contracts and promissory notes of unlicensed schools void — Recovery of tuition
§ 6-51-614. Denial, probation, or revocation of school license — Review
§ 6-51-615. Denial or suspension of admissions representative's license — Review — Penalty
§ 6-51-616. Student grievance procedure
§ 6-51-617. Private Career Education Arbitration Panel
§ 6-51-619. Subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum
§ 6-51-621. Construction of subchapter
§ 6-51-622. Noncommercial driver training instruction