(a) A person teaching or instructing a person seventeen (17) years of age or younger to drive a noncommercial motor vehicle or a motorcycle shall offer the minimum amount of driver training to the student driver as prescribed by this section.
(b) The minimum requirements for classroom driver training instruction for noncommercial motor vehicles shall consist of:
(1) Thirty (30) hours or more of classroom instruction on driving techniques and rules of the road in Arkansas, including six (6) hours of classroom instruction on traffic law changes that have occurred within the last ten (10) years; and
(2) Ten (10) hours of behind-the-wheel driving experience.
(c) The minimum requirements of correspondence programs for driver training instruction for noncommercial motor vehicles shall consist of:
(1) A maximum of twenty-eight (28) hours of correspondence work;
(2) A minimum of two (2) hours or more of classroom instruction on driving techniques and rules of the road in Arkansas; and
(3) Ten (10) hours of behind-the-wheel driving experience.
(d)
(1) In consultation with the State Board of Private Career Education, the Division of Higher Education may promulgate reasonable rules to implement, enforce, and administer this section.
(2) The rules of the division shall be issued in accordance with the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.
(e) The requirements for classroom driver training instruction for a motorcycle are:
(1) A minimum of five (5) hours of classroom instruction on driving techniques and rules of the road in Arkansas; and
(2) A minimum of ten (10) hours of actual motorcycle driving experience.
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