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Chapter 50 - General Provisions
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 6-50-101. Contracts with private organizations - The Director of the Division of Career and Technical Education...
§ 6-50-102. Training workers in existing industries - (a) The role and function of the Arkansas Industry Training...
§ 6-50-103. Participation in vocational student organizations - (a) (1) The Division of Career and Technical Education may...
§ 6-50-104. Marketing and services provided outside of service areas - This title of the Arkansas Code and corresponding rules promulgated...
Subchapter 5 - Work-Based Learning Act
§ 6-50-501. Title - This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Youth Apprenticeship/Work-Based...
§ 6-50-502. Legislative findings - Whereas workplace changes have profoundly altered and increased the skills...
§ 6-50-503. Establishment of programs - (a) The Division of Career and Technical Education is hereby...
§ 6-50-505. Waiver of rules — Articulation agreements — Duties of Career Education and Workforce Development Board - (a) The Career Education and Workforce Development Board may provide...
Subchapter 7 - Arkansas Existing Workforce Training Act of 1995
§ 6-50-701. Title - This subchapter may be referred to and cited as the...
§ 6-50-702. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 6-50-703. Arkansas Existing Workforce Training Program — Creation — Purpose - (a) There is hereby created the Arkansas Existing Workforce Training...
§ 6-50-704. Rules for program - (a) The Arkansas Economic Development Commission shall promulgate rules under...
§ 6-50-705. Uses for grant funds or tax credits - (a) The Arkansas Existing Workforce Training Program shall provide matching...
Subchapter 8 - Workforce Development Center Authority Act
§ 6-50-801. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 6-50-802. Purpose — Construction - (a) It is the purpose of this subchapter to: (1)...
§ 6-50-803. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Area of operation” means,...
§ 6-50-804. Workforce development center authority — Creation — Public corporation — Immunity - (a) (1) Four (4) or more sponsors listed under subdivision...
§ 6-50-805. Board of directors - (a) The management and control of each workforce development center...
§ 6-50-806. Powers generally - The board of directors of a workforce development center authority...
§ 6-50-807. Financing generally — Exemption from taxation or assessment - (a) A workforce development center authority may request, receive, and...
§ 6-50-808. Bonds — Sale - (a) A workforce development center authority may issue bonds for:...
§ 6-50-809. Accounts — Report — Audit - (a) (1) The board of directors of a workforce development...
§ 6-50-810. Dissolution - (a) If a workforce development center authority does not have...
Chapter 51 - Vocational and Technical Schools
§ 6-51-101. Vehicle registration — Tax and fee exemptions - (a) All motor vehicles owned and operated by publicly financed...
§ 6-51-102. Eye protection - (a) Every student and teacher in the public schools, colleges,...
§ 6-51-103. Required admission for certain students - Any student who has met, or is in the process...
§ 6-51-105. Priorities — Vocational-technical institutions - A high priority of the vocational-technical institutions shall be to...
Subchapter 2 - Establishment and Administration Generally
§ 6-51-201. Receipt and administration of federal funds - The State Board of Career Education is designated as the...
§ 6-51-202. Authority to establish schools - (a) The State Board of Career Education is authorized to...
§ 6-51-203. Determining school location and establishing courses of instruction - (a) In determining the location of technical institutes or vocational-technical...
§ 6-51-204. Public school or community branches — Special instruction - In addition to the authority of the State Board of...
§ 6-51-205. Responsibility for school operation — Personnel and equipment - (a) The State Board of Education shall be responsible for...
§ 6-51-206. Local board's authority to sell, convey, or lease unneeded lands - (a) The local boards of technical institutes and comprehensive lifelong...
§ 6-51-207. Authority to accept gifts and donations - The State Board of Career Education is granted authority to...
§ 6-51-208. Student fees - (a) The State Board of Education may establish a reasonable...
§ 6-51-209. Accident insurance for students - (a) The State Board of Education is authorized to expend...
§ 6-51-210. Disposition of funds generally - All income of the State Board of Career Education derived...
§ 6-51-211. Acceptance of certain federal benefits promoting vocational education - (a) The State of Arkansas accepts the benefits of an...
§ 6-51-212. Custodian of certain funds — Disbursement - (a) The Treasurer of State is designated and appointed custodian...
§ 6-51-213. Administration of certain federal and state vocational education laws - (a) The State Board of Education is designated to: (1)...
§ 6-51-214. Annual report and statement of finances - The State Board of Career Education shall make a detailed...
§ 6-51-215. Cooperation of various boards in establishing vocational programs — Use of tax moneys - (a) The board of directors of any school district or...
§ 6-51-216. State board authority to acquire and maintain facilities — Bonded indebtedness - (a) (1) The State Board of Career Education is authorized...
§ 6-51-217. Change of name to “technical institute” - (a) The State Board of Career Education shall establish a...
Subchapter 3 - Multidistrict Vocational Centers
§ 6-51-301. Proposed new centers - (a) Any request for approval of a proposed new center...
§ 6-51-302. Approval of center establishment - (a) The State Board of Career Education may approve the...
§ 6-51-303. Administration - (a) The management, maintenance, and operation of a center shall...
§ 6-51-304. Center council - The superintendents of the schools served by the center shall...
§ 6-51-305. Financing - (a) (1) Vocational centers shall be financed by distributing vocational...
Subchapter 4 - Plumbing Program
§ 6-51-401. Course of instruction generally - (a) The Career Education and Workforce Development Board is authorized...
§ 6-51-402. Instructors - (a) The course of instruction and training as authorized in...
§ 6-51-403. Apprentices - (a) The course of instruction may include, by appropriate rule,...
§ 6-51-404. Licensing - The program of instruction as authorized in this subchapter shall...
Subchapter 6 - Private Resident and Correspondence Schools
§ 6-51-601. Legislative intent - (a) The General Assembly is aware of the fact that:...
§ 6-51-602. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 6-51-603. Exemptions - The following are exempt from licensure under this subchapter: (1)...
§ 6-51-604. Notice of possible violations — Responses — Injunctions - (a) In consultation with the State Board of Private Career...
§ 6-51-605. State Board of Private Career Education - (a) (1) (A) The Governor shall appoint a State Board...
§ 6-51-606. School license generally - (a) No persons shall operate, conduct, maintain, or offer to...
§ 6-51-607. Private Career School Student Protection Trust Fund - (a) (1) Each school licensed under this subchapter shall pay...
§ 6-51-608. Extension course sites and satellite schools — Additional school license - (a) (1) Any school licensed under this subchapter shall make...
§ 6-51-609. Admissions representative’s license — Generally - (a) (1) An admissions representative that solicits or sells a...
§ 6-51-610. Fees - (a) In consultation with the State Board of Private Career...
§ 6-51-611. License renewal - (a) Licenses shall be renewable annually. (b) The licensing period...
§ 6-51-612. Penalty for operating school without license - (a) Any person, admissions representative, each member of any association...
§ 6-51-613. Contracts and promissory notes of unlicensed schools void — Recovery of tuition - (a) All contracts entered into with students or prospective students...
§ 6-51-614. Denial, probation, or revocation of school license — Review - (a) The Division of Higher Education shall have the authority...
§ 6-51-615. Denial or suspension of admissions representative's license — Review — Penalty - (a) A person shall not be granted an admissions representative's...
§ 6-51-616. Student grievance procedure - (a) Any student may file a written complaint with the...
§ 6-51-617. Private Career Education Arbitration Panel - (a) The Private Career Education Arbitration Panel as referenced in...
§ 6-51-618. Fines - (a) When the Division of Higher Education finds that a...
§ 6-51-619. Subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum - (a) The Division of Higher Education shall have the power...
§ 6-51-620. Bond - (a) (1) Each school licensed under this subchapter shall maintain...
§ 6-51-621. Construction of subchapter - Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to affect the...
§ 6-51-622. Noncommercial driver training instruction - (a) A person teaching or instructing a person seventeen (17)...
§ 6-51-623. Defensive driving instruction - A person shall not be required to obtain a license...
§ 6-51-624. Applicability - This subchapter does not apply to a school or training...
Subchapter 7 - Associate of Applied Science Degree in Nursing Program
§ 6-51-701. Establishment of program — Definition - (a) The Division of Higher Education is hereby authorized to...
§ 6-51-702. Nature of program - The licensed practical nurse or licensed psychiatric technician nurse to...
§ 6-51-703. Granting of degrees - The State Board of Career Education is authorized to grant...
Subchapter 8 - Community-Based Education Centers
§ 6-51-801. Criteria for centers - (a) The State Board of Career Education shall establish criteria...
§ 6-51-802. Policy for centers established - The State Board of Career Education shall establish policy for...
§ 6-51-803. Distribution of funds - (a) Following publication by the State Board of Career Education...
§ 6-51-804. Property ownership — Board of school superintendents - (a) (1) The board which currently owns the property and...
§ 6-51-805. Creation of general advisory council - (a) The State Board of Career Education shall relate to...
§ 6-51-806. Local education agencies — Eligibility for federal funds - (a) The General Assembly designates that the community-based education centers...
Subchapter 9 - Postsecondary Vocational and Technical Education
§ 6-51-901. Purpose - It is the purpose of this subchapter to initiate a...
§ 6-51-902. Accountability measures and performance indicators - (a) (1) All postsecondary vocational-technical schools, technical institutes, and comprehensive...
§ 6-51-903. Local board of directors — Members - (a) All postsecondary vocational-technical schools, including those which expand their...
§ 6-51-904. Duties of local board for technical institutes - (a) The powers and duties of the local board shall...
§ 6-51-905. Technical institutes - (a) A technical institute may offer programs which lead to...
§ 6-51-906. Comprehensive lifelong learning centers - (a) Schools not converting to technical institutes as provided by...
§ 6-51-907. Expanded associate degrees instruction — College transfer courses - (a) Any Arkansas technical institute or comprehensive lifelong learning center...
Subchapter 11 - Procedures to Follow Upon Merger of Crowley's Ridge Technical Institute to East Arkansas Community College
§ 6-51-1101. Merger - (a) (1) This subchapter shall govern the merger of Crowley's...
§ 6-51-1102. Board of directors - On the effective date of a merger under § 6-51-1101(a)(2):...
§ 6-51-1103. Purchasing - (a) Upon the vote of the Board of Directors of...
§ 6-51-1104. Transfer of assets, obligations, records, personnel, property, unexpended balances, and legal authority - Beginning on the effective date of a merger under §...
§ 6-51-1105. Funding from the Work Force 2000 Development Fund - Beginning on the effective date of a merger under §...
§ 6-51-1106. Funding from the Federal Adult Basic Education Fund - Beginning on the effective date of a merger under §...
Chapter 52 - Vocational and Technical Training
Subchapter 1 - Arkansas Rehabilitation Services
§ 6-52-101. Arkansas Rehabilitation Services - (a) There is created Arkansas Rehabilitation Services as an entity...
§ 6-52-102. Transfer of authority, property, etc - (a) All authorities and responsibilities defined in the Rehabilitation Act...
§ 6-52-103. Powers and duties - The Arkansas Workforce Development Board, through Arkansas Rehabilitation Services, shall...
§ 6-52-104. Eligibility for retirement systems - All employees of the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services as of July...
§ 6-52-105. Office facilities - Arkansas Building Authority shall ensure that all offices of the...
Subchapter 2 - Apprenticeship Training Programs
§ 6-52-201. Definitions - In this subchapter: (1) “Apprenticeship training program” means a training...
§ 6-52-202. Applicability - The provisions of this subchapter apply only to those apprenticeship...
§ 6-52-203. Rules - The Office of Skills Development and the State Apprenticeship Coordination...
§ 6-52-204. State Apprenticeship Coordination Steering Committee - (a) (1) The Governor shall appoint an apprenticeship and training...
§ 6-52-205. State Apprenticeship Coordination Steering Committee — Duties - (a) The State Apprenticeship Coordination Steering Committee shall recommend to...
§ 6-52-206. Recommendations - (a) Recommendations of the State Apprenticeship Coordination Steering Committee submitted...
§ 6-52-207. Training programs generally - (a) Under this subchapter, the Director of the Office of...
§ 6-52-208. Duties of apprenticeship program sponsors - (a) The apprenticeship program sponsor of each apprenticeship training program...
Chapter 53 - Two-Year Postsecondary Education Reorganization Act of 1991
§ 6-53-101. Title - This chapter shall be known as and may be cited...
§ 6-53-102. Purpose - (a) The purpose of this chapter is to serve as...
§ 6-53-103. Definitions - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 6-53-104. Effect of chapter on existing law - (a) The procedures and deadlines established in this chapter shall,...
§ 6-53-105. Withdrawal or withholding of state funding - The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board may approve the withdrawal...
§ 6-53-106. Licensed blind vendors - (a) Section 22-3-1301 et seq. grants preference to trained blind...
§ 6-53-107. Effect of conversion on employees and directors - (a) All employees who are employed by state-supported postsecondary vocational-technical...
Subchapter 2 - Arkansas Technical and Community College System
§ 6-53-201. System name - All two-year institutions and their courses and programs within the...
§ 6-53-203. Duties and powers of Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board - (a) In order to promote a coordinated system of two-year...
§ 6-53-205. College transfer program approval - (a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall develop a...
§ 6-53-206. Equipment pool - The Division of Higher Education, in coordination with the institutions,...
§ 6-53-207. Capital outlays - (a) Unless exempted under the provisions of § 19-4-522, any...
§ 6-53-209. Interim accreditation and governance - (a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board may act as...
§ 6-53-210. Transfers to system after July 1, 1991 - (a) Following July 1, 1991, any existing postsecondary vocational-technical school...
Subchapter 3 - Administration
§ 6-53-301. Arkansas Technical and Community College System - (a) (1) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall designate...
§ 6-53-302. Local administration — Technical colleges - (a) Each technical college established or operated under this chapter...
§ 6-53-303. Institution presidents - (a) The president of the technical or community college shall...
§ 6-53-304. Student tuition — Fees - (a) The intent of this chapter is to make technical...
§ 6-53-305. Transportation - A technical or community college may establish and operate a...
§ 6-53-306. Coordination with secondary vocational-technical education and literacy programs - Upon the approval of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board,...
§ 6-53-307. County support of technical colleges - (a) (1) Any county quorum court may designate all or...
§ 6-53-308. Municipal contracts - (a) The local board of a community college may contract...
Subchapter 4 - Conversions and Consolidations
§ 6-53-401. Coordination with institutional boards of trustees - A merger or consolidation of a state-supported postsecondary vocational-technical institution...
§ 6-53-402. Two-year branches — Conversion to technical college - (a) A board of trustees of a four-year institution may,...
§ 6-53-403. Technical colleges and two-year branches — Conversion to community college - (a) (1) The procedures for the conversion of a technical...
§ 6-53-404. Technical colleges — Acceptance as branch campus of community college - (a) A board of trustees of a community college may,...
§ 6-53-405. Consolidations - (a) (1) As provided in this chapter or upon approval...
Subchapter 5 - Grants for Tech-Prep Education
§ 6-53-501. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 6-53-502. Grants for tech-prep education - (a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the State...
§ 6-53-503. Applications for grants - (a) Each consortium that desires to receive a grant under...
§ 6-53-504. Approval of applications — Factors considered - (a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the State...
§ 6-53-505. Designation of agency to receive federal funds - The State Board of Career Education is hereby designated as...
Subchapter 6 - Technical College Districts
§ 6-53-601. Legislative findings and intent - It is the intent and purpose of this subchapter to...
§ 6-53-602. Formation of a proposed district - (a) (1) Upon request of the local board of a...
§ 6-53-603. Tax levy - (a) (1) A tax levied under this subchapter shall be...
§ 6-53-604. Dissolution of district — Reduction of millage tax - (a) A technical college district may be dissolved or the...
§ 6-53-605. Continuation of tax - If a technical college for which a tax is levied...
Chapter 54 - College of the Ouachitas
§ 6-54-101. College of The Ouachitas established - (a) The Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board shall designate the...
§ 6-54-102. Effect on other laws - The procedures and deadlines established in this chapter shall, for...
§ 6-54-103. Rights and privileges - (a) The technical college established herein shall be subject to...
§ 6-54-104. Administration - (a) Until the institution elects to become a community college,...
§ 6-54-105. Accreditation — Abolishment - If the technical college fails to achieve such accreditation within...
Chapter 55 - The Arkansas Construction Industry Craft Training Act
§ 6-55-101. Title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 6-55-102. Purpose - (a) The General Assembly recognizes that at any given time...
§ 6-55-103. Arkansas Construction Industry Craft Training Program — Created - There is created the Arkansas Construction Industry Craft Training Program,...
§ 6-55-104. Arkansas Construction Industry Craft Training Program — Purpose — Administration - (a) In order to provide for an efficient, competent, and...
§ 6-55-105. Program plan - In addition to the duties of the State Apprenticeship Coordination...
§ 6-55-106. Permit surcharge to fund programs - (a) (1) A surcharge in the amount of fifty cents...
§ 6-55-107. Arkansas Construction Industry Craft Training Trust Fund — Apprenticeship program requirements - (a) The net proceeds received pursuant to § 6-55-106 shall...
§ 6-55-108. Rules - The Office of Skills Development and the State Apprenticeship Coordination...
Chapter 56 - Arkansas State University-Beebe
§ 6-56-101. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Adult education program” means...
§ 6-56-102. Name change and merger - (a) Effective July 1, 2003, Foothills Technical Institute is merged...
§ 6-56-103. Board of advisors - (a) The Foothills Technical Institute Board of Directors shall become...
§ 6-56-104. Effect of merger on employees - (a) All full-time employees of Foothills Technical Institute on June...
§ 6-56-105. Employee benefits - (a) As a result of the merger on June 30,...
§ 6-56-106. Catastrophic leave program - (a) Arkansas State University-Beebe shall establish a catastrophic leave program...
§ 6-56-107. Effect of merger on curriculum - (a) Arkansas State University-Beebe shall offer the option of applied...
§ 6-56-108. Purchasing - Purchases by Arkansas State University-Searcy will conform to established procedures...
§ 6-56-109. Transfer of assets, obligations, records, personnel, property, unexpended balances, and legal authority - (a) On July 1, 2003, all property and other rights,...
§ 6-56-110. Work Force 2000 funding - Funding from the Work Force 2000 Development Fund will be...
Chapter 57 - Arkansas Valley Technical Institute
§ 6-57-101. Name change and merger - (a) Effective July 1, 2003, Arkansas Valley Technical Institute is...
§ 6-57-102. Transfer of assets, obligations, records, personnel, property, unexpended balances, and legal authority - (a) On July 1, 2003, all property and other rights,...
§ 6-57-103. Employee benefits - (a) (1) Employees of Arkansas Valley Technical Institute as of...
§ 6-57-104. Work Force 2000 funding - Funding from the Work Force 2000 Development Fund shall be...
Chapter 58 - National Park College
§ 6-58-101. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Adult education program” means...
§ 6-58-102. Name change and merger - (a) Effective July 1, 2003, Garland County Community College is...
§ 6-58-103. Board of trustees - (a) (1) The board member of Quapaw Technical Institute serving...
§ 6-58-104. Effect of merger on employees - (a) (1) All permanent nonprobationary employees of Quapaw Technical Institute...
§ 6-58-105. Sick leave - The employees of National Park College shall be entitled to...
§ 6-58-106. Catastrophic leave program - National Park College shall establish a catastrophic leave program for...
§ 6-58-107. Effect of merger on curriculum - (a) (1) National Park College shall offer the option of:...
§ 6-58-108. Purchasing - (a) Purchases by National Park College shall continue to be...
§ 6-58-109. Transfer of assets, obligations, records, personnel, property, unexpended balances, and legal authority - (a) On July 1, 2003, all property and other rights,...
§ 6-58-110. Work Force 2000 funding - Funding from the Work Force 2000 Development Fund which would...
§ 6-58-111. Funding for salary equity - In that funding for and achievement of salary equity among...
§ 6-58-112. Conversion of positions and maximum salaries for Quapaw Technical Institute - The maximum salaries as authorized for the positions in the...
§ 6-58-113. Employee health insurance plan - (a) The Board of Trustees of National Park College may...
Chapter 59 - Arkansas Northeastern College
§ 6-59-101. Definitions - As used in this chapter: (1) “Adult education program” means...
§ 6-59-102. Merger and name change - (a) Effective July 1, 2003, Cotton Boll Technical Institute is...
§ 6-59-103. Board of directors and ex officio board of trustees - Each board member of the Cotton Boll Technical Institute Board...
§ 6-59-104. Effect of merger on employees - (a) (1) All permanent nonprobationary employees of Cotton Boll Technical...
§ 6-59-105. Sick leave - The employees of Arkansas Northeastern College shall be entitled to...
§ 6-59-106. Catastrophic leave program - (a) Mississippi County Community College has established a Catastrophic Leave...
§ 6-59-107. Effect of merger on curriculum - (a) (1) Arkansas Northeastern College shall offer the option of:...
§ 6-59-108. Purchasing - (a) Purchases by Arkansas Northeastern College shall continue to be...
§ 6-59-109. Transfer of assets, obligations, records, personnel, property, unexpended balances, and legal authority - (a) On July 1, 2003, all property and other rights,...
§ 6-59-110. Work Force 2000 funding - Funding from the Work Force 2000 Development Fund which would...
§ 6-59-111. Funding for salary equity - In that funding for and achievement of salary equity among...