§ 21-15-107. Identification Bureau and registries — Duties
(a) (1) After receipt of a request for a criminal history check, the Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police shall make reasonable efforts to respond to requests for state criminal history checks within twenty (20) calendar days and to respond to requests for national criminal history checks within ten (10) calendar days […]
§ 21-15-108. Exempted employees
Any person who submits evidence of having maintained employment in the State of Arkansas for the past twelve (12) months and of successfully completing a criminal history check within the last twelve (12) months or in accordance with that person’s professional license shall not be required to apply for a criminal history check under this […]
§ 21-15-109. Immunity
Individuals and state agencies are immune from suit or liability for damages for acts or omissions, other than malicious acts or omissions, occurring in the performance of duties imposed by this subchapter.
§ 21-15-110. Notice to employer
(a) If a state employee is determined to be an offender or perpetrator in a true, substantiated, or founded report of child maltreatment or adult abuse and the state employee is employed in a designated position, the investigating agency shall immediately notify the employer of that state employee. (b) The employer shall immediately discharge the […]
§ 21-15-111. Hiring new employees into designated financial or information technology positions
(a) (1) (A) When a person applies for employment with a state agency in a designated financial or information technology position and if the state agency intends to make an offer of employment to the applicant, the applicant shall complete a criminal history check form and shall submit the form to the state agency as […]
§ 21-15-112. Incumbent employees in designated financial or information technology positions
(a) (1) State agencies shall ensure that all employees in designated financial or information technology positions apply for criminal history checks by December 1, 2005. (2) An incumbent employee in a designated financial or information technology position shall have a subsequent criminal background check within five (5) years of the initial criminal background check and […]
§ 21-15-113. Waiver of exclusion or discharge requirement for persons in designated financial or information technology positions
(a) (1) The provisions of §§ 21-15-111 and 21-15-112 prohibiting the hiring of a person or requiring the discharge of a person in a designated financial or information technology position may be waived by the director of a state agency upon the request of: (A) A supervisor or other managerial employee in the state agency; […]
§ 21-14-114. Rules
The Secretary of State may promulgate rules necessary to administer this chapter.
§ 21-15-103. Deadline — Scope of check — Report — Notice — Discharge for persons in designated positions
(a) (1) A state agency shall ensure that any incumbent employee in a designated position has a subsequent criminal background check completed within five (5) years of the incumbent employee’s initial criminal background check and every five (5) years thereafter. (2) A state agency shall ensure that any incumbent employee in a designated position has […]
§ 21-14-201. Definitions
As used in this subchapter: (1) (A) “Commercial document” means any instrument, certificate, report, billing, affidavit, or other document which is required to bear a notary certificate by the terms of a purchase order, contract, bid specification, construction standard, testing standard, or other commercial standard, specification, or practice. (B) The term “commercial document” shall not […]