2010 Arkansas Code
Title 6 - Education
Subtitle 2 - Elementary And Secondary Education Generally
Chapter 22 - Arkansas Registered Volunteers Program Act
§ 6-22-105 - Registered volunteers -- Requirements.

6-22-105. Registered volunteers -- Requirements.

The superintendent of any school district that develops a registered volunteers program as set forth in this chapter shall require all potential registered volunteers to meet the following qualifications before the volunteers have any significant unsupervised contact with students:

(1) To authorize release of the results of a statewide and nationwide criminal records check by the Identification Bureau of the Department of Arkansas State Police that conforms to the applicable federal standards, which includes the taking of the potential volunteer's fingerprints, and which is dated not more than ninety (90) days prior to the date of its presentation;

(2) (A) To present a certificate of health dated not more than ninety (90) days prior to the date of its presentation stating that the potential volunteer is free from tuberculosis.

(B) The certificate may be issued by a regularly licensed physician or regularly constituted health authority, but interpretation of any x-ray film must be made by a competent roentgenologist or physician experienced in tuberculosis; and

(3) To complete a minimum of six (6) hours of training conducted under the direction of the school district for nonathletic extracurricular or nonathletic interscholastic activities and a minimum of twelve (12) hours of training conducted under the direction of the school district for athletic extracurricular activities or under the direction of the Arkansas Activites Association for athletic interscholastic activities.