2012 Arkansas Code
Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses
Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions
Chapter 105 - Physician Assistants
§ 17-105-106 - Exemption from licensure.

Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to require licensure of:

(1) A physician assistant student enrolled in a physician assistant or surgeon assistant educational program accredited by the Committee on Allied Health Education and Accreditation or by its successor agency;

(2) A physician assistant employed in the service of the federal government while performing duties incident to that employment;

(3) Technicians, other assistants, or employees of physicians who perform delegated tasks in the office of a physician but who are not rendering services as a physician assistant or identifying themselves as a physician assistant;

(4) A physician assistant in the service of the State Military Department or the Arkansas National Guard, or both. These physician assistants shall be allowed to perform their physician assistant practice duties, including prescribing, in the same manner as they would if federalized by the United States Government; or

(5) A physician assistant who is temporarily transiting through the State of Arkansas while caring for a patient, provided that he or she remains under the supervision of his or her supervising physician.