2020 Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs
Chapter 12 - Crime Reporting and Investigations
Subchapter 16 - Criminal History for Volunteers Act
§ 12-12-1603. Definitions
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Children” means individuals under sixteen (16) years of age;
(2) “Conviction” means that an individual has been found guilty of or has pleaded guilty or nolo contendere to any offense by any court in the State of Arkansas or of any similar offense by a court in another state or a federal court regardless of whether the conviction has been sealed or expunged;
(3) “Criminal history information” means a record compiled by the Arkansas Crime Information Center or the Identification Bureau of the Division of Arkansas State Police on an individual;
(4) “Domestic abuse” means the same as defined in § 9-4-102;
(5) “Elderly” means individuals sixty-five (65) years of age or older;
(6) “Employee” means an individual currently in the service of an employer for full-time or part-time compensation and employed by contract or at will, in which the employer has the authority to control the individual in the material details of how work shall be performed and when compensation shall be provided;
(7) “Individuals with disabilities” means individuals with mental illness or intellectual or other developmental disabilities or with physical or mental impairments that substantially limit one (1) or more of the major life activities of the individual;
(8) “Volunteer” means an individual who provides services involving contact with children, the elderly, victims of domestic abuse, or individuals with disabilities without an express or implied promise of compensation; and
(9) “Volunteer organization” means an individual, group of individuals, association, partnership, corporation, limited liability company or partnership, business, public school, school district, person or organization designated by a public school or school district to organize volunteers for the public school or school district, or other entity that has volunteers who provide services to children, the elderly, victims of domestic abuse, or individuals with disabilities.
