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AR Code § 20-27-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 2 - Bedding|§ 20-27-205. Label required

 No person shall sell, offer for sale, deliver, consign for sale, or have in his or her possession with intent to sell, offer for sale, deliver, or consign for sale any article of bedding unless the bedding is labeled as follows:   (1)  (A) Upon each of the articles of bedding, there shall be securely sewed upon the outside thereof a label upon which shall be legibly written or printed, in the English language, the names of the materials used as the filling of the article of bedding.  (B) If all the material used as the filling of the article of bedding shall not have been previously used, the words “manufactured of new material” shall appear upon the label together with the name and address of the maker of the bedding.  (C) If any of the material used in the making or remaking of the article of bedding shall have been previously used, the words “manufactured of previously used material” or “remade of previously used materials”, as the case may be, shall appear upon the label, together with the name and address of the maker thereof and also a description of the material used in the filling of the article of bedding.  (D) Any article of bedding not remade but which has been used shall be labeled “second-hand”;    (2) The label required by this section shall be muslin or linen and not less than two inches by three inches (2" x 3") in size;  (3) The statement required under this section shall be in the form as follows:  (4) The words “manufactured of new material” or “remade of previously used material”, “second-hand”, or “materials used in filling not known”, together with the description of the material used as the filling of an article of bedding shall be in letters not less than one-eighth inch (1/8") in height;  (5) The sewing of one (1) edge of the label securely into an outside seam of any article of bedding shall be deemed a compliance with that portion of the subchapter requiring that the label be securely sewed upon the article. This label shall contain all the statements required by this subchapter and shall be securely sewed to the ticking or cover of every article of bedding to be manufactured before the filling material has been placed inside the ticking or cover; and  (6) No term or description likely to mislead shall be used on any label required by this subchapter in the description of the materials used in the filling of any article of bedding.    “Manufactured of new material Materials used in filling Made by Address   Click to view form.
AR Code § 20-27-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 2 - Bedding|§ 20-27-206. Removal or alteration of label

 (a) Any person other than a purchaser for his or her own use who shall remove, deface, alter, or shall cause to be removed, defaced, or altered any label upon any article of bedding so labeled under the provisions of this subchapter shall be guilty of a violation thereof.  (b) It shall be unlawful for any owner, his or her employees, or servants of any hostelry, hotel, rooming house, or boarding house operated for profit to remove or cause to be removed from any mattress purchased for the use in their place of business after June 9, 1927, any label attached thereto.
AR Code § 20-27-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 2 - Bedding|§ 20-27-207. Materials and bedding previously exposed to disease

 (a) No person shall sell, offer for sale, deliver, or consign for sale or have in his or her possession with intent to sell, deliver, or consign for sale any article of bedding that has been used by or about any person having an infectious or contagious disease.  (b) No person shall use in the making or remaking of any article of bedding, as defined in this subchapter, any material of any kind that has been used by or about any person having an infectious or contagious disease or which has formed a part of any article of bedding which has been so used.
AR Code § 20-27-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 2 - Bedding|§ 20-27-208. Reuse of mattresses from hospitals, hotels, etc., prohibited — Exception

 (a) It shall be unlawful and punishable by the provisions of this subchapter for any person, firm, or corporation, or their agents, to use or cause to be used in the manufacture or renovation of mattresses materials of any description, in whole or part, that have been used in or about any public or private hospital or sanatorium for the treatment of any infectious or contagious disease, or materials obtained from mattresses from hotels, rooming houses, boardinghouses, and other public buildings where mattresses have been used for their original purpose.  (b) This section shall not prevent the use of materials as prohibited in § 20-27-209 when they have been thoroughly sterilized by a method of sterilization approved or adopted by the State Board of Health. In that event, the mattress shall be labeled as indicated in § 20-27-205, as may apply.
AR Code § 20-27-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 2 - Bedding|§ 20-27-210. Regulation of sterilization by State Board of Health

 (a) It is made the duty of the State Board of Health to promulgate and publish rules prescribing the method of sterilization that may be used by those engaged in the manufacturing of mattresses and bedding or in the renovation thereof.  (b) All persons, firms, or corporations who shall conform to the rules as promulgated by the board, as directed, shall be deemed as complying with the law.
AR Code § 20-27-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 3 - Blood Donations|§ 20-27-301. Donation by minors seventeen years of age or older — Written permission required for minors sixteen years of age

 (a)  (1) Any minor who has reached seventeen (17) years of age may act as a blood donor to any nonprofit blood bank or any licensed hospital without consideration.  (2) The consent of the minor seventeen (17) years of age or older shall not be subject to disaffirmance because of the minority of the donor.  (3) The consent of the parent or guardian of the minor seventeen (17) years of age or older shall not be necessary to authorize the taking of blood from the minor.    (b) A minor sixteen (16) years of age may act as a blood donor to a nonprofit blood bank or a licensed hospital without consideration, if the minor sixteen (16) years of age obtains written permission or authorization from his or her parent or guardian.  (c) However, nothing in this section relieves a blood bank or hospital or its agents or employees from civil liability for any negligence in taking the blood of a minor.
AR Code § 20-27-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 3 - Blood Donations|§ 20-27-302. Testing for blood-borne diseases

 (a) Any individual or company that collects blood products, including, but not limited to, red cells, white cells, platelets, clotting factors, immunoglobulins, or plasma for the purpose of resale or distribution used in the treatment of human disease, shall:  (1) Inform the donor that his or her blood will be tested for the presence of human immunodeficiency virus antigens or antibodies (HIV-1), causative agents of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other blood-borne diseases and shall inform the donor of the test results. In addition, if the donor's blood tests are found to be reactive, the donor's name shall be made available to the Department of Health for the purpose of contact tracing and partner notification and to donor referral registries;  (2) Use no donations of blood products or plasma until the donor has been found to be free of evidence of the HIV infection by a United States Food and Drug Administration-approved screening test such as the Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) test; and  (3) Repeat any screening test that is found to be positive. If the screening test is repeatedly positive, a confirmatory test such as the Western Blot, Immunofluorescence Assay (IFA), or any other confirmatory test subsequently approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration shall be performed. If confirmatory testing is positive for evidence of HIV infection, the donor shall be informed and his or her blood shall not be accepted.    (b) Donors who test positive shall be encouraged to seek medical consultation from their physician or local public health facility.
AR Code § 20-27-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 4 - Houses of Prostitution|§ 20-27-401. Public nuisance

 The operation of a house of ill fame, a bawdy house, a disorderly house, or any house for the purpose of assignation or prostitution in this state to which men and women resort for the purpose of prostitution or lewdness is declared to be a public nuisance, detrimental to public morals, and may be abated under the present provisions of law for the suppression of public nuisances.
AR Code § 20-27-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 5 - Impact-Resistant Lenses|§ 20-27-501. Label required

 The sellers of all eyeglasses sold in the State of Arkansas shall furnish at the time of sale or delivery thereof a card, sticker, or tag indicating to the purchaser or receiver of the eyeglasses either that the lenses in the glasses are impact resistant or that the lenses are nonimpact resistant.
AR Code § 20-27-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 5 - Impact-Resistant Lenses|§ 20-27-502. Standards

 Eyeglasses sold or prescribed in this state as impact-resistant eyeglasses shall meet the following minimum standards:   (1) If the lenses of the eyeglasses are made of glass, the lenses shall be capable of withstanding the impact of a five-eighths inch (5/8") steel ball dropped from a height of fifty inches (50"); and  (2)  (A) When plastic materials are used in the construction of ophthalmic lenses or frames, the material shall be slow burning.  (B) Cellulose nitrate or materials having flammability characteristics approximating those of cellulose nitrate shall not be used.  (C) Flammability of the materials shall be no greater than that exhibited by cellulose acetate or acetate butyrate.
AR Code § 20-27-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 6 - Lead Poisoning Prevention|§ 20-27-601. Purpose

 The purpose of this subchapter is to provide for the prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of lead poisoning, including elimination of the sources of the poisoning through such research, educational, epidemiological, and clinical activities as may be necessary.
AR Code § 20-27-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 6 - Lead Poisoning Prevention|§ 20-27-602. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) [Repealed.]  (2) [Repealed.]  (3) [Repealed.]  (4) “Dwelling” means a structure, all or part of which is designed or used for or in connection with human habitation, including garages, carports, sheds, fences, and gates;  (5) “Dwelling unit” means any room, group of rooms, or other interior area of a structure designed or used for human habitation;  (6) “Exposed surface” means all interior surfaces of a dwelling or dwelling unit and those exterior surfaces which are readily accessible to children under six (6) years of age, such as stairs, porches, railings, windows, doors, facings, sills, and siding;  (7) “Lead-bearing substance” means any paint, lacquer, glaze, or other applied surface coatings, putty, plaster, structural material, or similar substance which contains more than five-tenths of one percent (0.5%) lead metal by weight in the total nonvolatile contents of the substance, or any such substance containing an amount of lead metal not to exceed five-tenths of one percent (0.5%) as hereafter may be established by federal law or regulation;  (8) “Occupant” or “tenant” means any person living, sleeping, cooking, eating in, or having actual possession of a dwelling or dwelling unit;  (9) “Owner” means any person who alone, jointly, or severally with others has legal title to, charge, care, or control of any dwelling or dwelling unit as owner, as agent of the owner, or as executor, administrator, trustee, or guardian of the estate of the owner; and  (10) “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, group, agency, political subdivision, or combination thereof or any agent or representative of the foregoing.
AR Code § 20-27-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 6 - Lead Poisoning Prevention|§ 20-27-603. Political subdivision laws permitted

 This subchapter shall not prohibit any political subdivision from enacting and enforcing ordinances or laws for the prevention and control of lead poisoning which provide the same or more restrictive provisions as this subchapter or the rules promulgated pursuant to this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-27-604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 6 - Lead Poisoning Prevention|§ 20-27-604. Injunction

 When in the judgment of the Department of Health any person has engaged in or is about to engage in any acts or practices of commission or omission which constitute or will constitute a violation of any provision of this subchapter or any rule or order issued under this subchapter, the Attorney General, upon written notice thereof by the department, shall make application to the court of competent jurisdiction for an order enjoining the acts or practices or for an order directing compliance. Upon a showing by the department that the person has engaged in or is about to engage in any such acts or practices, a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order may be granted.
AR Code § 20-27-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 6 - Lead Poisoning Prevention|§ 20-27-605. Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Agency — Director

 (a) The Department of Health is designated as the Lead Poisoning Prevention and Control Agency.  (b) The Secretary of the Department of Health shall perform the functions vested in the department pursuant to this subchapter.  (c) In discharging its function in lead poisoning prevention and control, the department may:  (1) Develop a screening program to identify children under six (6) years of age with lead poisoning or potential lead poisoning;  (2) Report immediately all actual or suspected cases of lead poisoning found in the screening program to the parent or legal guardian;  (3) Follow up the positive screening results by referring children with extremely high blood lead levels for clinical evaluations or treatment and retest children with minimal elevated levels within three (3) months;  (4) Investigate the lead hazard in the places of residence and frequent occupancy of children with elevated blood lead readings;  (5) Notify the owner and occupant in writing of the lead hazard and, if necessary and after a hearing pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq., require discontinuance within thirty (30) days of a paint condition conducive to lead poisoning in any designated dwelling;  (6) Prescribe in written notice to the owner and the occupant the method of discontinuance of the lead paint condition conducive to lead poisoning;  (7) Advise, consult, and cooperate with other agencies of the state, the United States Government, municipal agencies, other state and interstate agencies, political subdivisions, and other private or public groups concerned with the prevention and control of lead poisoning;  (8) Collect and disseminate information relating to the prevention and control of lead poisoning;  (9) Formulate, adopt, promulgate, amend, and repeal rules for the prevention and control of lead poisoning; and  (10) Issue such orders or modifications thereof as may be necessary in connection with proceedings under this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-27-606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 6 - Lead Poisoning Prevention|§ 20-27-606. Search warrant required for inspection — Exception

 (a) For reasonable cause, the Secretary of the Department of Health may obtain from any court of record in the county where a dwelling or other property is located a search warrant permitting the secretary's designee to enter at all reasonable times upon any private or public property, including dwellings or dwelling units. Entry may be made for the purpose of determining whether or not a lead poisoning hazard or potential hazard exists, including the collection of samples of laboratory analyses, and to determine abatement compliance. However, entry onto or into any property under the jurisdiction and control of the United States Government shall be effected only with the concurrence of the United States Government or its designated representative.  (b) Entry without a warrant may be made by an agent of the Department of Health if he or she reasonably believes that exigent circumstances exist posing a clear threat to the health of any person.
AR Code § 20-27-607 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 6 - Lead Poisoning Prevention|§ 20-27-607. Notification of hazard — Abatement

 (a) After completion of an inspection or investigation, the Secretary of the Department of Health or his or her designee shall notify the owner and tenant of his or her findings and, in the event any lead hazard was found, the notification shall contain instructions pertaining to abatement as prescribed by this subchapter and rules promulgated pursuant to this subchapter.  (b) If the lead hazard has not been properly abated within thirty (30) days after receipt of notification, the owner shall be in violation of this subchapter.
AR Code § 20-27-608 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 6 - Lead Poisoning Prevention|§ 20-27-608. Retaliatory action prohibited

 (a) After receiving notice of the presence of lead hazards, no owner of any dwelling or dwelling unit shall engage in retaliatory action against an occupant of the affected dwelling or dwelling unit especially as pertains to eviction or threat of eviction because of the presence of lead hazards.  (b) This section is not intended to preclude an owner from finding other suitable housing for and in agreement with the occupant if such action is determined to be in the best interest of the occupant during the hazard abatement period.
AR Code § 20-27-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 7 - Public Smoking|§ 20-27-704. Findings

 The General Assembly finds that:   (1) Direct smoking of tobacco and indirect smoking of tobacco through inhaling the smoke of those who are smoking nearby are major causes of preventable diseases and death; and  (2) Prohibiting tobacco use in medical facilities will decrease the use of tobacco and exposure to harm from tobacco.
AR Code § 20-27-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 7 - Public Smoking|§ 20-27-705. Definitions

 For purposes of § 20-27-704, this section, and §§ 20-27-706 — 20-27-708:   (1) “Grounds” means the buildings in and on which medical facilities operate, together with all property owned by a medical facility that is contiguous to the buildings in which medical services are provided;  (2) “Medical facilities” means hospitals, including both inpatient and outpatient services, as well as hospital-owned and operated ambulatory surgery centers, hospital-owned and operated free-standing medical clinics, and human development centers as defined in § 20-48-101; and  (3) “Tobacco” means cigars, cigarettes, pipes, or other tobacco-smoking devices.
AR Code § 20-27-706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 7 - Public Smoking|§ 20-27-706. Prohibition of smoking at medical facilities

 (a) Smoking of tobacco is prohibited in and on the grounds of all medical facilities.  (b)  (1) Each medical facility shall request any person who violates subsection (a) of this section to desist.  (2) If the violation continues, the medical facility may report the violation to the appropriate law enforcement agency.
AR Code § 20-27-707 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 7 - Public Smoking|§ 20-27-707. Exception

 (a) If a treating physician determines that an inpatient's treatment will be substantially impaired by the denial to that patient of the use of tobacco, the physician may enter a written order permitting the use of tobacco by that patient.  (b) The order shall be consistent with:  (1) The medical facility's medical staff bylaws;  (2) Hospital regulations; and  (3) Local ordinances.
AR Code § 20-27-708 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 7 - Public Smoking|§ 20-27-708. Penalty

 A violation of § 20-27-706 is a Class C misdemeanor.
AR Code § 20-27-709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 27 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions|Subchapter 7 - Public Smoking|§ 20-27-709. Notice at medical facilities

 (a) Each medical facility shall post signs in prominent places in its facilities and on its property to explain the prohibition of smoking under § 20-27-706.  (b)  (1) Notices shall be written in English and Spanish.  (2) For a person who cannot read the signs, the prohibition of smoking in a medical facility on its grounds shall be given verbally in the appropriate language before any enforcement of the prohibition against the violator.    (c) The Department of Health may treat a violation of this section as a deficiency to be assessed against the medical facility.