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AR Code § 20-7-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-109. Authority to regulate public health — Exceptions

 (a)  (1) Power is conferred on the State Board of Health to make all necessary and reasonable rules of a general nature for:  (A) The protection of the public health and safety;  (B) The general amelioration of the sanitary and hygienic conditions within the state;  (C) The suppression and prevention of infectious, contagious, and communicable diseases;  (D) The proper enforcement of quarantine, isolation, and control of such diseases; and  (E) The proper control of chemical exposures that may result in adverse health effects to the public.    (2) All rules promulgated pursuant to this subsection shall be reviewed by the House Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor and the Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor or appropriate subcommittees thereof.    (b) However, if a patient can be treated with reasonable safety to the public health, he or she shall not be removed from his or her home without his or her consent, or the consent of the parents or guardian in the case of a minor, and the rules, when made, shall be printed in pamphlet form, with such numbers of copies as may be necessary for the distribution of the information to health bodies, health and sanitary officers, and the public generally.  (c) The board shall not regulate the practice of medicine or healing nor interfere with the right of any citizen to employ the practitioner of his or her choice.
AR Code § 20-7-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-110. Study and prevention of diseases

 (a)  (1) The State Board of Health has general supervision and control of all matters pertaining to the health of the citizens of this state.  (2) The board shall make a study of the causes and prevention of infectious, contagious, and communicable diseases, and, except as otherwise provided in this act, the board shall have direction and control of all matters of quarantine rules and enforcement. The board shall have full power and authority to prevent the entrance of such diseases from points outside the state.  (3) The board shall also have direction and control over all sanitary and quarantine measures for dealing with all infectious, contagious, and communicable diseases within the state and direction and control to suppress them and prevent their spread.    (b) Whenever the health of the citizens of this state is threatened by the prevalence of any epidemic or contagious disease in this or any adjoining state and, in the judgment of the Governor, the public safety demands action on the part of the board, then the Governor shall call the attention of the board to the facts and order it to take such action as the public safety of the citizens demands to prevent the spread of the epidemic or contagious disease.
AR Code § 20-7-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-111. Administration of certain federal acts

 (a) The State of Arkansas does accept the benefits of any acts now passed or hereafter to be passed by the United States Congress to provide for cooperation with the states in the protection of mothers and infants and promotion of a public health program.  (b)  (1) The State Board of Health is designated as the board for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the federal acts and this section and shall have all necessary authority to cooperate with the federal authorities administering the acts of the United States Congress.  (2) The board shall administer any legislation pursuant thereto enacted by the State of Arkansas under this section for promotion of a health program.    (c)  (1) The Secretary of the Department of Health shall act as executive officer for the purpose of administering the federal acts and this section.  (2) The secretary shall carry into effect such rules and regulations as the federal authorities and the board may adopt pursuant to the federal acts and this section.    (d) The Treasurer of State is designated and appointed custodian of all moneys received by the state from the appropriation made by the United States Congress, and he or she may receive and provide for the proper custody of the moneys and make disbursements in the manner provided by law and for the purpose specified in this section.  (e) The allocation of funds under this section shall be made to the respective counties in consecutive order as they make application and qualify for the funds.  (f)  (1) Any person, firm, or corporation violating any of the provisions of this section upon conviction shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500) at the discretion of the court.  (2) Each day that the violation is committed shall constitute a separate offense.
AR Code § 20-7-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-112. Inspections

 (a) It is made the duty of all officers and agents who have the control, charge, or custody of any public structure, work, grounds, or erection, or of any plan, description, outlines, drawings, or charts thereof or relating thereto, made, kept, or controlled under any public authority, to permit and facilitate the examination and inspection and the making of copies of these items by any officer or person authorized by the State Board of Health.  (b) The members of the board and such other officers or persons as may at any time be authorized by the board, without fee or hindrance, to enter, examine, and survey all grounds, erections, vehicles, structures, apartments, buildings, and plans when the public health may be promoted or in any way preserved.
AR Code § 20-7-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-113. Nuisances

 (a)  (1) At any time, the Governor may require the State Board of Health to examine nuisances or questions affecting the security of life and health in any locality in the state, and in such cases the State Board of Health shall have all the necessary powers to make those examinations. The State Board of Health shall report the results to the Governor within the limits of time which he or she shall prescribe for the examination and report to be prepared and submitted.  (2) At any time, whether an investigation is at the request of the State Board of Health, or whenever the Governor shall have directed an examination and report to be made by the State Board of Health into any alleged nuisance, any board of health of any city of the state may appoint and select any one (1) of its officers as its representative during the examination of any nuisance. This representative officer shall have a seat at and be entitled to take part in all the deliberations of the State Board of Health during the investigation but without the right to vote.    (b) When approved by the Governor, the report of the examination shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and the Governor, in relation to the matters or things found and certified by the State Board of Health to be a nuisance, may declare them to be public nuisances and order them to be changed as he or she shall direct, or be abated and removed.  (c) Any violation of an order shall be held and punished as a misdemeanor, and thereafter the Governor, by his or her order in writing which is certified under his or her official seal and directed to the officers of the county in which the nuisance shall be situated, may require the prosecuting attorney, the sheriff, and the other officers of every county to take all necessary measures to execute the order of the Governor and to have it obeyed.
AR Code § 20-7-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-114. Public health laboratory

 (a)  (1) The State Board of Health shall establish, equip, and maintain a public health laboratory that shall be used for making:  (A) Analyses of foods and drugs to enforce pure food and drug laws;  (B) Analyses of the environment to investigate cases or suspected cases of human exposure; and  (C) Investigations of cases and suspected cases of malaria, diphtheria, typhoid fever, tuberculosis, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, glanders, hookworm disease, rabies, and other infectious, contagious, communicable, and debilitating diseases.    (2) The public health laboratory shall be established and maintained at the Department of Health under the direct supervision of the Secretary of the Department of Health or his or her authorized representatives.    (b)  (1) The department may establish fees to be charged for performing analyses of various types of samples submitted to the public health laboratory for examination.  (2) All fees levied and collected under this subsection are special revenues and shall be deposited into the State Treasury, there to be credited to the Public Health Fund.    (c) Subject to rules as may be implemented by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, the disbursing officer for the department may transfer all unexpended funds relative to the laboratory services that pertain to fees collected, as certified by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, to be carried forward and made available for expenditures for the same purpose for any following fiscal year.
AR Code § 20-7-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-115. Transportation of dead bodies

 (a)  (1) The State Board of Health shall prepare the necessary methods and forms and prescribe the rules regulating the issue and use of transfer permits, with the proper coupons attached thereto, to be issued by local organized boards of health or health officers, for the transportation of the dead bodies of persons which are to be transported for burial beyond the limits of the counties where the death occurred.  (2) In all cases, the State Board of Health shall require the coupons to be attached to the permits, to be detached and preserved by every common carrier or the person in charge of any vessel, railroad train, or vehicle to whom the dead bodies shall be delivered for transportation.    (b) Any violation of these rules shall be a misdemeanor.
AR Code § 20-7-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-117. Hospices — Definition — State Hospice Office — Creation

 (a) There is created within the Department of Health a State Hospice Office to be administered in a division of the department to be designated by the Secretary of the Department of Health.  (b)  (1) The office shall:  (A) Coordinate the care of terminally ill persons with all existing agencies, programs, and facilities;  (B) Implement rules, regulations, and standards for hospice care in general agreement with guidelines of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the Hospice and Palliative Care Association of Arkansas, Inc. and in compliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services;  (C) Provide technical assistance and information to developing hospices;  (D) Maintain a central storehouse of information and reference materials relating to the hospice concept and disseminate this to programs and individuals on request in an equitable manner and accept and respond to inquiries relating to hospice; and  (E) Assist the Arkansas State Hospice Association in developing the hospice concept in this state and networking hospice programs with existing medical communities and human service facilities.    (2) All functions and duties of the office shall be carried out in accordance with the laws of Arkansas and the rules of the Health Services Permit Agency, the Health Services Permit Commission, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.    (c)  (1) The rules and requirements of the Health Services Permit Agency and the commission shall be revised to include separate permit-of-approval categories of healthcare facilities entitled “hospice facilities” and “hospice agencies” and to develop criteria for granting the permits of approval for hospice facilities and for hospice agencies for which applications shall be filed in accordance with the criteria.  (2) A hospice facility or hospice agency shall not convert its licensure to any other license.    (d) As used in this section, “hospice” or “hospice program” means an autonomous, centrally administered, medically directed, coordinated program providing a continuum of home, outpatient, and homelike inpatient care for the terminally ill patient and the patient's family, and which employs an interdisciplinary team to assist in providing palliative and supportive care to meet the special needs arising out of the physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and economic stresses which are experienced during the final stages of illness and during dying and bereavement. The care shall be available twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, and provided on the basis of need, regardless of ability to pay.  (e) The licensure fee for a hospice shall be an annual fee of five hundred dollars ($500).
AR Code § 20-7-118 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-118. Annual conference for health officers

 (a) There shall be an annual conference of county health officers and city health officers of this state, meeting at such time and place as the State Board of Health designates. The President of the State Board of Health or some member of the board shall preside at the conference.  (b) Each of the several counties, towns, and cities may provide for and pay the necessary expenses of its county health officer or city health officer for attendance at the conference.
AR Code § 20-7-119 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-119. Identification tags and bracelets

 (a) When application is made and upon the payment of the fees provided in this section, the Department of Health may prepare and furnish to the applicant either a suitable metal tag commonly referred to as “dog tag” or an identification bracelet which may be inscribed with, in addition to the name and address of the person, the birth date, blood type, and any other pertinent medical information that might be needed in case of an accident or emergency with respect to the person.  (b) The department shall charge a fee of fifty cents (50¢) for each metal tag or dog tag and a fee of one dollar ($1.00) for each identification bracelet containing the information authorized in this section.  (c) All fees collected under this section shall be deposited into the State Treasury as special revenues, and the Treasurer of State shall credit them, after deducting from them the collection charge authorized by law, to the Public Health Fund to be used to defray the cost of this section and for the maintenance and operation of the department.
AR Code § 20-7-120 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-120. No right to enter home or take charge of children

 (a) No official, agent, or representative of the Department of Health shall have any right under this section to enter any home over the objection of the owner of the home or to take charge of any child over the objection of either or both parents or of the person standing in loco parentis or having custody of the child.  (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed as limiting the power of a parent or guardian or person standing in loco parentis to determine what treatment or correction shall be provided for a child or the agencies to be employed for these purposes.
AR Code § 20-7-121 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-121. Annual report

 (a) It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health to make an annual written report through the Secretary of the Department of Health to the Governor on or before January 1 of each year.  (b) The report shall include:  (1) A financial statement covering the expenditures of all funds appropriated for the board's purposes;  (2) So much of the proceedings of the board and information concerning vital and mortuary statistics, knowledge respecting diseases, and instructions on the subject of sanitation and hygiene which may be thought useful by the board for dissemination among the people; and  (3) Such suggestions as to legislative action as the board deems necessary.
AR Code § 20-7-122 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-122. Reports for general distribution

 The State Board of Health may publish for general distribution such reports and other matter as it may deem useful in promoting the interest of the public health of this state.
AR Code § 20-7-124 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-124. Disposition of certain fees

 All fees collected by the Department of Health for food-related establishment permits, septic tank permits, and milk permits shall be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the Public Health Fund and shall be for the use of the Division of Environmental Health Protection of the Department of Health.
AR Code § 20-7-125 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-125. Payment of certain salaries and expenses

 All salaries and other expenses provided for by this act which are not required to be paid by counties, cities, and incorporated towns shall be paid out of the Public Health Fund.
AR Code § 20-7-126 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-126. Payment of overtime for home health employees

 (a) The Department of Health may make overtime payments to employees engaged in the performance of home health activities.  (b) The payments are to be in addition to compensation otherwise due the employees at the same rate currently paid to the employees for regular time, but on an hourly basis.
AR Code § 20-7-128 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-128. Maintenance fee for breath-testing instruments

 (a)  (1) The State Board of Health may assess a fee for the maintenance of breath-testing instruments by law enforcement agencies for purposes contained in the Omnibus DWI or BWI Act, § 5-65-101 et seq., and § 5-65-201 et seq.  (2) The fees collected shall be used for the support of the maintenance program as appropriated by law.  (3) This subsection does not exclude manufacturer-approved repair services.    (b) The fee imposed shall not exceed the cost of maintenance by the Department of Health.  (c)  (1) Funds derived from the fees levied under this section are special revenues and shall be collected by the department and deposited into the State Treasury, where they shall be credited to the Public Health Fund.  (2) Subject to such rules as may be implemented by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, the disbursing officers for the department may transfer all unexpended funds relative to the blood alcohol instrument maintenance program funds outlined in this section, as certified by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, to be carried forward and made available for the expenditures for the same purpose for any following year.
AR Code § 20-7-129 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 7 - State Board of Health — Department of Health|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 20-7-129. Reimbursement for certain medical supplies or services

 (a)  (1) The Department of Health may implement a reimbursement system to recover part or all of the costs of delivering services.  (2) For the purpose of vaccine and vaccine administration reimbursement, if a private healthcare insurer declines or does not respond to a request to contract with the department within ninety (90) days of the request to contract, the private healthcare insurer shall reimburse the department at the rate paid to an in-network provider.    (b) The system shall provide that fees shall be collected only from those patients who are financially able to pay the fee and that no one shall be denied services because of inability to pay.  (c)  (1) Funds derived from the fees shall be used exclusively for the purchase of medical supplies or services necessary to enable the department to continue to provide essential health care.  (2) The department may transfer six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) in any fiscal year to the State Health Department Building and Local Grant Trust Fund for the purposes established by § 20-7-204.    (d)  (1) Funds collected by the department under this section shall be deposited into the State Treasury. These funds shall be credited to the Public Health Fund to be used exclusively for support of medical supplies or services.  (2) Subject to rules as may be implemented by the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, all unexpended funds that pertain to fees collected shall be carried forward and made available for expenditure for the same purposes for any following fiscal year.