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AR Code § 16-46-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 46 - Documentary Evidence Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospital Records Act|§ 16-46-304. Opening of sealed envelopes

 (a) Unless the sealed envelope or wrapper is returned to the custodian who is to appear personally, the copy of the records shall remain sealed and shall be opened only at the time of trial, deposition, or other hearing, upon the direction of the judge, court, officer, body, or tribunal conducting the proceeding, in the presence of all parties who have appeared in person or by counsel at such trial, deposition, or hearing. Before directing that the inner envelope or wrapper be opened, the judge, court, officer, body, or tribunal shall first ascertain that either:  (1) The records have been subpoenaed at the instance of the patient involved or his counsel of record; or  (2) The patient involved or someone authorized in his behalf to do so for him has consented thereto and waived any privilege of confidentiality involved.    (b) Records which are not introduced in evidence or required as part of the record shall be returned to the person or entity from whom received.
AR Code § 16-46-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 46 - Documentary Evidence Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospital Records Act|§ 16-46-305. Affidavit of custodian as to copies — Charges

 (a) The records shall be accompanied by an affidavit of a custodian stating in substance:  (1) That the affiant is the duly authorized custodian of the records and has authority to certify the records;  (2) That the copy is a true copy of all the records described in the subpoena; and  (3) That the records were prepared by personnel of the hospital, staff physicians, or persons acting under the control of either, or the physician, personnel of the physician's office, or persons acting under control of the physician, in the ordinary course of the hospital's or physician's office business at or near the time of the act, condition, or event reported therein.    (b) If the hospital or physician's office has none of the records described, or only part of them, the custodian shall state so in the affidavit and file the affidavit and any records as are available in the manner described in §§ 16-46-302 and 16-46-303.  (c) The custodian of the records may enclose a statement of costs for copying the records, and the costs of copying the records shall be borne by the party requesting the subpoena duces tecum for the records.
AR Code § 16-46-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 46 - Documentary Evidence Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospital Records Act|§ 16-46-306. Admissibility of copies and affidavits

 The copy of the record shall be admissible in evidence to the same extent as though the original record was offered and the custodian had been present and testified to the matters stated in the affidavit.
AR Code § 16-46-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 46 - Documentary Evidence Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospital Records Act|§ 16-46-307. Personal attendance of custodian — Production of original record

 (a) Where the personal attendance of the custodian is desired, the subpoena duces tecum shall contain a clause which reads: “The personal attendance of the custodian of records is necessary.”  (b) Where both the personal attendance of the custodian and the production of the original record are desired, the subpoena duces tecum shall contain a clause which reads: “The original records and the personal attendance of the custodian of records are necessary.”  (c) Where the personal attendance of the custodian is requested, the reasonable cost of producing the records and expenses for personal attendance shall be borne by the party requesting the subpoena.
AR Code § 16-46-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 46 - Documentary Evidence Generally|Subchapter 3 - Hospital Records Act|§ 16-46-308. Substitution of copies for original records

 In view of the property right of the hospital or physician's office in its records, original records may be withdrawn after introduction into evidence and copies substituted unless otherwise directed by the court, judge, officer, body, or tribunal conducting the hearing. The custodian may prepare copies of original records in advance of testifying for the purpose of making substitution of the original record, and the reasonable charges for making the copies shall be borne by the party requesting the subpoena. If copies are not prepared in advance, they can be made and substituted at any time after introduction of the original record, and the reasonable charges for making the copies shall be borne by the party requesting the subpoena.
AR Code § 16-46-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 46 - Documentary Evidence Generally|Subchapter 4 - Patient Medical Records Privacy Act|§ 16-46-401. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Patient Medical Records Privacy Act”.
AR Code § 16-46-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 46 - Documentary Evidence Generally|Subchapter 4 - Patient Medical Records Privacy Act|§ 16-46-402. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1)  (A) “Medical records” means hospital or clinic records, physicians' records, or other healthcare records and includes an admitting form, discharge summary, history and physical, progress notes, physicians' orders, reports of operations, recovery room records, lab reports, consultation reports, medication records, nurses' notes, and other reports catalogued and maintained by the medical records department of a hospital, doctor's office, medical clinic, or any other medical facility.  (B) “Medical records” includes X-rays, computed tomography imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, electrocardiograms, radiographic studies, and other testing that generates a printed result; and    (2) “Party in litigation” means any person who requests copies of a patient's medical records from any doctor, hospital, or other custodian of records for use in any civil legal proceeding.
AR Code § 16-46-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 46 - Documentary Evidence Generally|Subchapter 4 - Patient Medical Records Privacy Act|§ 16-46-403. Notice required

 (a) Any party in litigation that receives or obtains a copy of a patient's medical records from a doctor, hospital, or other custodian of records by using a subpoena, court order, or consent form signed by the patient shall provide written notice of the receipt of the records to the:  (1) Patient; or  (2) Patient's attorney if the patient is represented by an attorney.    (b) The notice required by subsection (a) of this section may be made by:  (1) Any form of mail addressed to the person to be served with a return receipt requested and delivery restricted to the addressee or the agent of the addressee; or  (2) Facsimile with a receipt or transaction report showing that the transmittal was received.    (c) The notice required by subsection (a) of this section shall include the name and address of the provider for each record that was obtained.
AR Code § 16-46-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 46 - Documentary Evidence Generally|Subchapter 4 - Patient Medical Records Privacy Act|§ 16-46-404. Use of medical records at trial

 If notice is not given as required by § 16-46-403, a party in litigation shall be prohibited from introducing the patient's medical records into evidence or referring to the patient's medical records in any manner in a legal proceeding relating to the patient.
AR Code § 16-46-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 46 - Documentary Evidence Generally|Subchapter 4 - Patient Medical Records Privacy Act|§ 16-46-405. Scope of subchapter

 (a) This subchapter shall apply to private litigants in civil actions only and shall not alter the rights, duties, or responsibilities of any person or entity in any other type of legal proceeding, including, but not limited to, actions under the Workers' Compensation Law, § 11-9-101 et seq.  (b) All provisions of this subchapter shall be subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-191.  (c) Upon adoption of a Supreme Court rule which is substantially similar to the provisions of this subchapter, this subchapter shall be deemed superseded.
AR Code § 16-47-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-47-101. Proof or acknowledgment as prerequisite to recording real estate conveyances

 All deeds and other instruments in writing for the conveyance of any real estate, or by which any real estate may be affected in law or equity, shall be proven or duly acknowledged in conformity with the provisions of this act, before they or any of them shall be admitted to record.
AR Code § 16-47-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-47-102. Forms of acknowledgments — Validity — Acknowledgments of married persons

 (a) Either the forms of acknowledgments now in use in this state or any other forms which specify, in the caption or otherwise, the state and county or other place where the acknowledgment is taken, and which set out the name of the person acknowledging and, in instances where he or she acknowledges otherwise than in his or her own right, the name of the person, association, or corporation for which he or she acknowledges, and which recite in substance or the equivalent that the execution of the instrument was acknowledged by the person so named as acknowledging, or any other form of acknowledgment provided by law, may be used in the case of all deeds and other instruments in writing for the conveyance of real or personal property, or whereby such property is to be affected in law or equity, and also in any other case where such acknowledgment is for any purpose required or authorized by law. An acknowledgment in any of these forms shall be sufficient to entitle the instrument to be recorded and to be read in evidence.  (b) The acknowledgment of a married person, both as to the disposition of his or her own property and as to the relinquishment of dower, curtesy, and homestead in the property of a spouse, may be made in the same form as if he or she were sole and without any examination separate and apart from a spouse, and without necessity for a specific reference therein to the interest so conveyed or relinquished.
AR Code § 16-47-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-47-103. Officers authorized to take proof or acknowledgment of real estate conveyances

 (a) The proof or acknowledgment of every deed or instrument of writing for the conveyance of any real estate shall be taken by one of the following courts or officers:  (1) When acknowledged or proven within this state, before the Supreme Court, the circuit court, the chancery court, or any judges thereof, the clerk of any court of record, any county or probate judge, or before any justice of the peace or notary public;  (2) When acknowledged or proven outside this state, and within the United States or its territories, or in any of the colonies or possessions or dependencies of the United States, before any court of the United States, or any state or territory, or colony or possession or dependency of the United States, having a seal, or a clerk of any such court, or before any notary public, or before the mayor of any incorporated city or town, or the chief officer of any city or town having a seal, or before a commissioner appointed by the Governor of this state;  (3) When acknowledged or proven outside the United States, before any court of any state, kingdom, or empire having a seal; any mayor or chief officer of any city or town having an official seal; or before any officer of any foreign country who by the laws of that country is authorized to take probate of the conveyance of real estate of his own country if the officer has, by law, an official seal.    (b) The acknowledgment of any deed or mortgage, when taken outside the United States, may be taken and certified by a United States consul.
AR Code § 16-47-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-47-104. Attestation of acknowledgments

 (a) In cases of acknowledgment or proof of deeds or conveyances of real estate taken within the United States or territories thereof, when taken before any court or officer having a seal of office, the deed or conveyance shall be attested under the seal of office. If the officer has no seal of office, then it shall be attested under the official signature of the officer.  (b) In all cases of deeds and conveyances proven or acknowledged outside the United States or its territories, the acknowledgment or proof must be attested under the official seal of the court or officer before whom the probate is had.
AR Code § 16-47-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-47-105. Certificate of acknowledgment

 Every court or officer that shall take the proof or acknowledgment of any deed or conveyance of real estate, or the relinquishment of dower of any married woman in any conveyance of the real estate of her husband, shall grant a certificate thereof and cause the certificate to be endorsed on the deed, instrument, conveyance, or relinquishment of dower, which certificate shall be signed by the clerk of the court where probate is taken in court or by the officer before whom the probate is taken and sealed, if he has a seal of office.
AR Code § 16-47-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-47-106. Manner of making acknowledgment — Proof of deed or instrument — Proof of identity of grantor or witness

 (a) The acknowledgment of deeds and instruments of writing for the conveyance of real estate, or whereby such real estate is to be affected in law or equity, shall be by the grantor appearing in person before a court or officer having the authority by law to take the acknowledgment and stating that he had executed the deed or instrument for the consideration and purposes therein mentioned and set forth.  (b) When a deed or instrument referred to in subsection (a) of this section is to be proved, it shall be done by one (1) or more of the subscribing witnesses personally appearing before the proper court or officer and stating on oath that he saw the grantor subscribe the deed or instrument of writing or that the grantor acknowledged in his presence that he had subscribed and executed the deed or instrument for the purposes and consideration therein mentioned, and that he had subscribed the deed or instrument as a witness at the request of the grantor.  (c) If any grantor has not acknowledged the execution of a deed or instrument referred to in subsection (a) of this section, and the subscribing witnesses are dead or cannot be had, then the deed or instrument may be proved by the evidence of the handwriting of the grantor and of at least one (1) of the subscribing witnesses, which evidence shall consist of the deposition of two (2) or more disinterested persons, swearing to each signature.  (d) When any grantor in any deed or instrument that conveys real estate, or whereby any real estate may be affected in law or equity, or any witness to any like instrument, shall present himself before any court or other officer for the purpose of acknowledging or proving the execution of the deed or instrument, if the grantor or witness shall be personally unknown to the court or officer, his identity and his being the person he purports to be on the face of such instrument of writing shall be proven to the court or officer, which proof may be made by witnesses known to the court or officer, or by the affidavit of the grantor or witness if the court or officer shall be satisfied therewith. The proof or affidavit shall also be endorsed on the deed or instrument of writing.
AR Code § 16-47-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-47-108. Validation of instruments affecting title to property

 All deeds, conveyances, deeds of trust, mortgages, marriage contracts, and other instruments in writing, affecting or purporting to affect the title to any real estate or personal property situated in this state, which have been recorded and which are defective or ineffectual:   (1) Because of failure to comply with § 18-12-403; or  (2) Because the officer who certified the acknowledgment or acknowledgments to such instruments omitted any words required by law to be in the certificate or acknowledgments; or  (3) Because the officer failed or omitted to attach his seal to such certificate; or  (4) Because the officer attached to any such certificate a seal not bearing the words and devices required by law; or  (5) Because the officer was a mayor of a city or an incorporated town in the State of Arkansas and as such was not authorized to certify to executions and acknowledgments to such instruments, or was the deputy of an official duly authorized by law to take acknowledgments but whose deputy was not so authorized; or  (6) Because the notary public failed to state the date of the expiration of his commission on the certificate of acknowledgment, or incorrectly stated it thereon; or  (7) Because the officer incorrectly dated the certificate of acknowledgment or failed to state the county wherein the acknowledgment was taken; or  (8) Because the acknowledgment was certified in any county of the State of Arkansas by any person holding an unexpired commission as notary public under the laws of the state who had, at the time of the certification, ceased to be a resident of the county within and for which he or she was commissioned;    shall be as binding and effectual as though the certificate of acknowledgment or proof of execution was in due form, bore the proper seal, and was certified to by a duly authorized officer.
AR Code § 16-47-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-47-109. Validation of acknowledgments of personnel of armed forces

 All acknowledgments taken before March 20, 1945, and subscribed by officers of the United States armed forces acknowledging the signatures of soldiers in the armed forces are validated in every respect.
AR Code § 16-47-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-47-110. Recorded deed or written instrument affecting real estate

 (a) Every deed or instrument in writing which conveys or affects real estate and which is acknowledged or proved and certified as prescribed by this act may, together with the certificate of acknowledgment, proof, or relinquishment of dower, be recorded by the recorder of the county where such land to be conveyed or affected thereby is located, and when so recorded may be read in evidence in any court in this state without further proof of execution.  (b) If it appears at any time that any deed or instrument duly acknowledged or proved and recorded as prescribed by this act is lost or not within the power and control of the party wishing to use the deed or instrument, the record thereof or a transcript of the record certified by the recorder may be read in evidence without further proof of execution.  (c) Neither the certificate of acknowledgment nor the probate of any such deed or instrument, nor the record or transcript thereof, shall be conclusive, but it may be rebutted.
AR Code § 16-47-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Acknowledgment Act|§ 16-47-201. Acknowledgment of instruments

 Any instrument may be acknowledged in the manner and form provided by the laws of this state, or as provided by this act.
AR Code § 16-47-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Acknowledgment Act|§ 16-47-202. Officials authorized to take within the state

 The acknowledgment of any instrument may be made in this state before:   (1) A judge of a court of record or before any former judge of a court of record who served at least four (4) or more years;  (2) A clerk of any court of record;  (3) A commissioner or registrar or recorder of deeds;  (4) A notary public;  (5) A justice of the peace; or  (6) A master in chancery or registrar in chancery.
AR Code § 16-47-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Acknowledgment Act|§ 16-47-203. Officials authorized to take within the United States

 The acknowledgment of any instrument may be without the state but within the United States or a territory or insular possession of the United States and within the jurisdiction of the officer, before:   (1) A clerk or deputy clerk of any federal court;  (2) A clerk or deputy clerk of any court of record of any state or other jurisdiction;  (3) A notary public;  (4) A commissioner of deeds;  (5) Any person authorized by the laws of such other jurisdiction to take acknowledgments.
AR Code § 16-47-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Acknowledgment Act|§ 16-47-204. Officials authorized to take without the United States

 The acknowledgment of any instrument may be made without the United States before:   (1) An ambassador, minister, charge d'affaires, counselor to or secretary of a legation, consul general, consul, vice-consul, commercial attache, or consular agent of the United States accredited to the country where the acknowledgment is made.  (2) A notary public of the country where the acknowledgment is made.  (3) A judge or clerk of a court of record of the country where the acknowledgment is made.
AR Code § 16-47-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 4 - Evidence And Witnesses|Chapter 47 - Acknowledgment and Proof of Instruments|Subchapter 2 - Uniform Acknowledgment Act|§ 16-47-205. Proof of identity of person making

 The officer taking the acknowledgment shall know or have satisfactory evidence that the person making the acknowledgment is the person described in and who executed the instrument.