Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 004 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS › Rule 004.00.10-003 - AR 114 - Arkansas Correctional Industries, and AR 0411 - Use of Audio Visual Equipment

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
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		  Arkansas Correctional Industries
I.
AUTHORITY:
The Board of Correction is vested with the authority to
			 promulgate this Administrative Regulation by Act 50 of 1968 as amended, Act 473
			 of 1967, Act 108 of 1981, Act 825 of 1985, and Act 48 of 1989.
II.
PURPOSE
:
To establish policy and procedures concerning the manufacture,
			 sales and distribution of Arkansas Correctional Industries made goods.
III.
APPLICABILITY
:
To all ACI employees, to all offices, departments, institutions
			 and agencies of the state that may purchase ACI made products and to those
			 political subdivisions, non-profit organizations and other states, which may
			 purchase ACI, made goods. Pursuant to Arkansas Code
			 12-30-205:
"(a) A nonprofit organization may purchase
		  goods produced by the Department of Correction's Industry Division as provided
		  for by this subchapter upon the condition that the goods may not be resold for
		  profit.
(b)
(1) Goods produced by the division as
		  provided for by this subchapter, excluding furniture and seating, may also be
		  purchased by:
(A) Current employees and
		  retirees of the Department of Correction;
(B) All employees of the offices,
		  departments, institutions, school districts, and public agencies in this state.
		  Subdivision (b) (1) (B) (i) of this section shall not include members of the
		  General Assembly; and
(C) Current
		  and former members of the Board of Corrections.
(2) Goods purchased by an individual under
		  subdivision (b) (1) of this section shall be for personal use only and not for
		  resale."
IV.
POLICY
:
It shall be the policy of the Board of Correction to establish an
			 ongoing correctional industry program to further provide more adequate, regular
			 and suitable training and/or employment for the inmates of the state and to
			 provide quality products and services to be purchased by all offices,
			 departments, institutions and agencies of the state, all political subdivisions
			 and non-profit organizations, and other states or others as provided in the
			 Acts of the State of Arkansas.
V.
PROCEDURES
:
1.
		  The Arkansas Correctional Industries program will purchase equipment, raw
		  materials and supplies in the manner provided by laws of the State of
		  Arkansas.
2. The Board of
		  Correction will fix and determine the price range at which all articles or
		  products manufactured or produced shall be furnished.
3. Administrative Directives will be
		  developed to provide guidance concerning the procedures to be used by ACI in
		  the process of selecting market representatives and its mission to enter into
		  contractual agreements with dealers, retailers, distributors and manufacturing
		  representatives for the marketing of products and services produced by
		  ACI.
4. Arkansas Correctional
		  Industries will prepare, at such times as it may determine needed, catalogues
		  containing the description of all articles and products manufactured or
		  produced in the program.