Arkansas Code Title 12, Subtitle 5, Chapter 87 - Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act

• § 12-87-101 - Title.
  This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act".
• § 12-87-102 - Definitions.
  In this chapter: (1) "Disaster relief organization" means an entity that provides emergency or disaster relief services that include health or veterinary services provided...
• § 12-87-103 - Applicability to Volunteer Health Practitioners.
  This chapter applies to volunteer health practitioners registered with a registration system that complies with § 12-87-105 and who provide health or veterinary services...
• § 12-87-104 - Regulation of Services During Emergency.
  (a) While an emergency declaration is in effect, the Department of Health may limit, restrict, or otherwise regulate: (1) the duration of practice by...
• § 12-87-105 - Volunteer Health Practitioner Registration Systems.
  (a) To qualify as a volunteer health practitioner registration system, a system must: (1) accept applications for the registration of volunteer health practitioners before...
• § 12-87-106 - Recognition of Volunteer Health Practitioners Licensed in Other States.
  (a) While an emergency declaration is in effect, a volunteer health practitioner, registered with a registration system that complies with § 12-87-105 and licensed...
• § 12-87-107 - No Effect on Credentialing and Privileging.
  (a) In this section: (1) "Credentialing" means obtaining, verifying, and assessing the qualifications of a health practitioner to provide treatment, care, or services in...
• § 12-87-108 - Provision of Volunteer Health or Veterinary Services -- Administrative Sanctions.
  (a) Subject to subsections (b) and (c), a volunteer health practitioner shall adhere to the scope of practice for a similarly licensed practitioner established...
• § 12-87-109 - Relation to Other Laws.
  (a) This chapter does not limit rights, privileges, or immunities provided to volunteer health practitioners by laws other than this chapter. Except as otherwise...
• § 12-87-110 - Regulatory Authority.
  The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management may promulgate rules to implement this chapter. In doing so, the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management shall consult...
• § 12-87-111 - Limitations on Civil Liability for Volunteer Health Practitioners.
  (a) Subject to subsection (b), a volunteer health practitioner who receives compensation of five hundred dollars ($500) or less per year for providing health...
• § 12-87-112 - Workers' Compensation Coverage.
  (a) In this section, "injury" means a physical or mental injury or disease for which an employee of this state who is injured or...
• § 12-87-113 - Uniformity of Application and Construction.
  In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its...
• § 12-87-114 - [Reserved.]
• § 12-87-115 - Effective Date.
  This chapter takes effect October 1, 2009.

Last modified: November 15, 2016