Arkansas Code Title 6, Subtitle 4, Chapter 51, Subchapter 6 - Private Resident and Correspondence Schools

• § 6-51-601 - Legislative Intent.
  (a) The General Assembly is aware of the fact that: (1) Many private career schools offering resident or correspondence programs in the State of...
• § 6-51-602 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires: (1) "Admissions representative" means a person who executes an enrollment agreement and who receives...
• § 6-51-603 - Exemptions.
  The following are exempt from licensure under this subchapter: (1) Private institutions exclusively offering instruction at any or all levels from preschool through twelfth...
• § 6-51-604 - Notice of Possible Violations -- Responses -- Injunctions.
  (a) Whenever the State Board of Private Career Education or director acting for the board has probable cause to believe that a person, agent,...
• § 6-51-605 - State Board of Private Career Education.
  (a) (1) (A) The Governor shall appoint a State Board of Private Career Education of seven (7) members who shall serve for terms of...
• § 6-51-606 - School License Generally.
  (a) No persons shall operate, conduct, maintain, or offer to operate in this state a school as defined in this subchapter, or solicit the...
• § 6-51-607 - Private Career School Student Protection Trust Fund.
  (a) (1) Each school licensed under this subchapter shall pay annually a fee to be set by the State Board of Private Career Education....
• § 6-51-608 - Extension Course Sites and Satellite Schools -- Additional School License.
  (a) (1) Any school licensed under this subchapter shall make application to the State Board of Private Career Education to offer a course or...
• § 6-51-609 - Admissions Representative's License -- Generally.
  (a) (1) No person representing a resident, distance education, or combination school shall solicit or sell in Arkansas any program of study for consideration...
• § 6-51-610 - Fees.
  (a) The State Board of Private Career Education shall set fees for schools and admissions representatives.(b) The fees collected under this subchapter, except fees...
• § 6-51-611 - License Renewal.
  (a) Licenses shall be renewable annually.(b) The licensing period shall be determined by the State Board of Private Career Education.(c) (1) Application for renewal...
• § 6-51-612 - Penalty for Operating School Without License.
  (a) Any person, admissions representative, each member of any association of persons, or each officer of any corporation who opens and conducts a school,...
• § 6-51-613 - Contracts and Promissory Notes of Unlicensed Schools Void -- Recovery of Tuition.
  (a) All contracts entered into with students or prospective students by schools, satellite schools, extension course sites, or admissions representatives as defined in this...
• § 6-51-614 - Denial, Probation, or Revocation of School License -- Review.
  (a) The State Board of Private Career Education, acting by and through the director, shall have the authority to refuse to issue a school...
• § 6-51-615 - Denial or Suspension of Admissions Representative's License -- Review -- Penalty.
  (a) No person shall be granted an admissions representative's license if, upon investigation, the applicant is found not to meet the requirements for an...
• § 6-51-616 - Student Grievance Procedure.
  (a) Any student may file a written complaint with the director on the forms prescribed and furnished by the director for that purpose if...
• § 6-51-617 - Private Career Education Arbitration Panel.
  (a) The Private Career Education Arbitration Panel as referenced in this section shall represent the sole authority to resolve disputes between a student and...
• § 6-51-618 - Fines.
  (a) Whenever the State Board of Private Career Education finds that a school is guilty of a violation of this subchapter or the rules...
• § 6-51-619 - Subpoenas and Subpoenas Duces Tecum.
  (a) The State Board of Private Career Education shall have the power to issue subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum in connection with both its...
• § 6-51-620 - Bond.
  (a) (1) Each school licensed under this subchapter shall maintain a surety bond during its licensure. (2) The surety bond shall be submitted to...
• § 6-51-621 - Construction of Subchapter.
  Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to affect the responsibilities of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board as defined in § 6-61-301.
• § 6-51-622 - Noncommercial Driver Training Instruction.
  (a) A person teaching or instructing a person seventeen (17) years of age or younger to drive a noncommercial motor vehicle or a motorcycle...
• § 6-51-623 - Defensive Driving Instruction.
  A person shall not be required to obtain a license from the State Board of Private Career Education as a requirement for teaching or...
• § 6-51-624 - Applicability.
  This subchapter does not apply to a school or training program that offers only avocational or recreational instruction or teacher instruction for the following...

Last modified: November 15, 2016