Title 17, Professions, Occupations, and Businesses

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians shall have such authority as is reasonably necessary to administer this chapter. (b) The Chair of the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians and the Secretary of the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians may administer oaths and subpoena wit…

(a) All fees or payments of any type collected by the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians under this chapter shall be kept in a separate fund. (b) The board shall make a report annually to the Secretary of the Department of Health, showing all receipts and disbursements of moneys…

The operating expenses of the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians shall be paid solely from cash funds of the board, and no funds shall be used either directly or indirectly from general revenues for such support.

The Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians may authorize payments to be made to each registered sanitarian as partial reimbursement for actual travel expenses incurred, but not to exceed the amounts authorized for state employees for such expenses and not otherwise reimbursed, in at…

(a) (1) Effective July 1, 2013, the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians is transferred to the Department of Health and shall be administered by the Secretary of the Department of Health.(2) All authority, powers, duties, functions, records, authorized positions, property, unexpen…

(a) No person shall offer his or her service as a registered sanitarian or use, assume, or advertise in any way any title or description tending to convey the impression that he or she is a registered sanitarian unless he or she is the holder of a current certificate of registrat…

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians shall hold examinations to test the fitness of applicants for registration at such times and places within this state as the board shall determine, but shall hold at least one (1) examination every year. (b) The scope of the examination…

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians shall admit to examination any person who makes application to the Secretary of the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians on forms prescribed and furnished by the board and pays an application fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) to defray the …

The Secretary of the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians shall give reasonable notice by mail of the time and place of examination to each applicant accepted for examination.

Within sixty (60) days after the examination is given, the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians shall notify by mail each person who took the examination as to whether he or she has passed or failed the examination.

Each person who passes the examination to the satisfaction of the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians shall be issued a certificate of registration upon payment of a registration fee of ten dollars ($10.00).

(1) The Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians shall issue a certificate of registration without examination to any person who makes application on forms prescribed and furnished by the board, pays a registration fee of ten dollars ($10.00), and submits satisfactory proof that he or…

(1) Each certificate of registration issued by the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians shall expire on June 30 following the date of issuance. A renewal certificate may be issued:(1) To the holder of a current certificate of registration who makes application before the expiratio…

(a) The Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a certificate of registration upon proof that the applicant is guilty of fraud, deceit, gross negligence, incompetency, or misconduct in relation to his or her duties as a sanitarian. (b) (1) When…

(a) Before the Arkansas State Board of Sanitarians may suspend, revoke, or refuse to renew a certificate of registration, it shall set the matter for a hearing before the board. (b) At least twenty (20) days before the date set for hearing, the board shall give written notice of …