Title 20 — Public Health and Welfare

(a) No fresh, cold storage, or frozen fish produced outside this state or in any foreign country and imported into the United States shall be sold or offered for sale in this state by any food establishment unless:(1) The package or container containing the food bears a statement…

This subchapter shall be known as the “Arkansas Catfish Marketing Act of 1975”.

(1) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Capable of use as human food” shall mean and shall apply to any catfish, catfish-like species, or part or product of catfish or a catfish-like species unless it is denatured or otherwise identified as requ…

(a) (1) (A) Any person who violates any provision of this subchapter for which no civil penalty is provided by this subchapter shall upon conviction be guilty of a violation and subject to a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500).(B) However, no person shall be subject…

This subchapter shall be administered by the Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards.

(a) The Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards is authorized to promulgate such rules as may be necessary for the efficient enforcement of this subchapter. (b) (1) Before the issuance, amendment, or repeal of any rule authorized by this subchapter, the director shall publis…

(a) A catfish or catfish-like product shall not be offered for direct retail sale for human consumption by a processor, distributor, or retailer unless the catfish or catfish-like product name is specifically labeled in the following manner:(1) “Farm-Raised Catfish”, if the produ…

The Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards may cooperate with and enter into agreements with governmental agencies of this state, agencies of the United States Government, and private associations in order to carry out the purpose and provisions of this subchapter.

The Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards shall publish at least biannually, in such form as he or she may deem proper, information concerning the sale of catfish or catfish-like products, together with such data about their production and use as he or she may consider adv…

(a) Any person adversely affected by an act, order, or ruling made by the Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter may, within forty-five (45) days thereafter, bring action in the Pulaski County Circuit Court for judicial review o…

(a) Any person who knowingly violates any provision of this subchapter for which no civil penalty is provided by this subchapter shall upon conviction be guilty of a violation and subject to a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50.00) for the first offense and not more than fi…

(a) A catfish or catfish-like product shall not be offered for direct retail sale for human consumption by a restaurant or other eating establishment unless the catfish or catfish-like product name is identified on the menu in the following manner:(1) “Farm-Raised Catfish”, if th…

This subchapter shall be administered and enforced by the Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards.

The Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards is authorized to promulgate such rules as may be necessary for the efficient enforcement of this subchapter.

(a) Any person adversely affected by an act, order, or ruling made by the Director of the Arkansas Bureau of Standards pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter may, within forty-five (45) days thereafter, bring action in the circuit court of the county wherein the violation …

(a) It shall be unlawful to sell at retail arsenic and its compounds, strychnine and its salts, corrosive sublimate, hydrocyanic acid, phosphorus, opium, morphine, laudanum, or any preparation of opium containing over two (2) grains to the ounce without the container’s being plai…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person in the State of Arkansas to sell or give away or for any person to buy or accept a gift of any strychnine or its salts except upon prescription therefor of a licensed physician, dentist, or veterinarian, or where purchased for use by a lice…

(a) (1) There is created within the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services a position of Arkansas Drug Director.(2) The Arkansas Drug Director shall be appointed by the Governor and shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor.…

(a) There is hereby established the Arkansas Alcohol and Drug Abuse Coordinating Council, hereafter referred to in this subchapter as the “coordinating council”. (b) The coordinating council shall be composed of twenty-seven (27) members as follows:(1) Thirteen (13) members of th…

(a) The Arkansas Alcohol and Drug Abuse Coordinating Council shall have the responsibility for overseeing all planning, budgeting, and implementation of expenditures of state and federal funds allocated for alcohol and drug education, prevention, treatment, and law enforcement. (…

It shall be lawful for eleemosynary institutions, sanatoriums, hospitals, and wholesale druggists having licensed pharmacists in their employ to possess, use, compound, and sell narcotic drugs pursuant to the Federal Narcotic Act and the rules and regulations thereto appertaining…

(a) Any apothecary who is authorized to posses narcotic drugs as defined by the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act, § 20-64-201 et seq., shall keep the narcotic drugs in a safe, or other receptacle equipped with a lock, sufficient to secure the narcotic drugs against theft. (b) Any person…

A.C.A. § 20-64-103Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

A search warrant relating to offenses involving drugs regulated under the Uniform Narcotic Drug Act, § 20-64-201 et seq., and the Arkansas Drug Abuse Control Act, § 20-64-301 et seq., may be served at any time of the day or night if the judge of the district or circuit court issu…

(a) The General Assembly finds that:(1) It is beneficial to this state to support patient access to prescription drugs and pharmacy services in a market that ensures that patients can access safe and effective prescription medications with same day access, as well as patient free…

(1) The following words and phrases, as used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Apothecary” means a licensed pharmacist as defined by the laws of this state and, where the context so requires, the owner of a store or …

It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, purchase, possess, have under his control, sell, prescribe, administer, dispense, or compound any narcotic drug, except as authorized in this subchapter.

No person shall manufacture, compound, mix, cultivate, grow, or by any other process produce or prepare narcotic drugs, and no person as a wholesaler shall supply the same, without having first obtained a license so to do from the Secretary of the Department of Health.

(a) No license shall be issued under § 20-64-203 unless and until the applicant therefor has furnished proof satisfactory to the Secretary of the Department of Health:(a) That the applicant is of good moral character or, if the applicant be an association or corporation, that the…

(1) A duly licensed manufacturer or wholesaler may sell and dispense narcotic drugs to any of the following persons, but only on official written orders:(a) To a manufacturer, wholesaler, or apothecary;(b) To a physician, dentist, or veterinarian;(c) To a person in charge of a ho…

(1) An apothecary, in good faith, may sell and dispense narcotic drugs to any person upon a written prescription or an oral prescription in pursuance to rules, promulgated by the Secretary of the Department of Health under authority of § 20-64-219, of a physician, dentist, or vet…

(1) Physicians and Dentists. A physician or a dentist, in good faith and in the course of his professional practice only, may prescribe, administer, and dispense narcotic drugs, or he may cause the same to be administered by a nurse or intern under his direction and supervision. …

(a) Except as otherwise in this subchapter specifically provided, this subchapter shall not apply to the following cases:(1) Administering, dispensing, or selling at retail any drug subject to this subchapter under any circumstances that the Secretary of the Department of Health …

(1) Physicians, Dentists, Veterinarians, and Other Authorized Persons. Every physician, dentist, veterinarian, or other person who is authorized to administer or professionally use narcotic drugs shall keep a record of such drugs received by him, and a record of all such drugs ad…

(1) Whenever a manufacturer sells or dispenses a narcotic drug, and whenever a wholesaler sells or dispenses a narcotic drug in a package prepared by him or her, he or she shall securely affix to each package in which that drug is contained a label showing in legible English the …

A person to whom or for whose use any narcotic drug has been prescribed, sold, or dispensed by a physician, dentist, apothecary, or other person authorized under the provisions of § 20-64-205, and the owner of any animal for which any such drug has been prescribed, sold, or dispe…

The provisions of this subchapter restricting the possession and having control of narcotic drugs shall not apply to common carriers or to warehousemen, while engaged in lawfully transporting or storing such drugs, or to any employee of the same acting within the scope of his emp…

Any store, shop, warehouse, dwelling house, building, vehicle, boat, aircraft, or any place whatever, which is resorted to by narcotic drug addicts for the purpose of using narcotic drugs or which is used for the illegal keeping or selling of the same, shall be deemed a common nu…

Upon delivery to the Secretary of the Department of Health of any narcotic drugs discarded by the owner thereof or other person entitled to the possession or custody thereof, and upon the Secretary of the Department of Health delivering to such person an itemized receipt therefor…

On the conviction of any person of the violation of any provision of this subchapter, a copy of the judgment and sentence, and of the opinion of the court or magistrate, if any opinion be filed, shall be sent by the clerk of the court, or by the magistrate, to the board or office…

Prescriptions, orders, and records, required by this subchapter, and stocks of narcotic drugs, shall be open for inspection only to federal, state, county, and municipal officers, whose duty it is to enforce the laws of this state or of the United States relating to narcotic drug…

(1) No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain a narcotic drug, or procure or attempt to procure the administration of a narcotic drug:(a) by fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, or subterfuge; or(b) by the forgery or alteration of a prescription or of any order; or(c) by the conce…

In any complaint, information, or indictment, and in any action or proceeding brought for the enforcement of any provision of this subchapter, it shall not be necessary to negative any exception, excuse, proviso, or exemption contained in this subchapter, and the burden of proof …

It is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of the Department of Health, his or her officers, agents, inspectors, and representatives, and of all peace officers within the state, and of all prosecuting attorneys, to enforce all provisions of this subchapter, except those specific…

(1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this section, a person violating any provision of this subchapter commits a felony and upon conviction shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars ($2,000), and be imprisoned in the state penitentiary not less than two (2) nor mo…

No person shall be prosecuted for a violation of any provision of this subchapter if such person has been acquitted or convicted under the federal narcotic laws of the same act or omission which, it is alleged, constitutes a violation of this subchapter.

If any provision of this subchapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the subchapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this e…

This subchapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose, to make uniform the laws of those states which enact it.

All acts or parts of acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this subchapter are repealed.

This subchapter may be cited as the “Uniform Narcotic Drug Act”.