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12-18-305. Garrett's Law reports.
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12-18-305. Garrett's Law reports.
The Child Abuse Hotline shall accept a report of neglect as defined under § 12-18-103(14)(B) only if the reporter is one (1) of the following mandated reporters and the mandated reporter has reasonable cause to suspect that a child has been subjected to neglect as defined under § 12-18-103(14)(B):
(1) A licensed nurse;
(2) Any medical personnel who may be engaged in the admission, examination, care, or treatment of persons;
(3) An osteopath;
(4) A physician;
(5) A resident intern;
(6) A surgeon; or
(7) A social worker in a hospital.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-18-305
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12-18-305. Garrett's Law reports.
The Child Abuse Hotline shall accept a report of neglect as defined under § 12-18-103(14)(B) only if the reporter is one (1) of the following mandated reporters and the mandated reporter has reasonable cause to suspect that a child has been subjected to neglect as defined under § 12-18-103(14)(B):
(1) A licensed nurse;
(2) Any medical personnel who may be engaged in the admission, examination, care, or treatment of persons;
(3) An osteopath;
(4) A physician;
(5) A resident intern;
(6) A surgeon; or
(7) A social worker in a hospital.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
12-18-103. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1)(A) “Abandonment” means:
(i) The failure of a parent to provide reasonable support and to maintain regular contact with a child through statement or contact when the failure is accompanied by an intention on the part of the parent to permit the condition to continue for an indefinite period in the future or the failure of a parent to support or maintain regular contact with a child without just cause; or
(ii) An articulated intent to forego parental responsibility.
(B) “Abandonment” does not include:
(i) Acts or omissions of a parent toward a married minor; or
(ii) A situation in which a child has disrupted his or her adoption and the adoptive parent has exhausted the available resources;
(2)(A) “Abortion” means the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy of a woman with knowledge that the termination by those means will with reasonable likelihood cause the death of the unborn child.
(B) “Abortion” does not mean the act of using or prescribing any instrument, medicine, drug, or any other substance, device, or means with the intent to terminate the clinically diagnosable pregnancy if done with the intent to:
(i) Save the life or preserve the health of the unborn child;
(ii) Remove a dead unborn child caused by spontaneous abortion; or
(iii) Remove an ectopic pregnancy;
(3)(A) “Abuse” means any of the following acts or omissions by a parent, guardian, custodian, foster parent, person eighteen (18) years of age or older living in the home with a child whether related or unrelated to the child, or any person who is entrusted with the child's care by a parent, guardian, cust
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-18-103
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 12-18-103. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.