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16-93-1603. Powers and duties of the Board of Corrections.
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16-93-1603. Powers and duties of the Board of Corrections.
(a) The Board of Corrections shall promulgate rules or develop administrative directives that set minimum standards for all transitional housing facilities in the State of Arkansas.
(b)(1) The Parole Board, a district court, or a circuit court shall not release a transferee, parolee, or probationer to a transitional housing facility as a resident unless the transitional housing facility provides a copy of a current license issued by the Division of Community Correction under § 16-93-1604.
(2) The transitional housing facility shall comply with all the standards set by the rules or administrative directives established by the Board of Corrections under subsection (a) of this section.
(c) The rules and administrative directives described in subsection (a) of this section shall include at least the following:
(1) Compliance with any local health and safety codes, including housing codes, fire codes, plumbing codes, and electrical codes, set by the jurisdiction or jurisdictions in which the transitional housing facility is located;
(2) Compliance with any local zoning ordinances;
(3) Compliance with any state and federal health and safety codes;
(4) Consideration of geographic dispersement of transitional housing facilities;
(5) Allowable ratio of transitional housing facility square footage to residents; and
(6) Allowable ratio of bathing facilities and restroom facilities to residents.
(d) Each transitional housing facility shall be licensed by its type.
(e) As used in this section, “transitional housing facility” includes a reentry, self-governed, or other type of post-incarceration housing as approved by the Board of Corrections and licensed by the division.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-93-1603
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16-93-1603. Powers and duties of the Board of Corrections.
(a) The Board of Corrections shall promulgate rules or develop administrative directives that set minimum standards for all transitional housing facilities in the State of Arkansas.
(b)(1) The Parole Board, a district court, or a circuit court shall not release a transferee, parolee, or probationer to a transitional housing facility as a resident unless the transitional housing facility provides a copy of a current license issued by the Division of Community Correction under § 16-93-1604.
(2) The transitional housing facility shall comply with all the standards set by the rules or administrative directives established by the Board of Corrections under subsection (a) of this section.
(c) The rules and administrative directives described in subsection (a) of this section shall include at least the following:
(1) Compliance with any local health and safety codes, including housing codes, fire codes, plumbing codes, and electrical codes, set by the jurisdiction or jurisdictions in which the transitional housing facility is located;
(2) Compliance with any local zoning ordinances;
(3) Compliance with any state and federal health and safety codes;
(4) Consideration of geographic dispersement of transitional housing facilities;
(5) Allowable ratio of transitional housing facility square footage to residents; and
(6) Allowable ratio of bathing facilities and restroom facilities to residents.
(d) Each transitional housing facility shall be licensed by its type.
(e) As used in this section, “transitional housing facility” includes a reentry, self-governed, or other type of post-incarceration housing as approved by the Board of Corrections and licensed by the division.
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16-93-1604. Powers and duties of the Division of Community Correction.
(a) The Division of Community Correction shall implement the rules or administrative directives described in § 16-93-1603.
(b)(1) The division shall be responsible for the enforcement of the rules and administrative directives established by the Board of Corrections under § 16-93-1603.
(2) The division shall establish all procedures and forms that it deems necessary to implement the rules or administrative directives, and the procedures shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(A) Creating state-issued Arkansas transitional housing facility licenses by type for applicant facilities that have met the standards established by the rules and administrative directives of the board;
(B) Establishing the process to be followed by an applicant in making application to the division to receive a license to operate an approved transitional housing facility, which shall include a reasonable application fee to be established by the board;
(C) Establishing procedures for the division to accept applications for facilities wishing to obtain a license to operate a transitional housing facility and to investigate whether applicants meet the standards established by the rules and administrative directives of the board;
(D)(i) Establishing procedures for the division to notify an applicant when its application has been approved or denied.
(ii) All denials shall specify in writing the reason for the application's denial;
(E) Establishing procedures to investigate complaints that a licensed transitional housing facility is in violation of the standards established by the rules and administrative directives of the board;
(F) Establishing procedures for the division to suspend or revoke a lic
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 16-93-1604
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 16-93-1604. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.