25-3-101. Legislative intent — Construction.

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25-3-101. Legislative intent — Construction.

25-3-101. Legislative intent — Construction. (a) The General Assembly declares that this act is necessary: (1) To create a structure of state government which will be responsive to the cultural needs of the people of this state and sufficiently flexible to meet changing conditions; (2) To provide for greater budgetary and administrative efficiencies within an orderly organizational structure of government; (3) To encourage greater participation of the public in the cultural affairs of the state; (4) To effect the grouping of culturally oriented state agencies and programs into one (1) department; and (5) To eliminate overlapping and duplication of effort. (b) It is the intent of the General Assembly to provide for an orderly transfer of powers, duties, and functions of the various state programs or agencies to the Division of Arkansas Heritage with a minimum of disruption of governmental services and functions and with a minimum of expense. (c) To the ends stated in this section, this act shall be liberally construed.

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 25-3-101

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. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.