{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-103-102","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 17-103-102","heading":"Purpose","body":"(a) The purpose of this chapter is to: (1) Declare the practice of social work a professional practice affecting the public health, safety, and welfare; (2) Subject the practice of social work to effective regulation and control to promote, preserve, and protect the public interest; and (3) Declare a matter of public interest and concern that the practice of social work, as defined in this chapter, merit and receive the confidence of the public and that only qualified persons be permitted to engage in the practice of social work in the State of Arkansas. (b) This chapter shall be liberally construed to carry out these objectives and purposes. Amended by Act 2015, No. 1170,§ 1, eff. 7/22/2015. Acts 1999, No. 1122, § 1.\n\n(a) The purpose of this chapter is to: (1) Declare the practice of social work a professional practice affecting the public health, safety, and welfare; (2) Subject the practice of social work to effective regulation and control to promote, preserve, and protect the public interest; and (3) Declare a matter of public interest and concern that the practice of social work, as defined in this chapter, merit and receive the confidence of the public and that only qualified persons be permitted to engage in the practice of social work in the State of Arkansas.\n\n(1) Declare the practice of social work a professional practice affecting the public health, safety, and welfare;\n\n(2) Subject the practice of social work to effective regulation and control to promote, preserve, and protect the public interest; and\n\n(3) Declare a matter of public interest and concern that the practice of social work, as defined in this chapter, merit and receive the confidence of the public and that only qualified persons be permitted to engage in the practice of social work in the State of Arkansas.\n\n(b) This chapter shall be liberally construed to carry out these objectives and purposes.","path":["AR Code","Title 17","Chapter 103","Subchapter 1"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"6596b0c50a99eda1f6701ce40f079a2a82210440ceafe8b6f2d66f4d3cccafb5","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-103-101","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-103-103","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}