{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-80-120","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 17-80-120","heading":"Signature authority for advanced practice registered nurses and physician assistants","body":"(a) When a provision of law or rule requires a signature, certification, stamp, verification, affidavit, or endorsement by a physician, the requirement may be fulfilled by an advanced practice registered nurse or a physician assistant in any of the following circumstances: (1) Certification of disability for patients to receive disabled parking permits or placards from the Office of Motor Vehicle; or (2) Signature for: (A) Sports physicals to authorize student athletes to participate in athletic activities; (B) Physicals for bus drivers; (C) Forms relating to do-not-resuscitate orders; (D) Forms excusing a potential jury member due to an illness; (E) Death certificates; (F) Workers' compensation forms; (G) Forms relating to absenteeism for employment or school purposes; or (H) Authorizations for durable medical equipment. (b) This section does not expand the scope of practice of an advanced practice registered nurse or physician assistant. Added by Act 2017, No. 372,§ 1, eff. 8/1/2017.\n\n(a) When a provision of law or rule requires a signature, certification, stamp, verification, affidavit, or endorsement by a physician, the requirement may be fulfilled by an advanced practice registered nurse or a physician assistant in any of the following circumstances: (1) Certification of disability for patients to receive disabled parking permits or placards from the Office of Motor Vehicle; or (2) Signature for: (A) Sports physicals to authorize student athletes to participate in athletic activities; (B) Physicals for bus drivers; (C) Forms relating to do-not-resuscitate orders; (D) Forms excusing a potential jury member due to an illness; (E) Death certificates; (F) Workers' compensation forms; (G) Forms relating to absenteeism for employment or school purposes; or (H) Authorizations for durable medical equipment.\n\n(1) Certification of disability for patients to receive disabled parking permits or placards from the Office of Motor Vehicle; or\n\n(2) Signature for: (A) Sports physicals to authorize student athletes to participate in athletic activities; (B) Physicals for bus drivers; (C) Forms relating to do-not-resuscitate orders; (D) Forms excusing a potential jury member due to an illness; (E) Death certificates; (F) Workers' compensation forms; (G) Forms relating to absenteeism for employment or school purposes; or (H) Authorizations for durable medical equipment.\n\n(A) Sports physicals to authorize student athletes to participate in athletic activities;\n\n(B) Physicals for bus drivers;\n\n(C) Forms relating to do-not-resuscitate orders;\n\n(D) Forms excusing a potential jury member due to an illness;\n\n(E) Death certificates;\n\n(F) Workers' compensation forms;\n\n(G) Forms relating to absenteeism for employment or school purposes; or\n\n(H) Authorizations for durable medical equipment.\n\n(b) This section does not expand the scope of practice of an advanced practice registered nurse or physician assistant.","path":["AR Code","Title 17","Chapter 80","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":"377a6d49fac9baa40e908f46ca0833160375cc6abc431c0781d21ef05075494a","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-80-119","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-17-80-121","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."}