{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-47-601","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 20-47-601","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in this subchapter:\n\n(1) \"Community mental health centers\" means those private nonprofit organizations certified by the Division of Aging, Adult, and Behavioral Health Services of the Department of Human Services under § 20-47-202 as community mental health centers and contracted to perform designated public mental health services in the respective catchment areas of the state;\n\n(2) \"Inmate with mental illness\" means a jail inmate who, after being assessed by a person qualified by licensure to conduct an assessment, meets the criteria for serious mental illness or is in danger of harm to self or to others;\n\n(3) \"Jail inmate\" means a natural person who is in the custody of law enforcement authorities within the confines of a county jail;\n\n(4) \"Person with mental illness\" means a person who appears to be a danger to himself or herself or to others or to need mental health evaluation for treatment and may include an individual detained by a law enforcement officer; and\n\n(5) \"Protocol\" means standardized outlines of the steps to be taken by law enforcement officers, jails, community mental health centers, or regional secure psychiatric facilities to handle the situation of each person with mental illness arrested by a law enforcement officer.","path":["AR Code","Title 20","Chapter 47","Subchapter 6"],"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":"c44149c95107dae6bea3e49b25363baa5044d4b2b45402f5f03119249bc592fb","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-47-510","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-47-602","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."}