{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-10-115","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 6-10-115","heading":"Period of silence","body":"(a) A public school in this state shall observe a one-minute period of silence at the beginning of school each school day. (b) During the period of silence a student may, without interfering with or distracting another student: (1) Reflect; (2) Pray; or (3) Engage in a silent activity. (c) A teacher or school employee in charge of a public school classroom shall ensure that all students remain silent and do not interfere with or distract another student during the period of silence. Amended by Act 2013, No. 576,§ 1, eff. 8/16/2013. Acts 1995, No. 397, § 1; 1995, No. 539, § 1.\n\n(a) A public school in this state shall observe a one-minute period of silence at the beginning of school each school day.\n\n(b) During the period of silence a student may, without interfering with or distracting another student: (1) Reflect; (2) Pray; or (3) Engage in a silent activity.\n\n(1) Reflect;\n\n(2) Pray; or\n\n(3) Engage in a silent activity.\n\n(c) A teacher or school employee in charge of a public school classroom shall ensure that all students remain silent and do not interfere with or distract another student during the period of silence.","path":["AR Code","Title 6","Chapter 10"],"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":"68940a19324c190a4e38fd684d1708becfcdefc418b963323a007c8c5f10933a","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-10-114","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-6-10-117","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."}