{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-9-20-113","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 9-20-113","heading":"Evaluations","body":"(a) The Department of Human Services may petition the circuit court for an order of temporary custody for the purpose of having an adult evaluated if during the course of an investigation under the Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act, § 12-12-1701 et seq., the department determines that: (1) Immediate removal is necessary to protect the adult from imminent danger to his or her health or safety; (2) Available protective services have been offered to alleviate the danger and have been refused; and (3) An adequate assessment of the following cannot be made in the adult's place of residence: (A) The adult's capacity to comprehend the nature and consequences of remaining in the situation or condition; or (B) The adult's mental or physical impairment and ability to protect himself or herself from adult maltreatment. (b) Upon good cause being shown, the court may issue an order for temporary custody for the purpose of having the adult evaluated. Acts 2005, No. 1811, § 1; 2007, No. 497, § 2; 2011, No. 793, § 6\n\n(a) The Department of Human Services may petition the circuit court for an order of temporary custody for the purpose of having an adult evaluated if during the course of an investigation under the Adult and Long-Term Care Facility Resident Maltreatment Act, § 12-12-1701 et seq., the department determines that: (1) Immediate removal is necessary to protect the adult from imminent danger to his or her health or safety; (2) Available protective services have been offered to alleviate the danger and have been refused; and (3) An adequate assessment of the following cannot be made in the adult's place of residence: (A) The adult's capacity to comprehend the nature and consequences of remaining in the situation or condition; or (B) The adult's mental or physical impairment and ability to protect himself or herself from adult maltreatment.\n\n(1) Immediate removal is necessary to protect the adult from imminent danger to his or her health or safety;\n\n(2) Available protective services have been offered to alleviate the danger and have been refused; and\n\n(3) An adequate assessment of the following cannot be made in the adult's place of residence: (A) The adult's capacity to comprehend the nature and consequences of remaining in the situation or condition; or (B) The adult's mental or physical impairment and ability to protect himself or herself from adult maltreatment.\n\n(A) The adult's capacity to comprehend the nature and consequences of remaining in the situation or condition; or\n\n(B) The adult's mental or physical impairment and ability to protect himself or herself from adult maltreatment.\n\n(b) Upon good cause being shown, the court may issue an order for temporary custody for the purpose of having the adult evaluated.","path":["AR Code","Title 9","Chapter 20"],"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":"b0154e8a08b4e5103a41a03cdc1788be81a3ded4bd8a06d656e3f54f4420729d","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-9-20-112","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-9-20-114","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."}