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Ex. DUT-AR-009 Standing duty Primary source read

Ark. Code Ann. 11-2-102, Definitions ('employer'; 'safe' or 'safety')

Ark. Code Ann. 11-2-102. Definitions (employer includes every person having control or custody of any employment, place of employment or employee, other than exclusively farming operations and employers of fewer than five persons; 'safe' includes conditions and methods of sanitation and hygiene for the protection of employees or the public)

General Assembly of Arkansas (Acts 1937, No. 161, secs. 1, 9) · Arkansas (State)

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Jurisdiction
Arkansas
Level
State
Authority
Police power of the State; Department of Labor Act of 1937
Issued
2024-03-28 Mar. 28, 2024
Effective
standing (read as 2024-03-28)
End
standing
In force
Standing since Mar. 28, 2024 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
Limitation types
Workplace rulesStanding duty
Addressees
  • employers of five or more persons other than exclusively farming operations; persons having control or custody of a place of employment
Character
workplace duty
Collection
Standing duties: Arkansas DUT-AR

Operative words

"Safe" or "safety" as applied to any employment or place of employment shall include conditions and methods of sanitation and hygiene reasonably necessary for the protection of the life, health, safety, and welfare of employees or the public.

Penalty

Through 11-2-104 (Ex. DUT-AR-010)

What it required

Defines the 11-2-117 duty so that a safe place of employment includes the conditions and methods of sanitation and hygiene reasonably necessary to protect employees or the public, and defines the employers bound (every person having control or custody of any employment, place of employment or employee, other than exclusively farming operations and employers of fewer than five persons).

Retrieval note

FindLaw text 'Current as of March 28, 2024'; unamended since 1937 (cross-checked against the Official Code of Arkansas Annotated, Release 78 (Nov. 6, 2020), UniCourt copy).