Updated 6/27/24
Overnight Camps: Arkansas Department of Health
Overnight camps must follow guidelines for Public Health Safety including food service, swimming pools, water and facilities regulated by the Department of Health.
Day Camps: Department of Human Services | Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education
Summer day camps fall under the "Out-of-School Time Program" guidelines under the Arkansas Childcare Licensing rules.
Resident Camps
Public Health Safety | Arkansas Department of Health
Day Camps
Minimum Licensing Requirements for Child Care Centers
Application for Child Care License/Registration
Zip Lines, Rock Climbing Walls and Amusement Rides
The Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing Occupational Safety and Health section is responsible for Arkansas's laws regarding amusement rides including ziplines and other activities.
Amusement Ride Inspection » Arkansas Department of Labor and Licensing
Administrative Rules Relating to the Arkansas Amusement Ride and Amusement Attractions Safety Act
Arkansas State Police - Online Criminal Background Checks
$22.00 per Arkansas State name based check request
$11.00 per Arkansas State name based check request (volunteers)
$14.25 per National/FBI fingerprint based check request
$12.25 per National/FBI fingerprint based check request (volunteers)
$25 mailed in requests
An individual may obtain a copy of their record by either visiting the main office in Little Rock or any Arkansas revenue office. Revenue offices can only release driving records to the individual requesting the driving record.
Arkansas Driving Records Request
- Online payment is $10.00 for an insurance record which covers a three (3) year period or $13.00 for an employment or commercial driver record which may contain information for longer than the three year period.
- Records picked up or mailed will be $7.00 for the insurance record or $10.00 for the employment or commercial driver’s record.
Employees for an organized camp and religious and non profit educational conference centers that operates for not more than 7 months per year; employees covered by FLSA; bona fide executives, administrators, and professionals; students who are working for the school, college, or university where enrolled and are regularly attending classes; federal, state or local government employees (except public schools and school districts); volunteers or non-employees for educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations
Learners, apprentices, and certain handicapped workers with special license: less than state minimum permitted. Full-time students attending an accredited school and working not more than 20 hours a week (40 hours when school is not in session): at least 85% of minimum wage.
1½ times regular rate after 40-hour week.
Those employees exempt from the FLSA or the state minimum wage, and agricultural employees.
No specified state-level meal/rest period requirements. Federal FLSA meal/rest period requirements apply for those covered by Act.
Not all student wages are exempt from Arkansas SUTA taxes. However they do have an exemption for students under the age of 22 that are participating in a work-study program at an educational institution.
