Arkansas Code Title 16. Practice, Procedure, and Courts § 16-123-102. Definitions

(1) “Because of gender” means, but is not limited to, on account of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions;

(2) “Because of national origin” includes without limitation on account of a natural, protective, or cultural hairstyle;

(3) “Because of race” includes without limitation on account of a natural, protective, or cultural hairstyle;

(4) “Compensatory damages” means damages for mental anguish, loss of dignity, and other intangible injuries, but “compensatory damages” does not include punitive damages;

(5) “Disability” means a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life function, but “disability” does not include:

(6) “Employee” does not include:

(7) “Employer” means a person who employs nine (9) or more employees in the State of Arkansas in each of twenty (20) or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year;

(8) “Ethnic animosity” includes without limitation on account of a natural, protective, or cultural hairstyle;

(9) “National origin” includes ancestry;

(10) “Natural, protective, or cultural hairstyle” includes without limitation afros, dreadlocks, twists, locs, braids, cornrow braids, Bantu knots, curls, and hair styled to protect hair texture or for cultural significance;

(11) “Place of public resort, accommodation, assemblage, or amusement” means any place, store, or other establishment, either licensed or unlicensed, that supplies accommodations, goods, or services to the general public, or that solicits or accepts the patronage or trade of the general public, or that is supported directly or indirectly by government funds, but “place of public resort, accommodation, assemblage, or amusement” does not include:

(12) “Racial animosity” includes without limitation on account of a natural, protective, or cultural hairstyle; and

(13) “Religion” means all aspects of religious belief, observance, and practice.