Arkansas Code Title 20. Public Health and Welfare § 20-78-210. Obtaining licenses

(a) Any person, partnership, group, corporation, organization, or association desiring to operate a childcare facility shall first make application for a license for a childcare facility to the Division of Child Care and Early Childhood Education on the application forms furnished for this purpose by the division.

(b) The division shall act on any application within sixty (60) days after it has been received by the division.

(c) If an applicant meets the requirements of this subchapter and the published rules of the division regarding minimum standards for a childcare facility, then the applicant shall be granted a license by the division as a childcare facility. This license shall continue in effect until revoked or suspended as provided in this subchapter.

(d) In issuing a license for a childcare facility, the division may limit the number of children who may be served by that childcare facility.

(e) In issuing an initial license or reviewing a current license for a childcare facility, the division shall require that during regular business hours at least one (1) adult member of the staff who is certified in infant and child cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall be present within the physical confines of the childcare facility.