Arkansas Code Title 21. Public Officers and Employees § 21-1-701. Definitions

(1)(A) “Employee” means a person regularly appointed or employed in a position of state service by a state agency for which:

(B) “Employee” does not include a supervisory employee;

(3)(A) “State agency” means a board, commission, department, division, or office of state government within the executive branch.

(B) “State agency” does not include:

(A) Authority in the interest of a state agency to hire, transfer, suspend, lay off, recall, promote, discharge, assign, reward, or discipline other employees of the state agency; or

(B) If his or her exercise of authority requires the use of independent judgment and is not of a merely routine or clerical nature, the responsibility to direct other employees of the state agency by which he or she is employed.