Arkansas Code Title 21. Public Officers and Employees § 21-4-203. Definitions

(1) “Agency head” or “agency director” means the executive head of an agency, department, board, commission, bureau, council, or other entity of the state;

(2) “Annual leave” means vacation time with pay but does not include compensatory time;

(3) “Catastrophic illness” means a medical condition, as certified by a physician, of an employee, of the spouse or parent of the employee, or of a child of the employee that requires the employee's absence from duty for a prolonged period of time and which, except for the catastrophic leave program, would result in a substantial loss of income to the employee because of the exhaustion of all accrued leave and compensatory time;

(4) “Catastrophic leave” means leave granted to an employee as a result of a catastrophic illness, upon the employee's exhausting all sick and annual leave;

(5) “Catastrophic leave bank” means a pool of accrued annual and sick leave donated by employees;

(6) “Compensatory time” means time off in lieu of payment for overtime hours;

(8) “Educational leave” means any period of out-service training during which time the employee pursues a regular full-time course of instruction to acquire a specific skill or skills needed;

(9) “Employee” means a person regularly appointed or employed in a position of state service by a state agency, as defined in subdivision (12) of this section, for which he or she is compensated on a full-time basis;

(10) “Probationary employee” means a person certified from a list of eligibles or employed through a work test appointment and serving a probationary period;

(11) “Provisional employee” means a person who has been appointed to fill a position pending the establishment of a register for such a position;

(12) “State agencies” means all agencies, departments, boards, commissions, bureaus, councils, state-supported institutions of higher education, or other agencies except the following excluded agencies or positions within agencies:

(14) “Years of service” includes the total number of years of employment with all agencies of Arkansas state government whether such employment is continuous or not.