§ 12-29-309 - Riverside Vocational and Technical School -- Facilities -- Operations -- Rules and regulations. - Arkansas Statutes

12-29-309. Riverside Vocational and Technical School -- Facilities -- Operations -- Rules and regulations.

(a) For the purpose of enabling the Department of Correction and the Department of Community Correction to fulfill their legal responsibilities as correctional institutions, the State Board of Career Education shall locate facilities and operate vocational education programs within the Riverside Vocational and Technical School under such agreements, and subject to such special rules and regulations, as are deemed appropriate for the operation of vocational and technical school programs at the facilities of correctional institutions under the control of the Department of Correction and the Department of Community Correction in accordance with agreements, rules, and regulations mutually developed and agreed to by the State Board of Career Education and the Board of Corrections.

(b) The school shall be entitled to all funds, rights, and privileges and shall be operated in the same manner as other area vocational and technical schools are operated in this state but shall be operated in accordance with the special rules and regulations for the operation of such vocational and technical school programs at facilities of the Department of Correction and the Department of Community Correction as provided in 12-29-306 -- 12-29-310.