Ark. Code Ann. § 12-27-109

The Director of the Division of Correction and each person authorized by the Board of Corrections to assume the duties of the director on an interim or acting basis shall, before discharging his or her prescribed duties, take and subscribe to and file in the office of the Secretary of State, an oath that he or she will support the United States Constitution and the Arkansas Constitution and faithfully perform the prescribed duties upon which he or she is about to enter.