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Ark. Code Ann. § 20-49-101

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Applied in 1 court decision — leading case French v. State (2017)

Most recently applied in French v. State (March 2017)

Acts 1971, No. 433, ch. 5, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 59-501; Acts 2019, No. 1035, § 48.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) “Court” shall mean circuit court;

(2) “Guardian” shall mean one appointed to have the care and custody of the person of an incompetent; and

(3) “Incompetent person” shall mean a person as to whom it is proved: He or she is incapable of caring for himself or herself by reason of intellectual and developmental disability, mental illness, imbecility, idiocy, or other mental incapacity;

(4) He or she manifests sexual inclinations which make it probable that he or she will procreate children unless he or she is rendered incapable of procreation; and

(5) There is no probability that his or her condition will improve so that he or she will become capable of caring for himself or herself.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.