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Ark. Code Ann. § 20-49-205

Method of sterilization

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

If the petition is granted, the court may order that the incompetent be sterilized by X-ray or by vasectomy, in the case of a male incompetent person, or salpingectomy, in the case of a female incompetent person, or other procedure as at the time may constitute a procedure generally accepted by the medical profession, by a licensed medical practitioner at a licensed hospital.

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.