Arkansas Law

§ 5-28-102. Legislative intent.

(a) The General Assembly recognizes that rehabilitative and ameliorative services are needed to provide for the detection and correction of the abuse, maltreatment, or exploitation of adults who are unable to protect themselves.

(b) "Abuse, maltreatment, or exploitation" includes any willful or negligent acts which result in neglect, malnutrition, sexual abuse, unreasonable physical injury, material endangerment to mental health, unjust or improper use of an adult for one's own advantage, and failure to provide necessary treatment, attention, sustenance, clothing, shelter, or medical services by a caretaker or by the impaired individual.

History. Acts 1983, No. 452, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 59-1302; Acts 1995, No. 1338, § 2.