Arkansas § 6-53-404 - Technical colleges — Acceptance as branch campus of community college.

§ 6-53-404. Technical colleges — Acceptance as branch campus of community college.

A board of trustees of a community college may, by resolution or when requested, petition the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board to accept a technical college located in the same service area to be a branch campus of the community college. All records, personnel, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the above-listed state-supported institutions within the service area of the community college shall be transferred to the local board. The local board of the community college shall be responsible for the administration and operation of all state-supported postsecondary vocational-technical institutions located within its service area and consolidated by this chapter. Until such time as territory containing the vocational-technical institution is joined to the community college district, the institution shall be operated as and known as a satellite campus of the community college. In cases where the vocational-technical institution is located within the community college district, upon consolidation, such institution shall be known as a branch campus of the community college, or if situated in close proximity to an existing community college campus no name distinction need be made for such institution. No millage tax of the community college district shall be used for capital outlay expense or operating expense of a satellite campus. The procedures for reconstituting districts under § 6-61-518 shall be followed to join additional territory containing the satellite campus to the existing community college district. Following the passage of the question to join territory containing the satellite campus to the existing community college district or to impose an additional millage for the community college district, the institution shall be known as a branch campus of the community college. Any satellite campus of a community college which fails to become a branch campus of the community college or which fails to achieve higher education institutional accreditation from the Higher Learning Commission within eight (8) years following the date of transfer under subsection (b) of this section shall be abolished by the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board. All records, personnel, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the satellite campus shall be transferred to the Division of Higher Education.