In addition to the authority of the Arkansas Higher Education Coordinating Board to establish area vocational-technical and adult education schools as authorized in §§ 6-51-201 - 6-51-203, § 6-51-205, § 6-51-207, § 6-51-208(a) -(c), § 6-51-209, and § 6-51-210, and laws amendatory thereto, the board is authorized, whenever funds are available, to establish branches of those area vocational-technical schools or to offer special vocational-technical instruction at public schools or in other facilities in communities in the area of the respective vocational-technical schools, as the board may determine is in the interest of the area and whenever sufficient demand may exist.
Ark. Code § 6-51-204