Title 41 — State Government

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Board" means the Arizona peace officer standards and training board. 2. "Criminal history record information" means information collected by criminal justice agencies on individuals consisting of identifiable description…

A. There shall be a department of public safety which is responsible for creating and coordinating services for use by local law enforcement agencies in protecting the public safety. The principal office and headquarters of the department shall be in Phoenix. B. The department sh…

A. The department shall consist of the following divisions: 1. Arizona highway patrol. 2. Narcotics enforcement and criminal investigation. 3. Scientific criminal analysis. 4. Training and education. B. The department may establish district headquarters and stations at various pl…

(L22, Ch. 311, sec. 3. Eff. 7/1/27) A. The department shall consist of the following divisions: 1. Arizona highway patrol. 2. Narcotics enforcement and criminal investigation. 3. Scientific criminal analysis. 4. Training and education. 5. Major incident division. B. The departmen…

A. The director of the department shall: 1. Be the administrative head of the department. 2. Subject to the merit system rules, appoint, suspend, demote, promote or dismiss all other classified employees of the department on the recommendation of their respective division superin…

A. The primary responsibility of the deputy director is to assist the director and perform functions and duties assigned by the director. B. The deputy director is exempt from chapter 4, articles 5 and 6 of this title and is eligible to receive compensation pursuant to section 38…

The employees of the department shall be included under the merit system council of the Arizona highway patrol or its successor, the law enforcement merit system council, if established by law.

The director may provide for a volunteer organization to be known as the department of public safety reserve, which organization shall consist of United States citizens who are residents of the state of Arizona and who shall render auxiliary support, without compensation, to the …

The director shall define the powers and duties of the reserve, but such powers and duties shall not be in excess of those accorded to department employees nor inconsistent therewith.

A. The director shall issue to each member of the reserve a badge of authority to be used by the members of the reserve for activities authorized by the director. The badge shall be of such design as the director may determine, but shall bear the word "reserve" across the face th…

While on duty, members of the reserve shall be deemed to be state employees for the purpose of securing workers' compensation benefits in the same manner, under the same conditions, and to the same extent as regular state employees.

A. The sex offender community notification coordinator is established in the department of public safety. B. The sex offender community notification coordinator shall: 1. Oversee reimbursement of monies to agencies that perform sex offender community notification. 2. Oversee the …

A. The parity compensation fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to section 28-5808 and monies appropriated by the legislature. The department shall administer the fund and, considering state revenues and state employee pay adjustments. The department shall …

The families of fallen police officers special plate fund is established consisting of monies received pursuant to section 28-2427. The department of public safety shall administer the fund. The first thirty-two thousand dollars received shall be reimbursed to the entity that pai…

A. The concealed weapons permit fund is established consisting of fees collected pursuant to section 13-3112. B. The department shall administer the fund. Monies deposited in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation and must only be used by the department to: 1. Administ…

A. The public safety equipment fund is established consisting of monies deposited in the fund pursuant to sections 12-116.04, 28-1381, 28-1382, 28-1383, 28-8284, 28-8286, 28-8287 and 28-8288. The department shall administer the fund. B. The first one million two hundred thousand …

A. The gang and immigration intelligence team enforcement mission fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to section 11-1051 and monies appropriated by the legislature. The department shall administer the fund. Any monies distributed from the fund to a county …

The capitol police administrative towing fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to section 28-3513. The department shall administer the fund. The monies in the fund are continuously appropriated and are exempt from the provisions of section 35-190 relating to…

A. The department shall establish the blue alert notification system as a quick response system designed to issue and coordinate alerts following an attack on a law enforcement officer as described in subsection B of this section. B. On the request of an authorized person at a la…

A. The victims' rights enforcement fund is established consisting of monies collected pursuant to sections 5-568 and 12-116.09 and monies available from any other source. The department shall administer the fund, shall distribute the monies to qualifying organizations and entitie…

A. The department shall establish the seek and find alert notification system as a quick response system designed to issue and coordinate alerts following the report of a missing person who has a developmental disability or a cognitive disability, Alzheimer's disease or dementia …

A. The department shall establish the turquoise alert system as a quick response system designed to issue and coordinate alerts following the report of a missing person. B. On the request of an authorized person at a law enforcement agency that is investigating a report of a miss…

The department shall provide a law enforcement agency with access to the case information that it receives from the supreme court pursuant to sections 13-609, 14-5304 and 36-540 for the purpose of enforcing a court order, assisting in an investigation or returning property.

A. The department of public safety forensics fund is established. The department shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund are subject to legislative appropriation. The department of public safety forensics fund consists of the following: 1. Monies deposited pursuant to secti…

A. The peace officer training equipment fund is established consisting of monies deposited pursuant to sections 12-114 and 12-116.10. The state treasurer shall administer the fund. Monies in the fund may be used only for peace officer equipment. B. The state treasurer shall inves…

1. One member of the senate who is appointed by the president of the senate. 2. One member of the house of representatives who is appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives. 3. The director of the department of public safety or the director's designee. 4. One member…

1. Encompasses schools throughout this state. 2. In a school safety program county, enables the deployment of a secure, multimedia data communications system to a user base consisting of public safety agencies and public schools providing instruction in any combination of kinderg…

1. All persons other than peace officers shown in the video recording consent to the release, or any information that may identify persons shown in the video has been redacted. If a person shown in the video recording is deceased, the person's parent, guardian, next of kin or est…

A. The department shall establish a sexual assault kit evidence tracking system to track sexual assault kit evidence that is collected as prescribed in section 13-1426. A medical provider, law enforcement agency, public accredited crime laboratory or other person or entity that h…

The anti-human trafficking grant fund is established consisting of monies appropriated by the legislature. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated. The department shall administer the fund and distribute monies from the fund to programs to reduce human trafficking in thi…

B. The training program shall include all of the following: 1. How to identify different tactics of transnational repression in physical and nonphysical forms. 2. Information on the governments that are known to employ transnational repression, including those governments that us…

A. The department shall maintain a division known as the Arizona highway patrol. B. The division shall be composed of a patrol superintendent, patrolmen, and clerical and technical assistants as designated by the director. C. The patrol superintendent and patrolmen are vested wit…

A. The highway patrol division superintendent may: 1. Adopt rules and regulations governing the policy, procedure and administration of all activities of the patrol. 2. Provide for training the patrolmen. 3. Cause signs to be erected and maintained as are necessary to give notice…

The highway patrol shall patrol the highways of the state, both day and night, and enforce the laws of the state. The highway patrol shall also investigate accidents which occur upon the highways, procure the names of drivers and descriptions and license numbers of the motor vehi…

A. When the governor proclaims an emergency wherein he deems it necessary to protect life or property, he may order the Arizona highway patrol to provide whatever specific emergency services are necessary. The order directing the superintendent and the Arizona highway patrol shal…

A. The communications section may install and operate all means of communications, including a police radio broadcasting system, which shall be best suited for the dissemination of information with regard to the apprehension of violators of the law and for the coordination of the…

A. The department is responsible for the effective operation of the central state repository in order to collect, store and disseminate complete and accurate Arizona criminal history records and related criminal justice information. The department may procure criminal history rec…

The contracting parties solemnly agree that: 1. This compact organizes an electronic information sharing system among the states and the federal government to exchange criminal history records for a variety of legally authorized noncriminal justice purposes, including background …

Every magistrate, or judge of a court, or clerk of a court of record who is responsible for court records in this state shall furnish to the department information pertaining to all court dispositions of felonies and misdemeanors, except traffic arrests, where incarceration or fi…

A. The Arizona highway patrol fund is established. B. The Arizona highway patrol fund consists of: 1. Monies distributed to the fund from the Arizona highway user revenue fund by the legislature subject to section 28-6537. 2. Miscellaneous service fees. 3. Rewards. 4. Awards. 5. …

There shall not be more than one highway patrol officer for each two thousand five hundred motor vehicles or fraction of that number of motor vehicles registered in this state during the preceding calendar year.

A person is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor who either: 1. Without authority, wears the badge of a member of the highway patrol or department of public safety or a badge of similar design that would tend to deceive. 2. Impersonates a member of the highway patrol or department of …

The director of the department of public safety shall provide transportation, security and protection for the governor and security and protection for the governor's family to the extent and in the manner the director of the department of public safety and the governor deem appro…

A. Except as provided by section 41-1750, a person commits unauthorized access to criminal history if the person intentionally, knowingly or recklessly does any of the following: 1. Permits unauthorized access to the Arizona criminal justice information system or to criminal hist…

In this article, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Agency" means the supreme court, the department of economic security, the department of child safety, the department of education, the department of health services, the department of juvenile corrections, the department…

A. The fingerprinting division is established in the department of public safety and shall: 1. Conduct fingerprint background checks for persons and applicants who are seeking licenses from state agencies, employment with licensees, contract providers and state agencies or employ…

A. The person, provider or agency shall submit a full set of fingerprints to the division for the purpose of obtaining a state and federal criminal history records check pursuant to section 41-1750 and Public Law 92-544. If the person can present a valid fingerprint clearance car…

A. On receiving the state and federal criminal history record of a person, the division shall compare the record with the list of criminal offenses that preclude the person from receiving a fingerprint clearance card. If the person's criminal history record does not contain any o…

A. The division shall deny the issuance of a fingerprint clearance card to any person who is awaiting trial on or who has been convicted of an offense listed in section 41-1758.03, subsection B or C or section 41-1758.07, subsection B or C. The division shall deny the issuance of…

A person who knowingly falsifies a material fact or who makes or uses a false fingerprint clearance card knowing the false fingerprint clearance card contains a false, fictitious or fraudulent statement is guilty of a class 3 misdemeanor.