Title 12 — Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
49 chapters · 1,343 sections in this title.
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-201 Definitions
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(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Assigned county frequency” means a frequency assigned to a specific county sheriff's office for carrying on day-to-day operations within the county. This frequency is allocated for use by the specific county-based stations and mobile units whic…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-202 Transmissions by unauthorized persons — Penalty
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(a) It shall be unlawful to transmit over a frequency assigned to a law enforcement agency or department unless it has been approved by the agency or department head or his or her designee. (b) Violation of this or any other portion of this subchapter shall constitute a Class A m…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-203 Policy committee
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(a) A seven-member policy committee composed of two (2) representatives each from the Arkansas Sheriffs' Association, the Arkansas Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Arkansas Law Enforcement Officers Association and one (1) representative from the Division of Arkansas State…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-204 Special conditions for use of statewide emergency frequency
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(1) The following constitute conditions whereby the emergency frequency can be used if assistance from other counties or the Department of Arkansas State Police is needed:(1) A potential life or death situation such as:(A) A serious traffic accident involving personal injury;(B) …
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-205 Frequency allocation
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(a) The assigned county operating frequency will be used for:(1) Base-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile unit transmissions within each county;(2) Base-to-base radio transmissions within those counties which have more than one (1) base station operating on the county frequency;(3) Em…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-206 Assigned county operating frequency
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(1) The following counties shall be assigned the following frequencies:(1) Thirty-seven and four hundredths megahertz (37.04 MHz): Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Faulkner, Fulton, Little River, Monroe, Newton, Poinsett, and Scott;(2) Thirty-seven and six hundredths megahertz (37.06 MHz)…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-207 Interfacing the Department of Arkansas State Police Communications System
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(1) In order to interface the separate Department of Arkansas State Police communications system with that of the statewide law enforcement communications system:(1) All municipal and county law enforcement agencies should install receivers on the frequency of the district of the…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-208 Official transmissions only
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(a) All radio transmissions should be used for conducting official law enforcement business only and should be as clear and concise as possible. (b) Standard “ten signals” and the phonetic alphabet are recommended for use by all participating agencies.
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-301 Title
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This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Public Safety Communications and Next Generation 911 Act of 2019”.
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-302 Legislative findings, policy, and purpose
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(a) It has been determined to be in the public interest to shorten the time and simplify the method required for a citizen to request and receive emergency aid. (b) The provision of a single, primary three-digit emergency number through which fire suppression, rescue, disaster an…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-303 Definitions
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(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Access line” means a communications line or device that has the capacity to access the public switched network;(2) “Automatic location identification” means an enhanced 911 service capability that enables the automatic display of information de…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-304 Public safety answering points
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(a) (1) The chief executive of a political subdivision may:(A) Designate the public safety answering point of another political subdivision to serve his or her political subdivision as a public safety answering point only; or(B) Retain a dispatch center to serve both public safet…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-305 Arkansas 911 Board
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(a) (1) There is created the Arkansas 911 Board to consist of the following members:(A) The Director of the Division of Emergency Management or his or her designee;(B) The Auditor of State or his or her designee;(C) The State Geographic Information Officer of the Arkansas Geograp…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-306 Communications personnel
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(1) The staff and supervisors of a public safety answering point or dispatch center shall be:(1) (A) Paid employees, either sworn officers or civilians, of the operating agency designated by the chief executive of the political subdivisions.(B) Personnel other than law enforcemen…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-307 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 12-10-307Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-308 Response to requests for emergency response inside and outside jurisdiction
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(a) A public safety answering point shall be capable of transmitting requests for law enforcement, firefighting, disaster, or major emergency response, emergency medical or ambulance services, or other emergency services to a public or private agency where the services are availa…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-309 Requests from the hearing and speech impaired
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Each public safety answering point or dispatch center shall be equipped with a system for the processing of requests from the hearing and speech impaired for emergency response.
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-310 Records of calls
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(a) The public safety answering point shall develop and maintain a system for recording 911 calls received at the public safety answering point. (b) A dispatch center shall develop and maintain a system that has been approved by the Arkansas 911 Board for recording 911 calls tran…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-313 Restrictions and nonemergency telephone number
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(a) The telephone number 911 is restricted to emergency calls that may result in dispatch of the appropriate response service for fire suppression and rescue, emergency medical services or ambulance, hazardous material incidents, disaster or major emergency occurrences, and law e…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-314 Connection of network to automatic alarms, etc., prohibited
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No person shall connect to a service supplier's network any automatic alarm or other automatic alerting devices which cause the number 911 to be automatically dialed and provide a prerecorded message in order to directly access the services which may be obtained through a public …
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-315 [Repealed.]
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A.C.A. § 12-10-315Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-316 Public safety answering points — Access to information
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(a) A public safety answering point and dispatch center designated by the chief executive of the political subdivision may be considered an element in the communications network connecting state, county, and local authorities to a centralized state depository of information in or…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-317 Public safety answering point — Operation — Rights, duties, liabilities, etc., of service providers
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(a) (1) Each service provider shall forward to any public safety answering point equipped for enhanced 911 service the telephone number and street address of any telephone used to place a 911 call.(2) Subscriber information provided in accordance with this subsection shall be use…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-318 Emergency telephone service charges — Imposition — Liability — Public safety charge
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(a) (1) (A) When so authorized by a majority of the persons voting within the political subdivision in accordance with the law, the governing authority of each political subdivision may levy an emergency telephone service charge in the amount assessed by the political subdivision…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-321 Public safety answering points — Bonds
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(a) The governing authority of the political subdivision shall have power to incur debt and issue bonds with approval from the Arkansas 911 Board for 911 systems and public safety answering point implementation and future major capital items. (b) The bonds shall be negotiable ins…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-322 Direct access to 911 services required for multiline telephone systems
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(a) A covered multiline telephone system shall allow, as a default setting, any station equipped with dialing facilities to directly initiate a 911 call without requiring a user to dial any other digit, code, prefix, suffix, or trunk access code. (b) A business service user that …
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-323 Authorized expenditures of revenues
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(a) (1) Revenue generated under §§ 12-10-318 and 12-10-326 and transferred from the former Arkansas Emergency Telephone Services Board or the Arkansas Public Safety Trust Fund to the Arkansas 911 Board shall be used only for reasonably necessary costs that enhance, operate, and m…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-324 Response to call — Entrance procedures
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(1) When responding to a 911 emergency call received at a public safety answering point, public safety officers of public safety agencies may use reasonable and necessary means to enter any dwelling, dwelling unit, or other structure without the express permission of the owner wh…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-325 Training standards
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(a) (1) A public safety agency, a public safety answering point, or a dispatch center may provide training opportunities for public safety answering point and dispatch center personnel through the Division of Law Enforcement Standards and Training and the Arkansas Law Enforcement…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-326 Prepaid wireless public safety charge — Definitions
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(a) As used in this section:(1) “Consumer” means a person who purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications service in a retail transaction;(2) “Occurring in this state” means a retail transaction that is:(A) Conducted in person by a consumer at a business location of a seller in…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-327 Restriction on creation of public safety answering point
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(1) A new public safety answering point shall not be established unless the new public safety answering point is established as a result of:(1) Consolidation with an existing public safety answering point; or(2) Replacement of an existing public safety answering point. (1) Consol…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-328 911 addressing authority — Data maintenance
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(a) A chief executive shall designate a 911 addressing authority that shall create and maintain street centerline and address point data in a geographic information system format. (b) The street centerline and address point data created under subsection (a) of this section shall:…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-329 Fire protection district map — Information maintenance
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(a) Each fire protection district shall maintain an accurate fire protection district map that is certified by the:(1) Mayor or other qualified representative of the city or town in which the fire protection district is located; or(2) County judge or county fire coordinator of th…
Ark. Code Ann. § 12-10-330 Telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation — Definition — Rules
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(a) As used in this section, “telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation” means the delivery of compression or ventilation instructions to callers who are reporting suspected cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. (b) The staff and supervisors of a public safety answering point or…