Title 12, Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs

(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…

(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)…

(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…

(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.

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Public Safety Communications and Next Generation 911 Act of 2019”.

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

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.

(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…

(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…

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 …

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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 …

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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…

(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:…

(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…

(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…