Arkansas Code Title 12, Subtitle 2, Chapter 10, Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Public Safety Communications Act of 1985

• § 12-10-301 - Title.
  This subchapter may be cited as the "Arkansas Public Safety Communications Act of 1985".
• § 12-10-302 - Legislative Findings, Policy, and Purpose.
  (a) It has been determined to be in the public interest to shorten the time and simplify the method required for a citizen to...
• § 12-10-303 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Automatic location identification" means an enhanced 911 service capability that enables the automatic display of information defining the...
• § 12-10-304 - 911 Communications Centers -- Creation.
  (a) The chief executive of each political subdivision shall determine if a 911 public safety communications center should be created and, if such a...
• § 12-10-305 - Multiagency and Multijurisdictional Answering Points or Centers.
  (a) (1) The chief executive of the political subdivision may designate the 911 public safety communications center of another political subdivision either to serve...
• § 12-10-306 - Public Safety Communications Personnel.
  (a) The staff and supervisors of the 911 public safety communications center and systems shall be: (1) Paid employees, either sworn officers or civilians,...
• § 12-10-307 - Transmission of Requests.
  Each 911 public safety communications center shall be capable of transmitting requests for law enforcement, firefighting, disaster, or major emergency response, emergency medical or...
• § 12-10-308 - Response to Requests for Emergency Response Outside Jurisdiction.
  (a) A 911 public safety communications center which receives a request for emergency response outside its jurisdiction shall promptly forward the request to the...
• § 12-10-309 - Requests From the Hearing and Speech Impaired.
  Each 911 public safety communications center shall be equipped with a system for the processing of requests from the hearing and speech impaired for...
• § 12-10-310 - Records of Calls.
  (a) The 911 public safety communication center shall develop and maintain a system for recording 911 calls received at the public safety answering point....
• § 12-10-311 - Methods of Response.
  The 911 public safety communication center shall operate utilizing at least one (1) of the following four (4) methods in response to emergency calls:...
• § 12-10-312 - Restricted Use of 911.
  The telephone number 911 is restricted to emergency calls that may result in dispatch of the appropriate response for fire suppression and rescue, emergency...
• § 12-10-313 - Nonemergency Telephone Number.
  (a) Each 911 public safety communication center will maintain a published nonemergency telephone number and nonemergency calls should be received on that number.(b) Transfers...
• § 12-10-314 - Connection of Network to Automatic Alarms, Etc., Prohibited.
  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...
• § 12-10-315 - False Alarm, Complaint, or Information -- Penalty.
  Any person calling the number 911 for the purpose of making a false alarm or complaint and reporting false information which could result in...
• § 12-10-316 - 911 Centers -- Access to Information.
  (a) A 911 public safety communications center designated by the chief executive of the political subdivision may be considered an element in the communications...
• § 12-10-317 - 911 Center -- Operation -- Rights, Duties, Liabilities, Etc., of Service Providers.
  (a) (1) Each service provider shall forward to any public safety answering point equipped for enhanced 911 service the telephone number and street address...
• § 12-10-318 - Emergency Telephone Service Charges -- Imposition -- Liability.
  (a) (1) (A) When so authorized by a majority of the persons voting within the political subdivision in accordance with the law, the governing...
• § 12-10-319 - Emergency Telephone Service Charges -- Reduction, Suspension, Etc.
  (a) (1) If the proceeds generated by an emergency telephone service charge exceed the amount of moneys necessary to fund the 911 telephone system...
• § 12-10-320 - Emergency Telephone Service Charges -- Duties, Rights, Liability, Etc., of Service Supplier.
  (a) The duty of the service supplier to collect any service charge shall commence upon the date of its implementation, which date shall be...
• § 12-10-321 - 911 Centers -- Bonds.
  (a) The governing authority of the political subdivision shall have power to incur debt and issue bonds for 911 systems and public safety communication...
• § 12-10-322 - 911 Centers -- Federal, State, Local, Etc., Funds.
  In order to provide additional funding for the 911 public safety communications center, the political subdivision may receive and appropriate any federal, state, county,...
• § 12-10-323 - Authorized Expenditures of Revenues.
  (a) (1) Any revenue generated under §§ 12-10-318 -- 12-10-321 may be expended only in direct connection with the provision of 911 services and...
• § 12-10-324 - Response to Call -- Entrance Procedures.
  When responding to a 911 emergency call received at a public safety answering point, public safety officers of public safety agencies may use reasonable...
• § 12-10-325 - Training Standards.
  (a) (1) A public safety agency, a public safety answering point, a dispatch center, or a 911 public safety communications center may provide training...
• § 12-10-326 - Prepaid Wireless E911 Service Charges.
  (a) As used in this section: (1) "Consumer" means a person who purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications service in a retail transaction; (2) "Occurring in...

Last modified: November 15, 2016