Arkansas Code Title 12, Subtitle 5, Chapter 75, Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
- § 12-75-101 - Title.
This chapter may be cited as the Arkansas Emergency Services Act of 1973.
- § 12-75-102 - Policy and Purposes.
(a) Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence of a major emergency or a disaster of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting...
- § 12-75-103 - Definitions.
As used in this chapter: (1) "Chief executive" means a head of government, the Governor, a county judge, and a mayor or city manager...
- § 12-75-104 - Scope of Chapter -- Limitations.
Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to: (1) Interfere with the course or conduct of a labor dispute, except that actions otherwise authorized...
- § 12-75-105 - [Repealed.]
- § 12-75-106 - Enforcement.
(a) Each state office of emergency management and local office of emergency management and the officers of each state office of emergency management and...
- § 12-75-107 - Declaration of Disaster Emergencies.
(a) (1) A disaster emergency shall be declared by executive order or proclamation of the Governor if he or she finds a disaster has...
- § 12-75-108 - Local Disaster Emergencies -- Declaration.
(a) (1) A local disaster emergency may be declared only by the chief executive or his or her designee of a political subdivision. (2)...
- § 12-75-109 - Arkansas Department of Emergency Management -- Establishment -- Personnel.
(a) The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management is established as a public safety agency of the State of Arkansas.(b) The Arkansas Department of Emergency...
- § 12-75-110 - Arkansas Department of Emergency Management -- State Emergency Operations Plan.
(a) The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management shall coordinate and maintain a state emergency operations plan and keep it current, which plan may include:...
- § 12-75-111 - Arkansas Department of Emergency Management -- Other Powers and Duties.
(a) The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management shall, with the assistance and cooperation of other state and local government agencies: (1) Determine requirements of...
- § 12-75-112 - Communications Networks.
(a) The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management shall operate and maintain information systems which will make available both voice and data links with federal...
- § 12-75-113 - Emergency Response Vehicles.
(a) Due to the time-critical nature of response to the scene of a disaster or major emergency occurrence, the Director of the Arkansas Department...
- § 12-75-114 - Governor -- Disaster Emergency Responsibilities.
(a) The Governor is responsible for meeting and mitigating, to the maximum extent possible, dangers to the people and property of the state presented...
- § 12-75-115 - Disaster Prevention Generally.
(a) (1) In addition to disaster prevention measures as included in the state, local, and interjurisdictional emergency operations plans, the Governor shall consider on...
- § 12-75-116 - State and Local Governmental Entities -- Liaison Officers.
(a) (1) It is the policy of this chapter that each department, commission, agency, or institution of state and local government actively and aggressively...
- § 12-75-117 - Interjurisdictional Disaster Planning and Service Areas.
(a) (1) (A) By executive order, the Governor may combine two (2) or more established local offices of emergency management as an interjurisdictional office...
- § 12-75-118 - Local and Interjurisdictional Offices of Emergency Management and Services.
(a) (1) Each political subdivision within this state shall be within the jurisdiction of and served by the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management and...
- § 12-75-119 - Statewide Mutual Aid System.
(a) (1) All emergency jurisdictions shall participate in the statewide mutual aid system, except as provided in subdivision (a)(2) of this section. (2) (A)...
- § 12-75-120 - [Repealed.]
- § 12-75-121 - Utilization of Existing Services and Facilities.
(a) In carrying out the provisions of this chapter, the Governor and the chief executives or designees of the political subdivisions of the state...
- § 12-75-122 - Political Activity Prohibited.
An emergency management organization established under the authority of this chapter shall not: (1) Participate in any form of political activity; or (2) Be...
- § 12-75-123 - Appropriations and Authority to Accept Services, Gifts, Grants, and Loans.
(a) Each political subdivision may make appropriations in the manner provided by law for making appropriations for the ordinary expenses of such political subdivision...
- § 12-75-124 - Compensation for Services and Property.
(a) (1) Each person within this state shall conduct himself or herself and keep and manage his or her affairs and property in ways...
- § 12-75-125 - Donation of Property or Equipment -- Immunity.
(a) Any person owning or controlling real estate or other premises who voluntarily and with or without compensation grants a license or privilege, or...
- § 12-75-126 - Public Safety Officers.
(a) No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in any emergency management organization established under this chapter who: (1) Advocates or...
- § 12-75-127 - [Repealed.]
- § 12-75-128 - Emergency Responders -- Immunities and Exemptions.
(a) All functions under this chapter and all other activities relating to emergency management are declared to be governmental functions.(b) No emergency responder, except...
- § 12-75-129 - Emergency Responders -- Workers' Compensation Benefits.
(a) (1) A person appointed and regularly enrolled in an accredited emergency management organization and covered by this chapter is limited to the Workers'...
- § 12-75-130 - Call-Up of Retired Law Enforcement Officers.
(a) In emergency situations the Governor, county sheriff, or municipal police chief may authorize and request retired law enforcement officers, including game wardens, to...
- § 12-75-131 - Disaster Relief Pay.
(a) (1) The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management is authorized to provide special compensation to certain employees for each full pay period of eighty...
- § 12-75-132 - Arkansas Homeland Security Advisory Group -- Created.
(a) There is created an advisory body to the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, to be known as the "Arkansas Homeland Security Advisory Group".(b)...
- § 12-75-133 - Position Transfer.
Upon approval of the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State, the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management may transfer positions between appropriations as may be...
Last modified: November 15, 2016