Arkansas Code
Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Public Safety Communications and Next Generation 911 Act of 2019
§ 12-10-308. Response to requests for emergency response inside and outside jurisdiction

(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 available to the political subdivision in the public safety answering point's jurisdiction.
(b) A public safety answering point or dispatch center, or both, which receives a request for emergency response outside its jurisdiction shall promptly forward the request to the public safety answering point or public safety agency responsible for that geographical area.
(c) Any emergency unit dispatched to a location outside its jurisdiction in response to such a request shall render service to the requesting party until relieved by the public safety agency responsible for that geographical area.
(d) Political subdivisions may enter into mutual aid agreements to carry out the provisions of this section.

Structure Arkansas Code

Arkansas Code

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

Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs

Chapter 10 - Communications Systems

Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Public Safety Communications and Next Generation 911 Act of 2019

§ 12-10-301. Title

§ 12-10-302. Legislative findings, policy, and purpose

§ 12-10-303. Definitions

§ 12-10-304. Public safety answering points

§ 12-10-305. Arkansas 911 Board

§ 12-10-306. Communications personnel

§ 12-10-308. Response to requests for emergency response inside and outside jurisdiction

§ 12-10-309. Requests from the hearing and speech impaired

§ 12-10-310. Records of calls

§ 12-10-313. Restrictions and nonemergency telephone number

§ 12-10-314. Connection of network to automatic alarms, etc., prohibited

§ 12-10-316. Public safety answering points — Access to information

§ 12-10-317. Public safety answering point — Operation — Rights, duties, liabilities, etc., of service providers

§ 12-10-318. Emergency telephone service charges — Imposition — Liability — Public safety charge

§ 12-10-321. Public safety answering points — Bonds

§ 12-10-322. Direct access to 911 services required for multiline telephone systems

§ 12-10-323. Authorized expenditures of revenues

§ 12-10-324. Response to call — Entrance procedures

§ 12-10-325. Training standards

§ 12-10-326. Prepaid wireless public safety charge — Definitions

§ 12-10-327. Restriction on creation of public safety answering point

§ 12-10-328. 911 addressing authority — Data maintenance