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 when:
(1) The dwelling or structure is believed to be the geographical location of the telephone used to place the 911 emergency call as determined by an automatic locator or number identifier; and
(2) Only after reasonable efforts have been made to arouse and alert any inhabitants or occupants of their presence and the officers have reason to believe that circumstances exist which pose a clear threat to the health of any person or they have reason to believe there may be a person in need of emergency medical attention present in the dwelling or structure who is unable to respond to their efforts.
Structure 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
§ 12-10-302. Legislative findings, policy, and purpose
§ 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
§ 12-10-313. 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
§ 12-10-318. 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