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Subchapter 2 - State Fire Prevention Commission
§ 20-22-201. Legislative findings - The General Assembly finds and declares that: (1) A significant...
§ 20-22-202. State Fire Prevention Commission established — Members - (a) (1) The State Fire Prevention Commission shall be composed...
§ 20-22-203. Staff, offices, and supplies provided - The Department of Public Safety shall provide staff, office space...
§ 20-22-204. Powers and duties - (a) The State Fire Prevention Commission may: (1) (A) Obtain...
§ 20-22-205. Cooperation by other agencies - All other state agencies shall cooperate and coordinate with the...
Subchapter 3 - Open-Air Fires
§ 20-22-301. Enforcement — Nonliability - (a) The Arkansas Forestry Commission shall designate those employees who...
§ 20-22-302. Notice to Arkansas Forestry Commission of intent to burn forest vegetation - (a) (1) Any person in this state who desires to...
§ 20-22-303. Public nuisance — Duty to extinguish - (a) Any fire on any forested, cut-over, brushlands, or grasslands...
§ 20-22-304. Civil action for damages - (a) Persons, firms, or corporations starting or being responsible for...
§ 20-22-305. No bond for costs of prosecution required - No bond for costs shall be required in any courts...
§ 20-22-306. Conviction as prima facie evidence in civil action - Conviction for violation of § 5-38-310 or any part of...
Subchapter 4 - Long-Term Care Facilities
§ 20-22-401. Legislative findings - The General Assembly finds that it is desirable that every...
§ 20-22-402. Maintenance of sensor devices - The smoke or particle sensor devices required to be installed...
§ 20-22-403. Reimbursement - (a) Licensed long-term care facilities participating in the Title XIX...
§ 20-22-404. Rules adopted by Office of Long-Term Care - The Office of Long-Term Care of the appropriate division as...
Subchapter 5 - Multiple-Occupancy Facilities
§ 20-22-501. Applicability - (a) Every person, firm, partnership, copartnership, association, corporation, or other...
§ 20-22-502. Penalties - (a) (1) Every person operating any hotel, motel, apartment building,...
§ 20-22-503. Enforcement of fire, police, and safety rules by employee - (a) Every person operating any hotel, motel, apartment building, or...
§ 20-22-504. Emergency lighting - (a) Any hotel, motel, apartment building, or other similar multiple-occupancy...
§ 20-22-505. Fire escapes - Every hotel, motel, apartment building, or other similar multiple-occupancy facility...
§ 20-22-506. Fire alarms - (a) Every hotel, motel, apartment building, or other similar multiple-occupancy...
§ 20-22-507. Posting of subchapter - A copy of this subchapter shall be posted in each...
Subchapter 6 - Fire Extinguishers
§ 20-22-601. Legislative intent - It is the purpose and intent of this subchapter to...
§ 20-22-602. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Apprentice” means a qualified...
§ 20-22-603. Exceptions - The provisions of this subchapter do not apply to the...
§ 20-22-604. Penalties - (a) The Arkansas Fire Protection Licensing Board, in a lawful...
§ 20-22-605. Report and investigation of violations - (a) The Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing Boards and...
§ 20-22-606. Arkansas Fire Protection Licensing Board — Creation — Members - (a) (1) There is created the Arkansas Fire Protection Licensing...
§ 20-22-607. Arkansas Fire Protection Licensing Board — Powers and duties - The Arkansas Fire Protection Licensing Board shall: (1) Formulate and...
§ 20-22-608. State Fire Marshal — Powers and duties - The State Fire Marshal shall advise and assist the Arkansas...
§ 20-22-609. License, permit, or certificate required — Compliance with subchapter — Penalties - Except as provided in §§ 20-22-603 and 20-22-613, no person...
§ 20-22-610. License, permit, or certificate — Application — Fees - (a) Applications for licenses, permits, and certificates provided for in...
§ 20-22-611. License, permit, or certificate — Qualifications - (a) For a license to install or service portable fire...
§ 20-22-612. License, permit, or certificate — Previously engaged persons - Notwithstanding the provisions of this subchapter, if any person or...
§ 20-22-613. Actions - (a) No portable fire extinguisher or fixed fire protection system...
Subchapter 7 - Fireworks
§ 20-22-701. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Distributor” means any person...
§ 20-22-702. Public displays excepted - (a) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as applying...
§ 20-22-703. Other exceptions - (a) (1) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as...
§ 20-22-704. Power of municipalities unaffected - This subchapter shall not affect the power of any municipality...
§ 20-22-705. Violation of subchapter — Penalties - Any person violating any of the provisions of this subchapter,...
§ 20-22-706. License required — Penalty - (a) No person shall do any act for which a...
§ 20-22-707. License — Application and issuance - (a) (1) (A) To be licensed as a manufacturer, importer,...
§ 20-22-708. Possession, sale, and use unlawful — Exceptions - (a) It shall be unlawful for any person to possess,...
§ 20-22-709. Labeling - (a) No permissible articles of common fireworks defined in §...
§ 20-22-710. Location, display, sale, etc - (a) The placing, storing, locating, or displaying of fireworks in...
§ 20-22-711. Times of permissible sales - (a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (a)(2) of this...
§ 20-22-712. Sales to certain people prohibited - It shall be unlawful to offer for retail sale or...
§ 20-22-713. Place of explosion or ignition - (a) It shall be unlawful to explode or ignite fireworks...
§ 20-22-714. Seizure of contraband fireworks - (a) The Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police...
§ 20-22-715. Notice of violation — Hearing - (a) With reference to the administrative and civil penalties imposed...
§ 20-22-716. License limitations - (a) An importer license does not authorize a person to...
§ 20-22-717. Sale or use of sky lanterns — Definition - (a) As used in this section, “sky lantern” means an...
Subchapter 8 - Fire Protection Services
§ 20-22-801. Legislative findings - It is found and determined by the General Assembly that...
§ 20-22-802. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) [Repealed.] (2) “Certified fire...
§ 20-22-803. Arkansas Fire Protection Services Board — Creation — Membership - (a) (1) There is created the Arkansas Fire Protection Services...
§ 20-22-804. Arkansas Fire Protection Services Board — Duties and powers - (a) The Arkansas Fire Protection Services Board shall: (1) Prescribe...
§ 20-22-805. Office of Fire Protection Services — Creation - (a) There is created the Office of Fire Protection Services...
§ 20-22-806. Certification and classification of fire departments - (a) Fire departments in this state may apply for annual...
§ 20-22-807. Authority of certified fire departments - Certified fire departments and their firefighters shall have the authority...
§ 20-22-808. Limited immunity of certified fire departments - (a) Any certified fire department that does not have tort...
§ 20-22-809. Workers' compensation - (a) For the purpose of workers' compensation coverage in cases...
§ 20-22-810. Legislative purpose and intent - (a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) The specialized and...
§ 20-22-811. Training requirements - (a) (1) After January 1, 2004, no person shall be...
Subchapter 9 - Volunteer Fire Departments
§ 20-22-901. Duty to respond to fires - (a) (1) (A) Upon receipt of a report of an...
§ 20-22-902. Fire on nonmember's property — Reimbursement from insurance proceeds - When a volunteer fire department responds to a fire occurring...
§ 20-22-903. Authority of Arkansas Forestry Commission not affected - This subchapter and § 23-88-102 shall in no way modify...
§ 20-22-904. Lien on uninsured nonmember's property - (a) If the property which is the subject of the...
§ 20-22-905. Filing and enforcement of lien - (a) The volunteer fire department shall give ten (10) days'...
§ 20-22-906. Attorney's fee - When any volunteer fire department gives notice to the nonmember...
Subchapter 10 - Arkansas Comprehensive Fire Protection Act of 1993
§ 20-22-1001. Title - This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Comprehensive Fire...
§ 20-22-1002. Policy and purpose - Because of the existing and increasing occurrence of fires that...
§ 20-22-1003. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Adjunct services” refers to...
§ 20-22-1004. Office of Fire Protection Services - (a) The Office of Fire Protection Services shall have the...
§ 20-22-1006. Arkansas Fire Protection Services Resources Plan - (a) The Office of Fire Protection Services shall facilitate and...
§ 20-22-1007. State and local government agencies — Liaison officers - (a) It is directed by this subchapter that the head...
§ 20-22-1008. Utilization of existing services and facilities - All fire services agencies of the state, including the State...