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12-13-107. Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police — Duties generally.
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12-13-107. Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police — Duties generally.
(a) It shall be the duty of the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police and his or her officers and deputies to enforce all laws and ordinances with regard to the following:
(1) The prevention of fires;
(2) The storage, sale, and use of combustibles and explosives;
(3) The installation and maintenance of automatic or other fire alarm systems and fire extinguishing equipment;
(4) The construction, maintenance, and regulation of fire escapes;
(5) The means and adequacy of exits in case of fire from factories, asylums, hospitals, churches, schools, halls, theaters, and all other places in which numbers of people work, live, or congregate from time to time, for any purpose; and
(6) The suppression of arson and the investigation of the cause, origin, and circumstances of fires.
(b) The director is empowered to adopt reasonable rules for the effective administration of this subchapter to accomplish its intent and purposes, and to safeguard the public from fire hazards.
(c) The director shall make reasonable rules for the keeping, storing, using, manufacture, selling, handling, transportation, or other disposition of highly inflammable materials and rubbish, gunpowder, dynamite, crude petroleum or any of its products, explosives or compounds or any other explosive, including fireworks, and firecrackers, and he or she may prescribe the materials and construction of receptacles and buildings to be used for any of those purposes.
(d) Nothing in this subchapter shall apply to the inspection of boilers, § 20-23-101 et seq., the administration and enforcement of which is now vested in the Division of Labor.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-13-107
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12-13-107. Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police — Duties generally.
(a) It shall be the duty of the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police and his or her officers and deputies to enforce all laws and ordinances with regard to the following:
(1) The prevention of fires;
(2) The storage, sale, and use of combustibles and explosives;
(3) The installation and maintenance of automatic or other fire alarm systems and fire extinguishing equipment;
(4) The construction, maintenance, and regulation of fire escapes;
(5) The means and adequacy of exits in case of fire from factories, asylums, hospitals, churches, schools, halls, theaters, and all other places in which numbers of people work, live, or congregate from time to time, for any purpose; and
(6) The suppression of arson and the investigation of the cause, origin, and circumstances of fires.
(b) The director is empowered to adopt reasonable rules for the effective administration of this subchapter to accomplish its intent and purposes, and to safeguard the public from fire hazards.
(c) The director shall make reasonable rules for the keeping, storing, using, manufacture, selling, handling, transportation, or other disposition of highly inflammable materials and rubbish, gunpowder, dynamite, crude petroleum or any of its products, explosives or compounds or any other explosive, including fireworks, and firecrackers, and he or she may prescribe the materials and construction of receptacles and buildings to be used for any of those purposes.
(d) Nothing in this subchapter shall apply to the inspection of boilers, § 20-23-101 et seq., the administration and enforcement of which is now vested in the Division of Labor.
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20-23-101. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Boiler” or “boilers” means any boiler or like vessel or container in which water is heated or steam is generated by the application of heat and includes:
(A) Steam boilers that generate steam under pressure and include:
(i) High pressure steam boilers that generate steam under pressure more than fifteen pounds per square inch gauge (15 psig); and
(ii) Low pressure steam heating boilers that generate steam at fifteen pounds per square inch gauge (15 psig) or less for heating purposes;
(B) Hot water heating boilers that heat water for the external use of heating any area or building; and
(C) Hot water heaters that are used for heating water for external use;
(2) “Horsepower” means the evaporation of thirty-four and five-tenths pounds (34.5 lbs.) of water from a temperature of two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit (212° F) into steam at two hundred twelve degrees Fahrenheit (212° F) at fourteen and seven-tenths pounds per square inch absolute (14.7 psia);
(3) “Internal” and “external” inspection means a thorough and proper inspection as provided for in the rules by the Boiler Inspection Division;
(4)(A) “Pressure piping” means power piping systems and their component parts within or forming a part of the pressure piping system connected to any boiler or unfired pressure vessel covered by the provisions of this chapter.
(B) This includes only boiler external piping for power boilers and high-temperature, high pressure water boilers in which:
(i) Steam or vapor is generated at a pressure of more than fifteen pounds per square inch gauge (15 psig); and
(ii) High-temperature water is generated at pressures exceeding one hundred sixty pounds per square inch gauge (160 psig) and temperatures exceeding
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-23-101
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 20-23-101. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.