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20-22-1006. Arkansas Fire Protection Services Resources Plan.
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20-22-1006. Arkansas Fire Protection Services Resources Plan.
(a) The Office of Fire Protection Services shall facilitate and coordinate, with the cooperation and assistance of the fire services agencies listed in § 20-22-1004(c), the development and formulation of a comprehensive program for the orderly coordination, cooperation, and development of resources of the State of Arkansas and its local governments, to be referred to as the “Arkansas Fire Protection Services Resources Plan”. The plan shall include plans:
(1) For providing fire services in the various rural areas of this state which do not have available the benefits or services of an organized or voluntary firefighting program;
(2) For updating and improving fire services in urban, suburban, and rural areas which have fire services but which need improvements and for assisting existing organized or volunteer firefighting services in making those improvements;
(3) On the type, needs, and means to procure firefighting vehicles and equipment for fire services agencies of local governments;
(4) On developing training programs designed to instruct and train firefighters at the Arkansas Fire Training Academy to be employed or used by both urban and rural organized and volunteer fire services agencies;
(5) To coordinate the efforts of all state and local government fire services agencies for the purpose of making maximum use of the services and resources for the prevention and mitigation of injury and damage caused by fire and other hazards;
(6) To measure the prompt and effective response to fires and other hazards and disasters;
(7) To identify areas particularly vulnerable to fire and hazards and other disasters; and
(8) To make recommendations for improvements in the firefighting, prevention, t
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-22-1006
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20-22-1006. Arkansas Fire Protection Services Resources Plan.
(a) The Office of Fire Protection Services shall facilitate and coordinate, with the cooperation and assistance of the fire services agencies listed in § 20-22-1004(c), the development and formulation of a comprehensive program for the orderly coordination, cooperation, and development of resources of the State of Arkansas and its local governments, to be referred to as the “Arkansas Fire Protection Services Resources Plan”. The plan shall include plans:
(1) For providing fire services in the various rural areas of this state which do not have available the benefits or services of an organized or voluntary firefighting program;
(2) For updating and improving fire services in urban, suburban, and rural areas which have fire services but which need improvements and for assisting existing organized or volunteer firefighting services in making those improvements;
(3) On the type, needs, and means to procure firefighting vehicles and equipment for fire services agencies of local governments;
(4) On developing training programs designed to instruct and train firefighters at the Arkansas Fire Training Academy to be employed or used by both urban and rural organized and volunteer fire services agencies;
(5) To coordinate the efforts of all state and local government fire services agencies for the purpose of making maximum use of the services and resources for the prevention and mitigation of injury and damage caused by fire and other hazards;
(6) To measure the prompt and effective response to fires and other hazards and disasters;
(7) To identify areas particularly vulnerable to fire and hazards and other disasters; and
(8) To make recommendations for improvements in the firefighting, prevention, training, mitigation, and adjunct services for state and local fire services agencies.
(b) In coordinating the preparation and revision of the plan, the office shall seek the advice and assistance of and cooperate with state agencies, including the State Fire Marshal, the Arkansas Fire Training Academy, and the Rural Fire Protection Service, with all fire services agencies of local governments, with business, labor, industry, agriculture, civic and volunteer organizations, and with community leaders.
(c) The plan or any part thereof may be incorporated into rules of the office, the Division of Emergency Management, or executive orders which have the force and effect of law.
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20-22-1004. Office of Fire Protection Services.
(a) The Office of Fire Protection Services shall have the following duties and functions:
(1) To be responsible for carrying out the administrative functions and directives of the Arkansas Fire Protection Services Board and for managing those activities prescribed for the board under § 14-284-401 et seq.;
(2) To act as coordinator of the activities for the programs and functions prescribed under this subchapter;
(3) To act as the point of contact for the State of Arkansas concerning federal, state, and local fire services-related programs;
(4) To advise and direct the designation of fire services liaisons within each affected state department or agency and each local government;
(5) To prepare, publish, and keep current a listing of the various fire services agencies of the state and its local governments and the firefighting, prevention, training, mitigation, and adjunct services they are trained and equipped to perform; and
(6) To facilitate and coordinate the preparation, formulation, and development of the Arkansas Fire Protection Services Resources Plan, a comprehensive plan for the orderly coordination, cooperation, and development of fire services resources of the State of Arkansas and its local governments.
(b)(1) The office shall have those professional, technical, secretarial, and administrative employees as may be necessary to carry out the functions of this subchapter.
(2) The office may make the expenditures within the appropriation therefor made available to it from whatever sources for the purpose of fire services coordination as may be necessary to carry out the functions of this subchapter.
(c) The office shall coordinate the activities prescribed under this subchapter and shall coopera
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-22-1004
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 20-22-1004. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.