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21-5-701. Definitions.
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21-5-701. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Child” or “children” means any natural child, adopted child, or stepchild who is eligible under § 21-5-707;
(2) “Coroner” means a coroner or a deputy coroner who is engaged in official duty at a crime scene or death location;
(3) “Covered public employee” means a police officer, firefighter, state highway employee, state correction employee, Division of Community Correction employee, jailer, qualified emergency services worker, wildlife enforcement officer, emergency medical technician, Arkansas Forestry Commission employee, commissioned law enforcement personnel, member of the Arkansas National Guard on state active duty, or emergency response personnel of the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism;
(4) “Division of Community Correction employee” means any employee of the Division of Community Correction who is subject to injury through contact with parolees, probationers, or center residents;
(5) “Emergency medical technician” means emergency medical services personnel as defined in § 20-13-202;
(6) “Firefighter” means any member of a fire department or firefighting unit of any city of the first class or city of the second class, or any town, or any unincorporated rural area of this state who actively engages in the fighting of fires on either a regular or voluntary basis, or any instructor of the Arkansas Fire Training Academy, or any member of the firefighting organization of the Arkansas National Guard Robinson Maneuver Training Center or of the Arkansas National Guard Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center;
(7) “Jailer” means an employee of a city, town, or county who, while engaged in official duty as a detention or transport officer, is subject to injury through contact with inmates, detai
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-5-701
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21-5-701. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Child” or “children” means any natural child, adopted child, or stepchild who is eligible under § 21-5-707;
(2) “Coroner” means a coroner or a deputy coroner who is engaged in official duty at a crime scene or death location;
(3) “Covered public employee” means a police officer, firefighter, state highway employee, state correction employee, Division of Community Correction employee, jailer, qualified emergency services worker, wildlife enforcement officer, emergency medical technician, Arkansas Forestry Commission employee, commissioned law enforcement personnel, member of the Arkansas National Guard on state active duty, or emergency response personnel of the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism;
(4) “Division of Community Correction employee” means any employee of the Division of Community Correction who is subject to injury through contact with parolees, probationers, or center residents;
(5) “Emergency medical technician” means emergency medical services personnel as defined in § 20-13-202;
(6) “Firefighter” means any member of a fire department or firefighting unit of any city of the first class or city of the second class, or any town, or any unincorporated rural area of this state who actively engages in the fighting of fires on either a regular or voluntary basis, or any instructor of the Arkansas Fire Training Academy, or any member of the firefighting organization of the Arkansas National Guard Robinson Maneuver Training Center or of the Arkansas National Guard Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center;
(7) “Jailer” means an employee of a city, town, or county who, while engaged in official duty as a detention or transport officer, is subject to injury through contact with inmates, detainees, parolees, or probationers;
(8) “Police officer” means:
(A) Any law enforcement officer engaged in official duty who is a member of any regular or auxiliary police force on a full-time or part-time basis, the Division of Arkansas State Police, or any member of the law enforcement organization of the Arkansas National Guard Robinson Maneuver Training Center or of the Arkansas National Guard Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center;
(B) A sheriff or deputy sheriff of a county who is engaged in official duty; or
(C) A constable or night marshal of a town of this state engaged in official duty;
(9) “Qualified emergency services worker” means a state, local, volunteer, and other emergency responder as defined in § 12-75-103;
(10) “State correction employee” means an employee of the Division of Correction or the Corrections School System who is subject to injury through contact with inmates or parolees of the Division of Correction;
(11) “State highway employee” means an employee of the Arkansas Department of Transportation who is physically present on a roadway, bridge, or right-of-way of the state highway system or other public transportation facility and who is:
(A) Actively engaged in highway maintenance, construction, traffic operations, or the official duties of his or her employment; or
(B) Supervising, reviewing, evaluating, or inspecting highway maintenance, construction, or traffic operations; and
(12) “Wildlife enforcement officer” means an employee of the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission who actively engages, on a full-time or part-time basis, in the enforcement of the boating safety laws and regulations enacted for the protection of game, fish, furbearing animals, and other wildlife of the State of Arkansas.
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12-75-103. Definitions.
As used in this chapter:
(1) “Chief executive” means a head of government, the Governor, a county judge, and a mayor or city manager of incorporated places, dependent on the form and level of government;
(2) “Disaster” means any tornado, storm, flood, high water, earthquake, drought, fire, radiological incident, air or surface-borne toxic or other hazardous material contamination, or other catastrophe, whether caused by natural forces, enemy attack, or any other means which:
(A) In the determination of the Governor or the Director of the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management or his or her designee is or threatens to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant state action or to require assistance by the state to supplement the efforts and available resources of local governments and relief organizations in alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering caused thereby, and with respect to which the chief executive of any political subdivision in which the disaster occurs or threatens to occur certifies the need for state assistance and gives assurance of the local government for alleviating the damage, loss, hardship, or suffering resulting from such disaster; or
(B)(i) Results in an interruption in the delivery of utility services when emergency declarations are required and when delays in obtaining an emergency declaration from the Governor or the director or his or her designee would hamper and delay restoration of utility service.
(ii) In those instances, the Governor or the director or his or her designee may make such emergency determination subsequent to the initiation of the restoration work;
(3) “Emergency jurisdiction” means any one (1) of the seventy-five (75) counties or specified local offices of emerge
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 12-75-103
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20-13-202. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Air ambulance” means an aircraft, fixed or rotary wing, utilized for on-scene responses or transports deemed necessary by a physician and licensed by the Department of Health;
(2) “Air ambulance services” means those services authorized and licensed by the department to provide care and air transportation of patients;
(3)(A) “Ambulance” means a vehicle used for transporting any person by stretcher or gurney upon the streets or highways of Arkansas, excluding vehicles intended solely for personal use by immediate family members.
(B) “Ambulance” does not include nonemergency transportation vehicles that may accommodate an individual in an upright position or Fowler's position while in a wheelchair without the aid of emergency medical services personnel;
(4) “Ambulance services” means services authorized and licensed by the department to provide care and transportation of patients upon the streets and highways of Arkansas;
(5) “Emergency medical services” means:
(A) The transportation and medical care provided the ill or injured before arrival at a medical facility by a licensed emergency medical services personnel or other healthcare provider;
(B) Continuation of the initial emergency care within a medical facility subject to the approval of the medical staff and governing board of that facility; and
(C) Integrated medical care in emergency and nonurgent settings with the oversight of a physician;
(6)(A) “Emergency medical services personnel” means an individual licensed by the department at any level established by the rules adopted by the State Board of Health under this subchapter and authorized to perform those services set forth in the rules.
(B) These shall include without limitation eme
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 20-13-202
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21-5-707. Eligibility of children for death benefits.
(a) Unless designated as the beneficiary of a covered public employee under § 21-5-708, in order for a natural child to be eligible to receive benefits under this subchapter:
(1) The natural child must have been born prior to the date of the covered public employee's death or total and permanent disability; or
(2) The covered public employee or the covered public employee's spouse must have been pregnant with the natural child at the time of the covered public employee's death or total and permanent disability.
(b) Unless designated as the beneficiary of a covered public employee under § 21-5-708, in order for an adopted child to be eligible to receive benefits under this subchapter:
(1) The adopted child must have been adopted prior to the date of the covered public employee's death or total and permanent disability; or
(2) The adopted child's adoption process must have begun prior to the date of the covered public employee's death or total and permanent disability.
(c) Unless designated as the beneficiary of a covered public employee under § 21-5-708, in order for a stepchild under nineteen (19) years of age to be eligible to receive benefits under this subchapter:
(1) The stepchild must have been listed as a dependent on the covered public employee's federal and state income tax returns for each of the five (5) income years immediately prior to the date of the covered public employee's death or total and permanent disability; and
(2) The stepchild must have received more than one-half (1/2) of his or her financial support from the covered public employee in each of the five (5) income years immediately prior to the date of the covered public employee's death or total and permanent disability.
(d
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 21-5-707
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 21-5-707. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.