27-51-1602. Definitions.

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27-51-1602. Definitions.

27-51-1602. Definitions. As used in this subchapter: (1) “Emergency” means a situation in which a person is in need of assistance from any of the following: (A) Law enforcement personnel; (B) Fire department personnel; (C) Public safety personnel; (D) Emergency medical personnel; or (E) A 911 public safety communications center; (2) “Texting” means reading from or manually entering data into a wireless telecommunications device, including doing so for the purpose of short message service texting, emailing, instant messaging, or engaging in another form of electronic data retrieval or electronic data communication; (3) “Wireless interactive communication” means talking, typing, texting, emailing, or accessing information on the internet via Wi-Fi, cellular data, or similar means; and (4)(A) “Wireless telecommunications device” means a handheld cellular telephone, a text-messaging device, a personal digital assistant, a stand-alone computer, or a substantially similar wireless device that is readily removable from a vehicle and is used to talk or type, send, or read text or data through manual input. (B) “Wireless telecommunications device” does not include a: (i) Citizens band radio; (ii) Citizens band radio hybrid; (iii) Commercial two-way radio communication device; (iv) Two-way radio transmitter or receiver used by a licensee of the Federal Communications Commission in the Amateur Radio Service; (v) Hands-free wireless telephone or device; or (vi) Global positioning or navigation device system.

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 27-51-1602

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. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.