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AR Code § 20-22-613 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 6 - Fire Extinguishers|§ 20-22-613. Actions

 (a) No portable fire extinguisher or fixed fire protection system may be sold or installed in this state unless it carries a label of approval of a nationally recognized testing laboratory approved by the Arkansas Fire Protection Licensing Board.  (b) No soda acid or foam acid type fire extinguisher shall be sold or offered for sale in this state.  (c) Every person or firm servicing any portable fire extinguisher in this state shall service the portable fire extinguisher under the standards and procedures prescribed in the rules of the board.  (d) Every person installing or servicing a portable fire extinguisher, a fixed fire protection system, or a fire protection sprinkler system in this state shall affix a tag thereto showing the name of the person and firm selling, installing, or servicing the portable fire extinguisher, fixed fire protection system, or fire protection sprinkler system and the date of the installation or service.  (e) The sale, servicing, or recharging of carbon tetrachloride fire extinguishers in this state is prohibited.  (f) Except as provided in § 20-22-603, only the holder of a current and valid license or an apprentice permit issued under this subchapter may service portable fire extinguishers, install and maintain fixed fire protection systems, or install or maintain fire protection sprinkler systems.  (g) A person who has been issued a license or permit under this subchapter to service portable fire extinguishers, install or service fixed fire protection systems, or install and service fire protection sprinkler systems shall be an employee, agent, or servant of a firm that holds a current and valid certificate of registration issued under this subchapter.  (h) Installation and servicing of fixed fire protection systems shall be accomplished under the rules of the board.  (i) Installation and servicing of fire protection sprinkler systems shall be accomplished in accordance with the rules of the board.       (j)(1)  Any fire protection sprinkler system that was installed before September 1, 1985, shall be serviced, maintained, inspected, and repaired under current rules of the board.    (2)  Any fixed fire protection system that was installed before January 1, 1979, shall be serviced, maintained, inspected, and repaired under current rules of the board.
AR Code § 20-22-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-701. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) “Distributor” means any person engaged in the business of making sales of fireworks at wholesale in this state to any person engaged in the business of making sales of fireworks either as a jobber or a retailer, or both;  (2) “I.C.C. Class C common fireworks” means all articles of fireworks classified as “I.C.C. Class C common fireworks” as defined in § 20-22-708 and in the regulations of the United States Surface Transportation Board for the transportation of explosives and other dangerous articles;  (3) “Importer” means any person who imports, brings in, or causes to be brought in any fireworks from outside the geographical limits of the State of Arkansas into this state;  (4) “Jobber” means any person engaged in the business of making sales of fireworks at wholesale to any other person engaged in the business of making sales at retail. “Wholesaler” shall have the same meaning as “jobber”;  (5) “License” means the written authority of the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police issued under the authority of this subchapter to a distributor, jobber, wholesaler, manufacturer, importer, or retailer for a fee as provided in § 20-22-707;  (6) “Manufacturer” means any person engaged in the making or construction of fireworks in the State of Arkansas or any person engaged in the making or construction of fireworks who ships or causes to be shipped, or transports or causes to be transported, any items of fireworks into the State of Arkansas;  (7) “Permit” means the written authority of the director issued for a public fireworks display under the authority of this subchapter;  (8) “Person” means any corporation, association, copartnership, or one (1) or more individuals;  (9) “Retailer” means any person engaged in the business of making sales of fireworks at retail to consumers or to persons other than a distributor or jobber;  (10) “Sale” means barter, exchange, gift, or offer therefor, and each such transaction made by any person, whether as principal, proprietor, agent, servant, or employee;  (11) “Shooter” means any person conducting any combination of fireworks, pyrotechnics, or special effects displays within the State of Arkansas; and  (12) “Special fireworks” means all articles of fireworks that are classified as Class B explosives in the regulations of the United States Surface Transportation Board and shall include all articles other than those classified as Class C but shall not include such dangerous items of commercial fireworks as cherry bombs, tubular salutes, repeating bombs, aerial bombs, torpedoes, and fireworks containing more than fifty milligrams (50mg) of explosive powder.
AR Code § 20-22-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-702. Public displays excepted

 (a) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as applying to the shipping, sale, possession, and use of fireworks for public displays by holders of a permit for a public display to be conducted in accordance with the rules promulgated by the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police. Such items of fireworks which are to be used for public display only and which are otherwise prohibited for sale and use within the state shall include display shells designed to be fired from mortars and display set pieces of fireworks classified by the regulations of the United States Surface Transportation Board as Class B special fireworks and shall not include such items of commercial fireworks as cherry bombs, tubular salutes, repeating bombs, aerial bombs, and torpedoes.  (b)  (1) Public displays shall be performed only under competent supervision and after the persons or organizations making the displays have applied for and received a permit for the displays issued by the director.  (2) Applications for permits for public displays shall be made in writing at least five (5) days in advance of the proposed display, and the application shall show that the proposed display is to be so located and supervised that it shall not be hazardous to life, limb, or property.  (3) If the display is to be performed within the limits of a municipality, the application shall so state and shall bear the signed approval of the chief supervisory officials of the fire and police departments of the municipality.    (c)  (1) Permits issued shall be limited to the time specified therein and shall not be transferable.  (2) Only licensed distributors who are licensed importers or who purchase from licensed importers may possess special fireworks for resale to holders of a permit for a public fireworks display.    (d)  (1) The Division of Arkansas State Police may charge a fee not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) for each permit issued under this section.  (2) The total fee for all permits issued during a school year to an educational institution that provides instruction for grades kindergarten through twelve (K-12) shall not exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00).  (3) All permit fees shall be remitted to the division and shall be deposited into the State Treasury as special revenues to the credit of the Division of Arkansas State Police Fund.
AR Code § 20-22-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-703. Other exceptions

 (a)  (1) Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as applying to the:  (A) Manufacture, storage, sale, or use of signals necessary for the safe operation of railroads or other classes of public or private transportation or of illuminating devices for photographic use;  (B) Military or naval forces of the United States or of this state or to peace officers;  (C) Sale or use of blank cartridges for ceremonial, theatrical, or athletic events; or  (D) Transportation, sale, or use of permissible fireworks as defined in § 20-22-708 or special fireworks as defined in § 20-22-701 solely for agricultural or industrial purposes, provided that the purchaser first secures a written permit to purchase and use the fireworks for agricultural or industrial purposes from the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police.    (2) No permit for use of fireworks for agricultural purposes shall be issued by the director except after approval of the county agricultural agent of the county in which the fireworks are to be used.  (3)  (A) All fireworks purchased under permit as authorized in this section for agricultural or industrial purposes shall at all times be kept in the possession of the permit holder.  (B) The permits and fireworks shall not be transferable.      (b) Any person holding a permit to purchase and use fireworks for agricultural or industrial purposes as provided in this section who shall sell, give away, or otherwise transfer the fireworks to another or shall use or permit the use of the fireworks for any purpose other than agricultural or industrial purposes as stated on the permit shall be in violation of this subchapter and subject to the penalties provided for in § 20-22-705.
AR Code § 20-22-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-704. Power of municipalities unaffected

 This subchapter shall not affect the power of any municipality to regulate or prohibit the sale or use of fireworks.
AR Code § 20-22-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-705. Violation of subchapter — Penalties

 Any person violating any of the provisions of this subchapter, except § 20-22-706, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200) or imprisoned for not more than ninety (90) days, or both, in the discretion of the court.
AR Code § 20-22-706 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-706. License required — Penalty

 (a) No person shall do any act for which a license or permit is required by this subchapter or by local authorities acting pursuant to this subchapter unless he or she holds the proper federal, state, and local license and, if applicable, a permit.  (b) Whoever violates subsection (a) of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000) and may be prohibited from applying for a license or a permit for up to five (5) years.
AR Code § 20-22-709 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-709. Labeling

 (a) No permissible articles of common fireworks defined in § 20-22-708 shall be sold, offered for sale, or possessed within the state, or used in the State of Arkansas, except as provided in § 20-22-702, unless it shall be properly named to conform to the nomenclature of § 20-22-708 and unless it shall be certified as “common fireworks” on all shipping cases and by imprinting on the article or retail container “I.C.C. Class C Common Fireworks”. The imprint shall be of sufficient size and so positioned as to be readily recognized by law enforcement authorities and by the general public.  (b) Railway fusees are specifically excepted from this marking requirement.
AR Code § 20-22-710 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-710. Location, display, sale, etc

 (a) The placing, storing, locating, or displaying of fireworks in any window where the sun may shine through glass on to the fireworks so displayed or to permit the presence of lighted cigars, cigarettes, or pipes within ten feet (10') of where the fireworks are offered for sale is declared unlawful and prohibited.  (b) At all places where fireworks are stored or sold, there shall be posted signs with the words “FIREWORKS — NO SMOKING” in letters not less than four inches (4") high at each entrance to the retail sales area.  (c)  (1) No fireworks are to be sold at retail at any location where paints, oils, or varnishes are kept for use or sale, unless the paints, oils, and varnishes are kept in the original unbroken containers, nor where resin, turpentine, gasoline, or other inflammable substance that may generate inflammable vapors is used, stored, or sold.  (2) Consumer fireworks retail sales facilities and stores shall not be located within fifty feet (50') of the following:  (A) Motor vehicle fuel dispensing station dispensers;  (B) Retail propane dispensing station dispensers;  (C) Above-ground storage tanks for flammable or combustible liquids;  (D) Flammable gases or flammable liquefied gases; or  (E) Compressed natural gas dispensing facilities.      (d) All firework devices that are readily accessible to handling by a consumer or purchaser shall have their fuses protected in such a manner as to protect against accidental ignition of an item by spark, cigarette ash, or other ignition source. Safety-type-thread wrapped and coated fuses are exempt from this section.  (e) All licensees under this subchapter shall have a fire extinguisher of a type approved by the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police in an area readily accessible to any point of storage or sale of fireworks. In lieu of such an extinguisher, retailers may maintain a common type of water hose, charged and connected to a water system, which is readily available to any area where fireworks are stored or sold.
AR Code § 20-22-711 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-711. Times of permissible sales

 (a)  (1) Except as provided in subdivision (a)(2) of this section, permissible items of fireworks, defined in § 20-22-708, may be sold at retail to residents of the State of Arkansas and used within the State of Arkansas from June 20 through July 10 and December 10 through January 5 of each year only.  (2) Permissible items of fireworks as defined in § 20-22-708 may be sold at retail all-year if sold in a permanent physical location.    (b) As used in this section, “fireworks” shall not include toy pistols, toy canes, toy guns, or other devices in which paper caps containing twenty-five-hundredths grains (0.25 gr.) or less of explosive compounds are used, provided they are so constructed that the hand cannot come in contact with the cap when in place for exploding, and toy paper pistol caps which contain less than twenty-five-hundredths grains (0.25 gr.) of explosive compounds, cone, bottle, tube, or other type serpentine pop-off novelties, nonpoisonous toy snake, smoke sticks without report, and sparklers, the sale and use of which shall be permitted at all times.
AR Code § 20-22-712 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-712. Sales to certain people prohibited

 It shall be unlawful to offer for retail sale or to sell any fireworks to children under twelve (12) years of age or to any person known to be intoxicated or irresponsible.
AR Code § 20-22-713 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-713. Place of explosion or ignition

 (a) It shall be unlawful to explode or ignite fireworks within six hundred feet (600') of any church, hospital, asylum, public school, or within two hundred feet (200') of where fireworks are stored, sold, or offered for sale.  (b) No person shall ignite or discharge any permissible articles of fireworks within, or throw the fireworks from, a motor vehicle while therein, nor shall any person place or throw any ignited article of fireworks into or at a motor vehicle or at or near any person or group of people.
AR Code § 20-22-714 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-714. Seizure of contraband fireworks

 (a) The Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police shall seize as contraband any fireworks other than Class C common fireworks defined in § 20-22-708 or special fireworks for public displays as provided in § 20-22-702 or for agricultural or industrial purposes as provided in § 20-22-703, which are sold, displayed, used, or possessed in violation of this subchapter.  (b) The director may destroy fireworks so seized.
AR Code § 20-22-715 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-715. Notice of violation — Hearing

 (a) With reference to the administrative and civil penalties imposed by this subchapter, the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police shall notify the person accused of a violation, setting a time and place for hearing to be held by the director or his or her designated agent.  (b) If the hearing results in a revocation or refusal to renew a license of or the imposition of any civil penalty upon that person, the person adjudged guilty of the violation shall have a right to appeal the decision, for a trial de novo, to the Pulaski County Circuit Court.
AR Code § 20-22-716 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-716. License limitations

 (a) An importer license does not authorize a person to sell fireworks at wholesale or retail.  (b) A jobber that does not possess an importer license shall not purchase fireworks other than from a vendor that holds a license as an importer and as a distributor.
AR Code § 20-22-717 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 7 - Fireworks|§ 20-22-717. Sale or use of sky lanterns — Definition

 (a) As used in this section, “sky lantern” means an unmanned free-floating device designed to contain an open flame.  (b) The sale or use of sky lanterns is prohibited.
AR Code § 20-22-801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 8 - Fire Protection Services|§ 20-22-801. Legislative findings

 It is found and determined by the General Assembly that a system of certification and classification of fire departments should be established to encourage the improvement of the fire protection services in this state and to provide the people of this state with information about the level of service they are receiving. It is further found and determined that the public policy of this state should be to encourage individuals and organizations to provide fire protection services and that, to further this policy, workers' compensation coverage should be extended to volunteer firefighters of rural fire departments and that the civil liability of certified fire departments and their firefighters should be limited.
AR Code § 20-22-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 8 - Fire Protection Services|§ 20-22-802. Definitions

 As used in this subchapter:   (1) [Repealed.]  (2) “Certified fire department” means any fire department certified by the Director of the Office of Fire Protection Services as meeting minimum standards prescribed by the Arkansas Fire Protection Services Board;  (3) [Repealed.]  (4) “Fire department” means any organization established for the prevention or extinguishment of fires, including, but not limited to, fire departments organized under municipal or county ordinances, improvement districts, membership fee-based private fire departments, and volunteer fire departments; and  (5) “Firefighter” means any paid or volunteer member of a fire department who engages in fire suppressions, rescue, pump operations, or other fire-ground activities.
AR Code § 20-22-803 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare|Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety|Chapter 22 - Fire Prevention, Protection, and Safety|Subchapter 8 - Fire Protection Services|§ 20-22-803. Arkansas Fire Protection Services Board — Creation — Membership

 (a)  (1) There is created the Arkansas Fire Protection Services Board.  (2) The board shall be composed of fifteen (15) members to be appointed by the Governor subject to confirmation by the Senate as follows:  (A)  (i) Four (4) members shall be fire chiefs appointed by the Governor after consulting the Arkansas Association of Fire Chiefs.  (ii) Two (2) of the fire chiefs under this subdivision (a)(2)(A) shall be full paid fire chiefs, one (1) shall be a volunteer fire chief, and one (1) shall be a retired fire chief or a volunteer fire chief;    (B) Two (2) members shall be appointed after consulting the Arkansas Rural and Volunteer Firefighters Association;  (C) Four (4) members shall be appointed after consulting the Arkansas State Firefighters Association, all of whom shall be volunteer firefighters;  (D) Four (4) members shall be appointed by the Governor after consulting the Arkansas Professional Fire Fighters Association; and  (E) The State Forester of the Arkansas Forestry Commission or his or her designee.    (3) The Director of the Arkansas Fire Training Academy, the Director of the Division of Emergency Management or his or her designee, and the State Fire Marshal or his or her designee shall be ex officio members.  (4) Members shall serve three-year terms.  (5) Each member shall hold office until his or her successor is appointed and qualified.    (b)  (1) The board shall elect annually a chair, vice chair, and secretary.  (2) The board shall meet at the call of the Chair of the Arkansas Fire Protection Services Board or a majority of the members.  (3) A majority of the members constitutes a quorum.    (c) The Governor shall fill vacancies occurring on the board with appointments for the duration of the unexpired terms.  (d) The members shall serve without pay but may receive expense reimbursement in accordance with § 25-16-901 et seq.