{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-12-13-111","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 12-13-111","heading":"Investigation of fires","body":"(a) (1) The deputies to the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police shall investigate each fire causing loss of life or damage to property within their jurisdiction to determine if the fire was caused by negligence or design. (2) If it appears that a fire is of suspicious origin or that a crime has been committed in connection therewith, the deputy shall immediately notify the director, who shall promptly initiate an inquiry to ascertain the cause of the fire and the person, if any, responsible therefor. (b) On his or her own motion and at any time, the director may investigate the origin and circumstances of any fire in this state without restraint or liability for trespass. (c) Any building or premises may be inspected along with the contents and occupancy thereof. (d) On request, every fire insurance company licensed in this state shall furnish to the director any information it may have concerning any fire in this state. Amended by Act 2019, No. 910,§ 5867, eff. 7/1/2019. Acts 1955, No. 254, § 12; A.S.A. 1947, § 82-817.\n\n(a) (1) The deputies to the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police shall investigate each fire causing loss of life or damage to property within their jurisdiction to determine if the fire was caused by negligence or design. (2) If it appears that a fire is of suspicious origin or that a crime has been committed in connection therewith, the deputy shall immediately notify the director, who shall promptly initiate an inquiry to ascertain the cause of the fire and the person, if any, responsible therefor.\n\n(1) The deputies to the Director of the Division of Arkansas State Police shall investigate each fire causing loss of life or damage to property within their jurisdiction to determine if the fire was caused by negligence or design.\n\n(2) If it appears that a fire is of suspicious origin or that a crime has been committed in connection therewith, the deputy shall immediately notify the director, who shall promptly initiate an inquiry to ascertain the cause of the fire and the person, if any, responsible therefor.\n\n(b) On his or her own motion and at any time, the director may investigate the origin and circumstances of any fire in this state without restraint or liability for trespass.\n\n(c) Any building or premises may be inspected along with the contents and occupancy thereof.\n\n(d) On request, every fire insurance company licensed in this state shall furnish to the director any information it may have concerning any fire in this state.","path":["AR Code","Title 12","Chapter 13","Subchapter 1"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_ar_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:35:43Z","sha256":"02c2860fe9ecaca78d4f7de876e67216d06cbe5a31deb621e3451e6eb69a80ed","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-12-13-110","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-12-13-112","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ar","title":"Arkansas Release 78 supplement","text":"Arkansas electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ar.code"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}