{"data":{"id":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-22-810","jurisdiction":"us-ar","citation":"Ark. Code Ann. § 20-22-810","heading":"Legislative purpose and intent","body":"(a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) The specialized and hazardous nature of firefighting requires that firefighters possess the requisite knowledge and demonstrate the ability to perform certain skills to carry our their responsibilities; and (2) The activities of firefighters are important to the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state. (b) It is the intent of the General Assembly to require minimum standards for training for entry level, full-time firefighters. Acts 2003, No. 1396, § 2.\n\n(a) The General Assembly finds that: (1) The specialized and hazardous nature of firefighting requires that firefighters possess the requisite knowledge and demonstrate the ability to perform certain skills to carry our their responsibilities; and (2) The activities of firefighters are important to the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state.\n\n(1) The specialized and hazardous nature of firefighting requires that firefighters possess the requisite knowledge and demonstrate the ability to perform certain skills to carry our their responsibilities; and\n\n(2) The activities of firefighters are important to the health, safety, and welfare of the people of this state.\n\n(b) It is the intent of the General Assembly to require minimum standards for training for entry level, full-time firefighters.","path":["AR Code","Title 20","Chapter 22","Subchapter 8"],"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":"7fa690819f859c2fdb6af5d68e1534e3bfa0a71d7d69136a3fe400f602124c8d","source_id":"us-ar","stale":false,"prev":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-22-809","next":"us-ar/ark.-code-ann.-20-22-811","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."}