Arkansas Code Title 12. Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs § 12-79-103. Definitions

(1) [Repealed by Acts of 2019, Act 910, § 5910, eff. July 1, 2019.]

(2) “Fixed facility” means any refinery, factory, storage site, assembly plant, warehouse, wholesaler, retailer, or other facility which receives, stores, processes, or ships hazardous and toxic materials;

(3) “Hazardous and toxic materials” means:

(4) “HAZMAT” means the abbreviation of “hazardous and toxic materials”;

(5) “Incident” or “accident” means the spilling, leaking, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing of hazardous and toxic materials into the environment;

(6) “System for notification” means those communications facilities currently existing, or that may be later established, for direction, warning, and control of emergency response and recovery forces at the federal, state, and local levels;

(7) “Transport” means the movement of any hazardous and toxic material regardless of the mode of transportation from one place to another place and any loading, unloading, and storage incidental thereto; and

(8) “Transporter” means any person, firm, association, partnership, corporation, or other legal entity who transports or ships in a motor vehicle, rail freight car, freight container, cargo tank, rail tank car, pipeline other than a natural gas pipeline, aircraft, vessel, or other means of transportation any hazardous and toxic materials as a common carrier, contract carrier, or carrier for private use.