Ariz. Admin. Code § 8-2-101

Current through Register Vol. 31, No. 2, January 10, 2025

Section R8-2-101 - Definitions

In this Article, for purposes of these rules, and unless the text requires otherwise:

1. "Claim" means documentation of eligible expenses associated with the conduct of a search and rescue mission.

2. "Claimant" means a department of the state or a political subdivision eligible to receive state reimbursement for search or rescue operations.

3. "Emergency Operations Center for Search and Rescue" means the State Emergency Operations Center provides coordination, communications, administrative and support assistance. The center is located in the offices of the State Division of Emergency Management.

4. "Mission" means any action required to accomplish that portion of Title 26, Arizona Revised Statutes, relating to the preparation for and conduct of search and rescue operations.

5. "Mission coordinator" means the county sheriff, or sheriff's designee, excluding federal reservations, where agreements are nonexistent.

6. "Mission identifier" means a number assigned by the State Division of Emergency Management to identify a search and rescue mission.

7. "On-scene coordinator" means the individual Search and Rescue (SAR) Coordinator designated by the sheriff as the on-scene person in charge of a particular search and rescue mission.

8. "Political subdivision" means, within the context of this Article, a county sheriff.

9. "Recovery" means to relocate, under direction of the statutory authority, a deceased person from the site of his demise to an appropriate location.

10. "Reimbursement" means the payment of state funds in accordance with A.R.S. § 35-192.01(A) and (B).

11. "Rescue" means to render aid, under the direction of the county sheriff, to persons whose life or health is threatened by circumstances beyond their control and return them to a place of safety.

12. "Search" means to seek out and locate, by the use of air, surface, and/or subsurface equipment and qualified registered personnel, live persons known or thought to be, by the county sheriff, in a distress situation and unable to reach a place of safety by their own efforts.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R8-2-101

Former Rule Part 3; Amended effective July 18, 1977 (Supp. 77-4). Amended paragraphs (1), (3) and (8) effective June 30, 1986 (Supp. 86-3). Editorial correction, paragraph (2) (Supp. 88-4). Former R8-2-01 amended and renumbered effective March 7, 1990 (Supp. 90-1). Amended by final rulemaking at 21 A.A.R. 3021, effective 1/11/2016.