Ark. Code § 27-51-1905

Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.
Section 27-51-1905 - Local authority regulation of electric motorized scooters
(a) Except as otherwise provided by law, a local authority may establish reasonable standards, rules, or regulations providing for the:
(1) Safe operation of electric motorized scooters; and
(2) Presence of electric motorized scooters on public property.
(b) A local authority may require a scooter-share operator to provide the local authority anonymized fleet and ride activity data for all trips starting or ending within the jurisdiction of the local authority and all ride activity resulting in an accident report provided that, to ensure individual privacy, the anonymized fleet and ride activity data is:
(1) Provided to a local authority through an application programming interface, subject to the scooter-share operator's license agreement for the interface, in compliance with a national data format standard such as the mobility data specification;
(2) Treated as trade secret and proprietary business information;
(3)
(A) Considered personally identifiable information.
(B) The anonymized fleet and ride activity data shall not be disclosed pursuant to public records requests received by the local authority without prior aggregation or anonymization to protect individual privacy; and
(4) Released to law enforcement if required by state or federal law.

Ark. Code § 27-51-1905

Added by Act 2019, No. 1015,§ 1, eff. 7/24/2019.