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.
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2. "Claimant" means a
department of the state or a political subdivision eligible to receive state
reimbursement for search or rescue operations.
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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.
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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.
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5. "Mission coordinator"
means the county sheriff, or sheriff's designee, excluding federal
reservations, where agreements are nonexistent.
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6. "Mission identifier"
means a number assigned by the State Division of Emergency Management to
identify a search and rescue mission.
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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.
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8. "Political
subdivision" means, within the context of this Article, a county
sheriff.
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9. "Recovery" means to relocate, under direction of
the statutory authority, a deceased person from the site of his demise to an
appropriate location.
910. "Reimbursement" means
the payment of state funds in accordance with A.R.S. §
35-192.01(A) and (B).
1011. "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.
1112. "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.
