In an emergency situation, a sheriff or police chief may place children in the Division of Children and Family Services foster homes only when the following criteria have been met:

1. (1) The sheriff or chief of police contacts the area or county designated on-call worker and does not get a return phone call within thirty (30) minutes;
2. (2) Subsequent to not receiving a phone call in the above situation, the sheriff or chief of police contacts the division emergency contact line and does not get a return phone call within fifteen (15) minutes;

3. (3) The foster parent is personally well-known to the sheriff or the chief of police and the sheriff or chief of police has:

   1. (A) Determined that the foster parent’s home is safe and provides adequate accommodations for the child; and
   2. (B) Performed a criminal record and child maltreatment check on the foster parent; and
4. (4) The sheriff or chief of police will on the next business day notify the division of the time and date that the child was placed in the foster parent’s home.

Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "09/2011"