At the Arizona Pioneers’ Home, an integral part of the success of our Life Enrichment programs and events are our volunteers. If you’ve volunteered anywhere, you need to volunteer here—it will be your most rewarding experience ever. We have dozens of volunteers from the community who assist in various programs, projects, events, outings, field trips and classes. With two full time Life Enrichement staff members, we are able to enhance what we are able to provide through our volunteers, and we can always use more. The following is a partial list of the activities volunteers could participate in, and assist with.

Available Opportunities

The governor shall have charge and control of the Arizona pioneers' home, the state hospital for miners with disabilities, the state prison and prison farm and other state institutions the management of which is not otherwise provided by law.

This chapter does not apply to any of the following:

1. Any religious corporation, church, religious society or denomination, a corporation sole administering temporalities of any church or religious society or denomination, or any cemetery organized, controlled and operated by any of them.
2. A private or municipal cemetery.
3. Any fraternal burial park not exceeding ten acres in area, established before July 2, 1963, in which the sale of burial spaces is restricted exclusively to its members.
4. The superintendent of the Arizona pioneers' home and the Arizona pioneers' home cemetery.

A. A person, under the order of the governor, shall be admitted to the hospital for disabled miners who:

1. Has been a resident while in the occupation of mining in this state.
2. Is a citizen or legal resident of the United States.
3. Has reached the age of sixty years or more, and is financially unable to support himself, or has suffered incapacitating injuries arising from and in the course of mining.

B. Based on available space and funding, the governor may approve a person for admission to the hospital for disabled miners who has not yet reached the age of sixty years but otherwise qualifies for admission under subsection A.

C. For the purposes of this section:

1. 1. "Claim" has the same meaning prescribed in section 27-301.
2. 2. "Mine" has the same meaning prescribed in section 27-301.
3. 3. "Mining":

                      (a) Has the same meaning prescribed in section 27-301.

                      (b) Does not include performing executive, administrative, support or clerical functions for the owner or operator of a mine, unless a person who performs executive, administrative, support or clerical functions for the owner or operator of the mine had significant environmental exposure to mining activities, that could be detrimental to a person's health.

                       (c) Does not include activities performed by an owner of a private mining claim who did not actually work the claim.

A. There shall be a state hospital for disabled miners as a separate facility for the benefit of disabled miners at the Arizona pioneers' home at Prescott which shall be managed by the governor.

B. The superintendent of the Arizona pioneers' home shall serve as superintendent of the miner's hospital and, subject to chapter 4, article 4 of this title, may appoint assistants and employees and prescribe their duties, subject to approval of the governor.

C. Claims for salaries and expenses authorized by this article shall be presented and paid as other state claims.