Title 37 — Public Lands

All persons qualified to make entry under the public land laws of the United States, who settle upon, cultivate or improve a tract of land in the state for the purpose of acquiring title thereto as a homestead or desert land entry under the laws of the United States, and who are …

A. A person shall not hold more than one claim of the classes referred to in section 37-411 at the same time. B. The claimant shall distinctly mark the boundaries of his claim so that it can be readily traced, and shall accurately describe it in a written notice under oath. The n…

The state may, when necessary for its uses or for the uses of any state department or institution, take over any state lands and the improvements thereon by reimbursing the owners for the improvements, and the department or institution so using the lands shall lease them and pay …

A. The governing board or officer of a state department or institution desiring to avail itself of the provisions of this article shall make application to the governor for taking the lands over, and, if the application is approved by the governor, it shall be transmitted to the …

Upon payment by the state for improvements on state land taken over by the state or its departments or institutions the improvements shall become the property of the state. If the land subsequently is sold or leased to other parties, the purchaser or lessee shall reimburse the st…

A. If a state agency or institution that leases a parcel of trust land is also a beneficiary of that trust, the department may offset trust proceeds to the agency against the rent due from the agency or institution. The amount of the offset shall be included in the agency's or in…

A. The department may grant rights-of-way for any purpose it deems necessary, and sites for reservoirs, dams and power or irrigation plants, or other purposes, on and over state lands, subject to terms and conditions the department imposes. The department may make rules respectin…

The state land department shall conserve, sell or otherwise administer the timber products, stone, gravel and other products and property upon lands belonging to the state under rules not in conflict with the enabling act and the constitution.

A. No contract for the sale of timber shall exceed a term of five years nor shall more than fifty million feet of timber be sold to any one person at one sale, nor shall any sale be made or contract entered into with any person while such person has under sale or contract more th…

A. The commissioner and the state forester shall collaborate to establish a program to remove vegetative natural products for the purposes of fire prevention and forest and watershed restoration and to facilitate the development of wood products industries in this state. B. To im…

A person is guilty of a class 2 misdemeanor who: 1. Knowingly commits a trespass upon state lands, either by cutting down or destroying timber or wood standing or growing thereon, by carrying away timber or wood therefrom, by mowing, cutting, or removing hay or grass thereon or t…

A. Whoever commits any trespass upon state lands as defined by section 37-501 is also liable in a civil action brought in the name of the state in the county in which the trespass was committed, for three times the amount of the damage caused by the trespass, if the trespass was …

A. Except as provided by title 28, chapter 11 and section 37-288.01, the department may dispose of or contract for the disposal of personal property on state land without legal process if the department reasonably determines that the property was deposited by: 1. A person who was…

(Caution: 1998 Prop. 105 applies) A. After any appropriation pursuant to section 37-527, the permanent state school fund shall consist of: 1. The proceeds of all lands granted to this state by the United States for the support of common schools. 2. All property which accrues to t…

A. After any appropriation pursuant to section 37-527, the universities land fund shall consist of: 1. The proceeds of all lands granted to the state by the United States for university purposes. 2. All property donated by individuals for university purposes, unless the terms of …

A. After any appropriation pursuant to section 37-527, the normal schools land fund shall consist of: 1. The proceeds of all lands granted to the state by the United States for normal schools for the purpose of training teachers. 2. All property donated for normal schools, teache…

A. After any appropriation pursuant to section 37-527, the agricultural and mechanical colleges land fund, and the school of mines land fund, shall separately consist of the proceeds of: 1. All lands granted to the state by the United States for the respective purposes named. 2. …

A. After any appropriation pursuant to section 37-527, the legislative, executive and judicial public buildings land fund, the penitentiary land fund, the Arizona state hospital land fund, the state charitable, penal and reformatory institutions land fund, the schools and asylum …

A. The central Arizona project municipal and industrial repayment fund is established consisting of: 1. Revenues from the transfer of central Arizona project municipal and industrial water rights and the sale of central Arizona project municipal and industrial water pursuant to s…

A. The trust land management fund is established. The fund consists of up to ten percent of the annual proceeds of: 1. Each beneficiary's trust lands granted to this state by the United States. 2. All sales of timber, mineral, gravel or other natural products or property from eac…

The governing body of any county, city, town or school district may exchange with each other any land owned by them but such exchange shall not be made of lands situated in different counties. The determination of the governing body having control of the land that such land shoul…

Not less than thirty days prior to the actual exchange of such land, the governing body of any county, city, town or school district having control of the land shall cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation within the county in which the land is located a notic…

The exchange shall be conducted without formalities, advertisements for bids or considerations of other offers by other persons, but the value of the respective parcels of land being so exchanged shall be substantially the same as determined by an appraisal to be made by a qualif…

A. State land may be exchanged for public land in this state to improve the management of state lands for the purpose of sale or lease or conversion to public use of state lands or to assist in preserving and protecting military facilities in this state. Exchanges may be made for…

A. The department and selection board, for the purpose of consolidating surface and subsurface ownership, may exchange unleased or unclaimed subsurface rights and interests and leased oil and gas rights and interests, managed by the state land department for subsurface rights and…

A. An exchange for state lands shall not be authorized, approved or made unless the owner of the lands to be traded for state land agrees to grant the state title in fee simple with appropriate title insurance as determined to be acceptable by the department. B. The state shall g…

A. A person interested in the exchange of state lands may appear at any hearing and enter a written protest as provided in section 37-604. B. The commissioner shall render a decision regarding any protest and serve notice of the decision pursuant to section 37-133. C. Except as p…

A. Exchange of state lands managed by the state land department may be initiated by the owner of the other lands proposed to be exchanged on application forms provided by the department. B. The department, on determining that the proposed exchange presents obvious benefits to the…

The provisions of this article are supplemental to and in addition to the authority provided in chapter 3, article 2 of this title.

B. The department may not exchange sovereign land of this state for other lands under this section unless: 1. The commissioner determines that the exchange is in the best interest of the state. 2. The commissioner determines by at least one independent appraisal that either of th…

B. The commissioner shall evaluate each request pursuant to this section and, if the commissioner determines that a transfer would serve the best interest of this state and the public in the area in which the surplus land is located, the commissioner shall recommend to the state …

The consent of the state may be given pursuant to section 37-620.02 in accordance with the seventeenth clause, eighth section, of the first article of the Constitution of the United States to the acquisition by the United States by purchase, lease, condemnation or otherwise of an…

Concurrent jurisdiction over any land in the state heretofore or hereafter acquired by the United States for any of the purposes set forth in section 37-611 and over any public domain in the state reserved or used for penal purposes by the United States is ceded to the United Sta…

Any land over which exclusive or concurrent jurisdiction is ceded by the state to the United States, the state retains concurrent jurisdiction with the United States for serving process, civil or criminal, issuing under the authority of the state, or any courts, or judicial offic…

A. The state land department and selection board, for reasons of proper management, control, protection, or public use of state lands, may exchange road rights-of-way over state lands managed by the state land department for road rights-of-way over any other land within the state…

A. A person interested in the exchange of any road rights-of-way may appear at any hearing on the exchange and enter a written protest as provided in section 37-604. B. The state land commissioner shall render a decision regarding any such protest and serve notice of the decision…

A. Exchange of road rights-of-way over state lands managed by the state land department may be initiated by application of the owner of the road rights-of-way over other lands proposed to be exchanged upon forms provided by the state land department. B. Upon the filing of an exch…

The provisions of this article are supplemental to and in addition to the authority provided in chapter 3, article 2 of this title.

A. Concurrent criminal jurisdiction over any lands in this state heretofore reserved from public domain or acquired by the United States as identified in subsection D of this section, and any additions made to such lands, is hereby vested in the United States on completion of the…

A. If the administrator of the veterans administration of the United States desires, on behalf of the United States, to relinquish to this state any legislative jurisdiction over lands or interests in lands under the administrator's supervision or control in order to establish co…

Pursuant to article I, section 8, clause 17 of the Constitution of the United States, the consent of this state may be given to the acquisition of any other privately owned real property within this state by the United States only upon the governor's signing a joint resolution ad…

1. A detailed accounting of each individual item to be protected. 2. The precise global positioning system location of each item to be protected. 3. The square footage that each item to be protected occupies. 4. The total square footage of the parcel of land comprising the nation…

The interstate compact for jurisdiction on the Colorado river is enacted into law as follows: Section I. Concurrent Jurisdiction A. If conduct is prohibited by two adjoining party states, courts and law enforcement officers in either state who have jurisdiction over criminal offe…

A. The state land commissioner may coordinate the development of a process of using holistic resource management planning methods to incorporate the critical habitat requirements of plant and animal species with the resource use requirements of this state. If developed, this plan…