Title 27 — Transportation
56 chapters · 1,818 sections in this title.
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-102-101 Right to take up property lost or wrecked on river
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When any boat, vessel, raft, or other property shall be lost or wrecked and in a perishable condition upon any river in this state, or any river making a boundary of the state, any person may take up and secure it at or near the place where found.
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-102-102 Owner's right to recover
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When any person shall set up a claim to salvaged property and shall prove his or her title to it by competent testimony before any justice of the peace of the proper county, the taker up shall restore the property to the owner if he or she pays the taker up a premium for salvage,…
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-102-103 Right to salvage payment
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The taker up of a boat, vessel, raft, or other property shall be entitled to retain it against the rightful owner until salvage be paid, or he or she may have and maintain a civil action against the owner for the amount of salvage due in accordance with this chapter.
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-102-104 Affidavit by taker up
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When any salvaged property shall be taken up and secured, if it exceeds ten dollars ($10.00) in value, the taker up shall immediately go before a justice of the peace of the county and make an affidavit that the property was wrecked or lost and was in a perishable condition, as h…
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-102-105 Advertisement of property recovered
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(a) Within twenty (20) days after making the affidavit, the taker up shall cause to be inserted in some newspaper printed in this state, for three (3) weeks successively, a correct account of the time and place when and where the property was taken up and the description and valu…
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-102-106 Salvage of rafts
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When rafts are taken up, consisting of logs, firewood, rails, or other timber, the person taking up and securing them and complying with the requisitions of this subchapter shall, on the owner's claiming them, be entitled to salvage not exceeding twenty percent (20%) of the value…
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-102-107 Perishable property
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(a) When any raft or boat with produce therein shall be taken up, which raft or the cargo of the boat consists of articles that are usually taken to the states of Mississippi or Louisiana for sale and the owner does not apply for or make demand of the property within twenty (20) …
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-102-108 Property found afloat
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When boats are wrecked or staved and property is found afloat on any watercourse in this state, and the value thereof does not exceed one hundred dollars ($100), the taker up of the property shall be entitled to salvage not exceeding one-fourth (¼) part thereof for taking up and …
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-102-109 Vesting of ownership in taker up
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If no demand shall be made within one (1) year from the taking up of any property under this chapter and the taker up has complied with the provisions of this chapter in all respects, then the property so taken up or the proceeds when sold shall vest in the taker up.
Ark. Code Ann. § 27-102-110 Search warrant for lost property
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When any person shall make oath before any justice of the peace that he or she has lost any property by wreck or by flood, storm, or other accident, give a description of the property, and further state that he or she has reason to suspect that the property so lost is secreted in…