Title 15, Natural Resources and Economic Development

The Land Survey Advisory Board shall act in an advisory capacity to the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office and the State Surveyor in all matters relative to formulating policies of the Division of Land Surveys of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office and …

(a) The Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Board shall employ, in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of Shared Administrative Services, a State Surveyor to be the head of the Division of Land Surveys of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office. (b) T…

(1) The State Surveyor, acting under the supervision and direction of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office and the Secretary of the Department of Shared Administrative Services, shall have the following authority and responsibility:(1) To:(A) Restore, maintain, and …

(a) Every employee of the Division of Land Surveys of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office or the Department of Shared Administrative Services who performs any work required by law to be done by a registered professional surveyor shall be a registered surveyor. (b) …

(a) The State Surveyor or any employee of the Department of Shared Administrative Services or of the Division of Land Surveys of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office shall have the right to enter upon private property for the purpose of making surveys or searching f…

(a) When the State Surveyor so requests, the public recorder of deeds, mortgages, or other instruments dealing with interest in real property and all state agencies, boards, and commissions and all county and municipal officials shall furnish to the Division of Land Surveys of th…

(a) The Division of Land Surveys of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office may produce, reproduce, and sell maps, plats, and records and shall prescribe a reasonable charge therefor. (b) All income derived from these sales shall be deposited into a financial instituti…

Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit abstractors from preparing legal land descriptions.

The system of plane coordinates which has been established by the National Geodetic Survey or its successors, based on the National Spatial Reference System or its successors, and known as the “State Plane Coordinate System” or its successors for defining and stating the position…

When any tract of land to be defined by a single description extends from one (1) coordinate zone into other coordinate zones, the positions of all points on its boundaries may be referred to one (1) of the zones, the zone which is used being specifically named in the description…

(a) (1) The plane coordinates of a point to be used in expressing the geographic position or location of the point in the appropriate zone of the Arkansas Plane Coordinate System shall consist of two (2) distances, expressed in feet and decimals of a foot or meters and decimals o…

Wherever coordinates based on the Arkansas Plane Coordinate System are used to describe any tract of land which in the same document is also described by reference to any subdivision, line, or other corner of the United States Public Land Survey System, the description by the coo…

Nothing contained in this subchapter shall require any purchaser or mortgagee to rely on the description, any part of which depends exclusively upon the Arkansas Plane Coordinate System.

(a) (1) Two (2) plane coordinate systems were previously defined in statute:(A) The most recent based on the North American Datum of 1983; and(B) The prior version based on the North American Datum of 1927.(2) Both of the plane coordinate systems referenced in subdivision (a)(1) …

(a) It is recognized and declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that the public welfare of this state requires the cooperation of this state with other states and with the federal government in the accomplishment of the policy and purposes declared by the United Stat…

(1) In carrying out the provisions of each state agricultural plan, the University of Arkansas shall have the power to:(1) Designate and employ such agencies as it may deem necessary;(2) Cooperate with local and state agencies and with agencies of other states and of the United S…

(1) The University of Arkansas, as the state agency, is authorized, empowered, and directed to:(1) Formulate, pursuant to the standards therefor as provided in § 15-21-403, agricultural plans for this state for each calendar year and, from time to time, make revisions in the stat…

(a) The University of Arkansas, as the state agency, is authorized and empowered to accept and receive all grants of money made pursuant to § 7 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 16 U.S.C. § 590g, for the purpose of enabling the State of Arkansas to carry out th…

(1) The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas is authorized to:(1) Accept donations of land and to acquire title to the land for the use of the United States Natural Resources Conservation Service to conduct, in cooperation with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Stat…

The University of Arkansas shall provide for keeping full and accurate accounts of its transactions as a state agency, separate from the accounts of its transactions in other capacities, and shall provide for the rendering of necessary and proper reports, including reports design…

(a) In recognition that a vast majority of all information used in the management of government can be spatially referenced and that public institutions and private firms expend considerable resources collecting and managing land information records in diverse and disparate forma…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Agency” means any agency or instrumentality of the State of Arkansas that utilizes geographic information systems data;(2) “Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office” means the office that provides administrative and technical support to t…

(a) The Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Board is created. (b) (1) (A) (i) The board shall be composed of thirteen (13) voting members.(ii) Twelve (12) of the voting members shall be appointed by the Governor for terms of four (4) years.(iii) The thirteenth voting member s…

(a) The Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Board shall be empowered to:(1) Provide a strategy for the continuing development of the Arkansas Spatial Data Infrastructure;(2) Develop standard metadata reports through the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office; and(3) D…

(a) As used in this section, “technical and general services” means the same as defined in § 19-61-103. (b) In the purchase of technical and general services associated with the creation, development, and maintenance of framework data, the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems …

(1) It is found and determined by the General Assembly that:(1) Earthquake activity in Arkansas has never been closely monitored by a local network of seismic stations and that the realistic assessment of seismic hazards in this state can only be accomplished by long-term local m…

(a) The University of Arkansas at Little Rock is directed to establish the Arkansas Seismological Observatory as a part of the Arkansas Center for Earthquake Education and Technology Transfer. (b) The observatory shall:(1) Monitor earthquake activity throughout the state;(2) Assi…

The seismic network operated by the Arkansas Seismological Observatory should initially consist of at least ten (10) stations installed at remote locations with the central recording station located on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The complete monitori…