Title 15, Natural Resources and Economic Development

(a) The Treasurer of State shall on the second business day that the State Treasury is open after the twenty-fifth day of the month compute the balance of the Game Protection Fund or any other funds administered by the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission during the preceding …

No funds accruing to the State of Arkansas from license fees paid by hunters and fishermen shall be diverted for any other purpose than the administration of the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission.

The General Assembly declares that any employee of the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission enforcing or attempting to enforce the existing regulations of the commission with respect to dogs running at large shall immediately, upon conviction thereof, be discharged from employ…

A maximum of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) per month shall be payable to each uniformed full-time certified enforcement employee, and a maximum of one hundred dollars ($100) per month shall be payable to each uniformed nonenforcement employee for the purchase and maintenance o…

The Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations for the eligibility, amounts, and payment of rewards to individuals providing information leading to the arrest of violators of commission regulations.

(a) (1) Except as provided in subdivision (a)(2) of this section, the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission is authorized to agree to hold and save the United States free from damages due to the design, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, or rehabilitatio…

(a) The Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission may represent the state in matters pertaining to cooperation with other states and the United States Government for wildlife conservation, management, and regulation purposes and may enter into compacts, including without limitation…

(a) The General Assembly finds that:(1) The natural resources of Arkansas should be protected and restored as needed; and(2) When the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission receives damages from a lawsuit as the result of damage sustained by property of the commission, the commi…

(1) An employee of the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission who is employed as extra help may not, in a fiscal year:(1) Receive an amount to exceed eighty-five percent (85%) of the maximum annual salary for a comparable position under:(A) The Uniform Classification and Compens…

(a) Employees of the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission may receive cost-of-living and merit pay adjustments at the discretion of the commission. (b) The commission may develop and establish a merit pay system that shall be reviewed by the Legislative Council or, if the Gene…

(a) (1) The Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission may pay a compensation differential under this section to an employee occupying a regularly appropriated position in an amount not to exceed twelve percent (12%) of an employee's base salary.(2) An employee may be paid more than…

(a) The Arkansas Hunters Feeding the Hungry, Inc. program is designed to:(1) Share the harvest of an abundant resource with Arkansans who are in need of food;(2) Partner with the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission to provide a solution for a healthy, balanced deer herd;(3) P…

(a) (1) If approved by the Director of the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission, the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission may make overtime payments to game wardens or other employees who are currently assigned or may be assigned by the director or his or her designee to sp…

Any game warden or other officer having authority to enforce the game laws of this state is authorized to proceed according to law to search any person, railroad train, boat, place of business, or any other public carrier to ascertain whether or not the game and fish laws are bei…

(a) All fines assessed against and collected from persons convicted for infractions of the state laws protecting game, fish, fur-bearing animals, or fresh water mussels shall be paid to the county treasurer or the district court clerk of the county in which the fine is assessed a…

(a) As used in this section, “acceptable electronic format” means an electronic image produced on the person's own cellular phone or other type of portable electronic device that displays all of the information on the hunter education certificate as clearly as the paper hunter ed…

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Hunting Heritage Protection Act”.

(1) The General Assembly finds that:(1) Recreational hunting is an important and traditional recreational activity in which some fourteen million (14,000,000) Americans sixteen (16) years of age and older participate;(2) Hunters have been and continue to be among the foremost sup…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Commission” means the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission;(2) “Commission-leased lands” means those lands over which the commission holds a possessory interest under lease or other written agreement that has a term of at least one (1) year …

(a) Subject to valid existing rights, commission-managed lands shall be open to access and use for recreational hunting except as limited by the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission for reasons of fish or wildlife management or as otherwise limited by statutory authority of th…