Title 15, Natural Resources and Economic Development

(1) Every license issued by the county clerk shall:(1) Contain the full name and address of the licensee. In the case of a group of persons participating together, associations, partnerships, copartnerships, and firms, it shall contain the full names and addresses of the members …

(a) Every person, group of persons, association, partnership, copartnership, firm, joint-stock company, corporation, or trust engaged in the business of milling, sampling, concentrating, reducing, refining, purchasing, or receiving for sale ores, concentrates, or amalgams bearing…

Before any county clerk shall issue a license to any applicant therefor, there shall be exhibited to the county clerk a receipt from the sheriff of the county as evidence that the license tax has been paid.

Every license granted shall date from the first day of the month in which it is issued and expire on the following December 31.

It shall be the duty of the county clerk to record each application and each license issued in the mining records of the county.

(a) The county clerk shall be entitled to and receive from the county a fee of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) for his or her services in receiving each application, issuing the license based thereon, and recording the application and license. (b) The sheriff shall be entitle…

(1) It shall be the duty of every person, group of persons, association, partnership, copartnership, firm, joint-stock company, corporation, or trust engaged in the business of milling, sampling, concentrating, reducing, refining, purchasing, or receiving for sale ores, concentra…

(1) It shall be the duty of every person, group of persons, association, partnership, copartnership, firm, joint-stock company, corporation, or trust engaged in the business of purchasing for resale distilled or refined quicksilver or mercury to keep a record containing the follo…

The records required to be kept by §§ 15-60-111 and 15-60-112 shall be open for inspection at all reasonable times by the sheriff, Department of Arkansas State Police, and prosecuting attorney. The records of each transaction must be kept for a period of at least three (3) years.

(1) Any licensee under this chapter shall forfeit his, her, or its licenses and be guilty of a misdemeanor if he, she, or it:(1) Fails, neglects, or refuses to keep and preserve the records provided for in this chapter;(2) Knowingly makes any false entries upon and within the rec…

All license taxes collected, forfeited bail received, and fines collected under the provisions of this chapter shall be paid into the county general fund.