Title 15, Natural Resources and Economic Development

(a) The statutory guardian of an infant or a person of unsound mind may unite in the petition in conjunction with his or her ward. (b) The infant, or person of unsound mind, may be made party defendant, in which case his or her guardian may appear and defend for him or her. (c) I…

(a) If, at any time, after the filing of the petition and before a sale of the property, it should be made to appear to the circuit court that the interests of the various owners could be more fully protected and the value of the various interests of the parties increased by the …

(1) Insofar as § 18-60-401 et seq., relating to the partition of land, is not in conflict with this subchapter, § 18-60-401 et seq. shall apply to the partition of interests in oil and gas leasehold rights on, in, and under lands. However, it shall not be necessary for the circui…

All spouses of the various owners of interests in oil and gas rights shall be necessary parties to the suit in partition, and the sale of the property by the commissioner under the decree, or the leasing of the property by the receiver as provided in this subchapter, shall effect…

Where a decree has been rendered under the provisions of this subchapter against a defendant or defendants, constructively summoned and who did not appear, the defendants or any one (1) or more of them may, at any time within six (6) months, and not thereafter, after the renditio…

(a) All division orders or any declaration of interest in gas between the purchaser of gas production and the owner of the production in Arkansas or between the purchasers of gas production or the owner of the production and the royalty interest owners in Arkansas shall contain t…

(a) All crude petroleum oil produced in this state shall be measured in gauge-tanks. The pipelines through which the crude petroleum oil is conveyed from oil wells to the gauge-tanks shall be placed on the surface of the ground and no bypasses shall extend from the pipelines betw…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, or association, being the owner or operator of any oil or gas well in this state, to take or remove any oil or oil-bearing gas from any lease, unless the oil or gas so taken and removed from the lease is to be gauged or …

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation who may purchase any oil produced in this state to in any way discount, dock, or short crude oil for waste, shrinking, or other causes, but such purchases when computed shall be on one hundred percent (100%) net oil me…

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Standard Gas Measurement Law”.

(a) The term “cubic foot of gas” or “standard cubic foot of gas” means the volume of gas contained in one cubic foot (1 cf) of space at a standard pressure base and at a standard temperature base. (b) The standard pressure base shall be fourteen and sixty-five one hundredths poun…

(a) The Oil and Gas Commission is authorized and empowered, in the absence of the availability of satisfactory actual data based upon observed or recorded specific gravity and flowing temperature determinations, to determine the average specific gravity and average flowing temper…

Any person required to report volumes of gas production under the laws of this state shall report such volumes in number of thousands of standard cubic feet calculated and determined under the provisions of this subchapter.

(a) Each and every sale and each and every purchase, delivery, and receipt of gas by volume made in this state, for which any accounting for the price paid or received for the gas so sold, purchased, delivered, or received must be made to an oil and gas lease owner, royalty owner…

(a) A dealer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), if that dealer:(1) Offers for sale any of the oils or fluids mentioned in this subchapter that:(A) Have not …

The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration shall have authority to promulgate such rules in regard to the enforcement of this subchapter as shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this subchapter which in his or her judgment will best serve to carry ou…

(1) No inspector or deputy, while in office, shall:(1) Be interested, directly or indirectly, in the manufacture or sale of any of the oils or gasoline specified in this subchapter; or(2) For the purpose of inspection, testing, or gauging the same, take away or appropriate for hi…

(1) No article or commodity shall be sold or offered for sale in the State of Arkansas as gasoline, motor vehicle fuel, special motor vehicle fuel, illuminating oils, or heating oils unless it shall conform to specifications as follows:(1) The fuels mentioned above shall be free …

(a) Where inspectors find gasoline being sold or offered for sale by any dealer that does not meet the specifications as set out in this subchapter, they must condemn the gasoline and affix to gasoline pumps the following placards as the occasion requires: “THIS GASOLINE DOES NOT…

The removing, altering, disfiguring, or defacing of any placard or any part thereof shall be treated as a misdemeanor. Any person, firm, or corporation guilty of that misdemeanor shall be fined in a sum not more than five hundred dollars ($500) nor less than fifty dollars ($50.00…

No oils or fluids that ignite or burn at any temperature less than that established by the current ASTM International standards or such other standards as the Arkansas Bureau of Standards may establish shall be offered for sale or used for illuminating or heating purposes within …

The person, firm, or corporation who receives motor vehicle fuel must keep in his or her possession and file in an orderly manner statements showing distillation tests, bills of lading, or invoices, as the case may be, covering each quantity received, and those items are to be su…

(a) Whenever any person, firm, or corporation shall receive any of the oils or gasoline mentioned in this subchapter that has not been tested under the laws of this state, it shall be his or her or its duty to:(1) Cause to be tested, or test, the oils or gasoline as provided in t…

(a) The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration, or his or her deputies or inspectors, whose duty it is to enforce this subchapter, shall keep a correct record of all oils and fluids inspected by them in a book provided for by the state for that purpose. They sh…

(a) (1) Any person engaged in the business of buying any crude oil for manufacture or sale thereof, who shall discriminate between different pools of crude oil in this state by purchasing crude oil at a lower price in one (1) pool than is paid for crude oil of the same kind, qual…

(a) It shall be unlawful for any major oil company to require or seek to require a commissioned agent of the products of the major oil company to:(1) Purchase the oil business at a price in which the major oil company has used the United States Department of Energy fuel allocatio…

(a) The proceeds derived from the sale of oil or gas production from any oil or gas well shall be paid to persons legally entitled thereto, commencing no later than six (6) months after the date of first sale and thereafter no later than sixty (60) days after the end of the calen…

(a) If the first purchaser, or owner of the right to drill and produce substituted for the first commercial purchaser as provided in this subchapter, violates this subchapter by willfully withholding payments without just cause or through bad faith from persons legally entitled t…

(a) Any court of competent jurisdiction of the county in which the oil or gas well is located shall have jurisdiction over all proceedings brought pursuant to this subchapter. (b) If persons legally entitled to the proceeds seek relief for the failure of the purchaser to make tim…

(a) An obligation arises under an oil and gas lease to pay or to deliver oil or gas royalties to the mineral owner or his or her assignee or to deliver oil or gas to a purchaser to the credit of the mineral owner or his or her assignee, and willful breach by the owner of the righ…

(a) For any gas well completed as a commercially productive well subsequent to the passage of this section, the party designated as operator of the well shall sell, and the operator's first purchaser shall purchase, the gas production attributable to the interest of any party who…

Any person willfully or maliciously violating any of the provisions of this subchapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).

Where royalties are paid in lieu of drilling off-set wells on forty-acre units adjacent to forty-acre units already in production, the forty-acre units adjacent to the forty-acre unit receiving the royalty payments shall immediately after the signing of the agreement or contract …

All purchasers of oil and gas shall pay to the royalty interest the same premium or bonus above the posted market price for oil or gas they pay to the leaseholder or working interest under any oil, gas, or mineral lease on lands from which oil or gas may be purchased under contra…

It shall be unlawful for any purchaser of oil or gas to enter into any contract with any lessee or operator under any oil, gas, or mineral lease, whereby the purchaser undertakes to pay any of the cost or expense of operation or production, steaming, treating, or running oil or g…

It shall be the duty of both the lessee, or his or her assignee, and any pipeline company, corporation, or individual contracting for the purchase of oil or gas under any oil, gas, or mineral lease to protect the royalty of the lessor's interest by paying to the lessor or his or …

It shall be unlawful for any pipeline company, corporation, or individual purchasing oil or gas from the operator or lessee of any oil, gas, or mineral lease to enter into any contract with the operator or lessee whereby the purchaser acquires the royalty oil or gas reserved in t…

(a) It shall be the duty of any purchaser of oil or gas to pay the royalty interest at the same time it pays the lessee or producer. However, the parties may expressly waive the time and manner of payment in writing. (b) The purchaser shall at some time not later than the twelfth…

(a) Any leaseholder or operator who contracts for the sale of gas or oil to any pipeline company or other purchaser, under and by virtue of the terms of which the lessee receives a greater amount than the royalty owners in proportion to interest therein, or receives a bonus, or b…

(a) (1) The Oil and Gas Commission is hereby authorized to receive and investigate complaints of oil and gas royalty owners that their lessees or others responsible for the payment of royalty are in default of their lease agreements, orders of the commission, or the requirements …

This chapter may be known and cited as the “Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board Act”.

(1) As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) “Appliance” means any apparatus or fixture attached to a liquefied petroleum gas plant or system for the purpose of utilizing, burning, or consuming gas contained in the plant or system;(2) “Board” means the L…

Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter or any rule adopted pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and, in addition,…

The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, in accordance with the laws of the state governing injunctions, may maintain an action in the name of the state against any person to enjoin the violation of any provision of this chapter; provided, no bond shall be required prior to obtaining a…

The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board shall have authority to charge the following maximum fees for the inspection or registration of the following: (1) Containers of fifty (50) water gallon capacity or less ....................................................................... $ 5.…

(a) All moneys collected as liquefied petroleum gas inspection, registration, permit, or other fees under the provisions of this chapter shall be deposited into the State Treasury, and the Treasurer of State shall credit the moneys to the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Fund. (b) All mon…