Title 22, Public Property

The State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission shall periodically review the classification or designation of state parks as provided in § 22-4-201 and may reclassify any park when the commission determines that the facilities, attractions, public use, or recreational values …

(a) All state parks classified by the State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission under the provisions of § 22-4-201, or reclassified under the provisions of § 22-4-202, shall continue to be a part of the state parks system. Any reclassification shall be for the purpose of mor…

The State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission is authorized and empowered to obtain the necessary funds for the purpose of extending, developing, and improving the state parks system from any source or sources necessary and consistent with this subchapter, § 22-4-101 et seq.…

(a) (1) The State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission shall direct the State Parks Division to prescribe and collect reasonable fees, rates, tolls, and charges for the services, facilities, and commodities rendered by the properties and equipment of the state parks system.(2…

All of the property controlled and operated by the State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission and the interest on all bonds issued under this subchapter shall be exempt from taxation by the State of Arkansas or by any municipal corporation, county, or other political subdivis…

(a) The following revenues and moneys are determined and declared to be cash funds which the State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission shall hold as separate funds and deposit in trust in any banks or depositories, other than the State Treasury, which the commission may sele…

(a) The State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission may, in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, issue bonds in an amount not to exceed two million dollars ($2,000,000) for the purpose of providing funds for the construction of the Arkansas Museum of Natural Reso…

(a) The State Parks, Recreation, and Travel Commission, in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, may contract with the Arkansas Development Finance Authority to provide for the issuance of bonds by the authority for the purpose of providing funds for the design, cons…

This subchapter may be cited as the “Arkansas Trails System Act”.

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Right-of-way” means the strip of land over which a trail is constructed whether acquired by easement or fee simple title; and(2) “Trail” means any road, pathway, route, or other identifiable linear facility designated, constructed, and maintain…

(1) A statewide trails system to be called the “Arkansas Trails System” is authorized to be administered by the State Parks Division. The administration shall include:(1) Coordination of trail development between state, federal, county, municipal, and private entities;(2) Develop…

(a) An advisory body to the State Parks Division to be known as the “Arkansas Trails Council”, is created for the purpose of informing the division, other trail-providing agencies, and the public at large of public need, use, and ongoing and planned trail development and to provi…

(1) Trails accepted into the Arkansas Trails System shall meet criteria as established by the Arkansas Trails Council and the State Parks Division, which shall include:(1) A guaranteed right-of-way for public use for a minimum period of five (5) years;(2) Trail operation and main…

(1) Trails in the Arkansas Trails System shall be classified according to their designated use and shall include, but not be limited to, the following classifications:(1) Interpretive trail — a route having natural, cultural, or historical points of interest identified to the pub…

Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed to give the public any greater right or privilege of access to private lands than that permitted by easement granted by the landowner.

(a) (1) The state or any municipal corporation, county, or other political subdivision thereof shall have the authority to sell, lease, grant, exchange, or otherwise dispose of any property, or interest therein, comprising parks, playgrounds, golf courses, swimming pools, or othe…

(1) Any sale, lease, grant, or other disposition authorized by § 22-4-501 shall be in the discretion of, and executed by:(1) The Governor, as to state property;(2) The county judge, as to county property;(3) The mayor and council, city commissioners, or other governing authority,…

(a) Any sale, lease, grant, exchange, or other disposition of any property under the provisions of this subchapter shall be made only after advertising the disposition in a newspaper in which legal advertisements are published for the county in which the land or other facilities …

Nothing in this subchapter shall be construed as impairing the obligation of any contract provision, bond issue, or other indebtedness thereon, whether by way of reversionary clause or otherwise.

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Trail of Tears Historic Bike Route Act”.

The route along U.S. Highway 62 from the border between Oklahoma and Arkansas to the Trail of Tears Park and Historic Site located on the campus of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville at the northwest corner of the intersection of Stadium Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. B…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Sign” means a permanent marker placed along the Trail of Tears Historic Bike Route identifying the route as the “Trail of Tears Historic Bike Route”; and(2) “Trail of Tears Historic Bike Route” means the route along U.S. Highway 62 from the border…

(a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall determine those state highway rights-of-way that are wider than necessary for highway purposes and those borrow pits, dirt pits, and other highway-related lands owned by the state or the department that could be used to produce …

The Commissioner of State Lands shall take an oath that he or she will not, directly or indirectly, be engaged in the purchase of lands belonging to the state, to be sold by him or her during his or her continuance in office, and that he or she will not, directly or indirectly, e…

(a) It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of State Lands to give bond, with good and sufficient security to be approved by the Governor, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000), for any moneys and other property belonging to the state which may be in or may come into h…

The Commissioner of State Lands shall be provided with an official seal for the use of his or her office, and every official paper or document issued by the Commissioner of State Lands shall have the seal of his or her office thereupon, or thereto attached. The seal shall authent…

The landed interests of this state shall be controlled by the Commissioner of State Lands, and he or she shall dispose of them as provided by law.

(a) The Commissioner of State Lands shall have charge and control of the disposition of all lands that have been forfeited to the state for nonpayment of taxes legally assessed thereon, and he or she shall dispose of the forfeited lands as provided by law. (b) The Auditor of Stat…

(a) The Commissioner of State Lands shall take possession and have charge of all the books, papers, evidences of title, plats, and maps of all internal improvement, seminary, saline, and swamp and overflowed lands. (b) The Commissioner of State Lands shall proceed to complete all…

(a) All deeds, abstracts, contracts, and other evidences of title to realty belonging to the State of Arkansas shall be filed in the office of the Commissioner of State Lands to be preserved by the Commissioner of State Lands as the other public records and files of his or her of…

(a) With respect to real property administered by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, an institution of higher education, the Arkansas Public Employees' Retirement System, and the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System:(1) The department, an institution of higher education, th…

(1) It is declared to be the policy of the State of Arkansas:(1) To provide for the development and conservation of the human and soil resources of the state;(2) To protect the lands owned by the state and to provide for their classification and best use in the interests of the f…

Insofar as any provision of this subchapter is inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, the provisions of this subchapter shall be controlling.

(1) In addition to other duties and powers conferred by law upon the Commissioner of State Lands, he or she shall:(1) Effectuate the policies and carry out the purposes declared in § 22-5-301, including:(A) Securing the cooperation and assistance of the United States and any of i…

(a) In cases where the location of lands claimed by the state appears to be doubtful or subject to controversy because of faulty descriptions or otherwise, the Commissioner of State Lands shall cause those lands to be surveyed in order to accurately locate the lands or shall requ…

(a) The Commissioner of State Lands may appoint appraisers to inspect and appraise state-owned lands for sale, transfer, or donation. (b) Each appraiser selected shall, by education or experience, be familiar with and know how to arrive at the value of lands, water rights, minera…

(a) State lands shall be classified as to whether they should be retained in public ownership or returned to private ownership through sale or donation, and the classification may be changed. (b) (1) The Commissioner of State Lands shall dispose of the lands and make deeds to the…

(a) It shall be the duty of the Attorney General, and any assistant attorney appointed by the Governor on a contingency fee not to exceed twenty-five percent (25%), to institute suit in the name of the state to recover any forgotten, lost, or other outstanding public interest or …

No tax title shall be valid or binding against the equitable or legal interest of this state in or to any real estate whatever. However, such tax titles shall be void so far as they shall conflict with the interest of the state and shall be treated and considered as null and void…

(a) All land which has formed or may form in the navigable waters of this state, and within the original boundaries of a former owner of land upon such waters, shall belong to and the title thereto shall vest in the former owner, his or her heirs or assigns, or in whoever may hav…

(a) The title to all lands which have formed or may form in the beds of nonnavigable lakes, or in abandoned river channels or beds, whether or not still navigable, which reformed lands or alluvia are above the ordinary high-water mark, shall vest in the riparian owners to the lan…

(a) The Commissioner of State Lands is empowered and authorized to execute deeds to lands described in § 22-5-404 to riparian owners upon application and the filing of proof of record ownership of adjacent lands and proof of proper survey of the lands, conveying all the right, ti…

(a) The State of Arkansas quitclaims, to the owners of adjacent lands, title to the streambed of the Mulberry River, excluding oil, gas, and other mineral rights underlying the stream, to the center of the stream. However, the state retains an easement to run with the land for fr…

(a) Any person claiming to be the owner of land in this state known as sixteenth section school land, whose claim is based on a regular, unbroken chain of title for a period of not less than twelve (12) years, and to whose claim there has not been an adverse claimant for a period…

(a) Where the claim of the State of Arkansas to any land conveyed to the Bank of the State of Arkansas under and by virtue of the Acts of the General Assembly of January 31, 1843, and February 3, 1843, providing for the liquidation of the assets of the bank, and the Acts of Janua…

Where land has escheated to the state under the provisions of § 1 of Act of January 11, 1843, p. 56, the title of the state may be conveyed to the present owner by a quitclaim deed executed by the Commissioner of State Lands upon the filing with him or her of an application for t…