Title 22, Public Property

The Arkansas Forestry Commission may exchange tracts of land acquired under the provisions of this subchapter for suitable land of equal value in furtherance of the administration and consolidation of these holdings and may sell and convey, upon terms requiring proper conservatio…

(a) Any lands acquired by the Commissioner of State Lands in any county through tax sale, which are deemed by the Arkansas Forestry Commission to be suitable for forest purposes, may be conveyed to the state as forestlands by the proper officers of the county without reimbursemen…

Upon the written request of the Arkansas Forestry Commission, the Attorney General shall institute and prosecute to final decree all requisite suits to quiet the title of the state in and to lands acquired; and, in the prosecution of the suits, the state shall be exempted from th…

(a) The purchase price of lands acquired shall be paid at the time of acquisition from the State Forestry Fund, and the acquisition shall not impose any liability upon the general credit or taxing power of the state. (b) All lands acquired under the provisions of this subchapter …

(a) The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized and directed to fully cooperate with the departments, officers, and agencies of the United States Government to meet the requirements of the rules, regulations, and acts of the United States Congress relating to the objectives of…

(a) It shall be the duty of the State Forester, in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, the rules promulgated by the Arkansas Forestry Commission, and approved methods of forestry, to manage, control, protect, develop, utilize, and handle the lands in the state fore…

The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized and directed to approve, promulgate, and publish rules, and amendments or modifications thereof, reasonably required in directing and controlling the proper execution of the duties and attaining the objectives of this subchapter. The…

The Arkansas Forestry Commission shall cause a record of all its proceedings relating to state forests, including the date of acquisition, description, source of title, purchase price, amounts expended in the development of each tract, and the forest to which allotted, to be kept…

(a) For the purpose of protecting the timber and lands of the state against trespass and to obtain reliable information upon which to predicate the proceedings provided for in this subchapter, the Attorney General shall have the authority to employ agents to make the necessary in…

Whenever the Attorney General shall receive or obtain information that anyone is cutting timber upon state lands, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to institute suit to recover the value of the timber that has been cut and to restrain further trespass upon the land.

Whenever the Attorney General shall have information that anyone is in possession of land that has been forfeited to the state and the period of redemption has expired, he or she shall institute suit to eject the person from the land and to recover the rental value of the land du…

(a) Whenever the Attorney General shall receive information that any donee of state land has violated or failed to comply with any of the laws relating to the donation of state lands, the Attorney General shall file a complaint with the Commissioner of State Lands praying for the…

(a) In all suits pending in any courts of this state where the state is a party of record claiming title to, or any interest in, any real estate, the title to which is in controversy in the suit, neither the party claiming adversely to the state in the suit nor any other person, …

All amounts recovered for the state shall be paid to the Treasurer of State to be credited to the Constitutional Officers Fund and State Central Services Fund for the support of the office of the Commissioner of State Lands, and each agent's per diem and expenses shall be paid fr…

(a) The field notes, transcripts, documents, maps, plats, records, and other papers kept in the office of the Commissioner of State Lands are declared to be public records. (b) Under the authority and direction of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, any deputy surveyor…

(a) All certified transcripts and copies of any of the public records in the office of the Commissioner of State Lands, properly certified by the Commissioner of State Lands, shall be entitled to be recorded in all deed records and shall be received in evidence in all courts of t…

(a) (1) The county court of each county is authorized to ascertain at what price the field notes of survey of the lands in the county, together with township maps thereof, can be obtained. After the court shall have obtained a knowledge of the amount of expenses necessary to proc…

(a) The clerk of each county court shall issue, when called by any person, a copy of the field notes and maps of the county and is authorized to charge fifty cents (50¢) for each copy. (b) No copy shall contain more than three hundred twenty (320) acres without an additional char…

The office of the Commissioner of State Lands shall be subject to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.

(a) It is the purpose and intent of this section and §§ 22-5-802 — 22-5-813 to charge the Commissioner of State Lands with the authority and responsibility for considering applications for and granting leases and permits for the taking of sand, gravel, oil, natural gas, casinghea…

(a) The provisions of this section and §§ 22-5-801 and 22-5-803 — 22-5-813 shall not be applicable to the severance, sale, or other disposition of sand, gravel, timber or logs, or minerals salvaged, severed, or removed by a state agency from lands held in the name of or managed b…

(a) (1) Upon conviction, a person, firm, company, corporation, or association is guilty of a Class D felony if the person, firm, company, corporation, or association without first obtaining a lease or permit to do so from the Commissioner of State Lands knowingly removes any sand…

(a) (1) The Natural Resources Committee is created and shall be composed of the following members:(A) The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration or his or her designee;(B) The Secretary of the Department of Energy and Environment or his or her designee;(C) The …

(a) No person, firm, company, corporation, or association shall take any sand, gravel, oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, coal or other minerals, or sever any timber or logs from the beds or bars of navigable rivers and lakes in this state or from any other lands or interest in la…

(a) Any person applying for a lease or permit under the provisions of this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-805 and 22-5-807 — 22-5-813 shall offer in the application to pay at least the minimums prescribed in the schedule for the lease or permit. (b) (1) Upon receipt of an applica…

(a) When an application for a lease or permit is filed with the Commissioner of State Lands for the taking or production of any sand, gravel, oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, coal, or other minerals or the severance of any timber or logs from state-owned lands, the Commissioner …

(a) The office of the Commissioner of State Lands shall maintain a permanent record of all leases and permits issued under this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-807 and 22-5-809 — 22-5-813. (b) (1) The person, firm, company, corporation, or association making application or filing …

(a) (1) Every person obtaining a lease or permit under this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-808 and 22-5-810 — 22-5-813 shall keep an accurate record and account of all sand, gravel, oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, coal and other minerals taken, and all timber or logs severed fr…

(a) Each person, firm, company, corporation, association, or other business entity holding a lease or permit for the taking or production of any sand, gravel, timber or logs, minerals, or other natural resources shall be absolutely liable for all severance taxes, royalties, and a…

Any person, firm, company, corporation, state agency, or other business entity holding a lease or permit on March 21, 1975, for the taking or production of any sand, gravel, minerals, or timber or logs from state-owned lands shall be permitted to continue to take or produce sand,…

(a) The Commissioner of State Lands shall promulgate any rules which may be deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-811 and 22-5-813. (b) The Commissioner of State Lands shall include in the rules all grounds and conditions for the revo…

The office of the Commissioner of State Lands may conduct a continuing check of the operations by lessees or permittees to assure that each lessee or permittee is meeting all the requirements and complying with the conditions of the lease or permit and the provisions of this sect…

(a) Sand and gravel may be removed from the beds or bars of any navigable river or lake by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, any county or road district, or any federal agency to be used for road building or maintenance, without paying the State of Arkansas any amount wh…

(a) The State of Arkansas shall not acquire title to the oil, gas, and other minerals in and under lands covered by navigable waters artificially created by agencies of the United States or the State of Arkansas in any instance where the underlying minerals are not purchased or c…

No commercial mining shall be permitted at the Crater of Diamonds State Park. Recreational mining by individuals shall continue to be permitted at the park.

(a) The Commissioner of State Lands shall have the power to correct errors that exist or may exist arising from the erroneous sale of lands belonging or formerly belonging to the state. (b) The Commissioner of State Lands shall have the power to correct all manifest errors in the…

The Commissioner of State Lands shall issue certificates of purchase only in cases in which it shall appear by the records that no certificates have ever been issued and in cases where the affidavit of the applicant, or some person for him or her, shall be filed stating that the …

(a) The owner of any original or patent certificate for any seminary, saline, internal improvements, swamp and overflowed, real estate bank, or state bank lands, or the assignee or the parties in whom the legal title to the land exists, may present the certificate to the Commissi…

(a) The owner of any certificate of purchase for any swamp and overflowed, seminary, saline, internal improvement, real estate bank, or state bank lands, or the assignee or the party in whom the legal title to the lands exist, may present the certificates and other evidences of t…

The Commissioner of State Lands is authorized and empowered to execute, under his or her hand and official seal, a deed to purchasers from the state of any seminary, saline, internal improvement, real estate bank, or state bank lands, upon the filing in his or her office of the r…

(a) The Commissioner of State Lands is authorized and empowered to execute, under his or her hand and official seal, a deed to purchasers or their assigns or legal representatives of sixteenth section or school lands, upon presentation to the Commissioner of State Lands of proper…

The seal of the Commissioner of State Lands shall be sufficient verification and authentication of the deed made by him or her for any class of lands mentioned in this act, and the deed shall be received as evidence of the legal title to the lands in any court in this state.

(a) The Commissioner of State Lands is empowered and authorized to cancel, set aside, and hold for naught any redemption or sale deed issued by him or her for any state-owned land in any instance where a personal check tendered to and accepted by him or her in payment of the rede…

(a) All sales of lands formerly owned by the State of Arkansas conducted pursuant to the decrees of the Pulaski County Chancery Court in favor of the State of Arkansas, condemning the lands for sale to pay the unpaid purchase price thereof, which sales were held and conducted by …

(a) (1) No swamp, internal improvement, seminary, or saline lands shall be sold for less than two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per acre, and no state school land shall be sold for less than two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per acre nor for less than the market value ascerta…

In the disposition of state-owned tracts of lands suitable for agriculture, the Commissioner of State Lands shall give first preference, where they are qualified as farmers, to war veterans who have been bona fide citizens of this state for five (5) years or more, who have been i…