All persons owning or controlling by lease or purchase any copper, lead, zinc, iron, marble, stone, rock, granite, slate, coal, or other mineral lands in this state shall have the same right to incorporate, own, construct, and operate short lines of railway or tramway as necessary to the successful mining, quarrying, and marketing of coal, marble, stone, rock, granite, slate, and other minerals.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development
Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally
Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests
Subchapter 5 - Railways on Mineral Lands
§ 15-56-501. Short line roads authorized
§ 15-56-502. Rights-of-way acquisition and operation
§ 15-56-503. Rights, powers, and privileges of common carrier