(a) It shall be unlawful for any person to:
(1) Violate any provision of this subchapter or any rule or order of the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission or the Division of Environmental Quality issued pursuant to this subchapter;
(2) Engage in open-cut mining without a permit issued pursuant to this subchapter;
(3) Violate any conditions of a permit or reclamation plan issued pursuant to this subchapter;
(4) Knowingly make any false statement, representation, or certification, or knowingly fail to make a statement, representation, or certification in any application, plan, record, report, or other document filed or required to be maintained under this subchapter; or
(5) Willfully resist, prevent, impede, or interfere with the Director of the Division of Environmental Quality or any of his or her authorized representatives in the performance of duties pursuant to this subchapter.
(b) For the purposes of fines only, each day or part of a day during which the violation is continued or repeated shall constitute a separate offense.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development
Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally
Chapter 57 - Mining And Reclamation Generally
Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Open-Cut Land Reclamation Act
§ 15-57-302. Declaration of policy
§ 15-57-305. Civil and administrative penalties
§ 15-57-308. Technical and financial assistance
§ 15-57-309. Entry on lands for inspection
§ 15-57-310. Necessity of permit — Effective date
§ 15-57-311. Application for permit — Fee — Bond
§ 15-57-312. Permit as state property
§ 15-57-313. Withdrawal of land covered by permit
§ 15-57-314. Extension of permit
§ 15-57-315. Duties of operator
§ 15-57-317. Bond forfeiture proceedings
§ 15-57-318. Registration of existing open-cut mines