(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 by any other means conspires with a purchaser to receive from the sale of the oil and gas more than his or her just proportionate share therefrom shall forfeit his or her rights in and to the leasehold premises.
(b) Any pipeline company or other purchaser of oil and gas who contracts with any lessee as set out in subsection (a) of this section to the injury of the royalty owners shall forfeit to the royalty owners treble value of the amount of oil or gas runs thus wrongfully taken from the royalty interest.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development
Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine
Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas
§ 15-74-702. Royalties paid in lieu of drilling off-set wells on adjacent units
§ 15-74-703. Entitlement of royalty interests to premiums and bonuses
§ 15-74-705. Purchaser's price for royalty gas
§ 15-74-706. Contracting to buy royalty gas for less than price paid operator or lessee
§ 15-74-707. Time of royalty payment — Monthly statements to royalty owner
§ 15-74-709. Default or delinquency by lessees or others responsible for payment of royalties