(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 redemption or purchase price thereof is not paid upon presentation to the bank upon which it is drawn.
(b) Upon failure of payment, the Commissioner of State Lands may issue a cancellation deed cancelling and setting aside the redemption or sale deed and shall file the cancellation deed for record in the county in which the lands are located and pay the expense incident thereto from the maintenance fund of the office of the Commissioner of State Lands.
Structure Arkansas Code
Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 22-6-101. Record of land sales
§ 22-6-102. Correction of errors growing out of erroneous sales
§ 22-6-103. Issuance of replacement certificates of purchase
§ 22-6-104. Execution of deed on original or patent certificate
§ 22-6-105. Execution of deed on certificate of purchase
§ 22-6-106. Issuance of deed on proof of payment
§ 22-6-107. Deeds to school lands sold prior to 1881
§ 22-6-108. Seal of Commissioner of State Lands sufficient verification
§ 22-6-109. Cancellation of deed upon dishonor of check
§ 22-6-110. Confirmation of sales of lands paid for with levee bonds
§ 22-6-111. Price of swamp, internal improvement, seminary, saline, or school lands — Exemptions
§ 22-6-112. Preference to war veterans in sale of agricultural land
§ 22-6-113. State's retention of mineral interest — Exemption
§ 22-6-115. Prohibited acts of county officials affecting title
§ 22-6-116. Certificates by county collectors correcting or cancelling original certificates
§ 22-6-117. Report to Legislative Council — Definition
§ 22-6-118. Exemptions from § 22-6-117 requirement