(a) No county clerk, county assessor, sheriff, or other county official shall file or prepare and issue any type of deed, mortgage, lease, or other legal document, nor shall he or she extend and assess any taxes on state or political subdivision lands for any type of taxes, nor shall he or she include any such lands on any delinquent list, without first notifying the state or the department owning the lands by registered letter, return receipt requested, sixty (60) days prior to taking such action, setting forth the proposed action to be taken and including a complete legal description of the lands.
(b) Any action taken without complying with the requirements of this section shall be declared null, void, and invalid, as against the state or political subdivision thereof, in any court having jurisdiction of the cause.
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