Arkansas Code
Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources
Chapter 32 - Logging

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 15-32-101. Boundaries to be ascertained before timber is cut - (a) Any person who desires to cut and remove any...

Subchapter 2 - County Timber Inspector

§ 15-32-201. County surveyor to act as timber inspector - The county surveyors of each county of the State of...

§ 15-32-202. Oath - The county surveyors, as ex officio timber inspectors of their...

§ 15-32-203. Bond — Contents - The county surveyor shall also execute a bond to the...

§ 15-32-204. Oath and bond filed in recorder's office — Suit on bond - The oath of office and bond as county timber inspector...

§ 15-32-205. Inspector prohibited from purchasing public lands — Penalty - (a) The county timber inspector is prohibited from purchasing any...

§ 15-32-206. Deputies — Authority to administer oaths - (a) The county timber inspectors may appoint one (1) or...

§ 15-32-207. Quarterly reports and payment of funds - (a) (1) The county timber inspectors shall make quarterly reports...

§ 15-32-208. Rules and regulations governing duties of deputies - The county timber inspectors shall prescribe by written rules and...

Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting

§ 15-32-301. Liability for unlawfully cutting, etc - (a) Any person who shall knowingly cut down, destroy, or...

§ 15-32-302. Attachment procedure - In case the tree or timber shall be so unlawfully...

§ 15-32-303. Seizure of logs unlawfully cut from state lands — Filing of notice and complaint - In case a county timber inspector finds anywhere in his...

§ 15-32-304. Verification of complaint — Issuance and service of summons - (a) The complaint required by § 15-32-303 shall be sworn...

§ 15-32-305. Return of officer when no one in possession — Warning order — Appeals - (a) If a person is not found in possession of...

§ 15-32-306. Disposition of logs under judgment - If judgment is rendered for the state in any action,...

§ 15-32-307. Prosecuting attorney - (a) It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney...

§ 15-32-308. Distribution of proceeds - The proceeds of all sales from seizure and fines under...

§ 15-32-309. Trespass or waste — Communicating information - All county sheriffs and township officers shall immediately communicate to...

§ 15-32-310. Certificate of Secretary of State — Presumptive evidence - In any criminal or civil action growing out of a...

§ 15-32-311. Payment of funds into State Treasury - (a) All moneys received from the sale of logs, timber,...

Subchapter 4 - Measurement and Marking of Logs

§ 15-32-401. Certified bill of measurement - (a) (1) A county timber inspector, in person or by...

§ 15-32-402. Method of scaling or measuring - (a) In surveying or measuring logs, the county timber inspectors...

§ 15-32-403. Monthly accounts of deputies - The county timber inspector shall require of each of his...

§ 15-32-404. Reports of inspectors to General Assembly - The county timber inspectors shall report to the General Assembly...

§ 15-32-405. Recording of marks - Any owner of logs or timber in this state may...

§ 15-32-406. Penalty for unlawfully marking logs - (a) No person shall: (1) Use any mark on any...

§ 15-32-407. Recording of mortgages and sales of marked logs - (a) All mortgages, liens, bills of sales, or other written...

§ 15-32-408. Prize logs — Lien for driving when intermingled with marked logs — Definition - (a) (1) All prize logs shall be divided between the...

§ 15-32-409. Failure to mark rafted logs - (a) Every person rafting logs on any of the rivers...

§ 15-32-410. Fees - County timber inspectors shall be entitled to receive the following...

§ 15-32-411. Wages for piecework - (a) All wages for piecework when applied to the severance...

§ 15-32-412. Purchases on basis of volume or weight - (a) Any person who purchases products as provided in §...

§ 15-32-413. Actions to recover difference in wages or purchase price — Attorney's fees - In all actions to enforce the payments provided in this...

Subchapter 5 - Timber Sales

§ 15-32-501. Co-owners and coheirs - (a) A co-owner or coheir of land may execute an...

Subchapter 6 - Timber Trust Money

§ 15-32-601. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Owner” means any person,...

§ 15-32-602. Timber trust funds — Trustees — Beneficiaries - (a) Money a timber purchaser collects for harvested timber is...

§ 15-32-603. Offenses - (a) A trustee commits the offense of timber theft if...

§ 15-32-604. Defenses - It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this subchapter...

§ 15-32-605. Secondary purchasers exempt from liability - Secondary purchasers shall not be civilly or criminally liable for...