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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 15-72-101. Declaration of policy - In recognition of past, present, and imminent evils occurring in...
§ 15-72-102. Definitions - As used in this act: (1) “Commission” means the Oil...
§ 15-72-103. Penalty - (a) (1) (A) A person who violates this subchapter or...
§ 15-72-104. Falsifying or failing to keep records — Willfully violating the Safe Drinking Water Act - (a) Any person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor...
§ 15-72-105. Prohibition on wasting oil or gas - Waste of oil or gas as defined in this act...
§ 15-72-106. Court review by aggrieved person — Injunction - (a) Any interested person adversely affected by any statute of...
§ 15-72-107. Notice prerequisite to temporary restraining order or injunction - (a) No temporary restraining order or injunction of any kind...
§ 15-72-108. Injunctions for enforcement - (a) Whenever it shall appear that any person is violating,...
§ 15-72-109. Application to drill — Applicant address - Each application for the drilling of a well in search...
§ 15-72-110. Appeals - In all proceedings brought under authority of this act, of...
Subchapter 2 - Wells and Drilling Generally
§ 15-72-201. Definitions - As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 15-72-202. Penalties for violation of certain sections - (a) Any person, firm, or corporation violating § 15-72-206, §...
§ 15-72-203. Prerequisite to exploring or drilling — Notice to surface owner — Definition - (a) Before entering upon a site for the purpose of...
§ 15-72-204. Prerequisite for drilling permit — Operator's proof of financial responsibility - (a) Before the Oil and Gas Commission issues a permit...
§ 15-72-205. Notice of intent to drill — Permit and fee - (a) Before any well shall be drilled in search of...
§ 15-72-206. Casing oil or gas wells — Keeping sands separate - (a) The owner or operator of any well put down...
§ 15-72-207. Log requirements generally - (a) It shall be the duty of the owner of...
§ 15-72-208. Proper confinement of gas by possessor of well - (a) Any person, copartnership, corporation, owner, lessee, or manager in...
§ 15-72-209. Right of others to confine gas - In addition to the penalties described in § 15-72-202 for...
§ 15-72-210. Gas leaks in pipelines, machinery, etc - (a) It is the duty of any person discovering any...
§ 15-72-211. Flambeau lights - (a) (1) The use of natural gas for illuminating purposes...
§ 15-72-212. Failure to control wild wells - (a) In order to protect the natural gas fields and...
§ 15-72-213. Surface owner's lien for damages caused by operator neglect - Any surface owner who is damaged or threatened with damage...
§ 15-72-214. Surface owner's claim for damages caused by operator neglect - (a) Each operator shall remain liable under the proof of...
§ 15-72-216. Requirement that dry or abandoned wells be plugged — Notice of abandonment - (a) Each abandoned well and each dry hole promptly shall...
§ 15-72-217. Plugging dry or abandoned well by lessee or operator - (a) All lessees or operators drilling or operating for crude...
§ 15-72-218. Plugging dry or abandoned well by another - Whenever any person is injured or threatened with injury by...
§ 15-72-219. Compensation of surface owners and surface tenants for damages — Restoration of land - (a) A surface owner or surface tenant is entitled to...
Subchapter 3 - Pools and Drilling Units
§ 15-72-301. Applicability of §§ 15-72-307 — 15-72-314 - The provisions of §§ 15-72-307 — 15-72-314 shall be applicable...
§ 15-72-302. Just and equitable shares — Preventing waste, avoiding risks, etc. — Drilling units - (a) Whether or not the total production from a pool...
§ 15-72-303. Authority to integrate production in drilling units - (a) When two (2) or more separately owned tracts are...
§ 15-72-304. Integration orders generally - (a) All orders requiring integration shall be made after notice...
§ 15-72-305. Allocation of production and cost following integration order — Procedure - (a) (1) The order of the Oil and Gas Commission...
§ 15-72-306. Limitation on production if no integration - Should the owners of separate tracts embraced within a drilling...
§ 15-72-307. Formation of units not in restraint of trade - The formation of any drilling unit or salt water disposal...
§ 15-72-308. Petition for unit operation — Hearing - (a) Upon the filing of a petition as provided in...
§ 15-72-309. Findings to support order requiring unit operation — Issuance - (a) If after hearing and considering the petition and evidence...
§ 15-72-310. Order requiring unit operation — Contents - The order requiring unit operation shall be fair and reasonable...
§ 15-72-311. Obligation or liability of owners for expenses - The obligation or liability of each owner in the several...
§ 15-72-312. Operator's lien - (a) The operator may have a lien on all of...
§ 15-72-313. New unit operation order in pool established by previous order - (a) The Oil and Gas Commission, upon the filing of...
§ 15-72-314. Unit area oil and gas — Product of tract - The portion of oil or gas produced from the unit...
§ 15-72-315. Unitization of entire pool as one operating unit - (a) Where the Oil and Gas Commission has received a...
§ 15-72-316. Salt water disposal unit operation of a pool — Petition - (a) Upon the filing of a petition as hereinafter provided,...
§ 15-72-317. Findings to support order requiring salt water disposal unit operation - (a) If, after hearing and considering the petition and evidence...
§ 15-72-318. Order requiring salt water disposal unit operation — Contents - The order requiring salt water disposal unit operation shall be...
§ 15-72-319. Salt water disposal unit operation — Expenses - The obligation or liability of each owner in the several...
§ 15-72-320. Salt water disposal unit — Operator's lien - (a) The operator may have a lien on all of...
§ 15-72-321. Enlarged operation of salt water disposal unit established by previous order - (a) The Oil and Gas Commission, upon the filing of...
§ 15-72-322. Oil and gas from salt water disposal unit — Product of tract - The portion of oil and gas produced from the salt...
§ 15-72-323. Notice of public hearings - If public hearings are required, notice of public hearings before...
§ 15-72-324. Limitation on production - (a) Whenever the Oil and Gas Commission limits the total...
Subchapter 4 - Illegal Oil and Gas
§ 15-72-401. Prohibition on dealing in illegal oil and gas - (a) The sale, purchase, or acquisition or the transportation, refining,...
§ 15-72-402. Finding oil and gas to be contraband — Bringing action for seizure and sale - (a) (1) Apart from, and in addition to, any other...
§ 15-72-403. Summons - (a) Upon the filing of the complaint, the clerk of...
§ 15-72-404. Order of seizure - (a) Where it appears by a verified pleading on the...
§ 15-72-405. Conservator - In a proper case, the circuit court may direct the...
§ 15-72-406. Sale — Application of proceeds - (a) (1) Sales of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal...
§ 15-72-407. Other causes of action - Nothing in this subchapter shall deny or abridge any cause...
Subchapter 5 - Secondary Recovery
§ 15-72-501. Definitions - (a) As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise...
§ 15-72-502. Investigation and research — Personnel - The Oil and Gas Commission is authorized and directed to...
§ 15-72-503. Submission of findings to landowners - The findings of the Oil and Gas Commission are to...
§ 15-72-504. Agreements to use secondary recovery methods not in restraint of trade - If the persons owning and operating any oil pool or...
Subchapter 6 - Underground Storage of Gas
§ 15-72-601. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 15-72-602. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 15-72-603. Public interest and welfare — Authority of commission - (a) The underground storage of natural gas which promotes conservation...
§ 15-72-604. Condemnation of subsurface strata or formations — Limitations - (a) Any natural gas public utility may condemn for its...
§ 15-72-605. Prerequisite to eminent domain — Certificate - Any natural gas public utility desiring to exercise the right...
§ 15-72-606. Petition for eminent domain — Subsequent proceedings - (a) Any natural gas public utility having first obtained a...
§ 15-72-607. Ownership of gas - All natural gas which has been reduced to possession and...
§ 15-72-608. Rules - (a) The Oil and Gas Commission shall have authority to...
Subchapter 7 - Exploration
§ 15-72-701. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 15-72-702. Bonus for discovery of oil pool - Any person who discovers a commercial oil pool in this...
§ 15-72-703. Application for permit to drill discovery well - To become entitled to the benefits provided in this subchapter,...
§ 15-72-704. Approval of application - The application shall be approved by the Oil and Gas...
§ 15-72-705. Certificate of discovery of commercial pool - Upon receipt by the Oil and Gas Commission, within one...
§ 15-72-706. Credit against severance tax - From and after the effective date of the certificate, the...
Subchapter 8 - Emergency Petroleum Set-Aside Act
§ 15-72-801. Policy and purpose - The General Assembly finds and declares that: (1) Adequate supplies...
§ 15-72-802. Definitions - As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:...
§ 15-72-803. Penalties - (a) Any person who knowingly violates any provisions of this...
§ 15-72-804. Establishment of state emergency petroleum set-aside — General provisions - (a) (1) The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission shall...
§ 15-72-805. Confidential treatment - (a) Information furnished pursuant to this subchapter and designated as...
Subchapter 9 - Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas
§ 15-72-901. Governor authorized to execute agreement — Two-year extension of compact - The Governor is authorized and directed, for and in the...
§ 15-72-902. Text - The Interstate Compact to Conserve Oil and Gas referred to...
§ 15-72-903. Extension or termination of compact by Governor - The Governor of Arkansas is further authorized and empowered, for...
§ 15-72-904. Governor official representative of state on commission — Assistant representative - The Governor shall be the official representative of the State...
Subchapter 10 - Enhanced Recovery
§ 15-72-1001. Tax incentives — Increased volume by enhanced recovery - An oil producer who initiates a program for the enhanced...
§ 15-72-1002. Tax incentives — Reestablishment of inactive wells and fields - (a) Any oil well which has been inactive and has...
§ 15-72-1003. Tax incentives — Increased volume by new research technology - If the utilization of new research technology results in the...