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Chapter 31 - Arkansas Forestry Commission
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 15-31-101. Creation - (a) There is created the Arkansas Forestry Commission. (b) It...
§ 15-31-102. Members — Definition - (a) (1) The Arkansas Forestry Commission shall consist of nine...
§ 15-31-103. Organization - (a) From time to time, the Arkansas Forestry Commission shall...
§ 15-31-104. State Forester - (a) The State Forester shall be appointed by the Arkansas...
§ 15-31-106. Functions, powers, and duties - (a) The functions, powers, and duties of the Arkansas Forestry...
§ 15-31-108. State Forestry Fund - There is created and established in the State Treasury a...
§ 15-31-109. Receipt and use of grants and aids - (a) (1) The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized and empowered...
§ 15-31-111. Fees - (a) The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized to charge private...
§ 15-31-113. Legislative findings — Purpose - (a) The General Assembly finds: (1) The Arkansas Forestry Commission...
§ 15-31-114. Classification of fines - Fines deposited into the State Forestry Fund shall be classified...
§ 15-31-115. Classification of revenues - Income derived from management of state forests by the Arkansas...
§ 15-31-116. Donation of fire control or fire rescue equipment — Definition - (a) (1) A person may donate fire control or fire...
Subchapter 2 - Assistance to Private Owners
§ 15-31-201. Administration - The administration of the provisions of this subchapter shall be...
§ 15-31-202. Authority to designate and estimate trees — Forestry advice - (a) The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized to designate, upon...
§ 15-31-203. Payment for services — Free services - (a) For designating, measuring, or estimating services, the landowner or...
§ 15-31-204. Employee interest in the purchase of estimated timber - (a) An employee of the Arkansas Forestry Commission shall not...
§ 15-31-205. Disposition of revenues - All moneys collected under the provisions of this subchapter shall...
Chapter 32 - Logging
§ 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...
Chapter 33 - South Central Interstate Forest Fire Protection Compact
§ 15-33-101. Text - The Governor on behalf of this State is hereby authorized...
§ 15-33-102. State Forester as compact administrator - The State Forester is designated as the South Central Interstate...
§ 15-33-103. Effective date - When the Governor has executed the South Central Interstate Forest...