Arkansas Code
Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development
Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine

§ 15-71-107. Control or regulation of oil and gas production — Assessment on production — Use of money — Increase in assessment - (a) (1) All common sources of supply of crude oil...

§ 15-71-108. Purchaser to deduct and remit assessment to commission — Remission by producer - (a) A person purchasing oil in this state at the...

§ 15-71-109. Oil and Gas Commission Fund — Payment of commission vouchers - (a) All moneys collected under this act, except the first...

§ 15-71-110. Powers and duties — Rules — Definitions - (a) (1) The Oil and Gas Commission shall have jurisdiction...

§ 15-71-111. Procedural rules or orders — Hearing - (a) (1) The Oil and Gas Commission shall prescribe its...

§ 15-71-112. Subpoenas - (a) The Oil and Gas Commission, or any member thereof,...

§ 15-71-113. Authority to acquire and maintain unmarked cars - (a) In order to enable the Oil and Gas Commission...

§ 15-71-114. Permit required for field seismic operations - (a) (1) Any person or entity desiring to perform field...

§ 15-71-115. Abandoned and Orphaned Well Plugging Fund - (a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer...

§ 15-71-116. Annual fee assessment - (a) (1) The Oil and Gas Commission shall establish by...

§ 15-71-117. Fees — Exploration and production fluid transportation system — Natural gas pipeline system operator - (a) Each application submitted by an operator of an exploration...

Chapter 72 - Oil and Gas Production and Conservation

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...

Chapter 73 - Oil And Gas Leases And Lease Interests

Subchapter 2 - Leases Generally

§ 15-73-201. Lease extended by production — Scope - (a) (1) The term of an oil and gas, or...

§ 15-73-202. Leases of oil, gas, and mining interests by churches, lodges, and eleemosynary institutions - Except where otherwise provided for in the charter, constitution, or...

§ 15-73-203. Forfeiture of oil, gas, or mineral leases — Duty of lessee to cancel or release - (a) It shall be the duty of each person holding...

§ 15-73-204. Notice to lessee to release forfeited lease — Damages for failure to release - Any owner of lands upon which a lease for the...

§ 15-73-205. Failure to pay rental installment — Endorsement of forfeiture - (a) If any installment of rental due under a lease...

§ 15-73-207. Prudent operator standard - (a) A mineral lessee under an oil and gas lease...

§ 15-73-208. Transfer of mineral lease — Notice - (a) A person holding a mineral lease shall notify the...

Subchapter 3 - Leases by Life Tenants

§ 15-73-301. Leases by persons invested with life estate - Whenever any land in this state may hereafter be, or...

§ 15-73-302. Petition to lease by life tenant — Contents - Whenever any life tenant shall desire to lease any land...

§ 15-73-303. Hearing on lease execution - (a) The circuit court shall consider the petition, and may,...

§ 15-73-304. Court determinations, orders, and appointments - If the circuit court after the hearing shall determine that...

§ 15-73-305. Court approval of lease and confirmation of sale - (a) After the trustee shall have executed the bond required...

§ 15-73-306. Trustee - (a) The trustee shall be under the continuing control of...

§ 15-73-307. Divestiture of contingent remaindermen's title - The order of the court fixing the proportionate part of...

§ 15-73-308. Expiration, forfeiture, or cancellation of lease — New lease - If any lease executed under the provisions of this subchapter...

§ 15-73-309. Binding conveyances by reversioner or remaindermen to life tenant or his or her lessee - Whenever a life estate in lands has been in existence...

Subchapter 4 - Partition of Oil and Gas Lease Interests

§ 15-73-401. Partition when entire leasehold is unleased and nonproducing - Whenever any land in fee, the oil and gas in,...

§ 15-73-402. Petition for partition and sale — Parties - Any such owner, or owners, desiring a sale and partition...

§ 15-73-403. Service of summons - Summons shall be issued and served as in other cases...

§ 15-73-404. Intervention - Any person having or claiming an interest in the land...

§ 15-73-405. Guardians - (a) The statutory guardian of an infant or a person...

§ 15-73-406. Lease by receiver prior to sale and partition - (a) If, at any time, after the filing of the...

§ 15-73-407. Procedure — Evidence authorizing lease - Insofar as § 18-60-401 et seq., relating to the partition...

§ 15-73-408. Necessary parties — Effect of sale or lease - All spouses of the various owners of interests in oil...

§ 15-73-409. Retrial on motion of defendant constructively summoned - Where a decree has been rendered under the provisions of...

Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 15-74-101. Information required in division order or declaration of interest in gas - (a) All division orders or any declaration of interest in...

Subchapter 2 - Measurement Generally

§ 15-74-201. Accurate measurement of crude petroleum oil - (a) All crude petroleum oil produced in this state shall...

§ 15-74-202. Prohibition on removing oil or gas from lease without measurement and recording - (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation,...

§ 15-74-203. Prohibition on discounting crude for waste, shrinkage, etc. — Proper computation of purchase - (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or...

Subchapter 3 - Standard Gas Measurement Law

§ 15-74-301. Title - This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as...

§ 15-74-302. Cubic foot of gas defined - (a) The term “cubic foot of gas” or “standard cubic...

§ 15-74-303. Determination of specific gravity and flowing temperature - (a) The Oil and Gas Commission is authorized and empowered,...

§ 15-74-304. Reports of gas production - Any person required to report volumes of gas production under...

§ 15-74-305. Measurement, accounting, etc., of gas sold or delivered by volume - (a) Each and every sale and each and every purchase,...

Subchapter 4 - Tests and Inspections

§ 15-74-401. Penalty - (a) A dealer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and...

§ 15-74-402. Rules - The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration shall...

§ 15-74-403. Limit on inspectors' interest in oil and gas sale or manufacture — Appropriation of fluids - No inspector or deputy, while in office, shall: (1) Be...

§ 15-74-404. Specifications for fuels and oils - No article or commodity shall be sold or offered for...

§ 15-74-405. Condemnation of gasoline — Placards — Hose inspection - (a) Where inspectors find gasoline being sold or offered for...

§ 15-74-406. Penalty for removing or altering placards - The removing, altering, disfiguring, or defacing of any placard or...

§ 15-74-407. Prohibition on sale or use of certain fluids for illumination or heating - No oils or fluids which ignite or burn at any...

§ 15-74-408. Inspection of dealer records - The person, firm, or corporation who receives motor vehicle fuel...

§ 15-74-409. Oil or gasoline testing prior to sale - (a) Whenever any person, firm, or corporation shall receive any...

§ 15-74-410. Records of inspections — Disposition of funds - (a) The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration,...

Subchapter 5 - Pricing

§ 15-74-501. Prohibition against discrimination in purchase price of crude oil from different pools - (a) (1) Any person engaged in the business of buying...

§ 15-74-502. Prohibition against requiring commissioned agents to purchase business according to Department of Energy fuel allocation — Contracts - (a) It shall be unlawful for any major oil company...

Subchapter 6 - Proceeds of Sale Generally

§ 15-74-601. Time limits governing oil and gas payments — Definition - (a) The proceeds derived from the sale of oil or...

§ 15-74-602. Fraudulently withholding payments - (a) If the first purchaser, or owner of the right...

§ 15-74-603. Action for nonpayment of proceeds - (a) Any court of competent jurisdiction of the county in...

§ 15-74-604. Failure to pay royalties - (a) An obligation arises under an oil and gas lease...

§ 15-74-605. Sale of proportionate share of production - (a) For any gas well completed as a commercially productive...

Subchapter 7 - Royalties

§ 15-74-701. Penalty - Any person willfully or maliciously violating any of the provisions...

§ 15-74-702. Royalties paid in lieu of drilling off-set wells on adjacent units - Where royalties are paid in lieu of drilling off-set wells...

§ 15-74-703. Entitlement of royalty interests to premiums and bonuses - All purchasers of oil and gas shall pay to the...

§ 15-74-704. Paying part of production cost or giving bonus or premium without paying share to royalty interest - It shall be unlawful for any purchaser of oil or...

§ 15-74-705. Purchaser's price for royalty gas - It shall be the duty of both the lessee, or...

§ 15-74-706. Contracting to buy royalty gas for less than price paid operator or lessee - It shall be unlawful for any pipeline company, corporation, or...

§ 15-74-707. Time of royalty payment — Monthly statements to royalty owner - (a) It shall be the duty of any purchaser of...

§ 15-74-708. Forfeiture of lease upon lessee receiving more than share from sale — Purchaser to pay treble value - (a) Any leaseholder or operator who contracts for the sale...

§ 15-74-709. Default or delinquency by lessees or others responsible for payment of royalties - (a) (1) The Oil and Gas Commission is hereby authorized...

Chapter 75 - Liquefied Petroleum Gases

Subchapter 1 - General Provisions

§ 15-75-101. Title - This act may be known and cited as the “Liquefied...

§ 15-75-102. Definitions - As used in this act, unless the context otherwise requires:...

§ 15-75-103. Penalty - Any person violating any of the provisions of this act...

§ 15-75-104. Actions for injunction against violation - The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, in accordance with the laws...

§ 15-75-105. Schedule of inspection and registration fees - The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board shall have authority to charge...

§ 15-75-106. Disposition of funds - (a) All moneys collected as liquefied petroleum gas inspection, registration,...

§ 15-75-107. Odorization of gas - All liquefied petroleum gases shall be effectively odorized with a...

§ 15-75-108. Dealers' safety meetings for employees - Each dealer authorized to engage in the liquefied petroleum gas...

§ 15-75-109. Liability of persons rendering aid with respect to accidents involving transportation of compressed gases - (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of law to the contrary, no...

§ 15-75-110. Reports - Reports of the sales, shipment, and installation of containers and...

§ 15-75-111. Discretionary suspension of inspection and registration fees - If the balance of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Fund reaches...

§ 15-75-112. Affirmative defense - (a) As used in this section: (1) “Liquefied petroleum gas...

Subchapter 2 - Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board

§ 15-75-201. Members - (a) The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board shall consist of seven...

§ 15-75-202. Meetings - (a) The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board shall adopt and may...

§ 15-75-203. Office — Seal - The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board shall: (1) Maintain its office...

§ 15-75-204. Officers - (a) The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board shall select from its...

§ 15-75-206. Personnel — Counsel - (a) (1) The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board shall appoint a...

§ 15-75-207. Rules - (a) The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board is empowered to make...

§ 15-75-208. Standards for containers, systems, etc - The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board shall provide additional standards or...

§ 15-75-209. Access for inspections — Investigation of explosions - (a) The Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board shall have free access...

Subchapter 3 - Permits and Certificates of Competency

§ 15-75-301. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Certificate of competency” means...

§ 15-75-302. Annual permit required - (a) Every person, as a condition to his or her...

§ 15-75-303. Certification of competency required - (a) No person shall transport, deliver, or handle liquefied petroleum...

§ 15-75-304. Certificates of competency — Qualifications - (a) To be entitled to a certificate of competency, a...

§ 15-75-305. Applicants for permits - (a) (1) (A) (i) Any person desiring to engage in...

§ 15-75-306. Issuance of permits — Classification - (a) After approval of the application by the Director of...

§ 15-75-307. Class one permit - (a) The holder of a class one permit may engage...

§ 15-75-308. Class two permit - (a) The holder of a class two permit: (1) May...

§ 15-75-309. Class three permit - (a) The holder of a class three permit: (1) May...

§ 15-75-310. Class four permit - The holder of a class four permit: (1) May sell...

§ 15-75-311. Class five permit - (a) The holder of a class five permit: (1) May...

§ 15-75-312. Class six permit - (a) The holder of a class six permit: (1) May...

§ 15-75-313. Class seven permit - (a) The holder of a class seven permit: (1) May...

§ 15-75-314. Class eight permit - (a) Class eight permits may be issued to, but not...

§ 15-75-315. Class nine permit - (a) Holders of class nine permits: (1) May sell liquefied...

§ 15-75-316. Class ten permit - (a) Holders of class ten permits: (1) May engage in...

§ 15-75-317. Approval prerequisite to supplying or acquiring certain equipment and products - (a) No applicant for a permit shall purchase, lease, rent,...

§ 15-75-318. Fees — Times payable - (a) All fees for permits as classified in §§ 15-75-307...

§ 15-75-319. Reinstatement or transfer of permits — Automatic revocation upon suspension of business - (a) Each permit authorized by the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board...

§ 15-75-320. Sales restrictions - (a) No dealer shall sell or offer for sale liquefied...

§ 15-75-321. Suspension of certificate of competency — Revocation of permit or certificate - (a) The Director of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board or...

§ 15-75-322. Shortage emergencies - (a) The Governor of the State of Arkansas may join...

§ 15-75-323. Civil penalty - (a) In addition to any other penalty provided in this...

§ 15-75-324. Permit application approvals - All class one (1) permit application approvals must have all...

Subchapter 4 - Containers

§ 15-75-401. Vapor pressure - The vapor pressure of any gases delivered for use in...

§ 15-75-402. Strength of butane containers - Each container, except containers designed to operate under refrigerated or...

§ 15-75-403. Strength of propane containers - Each container, except containers designed to operate under refrigerated or...

§ 15-75-404. Inspection - (a) Each container used for the storage or transportation of...

§ 15-75-405. Use of unapproved containers and systems - (a) No person shall use, install, or operate or cause...

§ 15-75-406. Unlawful use of containers - (a) If a liquefied petroleum gas container shall bear upon...

§ 15-75-407. Retail sellers to furnish account statements to certain customers - (a) Each person, corporation, partnership, association, or other entity engaging...

Chapter 76 - Brine

Subchapter 2 - By-Products of Production — Disposal

§ 15-76-201. Improper disposal of salt water - (a) It shall be unlawful for any firm, person, corporation,...

§ 15-76-202. Corporations for disposal of salt water - (a) Corporations may be created in this state for the...

Subchapter 3 - Brine Production

§ 15-76-301. Declaration of policy - It is declared to be in the public interest to:...

§ 15-76-302. Definitions - As used in this subchapter: (1) “Aquifer” means any subsurface...

§ 15-76-303. Penalties - (a) Any person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor...

§ 15-76-304. Injunctions by the commission - (a) Whenever it shall appear that any person is violating,...

§ 15-76-305. Injunctions against the commission - (a) No temporary restraining order or injunction of any kind...

§ 15-76-306. Authority of the commission - (a) The Oil and Gas Commission shall have jurisdiction of...

§ 15-76-307. Procedure and rules of the commission - (a) The Oil and Gas Commission shall prescribe its rules...

§ 15-76-308. Formation of brine production units - (a) (1) All producers, as defined in § 15-76-302, may...

§ 15-76-309. Petition for formation of a brine production unit or a brine expansion unit - A petition for formation of a brine production unit or...

§ 15-76-310. Order requiring unit operation — In general - (a) The Oil and Gas Commission, upon the application of...

§ 15-76-311. Contents of order - The order requiring the operation of an area as a...

§ 15-76-312. Unlawful drainage — Unit inclusion or accounting - (a) Any owner of an interest in a tract which...

§ 15-76-313. Operator - (a) The producer who either has incurred or shall incur...

§ 15-76-314. Participation by owners and royalties - (a) (1) Upon the establishment of a unit, each owner...

§ 15-76-315. Valuation of brine - (a) (1) (A) The value of brine during any given...

§ 15-76-316. Production from tracts within unit - The portion of brine produced from a unit created under...

§ 15-76-317. Liability for unit expenses - (a) The liability of each owner in a unit for...

§ 15-76-318. Drilling permits — Fees - (a) Before any well shall be drilled either in search...

§ 15-76-319. Abandoned wells - (a) Each abandoned well shall be plugged in the manner...

§ 15-76-320. Antitrust - The formation of a brine production unit or brine expansion...

§ 15-76-321. Judicial review - (a) Any interested person adversely affected by any provisions of...

§ 15-76-322. Appellate procedure - In all proceedings brought under authority of this subchapter or...

§ 15-76-323. Subpoena power of the commission - (a) The Oil and Gas Commission is empowered to issue...

§ 15-76-324. Division of Environmental Quality - (a) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall affect the jurisdiction...

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Arkansas Code Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine

Arkansas Code
Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development
Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine