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Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 22-5-101. Program for growing pine on highway rights-of-way — Responsibilities of Arkansas Forestry Commission — Thinning practices — Disposition of proceeds - (a) The Arkansas Department of Transportation shall determine those state...
Subchapter 2 - Commissioner of State Lands
§ 22-5-201. Oath - The Commissioner of State Lands shall take an oath that...
§ 22-5-202. Bond - (a) It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of...
§ 22-5-203. Seal - The Commissioner of State Lands shall be provided with an...
§ 22-5-206. Control over state's lands - The landed interests of this state shall be controlled by...
§ 22-5-207. Lands forfeited to state for taxes - (a) The Commissioner of State Lands shall have charge and...
§ 22-5-208. Books, plats, and maps - (a) The Commissioner of State Lands shall take possession and...
§ 22-5-209. Deeds, abstracts, and contracts affecting state lands filed in office of Commissioner of State Lands — Additional information — Failure to comply — Definition - (a) All deeds, abstracts, contracts, and other evidences of title...
§ 22-5-210. Real property records of various departments, institutions, and retirement systems - (a) With respect to real property administered by the Arkansas...
Subchapter 3 - Administration
§ 22-5-301. Policy - It is declared to be the policy of the State...
§ 22-5-302. Subchapter controlling - Insofar as any provision of this subchapter is inconsistent with...
§ 22-5-303. Additional duties of Commissioner of State Lands - In addition to other duties and powers conferred by law...
§ 22-5-304. Survey in case of doubtful location of state lands — Actions to quiet title - (a) In cases where the location of lands claimed by...
§ 22-5-306. Appraisers — Qualifications, oath, and bond - (a) The Commissioner of State Lands may appoint appraisers to...
§ 22-5-307. Classification and disposition of state lands generally - (a) State lands shall be classified as to whether they...
Subchapter 4 - Title to Lands
§ 22-5-401. Suits to recover state's property or quiet title - (a) It shall be the duty of the Attorney General,...
§ 22-5-402. Tax title void when in conflict with state's interest - No tax title shall be valid or binding against the...
§ 22-5-403. Title to lands formed in navigable waters - (a) All land which has formed or may form in...
§ 22-5-404. Title to lands formed in nonnavigable lakes or abandoned river channels - (a) The title to all lands which have formed or...
§ 22-5-405. Deeds to lands in lakes or rivers - (a) The Commissioner of State Lands is empowered and authorized...
§ 22-5-406. Limited quitclaim of streambed of Mulberry River - (a) The State of Arkansas quitclaims, to the owners of...
§ 22-5-407. Sixteenth section school lands - (a) Any person claiming to be the owner of land...
§ 22-5-408. State Bank lands - (a) Where the claim of the State of Arkansas to...
§ 22-5-409. Escheated corporation lands - Where land has escheated to the state under the provisions...
§ 22-5-410. Overdue tax lands and internal improvement lands - (a) Where the claim of the State of Arkansas to...
§ 22-5-411. Filing of deeds to state property - (a) A copy of the deed or other primary evidence...
Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland
§ 22-5-501. Authority to acquire - (a) The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized and empowered to...
§ 22-5-502. Methods of acquisition - (a) Lands may be acquired by gift, devise, purchase, or...
§ 22-5-503. Exchange of lands - The Arkansas Forestry Commission may exchange tracts of land acquired...
§ 22-5-504. Tax-forfeited lands — Distribution - (a) Any lands acquired by the Commissioner of State Lands...
§ 22-5-505. Quieting title to acquired lands - Upon the written request of the Arkansas Forestry Commission, the...
§ 22-5-506. Funding - (a) The purchase price of lands acquired shall be paid...
§ 22-5-507. Cooperation with United States - (a) The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized and directed to...
§ 22-5-508. Management of forests - (a) It shall be the duty of the State Forester,...
§ 22-5-509. Rules - The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized and directed to approve,...
§ 22-5-510. Records and reports - The Arkansas Forestry Commission shall cause a record of all...
Subchapter 6 - Trespass
§ 22-5-601. Investigators - (a) For the purpose of protecting the timber and lands...
§ 22-5-602. Suit to recover value of cut timber and to restrain trespass - Whenever the Attorney General shall receive or obtain information that...
§ 22-5-603. Suit for ejectment and recovery of rental value - Whenever the Attorney General shall have information that anyone is...
§ 22-5-604. Suit for cancellation of donation certificate - (a) Whenever the Attorney General shall receive information that any...
§ 22-5-605. Suit involving state title — Cutting or removing timber pending final determination - (a) In all suits pending in any courts of this...
§ 22-5-606. Constitutional Officers Fund and State Central Services Fund - All amounts recovered for the state shall be paid to...
Subchapter 7 - Field Notes and Records
§ 22-5-701. Field notes and other papers as public records — Right to inspect and copy - (a) The field notes, transcripts, documents, maps, plats, records, and...
§ 22-5-702. Copies, extracts, etc. — Recording — Admissibility as evidence - (a) All certified transcripts and copies of any of the...
§ 22-5-703. Counties may obtain field notes — Appropriations - (a) (1) The county court of each county is authorized...
§ 22-5-704. Fees for copies - (a) The clerk of each county court shall issue, when...
§ 22-5-705. Applicability of Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act - The office of the Commissioner of State Lands shall be...
Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources
§ 22-5-801. Leases and permits — Purpose of this section and §§ 22-5-802 — 22-5-813 — Definition - (a) It is the purpose and intent of this section...
§ 22-5-802. Leases and permits — Exemptions for state agencies - (a) The provisions of this section and §§ 22-5-801 and...
§ 22-5-803. Leases and permits — Penalties - (a) (1) Upon conviction, a person, firm, company, corporation, or...
§ 22-5-804. Leases and permits — Natural Resources Committee — Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission - (a) (1) The Natural Resources Committee is created and shall...
§ 22-5-805. Leases and permits — Requirements — Application — Terms - (a) No person, firm, company, corporation, or association shall take...
§ 22-5-806. Leases and permits — Offer to pay minimums — Notice — Award - (a) Any person applying for a lease or permit under...
§ 22-5-807. Leases and permits — Notice to, and recommendations from, interested agencies - (a) When an application for a lease or permit is...
§ 22-5-808. Leases and permits — Records — Fees — Disposition of funds - (a) The office of the Commissioner of State Lands shall...
§ 22-5-809. Leases and permits — Monthly statements — Payment of severance tax - (a) (1) Every person obtaining a lease or permit under...
§ 22-5-810. Leases and permits — Liability — Transferability — Renewal - (a) Each person, firm, company, corporation, association, or other business...
§ 22-5-811. Leases and permits — Existing ones to continue - Any person, firm, company, corporation, state agency, or other business...
§ 22-5-812. Leases and permits — Rules - (a) The Commissioner of State Lands shall promulgate any rules...
§ 22-5-813. Leases and permits — Compliance with this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-812 - The office of the Commissioner of State Lands may conduct...
§ 22-5-814. Removal of sand or gravel from navigable waters - (a) Sand and gravel may be removed from the beds...
§ 22-5-815. Mineral rights in lands covered by artificially created navigable waters - (a) The State of Arkansas shall not acquire title to...
§ 22-5-818. Commercial mining at Crater of Diamonds State Park prohibited - No commercial mining shall be permitted at the Crater of...