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AR Code § 15-71-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 71 - Oil and Gas Commission|§ 15-71-112. Subpoenas

 (a) The Oil and Gas Commission, or any member thereof, is lawfully empowered to issue subpoenas for witnesses, to require their attendance and the giving of testimony before it, and to require the production of books, papers, and records in any proceeding before the commission as may be material upon questions lawfully before the commission.  (b) Subpoenas shall be served by the sheriff or any other officer authorized by law to serve process in this state.  (c) No person shall be excused from attending and testifying, or from producing books, papers, and records before the commission or a court, or from obedience to the subpoena of the commission or a court, on the ground or for the reason that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him or her may tend to incriminate him or her or subject him or her to a penalty or forfeiture. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed as requiring any person to produce any books, papers, or records, or to testify in response to any inquiry, not pertinent to some question lawfully before the commission or court for determination.  (d) No natural person shall be subjected to criminal prosecution or to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he or she may be required to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, before the commission or court, or in obedience to its subpoena; provided, that no person testifying shall be exempted from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.  (e) In case of failure or refusal on the part of any person to comply with any subpoena issued by the commission or any member thereof, or in case of the refusal of any witness to testify or answer as to any matter regarding which he or she may be lawfully interrogated, any circuit court in this state, on application of the commission, may in term time or vacation issue an attachment for the person and compel him or her to comply with the subpoena and to attend before the commission and produce the documents, and give his or her testimony upon such matters, as may be lawfully required. The court shall have the power to punish for contempt as in case of disobedience of like subpoena issued by or from the court or for a refusal to testify therein.
AR Code § 15-71-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 71 - Oil and Gas Commission|§ 15-71-113. Authority to acquire and maintain unmarked cars

 (a) In order to enable the Oil and Gas Commission to carry out its duties in the most effective and efficient manner, the commission is authorized, in consultation with the Secretary of the Department of Energy and Environment, to acquire and maintain for use by field personnel full-sized sedan automobiles equipped with V-8 engines in the three-hundred-fifty-cubic-inch displacement range, limited slip differentials, and vinyl seat covers.  (b) Since marked cars sometimes prove a hindrance to the commission in carrying out its inspection, investigation, and enforcement responsibilities, the commission is exempted from any and all laws and administrative rules regarding special registration tags and special decals for state-owned vehicles.
AR Code § 15-71-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 71 - Oil and Gas Commission|§ 15-71-115. Abandoned and Orphaned Well Plugging Fund

 (a) There is created on the books of the Treasurer of State, the Auditor of State, and the Chief Fiscal Officer of the State a special revenue fund to be known as the “Abandoned and Orphaned Well Plugging Fund”.  (b)  (1) The fund shall receive funds from:  (A) Fees assessed by the Oil and Gas Commission;  (B) Forfeited bonds;  (C) Proceeds from the sale of hydrocarbons and production equipment located at the site of abandoned and orphaned wells;  (D) Grants and gifts from private and public sources; and  (E) Any other revenue as may be authorized by law.    (2) All moneys collected under the fund shall be deposited into the State Treasury to the credit of the fund as special revenues.    (c)  (1) The fund shall be used by the commission to:  (A) Make expenditures through contracts to plug abandoned and orphaned wells and to remediate associated production facilities;  (B) Award grants to landowners to plug abandoned and orphaned wells and to remediate associated production facilities; and  (C) Make expenditures for emergency repairs to wells or production facilities endangering the public health and safety.    (2) Expenditures from the fund may be authorized by the commission through contracts or grants for the payment of plugging costs or the cost of performing corrective work as follows:  (A) If after the commission gives the well operator notice and hearing and finds that an abandoned well must be plugged, that a leaking well must be plugged, replugged, or repaired, or that a well site must be restored and the well operator fails to perform the required plugging, replugging, repair, or restoration work within the time frame prescribed in the commission order, the commission may authorize fund expenditures to plug, replug, or repair the well or wells and to restore the well site in accordance with commission rules; and  (B) If the abandoned well or well site operator cannot be identified or located for purposes of notice and hearing, the commission may administratively determine the well or well site to be orphaned, as defined by commission rules, and may authorize expenditures from the fund to plug the orphaned well and restore the orphaned well site.      (d) The fund may be used by the commission to provide security in the event an oil or gas well operator fails to perform plugging responsibilities under the provisions of § 15-72-217 or fails to correct well conditions that create an imminent danger to the health or safety of the public or threaten significant environmental harm or damage to property.
AR Code § 15-71-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 71 - Oil and Gas Commission|§ 15-71-116. Annual fee assessment

 (a)  (1) The Oil and Gas Commission shall establish by rule a fee structure to be paid annually by well operators of only those wells producing liquid hydrocarbons.  (2) The date for payment of the first annual fee assessment shall be determined by rule.  (3) All annual fees collected shall be deposited into the Abandoned and Orphaned Well Plugging Fund.    (b)  (1) All bonds or other financial assurances in effect on August 12, 2005, shall remain in effect until released by the commission from obligation through payment of the initial fund fee assessment under this section.  (2)  (A) Additionally, a person shall file and maintain with the commission the amount of financial security required under this section for two (2) consecutive calendar years of payments to the fund until the required payments have been made if the person is a well operator who:  (i) Did not operate a well before August 12, 2005; or  (ii) Has not after August 12, 2005, made annual payments to the fund for at least two (2) consecutive calendar years preceding an application to drill or transfer wells.    (B)  (i) When the operator has made the required payments, the financial security shall be released.  (ii) However, the financial security shall not be released under subdivision (b)(2)(B)(i) of this section if the commission has filed a claim against the financial security instrument.        (c)  (1) Fees shall be assessed for each calendar year, commencing on a date to be established by the commission, for all wells of record on January 1 of each year and each subsequent year.  (2) The fees assessed by the commission under this section are in addition to any other fees required by law.  (3) All fees assessed under this section shall be submitted to the commission no later than sixty (60) days after the date listed on the annual fee assessment letter sent to the well operator.    (d) All the fees assessed and collected by the commission each year under this section shall be deposited into the fund.  (e) If a well operator is delinquent for more than sixty (60) days in the payment of fees assessed under this section or if amounts have been expended from the fund to plug, repair, or restore an operator's well or well site, no further permits may be issued to that operator, and the commission may issue an order to cease production of that operator's current wells until all delinquent fees and expended fund moneys have been repaid to the fund.
AR Code § 15-71-117 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 71 - Oil and Gas Commission|§ 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 and production fluid transportation system equipped for carrying or pulling a transportation tank as defined by the Oil and Gas Commission's General Rules and Regulations, Rule E-3 shall be accompanied by an application fee for each transportation tank as determined by the Oil and Gas Commission in an amount not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100).  (b) Each application by a pipeline operator to construct or operate a jurisdictional pipeline system as defined by the Oil and Gas Commission's General Rules and Regulations, Rule D-17 shall be accompanied by a permit fee as determined by the commission in an amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000).  (c)  (1) Each application for a hearing shall be accompanied by a fee as determined by the commission in an amount up to two dollars ($2.00) for each person whose address is provided by the applicant and the applicant has identified in the application or requested to receive a copy of the order from the hearing under the Oil and Gas Commission's General Rules Rule A-2(a)(5).  (2) Subdivision (c)(1) of this section shall not apply to an application filed by the commission.    (d) The fees collected under subsections (a)-(c) of this section are cash funds of the commission to use in any manner permissible under law.
AR Code § 16-1-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-1-101. Recidivism definition and reporting

 (a) As used in this title, “recidivism” means a criminal act that results in the rearrest, reconviction, or return to incarceration of a person with or without a new sentence during a three-year period following the person's release from custody.  (b) An entity that makes a recidivism report under this title shall use the definition of recidivism in this section for purposes of the recidivism report.
AR Code § 16-3-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Legal Notices And Advertisements|§ 16-3-101. Publication of required advertisements generally

 (a) All advertisements and orders of publication required by law or order of any court, or in conformity with any deed of trust, or real estate mortgage, or chattel mortgage where the amount therein received exceeds the sum of three hundred fifty dollars ($350), or power of attorney or administrators' notices, to be made, shall be published in at least one (1) newspaper published and having a bona fide circulation in the county in which the proceedings are had, to which the advertisement or order of publication shall pertain.  (b) If there is no newspaper published in the county, then publication shall be made by posting five (5) written or printed notices in five (5) of the most public places in the county.  (c) If there is more than one (1) legal newspaper in a county, publication may be made in each newspaper.  (d)  (1) As to amounts under three hundred fifty dollars ($350), written or printed notices may be posted in five (5) conspicuous places in the county.  (2) Notice shall be served in all cases upon the debtor as summons are served.    (e) This section shall not apply to warning orders governed by Rule 4(f) of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure.
AR Code § 16-3-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Legal Notices And Advertisements|§ 16-3-102. Time advertisement to run

 (a) When any legal advertisement or notice is required by law to be published and no definite time is given for it to run, it shall be construed to mean for one (1) week.  (b) When a definite time is specified, it shall be construed to mean once a week during the time so specified, except that when a definite time is specified for publication of constitutional amendments proposed by the General Assembly, it shall be construed to mean publication in four (4) weekly issues of some newspaper in each county as is provided by law.
AR Code § 16-3-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Legal Notices And Advertisements|§ 16-3-103. Payment and rates

 (a)  (1) When any notice or advertisement relating to any cause, matter, or thing in any court of record shall be required by law or the order of any court to be published, the notice or advertisement, when duly published, shall be paid for by the party at whose instance it was published. This payment, or so much thereof as is deemed reasonable, may be taxed as other costs otherwise allowed by the proper courts in the course of the proceedings to which the advertisement relates.  (2) Where there is more than one (1) newspaper published in any county, the advertisement shall be made in the newspaper designated by the attorney for the party causing the advertisement to be made.    (b) When any advertisement shall be made by a public officer thereunto authorized by law, the reasonable expense for advertising shall be allowed and paid out of the state or county treasury as other demands and charges of a like nature are allowed and paid.  (c) When a publication of a legal notice of any kind is allowed or required by law, except real property and personal property delinquent tax rates, a newspaper publishing the notice shall charge and receive not more than its regular classified advertising rate for publication.
AR Code § 16-3-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Legal Notices And Advertisements|§ 16-3-104. Proof of publication

 (a) When any notice or advertisement shall be required by law or the order of any court to be published in any newspaper or made in conformity with any mortgage, deed of trust, power of attorney, or administrator's notice, the affidavit of the editor, proprietor, manager, or chief accountant, with a copy of the advertisement annexed, stating the number of times and the date of the papers in which the advertisement was published, shall be sufficient evidence of publication.  (b) If the notice is given by five (5) written or printed notices, according to the provisions of § 16-3-101, then the affidavit of the party giving the notice, properly verified before some officer authorized to administer oaths and showing the time and manner of giving the notice, shall be sufficient evidence of publication.  (c) No editor, proprietor, manager, or chief accountant shall be required to make the affidavit until his or her legal fee is paid.
AR Code § 16-3-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Legal Notices And Advertisements|§ 16-3-106. Authorized publications — Newspapers of general circulation

 All statutes requiring publication of legal notices by insertions in newspapers published either in the applicable town or county, and also requiring general circulation of the newspapers in the town or county, may be complied with, if no such newspaper is actually published in the town or county, by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the town or county, irrespective of whether the newspaper is published and printed in the town or county or outside the boundaries of the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 16-3-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Legal Notices And Advertisements|§ 16-3-107. Authorized publications — Weekly newspapers of patriotic organizations

 (a) Any weekly newspaper published in the State of Arkansas by any statewide patriotic organization and having a circulation of five hundred (500) or more in the county in which the newspaper is published is declared to be a medium or forum in which there may be published all legal and judicial advertisements, notices, orders, reports, judgments, decrees, and sales in the county.  (b) All legal and judicial advertisements, notices, orders, reports, judgments, decrees, and sales published in such weekly newspapers are, and shall be deemed to have been, properly published within the meaning of the acts governing the publication of legal and judicial advertisements, notices, orders, reports, judgments, decrees, and sales.
AR Code § 16-3-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 3 - Legal Notices And Advertisements|§ 16-3-108. Authorized publications — Trade journals

 Whenever it appears to any state, county, or municipal agency or department that a special class of readers should be reached in order to obtain a wider range of bids, the department or agency may, in addition to the legal notices and advertising provided by law, place the advertising or notices in any recognized trade publication or construction journal published in the State of Arkansas reaching the special class. The rates regularly charged by the trade publication or construction journal may be paid by the state, county, or municipal department or agency.
AR Code § 16-4-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate And International Procedure Act|§ 16-4-101. Personal jurisdiction of Arkansas courts

 (A) Definition of “Person”. As used in this section, “person” includes an individual or his or her executor, administrator, or other personal representative, or a corporation, partnership, association, or any other legal or commercial entity, whether or not a citizen or domiciliary of this state and whether or not organized under the laws of this state.  (B) Personal Jurisdiction. The courts of this state shall have personal jurisdiction of all persons, and all causes of action or claims for relief, to the maximum extent permitted by the due process of law clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.  (C) Service. When the exercise of personal jurisdiction is authorized by this section, service may be made either within or outside this state.  (D) Inconvenient Forum. When the court finds that in the interest of substantial justice the action should be heard in another forum, the court may stay or dismiss the action in whole or in part on any conditions that may be just.
AR Code § 16-4-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate And International Procedure Act|§ 16-4-102. Service

  A.   Manner and Proof of Service.    (1) When the law of this state authorizes service outside this state, the service, when reasonably calculated to give actual notice, may be made:  (2) Proof of service outside this state may be made by affidavit of the individual who made the service or in the manner prescribed by the law of this state, the order pursuant to which the service is made, or the law of the place in which the service is made for proof of service in an action in any of its courts of general jurisdiction. When service is made by mail, proof of service shall include a receipt signed by the addressee or other evidence of personal delivery to the addressee satisfactory to the court.  (3) Service under this section does not, of itself, require the recognition or enforcement of an order, judgment, or decree rendered outside this state.    (a) By personal delivery in the manner prescribed for service within this state;  (b) In the manner prescribed by the law of the place in which the service is made for service in that place in an action in any of its courts of general jurisdiction;  (c) By any form of mail addressed to the person to be served and requiring a signed receipt;  (d) As directed by the foreign authority in response to a letter rogatory; or  (e) As directed by the court.     B.   Individuals Eligible to Make Service.  Service outside this state may be made by any individual permitted to make service of process under the law of this state or the law of the place in which the service is made or who is designated by a court of this state. In addition, any attorney for a party is eligible to make service of process in the manner prescribed in subparagraphs (c) and (e) of paragraph 1 of subsection A. of this section.    C.   Individuals to Be Served; Special Cases.  When the law of this state requires that in order to effect service, one (1) or more designated individuals be served, service outside this state under this section must be made upon the individual or individuals.    D.   Assistance to Tribunals and Litigants Outside this State.     1.  Any court of record of this state may order service upon any person who is domiciled or can be found within this state of any document issued in connection with a proceeding in a tribunal outside this state. The order may be made upon application of any interested person or in response to a letter rogatory issued by a tribunal outside this state and shall direct the manner of service.    2.  Service in connection with a proceeding in a tribunal outside this state may be made within this state without an order of court.    E.   Other Provisions of Law Unaffected.  This section does not repeal or modify any other law of this state permitting another procedure for service.
AR Code § 16-4-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate And International Procedure Act|§ 16-4-105. Other provisions of law unaffected

 Except as otherwise provided herein, this chapter does not repeal or modify any law of this state:   (1) Authorizing the exercise of jurisdiction on any bases other than the bases specified in § 16-4-101;  (2) Permitting a procedure for service or for obtaining testimony, documents, or other things for use in this state or in a tribunal outside this state other than the procedures prescribed in § 16-4-102; or  (3) Authorizing the proof of official records or any entry or lack of entry therein by any method other than the methods prescribed in § 16-4-104 [superseded].
AR Code § 16-4-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate And International Procedure Act|§ 16-4-106. Uniformity of interpretation

 This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purposes to make uniform the laws of those states which enact it.
AR Code § 16-4-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate And International Procedure Act|§ 16-4-107. Severability

 If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.