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AR Code § 15-76-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-308. Formation of brine production units

 (a)  (1) All producers, as defined in § 15-76-302, may make application to the Oil and Gas Commission for the establishment of brine production units and brine expansion units.  (2) Each application shall be scheduled for public hearing by the commission to be held no later than the next regularly scheduled hearing of the commission that will afford proper notice to be given.    (b) Unless a smaller area is requested by a petitioner and established by order of the commission, a brine production unit or a brine expansion unit established by order of the commission shall comprise no fewer than one thousand two hundred eighty (1,280) contiguous surface acres which are reasonably established to be underlain by a common aquifer.  (c)  (1) A proposed brine production unit shall be approved by the commission if the existing or proposed plan of development is such as to drain efficiently the area of the unit and to protect the correlative rights of each owner therein.  (2) Each brine production unit as created by the commission under this subchapter shall constitute a brine production unit as long as a producing well is located therein which is capable of producing brine in paying quantities.    (d)  (1) A proposed brine expansion unit shall be approved by the commission as a stand-alone brine expansion unit if the existing or proposed plan of development establishes that the operation of an existing brine production unit can be expanded, enhanced, or made more efficient by the placement of one (1) or more production wells or brine injection wells in an expanded area immediately adjacent to the existing brine production unit, if the plan of development is such as to:  (A) Drain efficiently the area of the brine expansion unit; and  (B) Protect the correlative rights of each owner of the brine expansion unit.    (2) Each brine expansion unit as created by the commission under this subchapter shall constitute a unit as long as a producing well is located within:  (A) The brine expansion unit; or  (B) The adjacent brine production unit that is capable of producing brine in paying quantities.
AR Code § 15-76-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 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 a brine expansion unit may be filed by a producer and shall contain the following:   (1) A description of the proposed brine production unit or brine expansion unit;  (2) A statement of the plan of development and operation of the brine production unit or brine expansion unit;  (3) All geological and engineering data necessary for the Oil and Gas Commission to be fully advised of the feasibility of the proposed plan;  (4) A statement detailing all costs and expenses chargeable to the proposed brine production unit or a brine expansion unit and a statement of all credits due against costs and expenses;  (5) A plat of each proposed brine production unit or brine expansion unit which indicates the tracts or parcels of land included in the plat and the location of each well then located within the proposed unit for the production of brine and the injection or disposal of effluent and the proposed location of each well that is proposed to be drilled for production and injection or disposal purposes;  (6) A list of owners within the unit, including the brine, interest, and last known address of each such owner; and  (7)  (A) A statement that the petitioner has valid and subsisting leases or otherwise owns or controls the right to produce brine from not less than seventy-five percent (75%) of the entire area of the proposed brine production unit or brine expansion unit.  (B) The petitioner may not combine its leases or other rights to produce brine, relative to an adjacent brine production unit or brine expansion unit, with leases or other rights to produce brine necessary to achieve the seventy-five-percent lease requirement to form a separate brine production unit or brine expansion unit.
AR Code § 15-76-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-310. Order requiring unit operation — In general

 (a) The Oil and Gas Commission, upon the application of any producer and upon the circumstances set forth in this section and §§ 15-76-311 and 15-76-313 — 15-76-315 shall enter its order integrating all tracts and interests in the unit, and all lands therein shall be developed and operated as a unit.  (b) All orders requiring integration shall be made after notice and hearing and shall be upon just and reasonable terms and conditions and will afford the owner of each tract or interest in the unit the opportunity to recover or receive his or her just and equitable share of brine in the unit.  (c) A copy of the order shall be sent or otherwise made available to each owner in the unit.  (d) The order shall be effective from the date set by the commission as to and binding upon each person then or thereafter owning an interest in the unit, or in brine produced therefrom or the proceeds thereof.
AR Code § 15-76-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-311. Contents of order

 The order requiring the operation of an area as a brine production unit or a brine expansion unit shall include:   (1) A description of the area included within such a brine production unit or a brine expansion unit;  (2) The surface area of each tract in the proposed unit;  (3) A provision for any credits and charges to be made in the adjustment among the owners in the unit for their allocated costs of the total investment in each well within the unit, pipelines, pumps, machinery, materials, and equipment required by the brine operation;  (4) A statement of the tangible and intangible expenses of the development and operation of the unit, including capital investments required in the development and operation of the brine production unit or the brine expansion unit, exclusive of the plant of the producer, to be charged to each owner in the unit in the same proportion as the owner's net material interest in brine production from the brine production unit or the brine expansion unit;  (5) The time and manner in which all owners in the unit who may desire to pay their share of the costs outlined in subdivision (4) of this section and participate in the operations of the unit may elect to do so;  (6)  (A) The time at which the unit operation shall commence and the approval by the Oil and Gas Commission of the plan of development and operation of the unit, including, but not limited to, the number and proposed location of each well to be drilled within such unit for production and injection or disposal purposes and the approximate date upon which the proposed plan of development is to be commenced and completed.  (B) However, the commission shall have no authority to allow wells or other installations on the surface of lands without the consent of the surface owner;    (7) The name of the operator who shall drill, complete, or operate the well or wells within the unit; and  (8) Those additional provisions which are consistent with this subchapter and which the commission determines to be appropriate for the prevention of waste and the protection of correlative rights.
AR Code § 15-76-312 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-312. Unlawful drainage — Unit inclusion or accounting

 (a) Any owner of an interest in a tract which is adjacent to a brine production unit formed by the Oil and Gas Commission and which is not included in that unit may petition the commission to have the tract included in the unit, and the commission shall issue its order after reasonable notice and hearing to include the tract under the same terms and conditions as those then existing with respect to other tracts in the unit, provided that it is demonstrated to the satisfaction of the commission that the tract is being unlawfully drained or is in imminent danger of being so drained through the operations of the adjacent unit.  (b)  (1) Any owner of an interest or interests in brine, which are neither included in nor adjacent to a unit and which are being unlawfully drained by the actions of any producer, may petition the commission for an accounting for royalty or other compensation due from the producer.  (2) After investigating the claim presented in the petition and finding probable cause to believe the claims presented in the petition to be meritorious and after reasonable notice and hearing and subsequent finding that unlawful drainage has occurred, the commission shall issue its order:  (A) Stating the amount of royalty or other compensation then due and owing, as well as the manner of calculating the amount of royalty or other compensation subsequently due and owing to the owner; and  (B) Requiring the producer to pay over the amounts to the owner.    (3) For purposes hereof, the amount of royalty or other compensation due and owing to the owner and the manner of calculating any subsequent amount of royalty or other compensation shall be determined in accordance with § 15-76-315 as if the owner were included in a unit.  (4) In the event that the producer fails to account to the owner as provided in the order of the commission, the commission shall seek to enjoin the operations of the producer responsible for the unlawful drainage. The owner, in any action in a court of this state may recover up to three (3) times the amount of royalty or other compensation found to be due and owing by the commission upon a finding by a court that the interest in brine of the owner has been unlawfully drained by the actions of the producer.    (c) As used in this section, “unlawful drainage” or “unlawfully drained” shall be the withdrawal or removal of brine by production or displacement which deprives the owner thereof of his or her fair and equitable share of brine in violation of his or her correlative rights.
AR Code § 15-76-313 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-313. Operator

 (a) The producer who either has incurred or shall incur the greater share or portion of the capital investment required under the plan of development and operation of the unit shall be designated by the Oil and Gas Commission as operator unless the producer refuses to serve as operator or agrees to the designation of another person to act in that capacity.  (b) The operator so designated shall receive payments of amounts due and owing from owners and shall cause disbursements of amounts due and owing with respect to unleased interests in the unit, including the annual royalty provided for in § 15-76-314.  (c) Neither the order requiring operation of an area as a unit nor any other provision of this subchapter shall be construed as granting an operator any rights with respect to the surface of any tracts in a unit, nor does the subchapter deprive any landowner of any surface rights.
AR Code § 15-76-316 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-316. Production from tracts within unit

 The portion of brine produced from a unit created under this subchapter and allocated to any particular tract shall be deemed, for all purposes, to have been actually produced from that tract, and operations for the production of brine from any part of the unit conducted pursuant to the order of the Oil and Gas Commission shall be deemed for all purposes to be operations for the production of brine from each separate tract in the integrated area of the unit.
AR Code § 15-76-317 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-317. Liability for unit expenses

 (a) The liability of each owner in a unit for the payment of unit expenses shall at all times be several and not joint or collective.  (b) In no event shall an owner in a unit be chargeable with, directly or indirectly, more than the amount charged to his or her interests in such unit pursuant to the order of the Oil and Gas Commission requiring the operation of the area as a brine production unit or brine expansion unit.
AR Code § 15-76-318 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-318. Drilling permits — Fees

 (a) Before any well shall be drilled either in search of brine or for the injection of effluent, the person desiring to drill the well shall notify the Oil and Gas Commission upon the form the commission may prescribe and shall pay a fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) or the sum the commission may prescribe for each well. However, in no event shall the fee exceed three hundred dollars ($300). The drilling of any such well is prohibited until notice is given and the fee has been paid and permit granted.  (b) Each application for the drilling of a well for the production of brine or for the purpose of injecting effluent into an aquifer shall include the complete mailing address of the applicant or each applicant, which address shall be the address of each person involved in accordance with the records of the director until the address is changed on the records of the commission after written request.
AR Code § 15-76-319 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-319. Abandoned wells

 (a) Each abandoned well shall be plugged in the manner and within the time required by rules prescribed by the Oil and Gas Commission, and the owner of the well shall give notice, upon the form the commission may prescribe, of the owner's intention to abandon any well.  (b) No well shall be abandoned until notice has been given, and no fee shall be required to be paid with the notice.
AR Code § 15-76-320 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-320. Antitrust

 The formation of a brine production unit or brine expansion unit as provided in this subchapter and the operation of the unit under order of the Oil and Gas Commission shall not be a violation of any statute of this state relating to trusts, monopolies, contracts, or combinations in restraint of trade.
AR Code § 15-76-321 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-321. Judicial review

 (a) Any interested person adversely affected by any provisions of this subchapter or by any rule or order made by the Oil and Gas Commission hereunder, or by any act done or threatened hereunder, and who has exhausted his or her administrative remedy, may obtain court review and seek relief by a suit for injunction against the commission, as defendant, or the members thereof, by suit in the circuit court of the county in which the property involved is located.  (b) The suit shall have precedence over all other causes, proceedings, or suits on the docket of a different nature, and the attorney representing the commission may have the case set for trial after ten (10) days' notice to the plaintiff or his or her attorney.  (c) In the trial, the burden of proof shall be upon the plaintiff, and all pertinent evidence with respect to the validity and reasonableness of the order of the commission complained of shall be admissible.  (d) The statute, provision of this subchapter, or rule or order complained of shall be taken as prima facie valid, and the presumption shall not be overcome, in connection with any application for injunctive relief, including a temporary restraining order, by a verified bill or affidavit of, or in behalf of, the applicant.  (e) The right of review accorded by this section shall be inclusive of all other remedies, but the right of appeal shall lie as hereinafter set forth.
AR Code § 15-76-322 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-322. Appellate procedure

 In all proceedings brought under authority of this subchapter or of any rule or order issued hereunder, and in all proceedings instituted for the purpose of contesting the validity of any provisions of this subchapter or of any rule or order issued hereunder, appeals may be taken in accordance with the general laws of the State of Arkansas relating to appeals. However, in all appeals from judgments or decrees in suits to contest the validity of any provision of this subchapter or any rule or order of the Oil and Gas Commission hereunder, the appeals, when docketed in the Supreme Court, shall take precedence over other cases on the docket of the Supreme Court and may be advanced as the Supreme Court may order and direct.
AR Code § 15-76-323 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-323. Subpoena power of the commission

 (a) The Oil and Gas Commission is empowered to issue subpoenas for witnesses, to require their attendance in 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. The subpoena shall be served by the sheriff or any other officer authorized by law to serve process in this state. No person shall be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, and records before the commission or 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.  (b) 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. 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. No person testifying shall be exempted from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.  (c) In case of failure or refusal on the part of any person to comply with any subpoena issued by the commission, 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 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 § 15-76-324 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 76 - Brine|Subchapter 3 - Brine Production|§ 15-76-324. Division of Environmental Quality

 (a) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall affect the jurisdiction of the Division of Environmental Quality over owners or producers of brine or the processing and disposal of brine with respect to water or air pollution control or other matters within its jurisdiction or the requirement that owners, producers, and processors apply for and obtain a permit from the division as provided by the Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Control Act, as amended, § 8-4-101 et seq.  (b) Nothing contained in this subchapter confers upon the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission any authority or jurisdiction conferred by law upon the division or shall be deemed to amend the Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Control Act, as amended, § 8-4-101 et seq.
AR Code § 16-2-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - Oaths And Affirmations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-2-101. Methods of administration

 (a) The usual mode of administering oaths practiced by the person who swears, laying his or her hand on and kissing the Gospels, shall be observed in all cases in which an oath is or may be required by law to be administered, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.  (b) Every person who shall desire it shall be permitted to swear with an uplifted hand in the following form: “You do solemnly swear, etc.”  (c) Every person who shall declare that he or she has conscientious scruples against taking an oath or swearing in any form shall be permitted to make his or her solemn declaration or affirmation in the following form: “You do solemnly and truly declare and affirm”.  (d) Whenever the court or magistrate by whom any person is about to be sworn, shall be satisfied that the person has any peculiar mode of swearing connected with or in addition to any of the forms mentioned in this section, which mode is more solemn and obligatory in the opinion of the person, the court or magistrate may adopt that mode of swearing.  (e) Every person believing in any religion other than the Christian religion shall be sworn according to the peculiar ceremonies of his or her religion, if there are any such ceremonies, instead of any of the other modes prescribed in this section.
AR Code § 16-2-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - Oaths And Affirmations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-2-102. Officials who may administer

 Every court and judge, including former judges of courts of record who served at least four (4) years, justices and clerks thereof, and all justices of the peace, shall have the power to administer oaths and affirmations to witnesses and others concerning any thing or proceeding pending before them.
AR Code § 16-2-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 16 - Practice, Procedure, And Courts|Subtitle 1 - General Provisions|Chapter 2 - Oaths And Affirmations|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 16-2-103. Perjury

 In all cases in which an oath is required or authorized by law, it may be taken in any of the forms prescribed in this chapter. Every person swearing, affirming, or declaring in any such form, or any form authorized by law, shall be deemed to have been lawfully sworn and to be guilty of perjury for corruptly and falsely swearing, affirming, or declaring, in the same manner as if he or she had sworn by laying his or her hand on the Gospels and kissing them.