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AR Code § 15-21-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 2 - Surveys|§ 15-21-208. Right to enter private property

 (a) The State Surveyor or any employee of the Department of Transformation and Shared Services or of the Division of Land Surveys of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office shall have the right to enter upon private property for the purpose of making surveys or searching for, locating, relocating, or remonumenting land monuments, levelling stations, or section corners.  (b) Employees of the department or division shall be immune from arrest for trespass in performing their duties as prescribed in this subchapter and under the direction of a registered professional land surveyor but shall always, when practical, announce and identify themselves and their intentions before entering upon private property.
AR Code § 15-21-209 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 2 - Surveys|§ 15-21-209. Exchange of information

 (a) When the State Surveyor so requests, the public recorder of deeds, mortgages, or other instruments dealing with interest in real property and all state agencies, boards, and commissions and all county and municipal officials shall furnish to the Division of Land Surveys of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office certified copies of records in their custody which are essential for the division to carry out its duties under the provisions of this subchapter.  (b) Copies of the records shall be furnished free of cost when possible.  (c) If a charge is made for the records, it shall be a reasonable charge based upon the actual costs of furnishing the records.  (d) On request of state agencies and departments and county and municipal officials, the division shall furnish to such requesting officials or agencies certified copies of records of the division.  (e) The records shall be furnished free of cost when possible, but if a charge is to be made for furnishing the records, the charge shall be based upon the actual cost of furnishing the records.
AR Code § 15-21-210 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 2 - Surveys|§ 15-21-210. Sale of information by division

 (a) The Division of Land Surveys of the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office may produce, reproduce, and sell maps, plats, and records and shall prescribe a reasonable charge therefor.  (b) All income derived from these sales shall be deposited into a financial institution in this state.
AR Code § 15-21-211 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 2 - Surveys|§ 15-21-211. Abstractors unaffected

 Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit abstractors from preparing legal land descriptions.
AR Code § 15-21-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Coordinate System|§ 15-21-301. Designation of system

 The system of plane coordinates which has been established by the National Geodetic Survey for defining and stating the positions or locations of points on the surface of the earth within the State of Arkansas is to be known and designated as the “Arkansas Coordinate System 1983”.
AR Code § 15-21-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Coordinate System|§ 15-21-302. Creation of zones

 (a) For the purpose of the use of the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983 the state is divided into a “North Zone” and a “South Zone”.  (b) The area now included in the following counties shall constitute the North Zone: Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crawford, Crittenden, Cross, Faulkner, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Johnson, Lawrence, Logan, Madison, Marion, Mississippi, Newton, Perry, Poinsett, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Scott, Searcy, Sebastian, Sharp, St. Francis, Stone, Van Buren, Washington, White, Woodruff, and Yell.  (c) The area now included in the following counties shall constitute the South Zone: Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Garland, Grant, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lee, Lincoln, Little River, Lonoke, Miller, Monroe, Montgomery, Nevada, Ouachita, Phillips, Pike, Polk, Prairie, Saline, Sevier, and Union.
AR Code § 15-21-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Coordinate System|§ 15-21-303. Designations within zones

 (a) As established for use in the North Zone, the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983 shall be named and in any land description in which it is used it shall be designated the “Arkansas Coordinate System 1983, North Zone”.  (b) As established for use in the South Zone, the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983 shall be named and in any land description in which it is used it shall be designated the “Arkansas Coordinate System 1983, South Zone”.
AR Code § 15-21-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Coordinate System|§ 15-21-304. Land lying in both zones

 When any tract of land to be defined by a single description extends from one (1) into the other of the coordinate zones established by § 15-21-302, the positions of all points on its boundaries may be referred to either of the two (2) zones, the zone which is used being specifically named in the description.
AR Code § 15-21-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Coordinate System|§ 15-21-305. Coordinates

 (a) The plane coordinates of a point on the earth's surface to be used in expressing the position or location of such a point in the appropriate zone of the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983 shall consist of two (2) distances, expressed in meters and decimals of a meter.  (b) One (1) of these distances, to be known as the “east(x)-coordinate”, shall give the position in the east-and-west direction, and the other, to be known as the “north(y)-coordinate”, shall give the position in a north-and-south direction.  (c) These coordinates shall be made to depend upon and conform to the coordinates on the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983 of the triangulation and traverse stations of the National Geodetic Survey within the State of Arkansas as those coordinates have been determined by the National Geodetic Survey.  (d)  (1) The official conversion for meters to feet shall be the United States survey foot.  (2)  (A) Meters shall be converted to United States survey feet by multiplying the number of meters by 39.37 and dividing that result by twelve (12).  (B) One (1) meter shall equal 39.37 inches.  (C) 3.280833333 United States survey feet are equal to one (1) meter.
AR Code § 15-21-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Coordinate System|§ 15-21-306. Technical definition of system — Marking of coordinates on ground

 (a) For purposes of more precisely defining the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983, the following definition by the National Geodetic Survey is adopted:  (1)  (A) The Arkansas Coordinate System 1983, North Zone, is a Lambert conformal projection of the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), having standard parallels at north latitudes of thirty-four degrees fifty-six minutes (34° 56' north) and thirty-six degrees fourteen minutes (36° 14' north), along which parallels the scale shall be exact.  (B) The origin of coordinates is at the intersection of the meridian ninety-two degrees zero minutes west of Greenwich (92° 00' west) and the parallel thirty-four degrees twenty minutes north latitude (34° 20' north). This origin is given the coordinates: East equals four hundred thousand meters (400,000 m.) and north equals zero meters (0.0 m.); and    (2)  (A) The Arkansas Coordinate System 1983, South Zone, is a Lambert conformal projection of the North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83), having standard parallels at north latitudes of thirty-three degrees eighteen minutes (33° 18' north) and thirty-four degrees forty minutes (34° 40' north), along which parallels the scale shall be exact.  (B) The origin of coordinates is at the intersection of the meridian ninety-two degrees zero minutes west of Greenwich (92° 0' west) and the parallel thirty-two degrees forty minutes north latitude (32° 40' north). This origin is given the coordinates: East equals four hundred thousand meters (400,000 m.) and north equals four hundred thousand meters (400,000 m.).      (b) The position of Arkansas Coordinate System 1983 shall be marked on the ground by triangulation or traverse stations established in conformity with standards adopted by the National Geodetic Survey for first-order and second-order work, whose geodetic positions have been rigidly adjusted on the North American Datum of 1983 and whose coordinates have been computed on the system herein defined. Any such station may be used for establishing a survey connection with the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983.
AR Code § 15-21-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Coordinate System|§ 15-21-307. Proximity to stations required for recording

 No coordinates based on the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983 purporting to define the position of a point on a land boundary shall be presented to be recorded in any public land records or deed records unless such point is within fifteen (15) miles of a triangulation or traverse station established in conformity with the standards prescribed in § 15-21-306. However, the fifteen-mile limitation may be modified by a duly authorized state agency to meet local conditions.
AR Code § 15-21-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Coordinate System|§ 15-21-308. References to system on maps and surveys

 The use of the term “Arkansas Coordinate System 1983” on any map, report of survey, or other document shall be limited to coordinates based on the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983 as defined in this subchapter.
AR Code § 15-21-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Coordinate System|§ 15-21-309. Description by coordinates supplemental to references to public land surveys

 Wherever coordinates based on the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983 are used to describe any tract of land which in the same document is also described by reference to any subdivision, line, or other corner of the United States Public Land Survey, the description by the coordinates shall be construed as supplemental to the basic description of such subdivision, line, or corner contained in the official plats and field notes filed of record, and in the event of any conflict, the description by reference to the subdivision, line, or corner of the United States Public Land Survey shall prevail over the description by coordinates.
AR Code § 15-21-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Coordinate System|§ 15-21-310. Reliance on system not required

 Nothing contained in this subchapter shall require any purchaser or mortgagee to rely on the description, any part of which depends exclusively upon the Arkansas Coordinate System 1983.
AR Code § 15-21-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 4 - Acceptance of Federal Soil Conservation Act|§ 15-21-401. Policy and purposes — Acceptance of federal act

 (a) It is recognized and declared, as a matter of legislative determination, that the public welfare of this state requires the cooperation of this state with other states and with the federal government in the accomplishment of the policy and purposes declared by the United States Congress in § 7(a) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 16 U.S.C. § 590g(a). Those policies and purposes are:  (1) Preservation and improvement of soil fertility;  (2) Promotion of the economic use and conservation of land;  (3) Diminution of exploitation and wasteful and unscientific use of national soil resources;  (4) The protection of rivers and harbors against the results of soil erosion in aid of maintaining the navigability of waters and water courses and in aid of flood control; and  (5)  (A) Reestablishment, at as rapid a rate as the United States Secretary of Agriculture determines to be practicable and in the general public interest of the ratio between the purchasing power of the net income per person on farms and that of the income per person not on farms that prevailed during the five-year period August 1909 — July 1914, inclusive, as determined from statistics available in the United States Department of Agriculture, and the maintenance of such a ratio.  (B) The powers conferred under §§ 7-14, inclusive, of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 590g–590n, shall be used to assist voluntary action calculated to effectuate the purposes specified in this section. Such powers shall not be used to discourage the production of supplies of foods and fibers sufficient to maintain normal domestic human consumption as determined by the United States Secretary of Agriculture from the records of domestic human consumption in the years 1920-1929, inclusive, taking into consideration increased population, quantities of any commodity that were forced into domestic consumption by decline in exports during such a period, current trends in domestic consumption and exports of particular commodities, and the quantities of substitutes available for domestic consumption within any general class of food commodities.  (C) In carrying out the purposes of this section, due regard shall be given to the maintenance of a continuous and stable supply of agricultural commodities adequate to meet consumer demand at prices fair both to producers and consumers.      (b) The State of Arkansas therefore adopts the policy of cooperating with the governments and agencies of other states and of the United States in the accomplishment of the policy and purposes of § 7 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 16 U.S.C. § 590g, and accepts the provisions and requirements thereof.
AR Code § 15-21-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 4 - Acceptance of Federal Soil Conservation Act|§ 15-21-402. University of Arkansas designated as state agency

 (a) The University of Arkansas, hereinafter referred to as the “university”, is designated as the agency of the State of Arkansas to formulate, to submit to the United States Secretary of Agriculture, and to administer state agricultural plans designed to carry out the policy and purposes of § 7 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 16 U.S.C. § 590g.  (b) The university shall perform the duties and functions as the state agency separately and distinctly from the performance of its duties and functions in any other capacity, except that as the state agency, it shall cooperate with the dean and faculty of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences of the University of Arkansas, with the Cooperative Extension Service and the Agricultural Experiment Station, and with other agencies of the state qualified to assist therein. The university may utilize the services and assistance of the personnel and facilities normally used in the performance of other functions of the university if that may be done without interference with the effective performance of those other functions.
AR Code § 15-21-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 4 - Acceptance of Federal Soil Conservation Act|§ 15-21-403. University powers and duties generally

 In carrying out the provisions of each state agricultural plan, the University of Arkansas shall have the power to:   (1) Designate and employ such agencies as it may deem necessary;  (2) Cooperate with local and state agencies and with agencies of other states and of the United States Government;  (3) Provide for the conduct of research and to conduct educational activities in connection with the operation of such plans;  (4) Provide for adjustments, by voluntary methods, in the utilization of land and in farming practices and for payments in connection therewith; and  (5) Prescribe such rules as may be necessary or expedient with reference to the administration of such state agricultural plans.
AR Code § 15-21-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 4 - Acceptance of Federal Soil Conservation Act|§ 15-21-404. State plans — Formulation and submission

 The University of Arkansas, as the state agency, is authorized, empowered, and directed to:   (1) Formulate, pursuant to the standards therefor as provided in § 15-21-403, agricultural plans for this state for each calendar year and, from time to time, make revisions in the state agricultural plans as may be necessary or proper to conform to the standards; and  (2) Submit the state agricultural plans and all revisions thereof to the United States Secretary of Agriculture in conformity with the provisions of § 7 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 16 U.S.C. § 590g.
AR Code § 15-21-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 4 - Acceptance of Federal Soil Conservation Act|§ 15-21-405. Federal funds — Acceptance and use

 (a) The University of Arkansas, as the state agency, is authorized and empowered to accept and receive all grants of money made pursuant to § 7 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, 16 U.S.C. § 590g, for the purpose of enabling the State of Arkansas to carry out the provisions of any state agricultural plan.  (b)  (1) All such funds, subject to any conditions upon which the funds shall have been granted, together with any moneys which may be appropriated by the state for such a purpose, shall be available to the university for expenditures as provided in the state agricultural plans.  (2) Expenditures may include, but need not be limited to, expenditures for research and investigation, administrative expenses, equipment, supplies, salaries, compensation, and expenses of the officers and agents of the university in connection with the execution of their duties hereunder, educational activities, benefit payments, and all other necessary or proper expenditures incident to any such matters, including reimbursement to other funds of the university for expenditures made in effectuating the policy of this subchapter.
AR Code § 15-21-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 4 - Acceptance of Federal Soil Conservation Act|§ 15-21-406. Acceptance of lands donated for soil conservation purposes

 The Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas is authorized to:   (1) Accept donations of land and to acquire title to the land for the use of the United States Natural Resources Conservation Service to conduct, in cooperation with the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station, experiments in soil erosion and erosion control and prevention; and  (2) Enter into agreement or contract with or give permission to the United States Natural Resources Conservation Service for the improvement, development, and operation of the lands acquired.
AR Code § 15-21-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 4 - Acceptance of Federal Soil Conservation Act|§ 15-21-407. Accounts and reports

 The University of Arkansas shall provide for keeping full and accurate accounts of its transactions as a state agency, separate from the accounts of its transactions in other capacities, and shall provide for the rendering of necessary and proper reports, including reports designed to ascertain whether any state agricultural plans provided for in this subchapter are being carried out according to their terms.
AR Code § 15-21-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 2 - Land and Water Resources Generally|Chapter 21 - Land|Subchapter 5 - Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Board|§ 15-21-501. Purpose

 (a) In recognition that a vast majority of all information used in the management of government can be spatially referenced and that public institutions and private firms expend considerable resources collecting and managing land information records in diverse and disparate formats and scales, a modern automated system of accessible land information data and technologies is required to serve the essential needs of individuals, businesses, and government agencies.  (b) The essential component of all automated land information systems is valid, consistent, comprehensive, available, and current data. Since federal, state, regional, county, and municipal agencies, state universities and colleges, private firms, and others require the same spatial data, it is desirable that unnecessary duplication of effort be avoided, that existing data be shared in a coordinated manner, and that new data be developed in an accurate and usable form in accordance with the State of Arkansas Enterprise Architecture. Pursuant to this, all state agencies, boards, and commissions are required to cooperate and participate with the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Board.  (c) Implementation of an overall Arkansas land and geographic resources program requires cooperative methods for development and maintenance of spatial data between state and local governments in the State of Arkansas.  (d) The board will determine, define, and implement short-term and long-term strategies that will result in improved decision making, effective asset management, and reduced costs for the citizens of Arkansas.