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AR Code § 15-73-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 73 - Oil And Gas Leases And Lease Interests|Subchapter 4 - Partition of Oil and Gas Lease Interests|§ 15-73-402. Petition for partition and sale — Parties

 Any such owner, or owners, desiring a sale and partition of the oil and gas leasehold interests shall file, in the circuit court of the county in which the lands or the greater part thereof lie, a written petition describing the lands in and under which the oil and gas interests lie, and shall make as parties defendant all owners of the various interests in the oil and gas lease rights on and in the lands, and the amount of interest held by each, with a prayer that the whole of the oil and gas lease rights be sold, and that the money derived from the sale be divided among the owners in proportion as their interest shall bear to the whole.
AR Code § 15-73-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 73 - Oil And Gas Leases And Lease Interests|Subchapter 4 - Partition of Oil and Gas Lease Interests|§ 15-73-403. Service of summons

 Summons shall be issued and served as in other cases in circuit court and if any defendant shall be a nonresident of the state, or his or her whereabouts unknown to the plaintiff, such person may be constructively summoned, as provided by Rule 4 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure.
AR Code § 15-73-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 73 - Oil And Gas Leases And Lease Interests|Subchapter 4 - Partition of Oil and Gas Lease Interests|§ 15-73-404. Intervention

 Any person having or claiming an interest in the land in fee, or in any oil and gas leasehold rights, not made a party in the petition may appear and intervene in the cause.
AR Code § 15-73-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 73 - Oil And Gas Leases And Lease Interests|Subchapter 4 - Partition of Oil and Gas Lease Interests|§ 15-73-405. Guardians

 (a) The statutory guardian of an infant or a person of unsound mind may unite in the petition in conjunction with his or her ward.  (b) The infant, or person of unsound mind, may be made party defendant, in which case his or her guardian may appear and defend for him or her.  (c) If the guardian does not appear and defend, the circuit court shall appoint some discreet person for that purpose.
AR Code § 15-73-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 73 - Oil And Gas Leases And Lease Interests|Subchapter 4 - Partition of Oil and Gas Lease Interests|§ 15-73-406. Lease by receiver prior to sale and partition

 (a) If, at any time, after the filing of the petition and before a sale of the property, it should be made to appear to the circuit court that the interests of the various owners could be more fully protected and the value of the various interests of the parties increased by the execution of an oil and gas lease providing for the prospecting and drilling for oil and gas upon the property involved in the suit, or upon property near thereto, the court may appoint a receiver who shall be authorized to enter into negotiations for the leasing of the property for the drilling and operating for oil and gas, and if the receiver finds that the property can be leased upon the terms as, in his or her opinion, are beneficial to the various owners, he or she shall file a petition with the court setting out the results of his or her investigation and shall pray for authority to execute the lease.  (b) If the lease shall provide for the payment of royalty of not less than one-eighth (1/8) of the production and shall otherwise appear to the court to be to the best interest of all the parties to the suit, the court shall order and direct the receiver to execute the lease upon terms the court deems just and proper, and the person taking the lease shall be vested with the leasehold rights therein conveyed as fully and with like effect as if the lease had been executed by all of the owners of the oil and gas rights, and their spouses.  (c) Leases executed by the receiver under the authority of the court, as provided in this section, shall not terminate with the termination of the suit for partition nor with the sale and confirmation of the oil and gas rights, but the leases shall continue in full force and effect according to their own terms and conditions as fully and with like effect as if they had been executed by the various owners and their spouses, and any person thereafter purchasing the oil and gas rights, or any interest therein, either from the owners or from the commissioner of the court selling the rights under the decree of sale and partition, shall take the rights subject to the oil and gas lease so executed by the receiver.
AR Code § 15-73-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 73 - Oil And Gas Leases And Lease Interests|Subchapter 4 - Partition of Oil and Gas Lease Interests|§ 15-73-407. Procedure — Evidence authorizing lease

 Insofar as § 18-60-401 et seq., relating to the partition of land, is not in conflict with this subchapter, those sections shall apply to the partition of interests in oil and gas leasehold rights on, in, and under lands. However, it shall not be necessary for the circuit court to find that the interests are not susceptible to partition in kind before it shall order the execution of any such oil and gas lease, but it shall be sufficient to justify the execution of the oil and gas lease on and covering the land that the evidence shows:   (1) That it is desirable for the property to be developed as a unit for oil and gas; and  (2) That the value of the interest owned by each of the parties would be more if the property were developed and operated as a unit than if divided.
AR Code § 15-73-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 73 - Oil And Gas Leases And Lease Interests|Subchapter 4 - Partition of Oil and Gas Lease Interests|§ 15-73-408. Necessary parties — Effect of sale or lease

 All spouses of the various owners of interests in oil and gas rights shall be necessary parties to the suit in partition, and the sale of the property by the commissioner under the decree, or the leasing of the property by the receiver as provided in this subchapter, shall effectively cut off all right of dower, curtesy, and homestead of spouses in and to the property rights and interests therein conveyed, leased, or let.
AR Code § 15-73-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 73 - Oil And Gas Leases And Lease Interests|Subchapter 4 - Partition of Oil and Gas Lease Interests|§ 15-73-409. Retrial on motion of defendant constructively summoned

 Where a decree has been rendered under the provisions of this subchapter against a defendant or defendants, constructively summoned and who did not appear, the defendants or any one (1) or more of them may, at any time within six (6) months, and not thereafter, after the rendition of the decree, appear in open court and move to have the action retried, and security for costs being given, the defendant or defendants, shall be permitted to make defense, and thereupon the action shall be tried anew as to the defendant or defendants as if there had been no decree, and upon the new trial the court may confirm, modify, or set aside the former decree and may order the plaintiff in the action to restore to the defendant or defendants any money of that defendant or defendants paid to him or her under the decree or any property of the defendants obtained by the plaintiff under the decree and yet remaining in his or her possession. However, no order made in a cause authorizing a receiver to execute an oil and gas lease shall be set aside, or the lease cancelled where the motion or petition to set aside the order or lease is filed more than thirty (30) days after the order was made, nor in any event where development has been begun or completed by the lessee under the terms of any such lease.
AR Code § 15-74-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|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 gas between the purchaser of gas production and the owner of the production in Arkansas or between the purchasers of gas production or the owner of the production and the royalty interest owners in Arkansas shall contain the following information on the first page:  (1) The name and address of the owner of royalties;  (2) A space for the owner's social security number or tax identification number and the other information needed to meet the requirements of the Internal Revenue Service or other governmental agencies and a space for the owner's signature;  (3) The acreage under which the royalty owner has an interest and the fractional or decimal interest owned by the royalty owner in the pool;  (4) The total amount of the net mineral acres in the area subject to the division order; and  (5) The effective date of the division order.    (b) The terms of this section shall not be applicable to any producing unit or well that produces liquid hydrocarbons only, or liquid hydrocarbons associated with the production of gas, or gas produced associated with the production of liquid hydrocarbons.
AR Code § 15-74-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 2 - Measurement Generally|§ 15-74-201. Accurate measurement of crude petroleum oil

 (a) All crude petroleum oil produced in this state shall be measured in gauge-tanks. The pipelines through which the crude petroleum oil is conveyed from oil wells to the gauge-tanks shall be placed on the surface of the ground and no bypasses shall extend from the pipelines between the oil wells and gauge-tanks. However, this section shall not apply to oil wells in operation prior to the date of the passage of this act.  (b) The Oil and Gas Commission shall have supervision and control of the measurement of crude petroleum oil produced in this state as set forth in subsection (a) of this section. The commission shall make a daily record of the measurement of the crude petroleum oil, and it is authorized and empowered to make reasonable and necessary rules for the enforcement of the purposes of this section.
AR Code § 15-74-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 2 - Measurement Generally|§ 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, or association, being the owner or operator of any oil or gas well in this state, to take or remove any oil or oil-bearing gas from any lease, unless the oil or gas so taken and removed from the lease is to be gauged or measured and a correct record of the amount of oil or oil-bearing gas so taken or removed from the lease be kept. Provided, this bill shall not be construed to include oil-bearing gas produced from so-called “stripper” wells, the gas from which is not marketable.  (b) If any person, firm, corporation, or association operating or producing any oil or gas from any well of this state shall violate the terms of subsection (a) of this section, then his or her or its ownership in the lease under which the well is being operated shall be voidable and subject to cancellation upon suit or suits instigated by the owner or owners of the royalty and mineral interests of the leased premises upon which the violation occurs.  (c) In the event the mineral interests under the leased premises are owned by several different persons, firms, corporations, or associations, then the leasehold interest on the premises on which the violation occurs shall be declared separable, and the interest in the leasehold as owned by the person, firm, corporation, or association violating the terms of this section shall be cancelled.
AR Code § 15-74-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 2 - Measurement Generally|§ 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 corporation who may purchase any oil produced in this state to in any way discount, dock, or short crude oil for waste, shrinking, or other causes, but such purchases when computed shall be on one hundred percent (100%) net oil measured on one hundred percent (100%) tank-tables and corrected to sixty degrees Fahrenheit (60° F). All production, runs to storage, and deliveries are to be based on one hundred percent (100%) tank-tables, with proper adjustments for temperature, B. S., and water.  (b) Any person, firm, or corporation found guilty of violating the provisions of this section shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in any sum not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than three thousand dollars ($3,000).
AR Code § 15-74-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 3 - Standard Gas Measurement Law|§ 15-74-301. Title

 This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Standard Gas Measurement Law”.
AR Code § 15-74-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 3 - Standard Gas Measurement Law|§ 15-74-302. Cubic foot of gas defined

 (a) The term “cubic foot of gas” or “standard cubic foot of gas” means the volume of gas contained in one cubic foot (1 cf) of space at a standard pressure base and at a standard temperature base.  (b) The standard pressure base shall be fourteen and sixty-five one hundredths pounds per square inch (14.65 lbs. p.s.i.) absolute, and the standard temperature base shall be sixty degrees Fahrenheit (60° F).  (c) Whenever the conditions of pressure and temperature differ from the above standard, conversion of the volume from these conditions to the standard conditions shall be made in accordance with the Ideal Gas Laws with correction for deviation from Boyle's Law, which correction must be made unless the pressure at the point of measurement is two hundred pounds per square inch (200 lbs. p.s.i.) gauge, or less, all in accordance with methods and tables generally recognized by and commonly used in the natural gas industry.  (d) For all purposes of computing standard cubic feet of gas under this subchapter, the barometric pressure may be assumed to be fourteen and six-tenths pounds per square inch (14.6 lbs. p.s.i.) absolute at the place of measurement.
AR Code § 15-74-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 3 - Standard Gas Measurement Law|§ 15-74-303. Determination of specific gravity and flowing temperature

 (a) The Oil and Gas Commission is authorized and empowered, in the absence of the availability of satisfactory actual data based upon observed or recorded specific gravity and flowing temperature determinations, to determine the average specific gravity and average flowing temperature of the gas at the point of measurement, as produced in each oil or gas field or pool in Arkansas which, after being so determined, shall be used to calculate the standard cubic foot.  (b) If for any reason the commission has not so determined the average specific gravity and average flowing temperature of the gas produced in any oil or gas field or pool in Arkansas, the average specific gravity shall be assumed to be six-tenths (6/10) and the average flowing temperature shall be assumed to be sixty degrees Fahrenheit (60°F).  (c) In the event that the commission finds the necessity therefor or upon the request of any interested party, the commission shall give notice and hold a public hearing before making those determinations.  (d) Promptly upon those determinations, the commission shall make and publish the findings and promulgate reasonable field rules as necessary to effectuate the provisions of this subchapter.  (e) Any person, association of persons, or corporation shall be permitted to use the findings and field rules of the commission for all purposes under this subchapter, but if such findings or field rules are not so used in determining volumes under this subchapter, the volumes so otherwise determined shall be corrected to the basis of the “standard cubic foot of gas” as defined in § 15-74-302. However, nothing in this subchapter shall ever prevent the use of actual recorded values and actual test data, where available, for all purposes whatsoever under this statute.
AR Code § 15-74-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 3 - Standard Gas Measurement Law|§ 15-74-304. Reports of gas production

 Any person required to report volumes of gas production under the laws of this state shall report such volumes in number of thousands of standard cubic feet calculated and determined under the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 15-74-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 3 - Standard Gas Measurement Law|§ 15-74-305. Measurement, accounting, etc., of gas sold or delivered by volume

 (a) Each and every sale and each and every purchase, delivery, and receipt of gas by volume made in this state, for which any accounting for the price paid or received for the gas so sold, purchased, delivered, or received must be made to an oil and gas lease owner, royalty owner thereunder, or other mineral interest owner, shall be made and the gas shall be measured, calculated, purchased, delivered, and accounted for on the basis of “a standard cubic foot of gas” as defined in § 15-74-302, and as determined under this subchapter. Whenever the provisions of this subchapter operate to change the basis of measurement provided for in existing contracts, then the price for gas, including royalty gas, provided for in such contracts shall, if either the purchaser or seller so desires, be adjusted to compensate for the change in the method of measuring the volume of gas delivered thereunder. This provision is intended to protect parties to contracts now in existence so that after this statute becomes effective the total amount of money paid for a volume of gas purchased or required to be accounted for under existing contracts shall remain unaffected by this subchapter.  (b) Nothing in this section shall affect or apply to purchases or sales made on any basis other than a volume basis.  (c) Any person, association of persons, or corporation who, as purchaser thereof, shall knowingly fail or refuse to so measure, calculate, or account for any gas so purchased, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for each offense recoverable in the name of the state in the Pulaski County Circuit Court and each day of the violation shall constitute a separate offense.  (d) Nothing herein shall prevent any aggrieved party from maintaining a civil suit for damages in the county or counties in which the gas is produced.
AR Code § 15-74-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 4 - Tests and Inspections|§ 15-74-401. Penalty

 (a) A dealer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), if that dealer:  (1) Offers for sale any of the oils or fluids mentioned in this subchapter which:  (A) Have not been tested; or  (B) Having been tested, fail to comply with the specifications set out in this subchapter; or    (2) Fails to comply with all the requirements of any section of this subchapter or rules promulgated by the Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration under authority of this subchapter.    (b) However, the secretary, or any of his or her deputies or inspectors, shall have the power to compromise the penalty herein fixed by imposing the penalty as the merits of the case demand.
AR Code § 15-74-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 4 - Tests and Inspections|§ 15-74-402. Rules

 The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration shall have authority to promulgate such rules in regard to the enforcement of this subchapter as shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of the subchapter which in his or her judgment will best serve to carry out the purpose thereof.
AR Code § 15-74-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 6 - Oil, Gas, and Brine|Chapter 74 - Measurement, Inspection, And Sale Of Oil And Gas|Subchapter 4 - Tests and Inspections|§ 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 interested, directly or indirectly, in the manufacture or sale of any of the oils or gasoline specified in this subchapter; or  (2) For the purpose of inspection, testing, or gauging the same, take away or appropriate for his or her own use, or for the use of others, any part or portion of the oils or fluids.