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AR Code § 22-5-604 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 6 - Trespass|§ 22-5-604. Suit for cancellation of donation certificate

 (a) Whenever the Attorney General shall receive information that any donee of state land has violated or failed to comply with any of the laws relating to the donation of state lands, the Attorney General shall file a complaint with the Commissioner of State Lands praying for the cancellation of the donation certificate.  (b) The complaint shall set forth the reason for the cancellation of the certificate, and a copy of the complaint shall be served on the donee ten (10) days before the matter is heard by the Commissioner of State Lands.  (c) The state and the donee may present affidavits as proof.  (d) If the decision of the Commissioner of State Lands shall be adverse to the donee, the donee shall have the right to appeal to the Pulaski County Circuit Court from the decision.
AR Code § 22-5-605 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 6 - Trespass|§ 22-5-605. Suit involving state title — Cutting or removing timber pending final determination

 (a) In all suits pending in any courts of this state where the state is a party of record claiming title to, or any interest in, any real estate, the title to which is in controversy in the suit, neither the party claiming adversely to the state in the suit nor any other person, firm, or corporation, whether a party to the record in the cause or not, shall, pending a final determination of the litigation, cut or remove from the lands any trees, logs, or timber thereon, except as provided in this section.  (b) The court in which the cause of action is pending or the judge of the court in vacation may permit a party to the record in the cause, who is claiming in the cause of actions an interest adverse to the state in the lands and the trees, logs, or timber growing or being thereon, to cut or remove the trees, logs, or timber upon condition that the party shall file in the court, and in the cause, a petition praying such permission and containing a correct description of the particular lands on which the trees, logs, or timber desired to be cut or removed are situated, a correct estimate, by forty-acre tracts, of the trees, logs, or timber and the value of the trees, logs, or timber.  (c) The petition shall be duly verified.  (d) Upon reasonable notice to the adverse party, the petition, the allegations of which may be controverted, may be taken up by the court or judge in vacation and, if granted, shall be upon condition that the petitioners shall enter into a good and sufficient bond to the State of Arkansas. The bonds must be approved by the clerk of the court, in an amount not less than the reasonable cash market value of the trees or logs desired to be cut and removed, obligating the petitioner and his or her sureties to pay to the State of Arkansas all damages it may sustain by the granting of the petition, should it be finally determined in the cause that the state is the owner of the timber cut, of the logs cut and removed, or of any interest therein.  (e) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation who has not complied with the provisions of this section to cut any growing timber situated on the lands referred to in the cause of action or to remove from the lands any logs or trees lying or being thereon.  (f) If it is deemed necessary to protect against such trespass and hold intact the rights of the state, pending a final hearing and determination of the cause, the court or the judge in vacation may, at the instance of the state and without bond, grant an injunction or restraining order prohibiting trespass until the cause is finally determined.
AR Code § 22-5-606 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 6 - Trespass|§ 22-5-606. Constitutional Officers Fund and State Central Services Fund

 All amounts recovered for the state shall be paid to the Treasurer of State to be credited to the Constitutional Officers Fund and State Central Services Fund for the support of the office of the Commissioner of State Lands, and each agent's per diem and expenses shall be paid from the fund.
AR Code § 22-5-701 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 7 - Field Notes and Records|§ 22-5-701. Field notes and other papers as public records — Right to inspect and copy

 (a) The field notes, transcripts, documents, maps, plats, records, and other papers kept in the office of the Commissioner of State Lands are declared to be public records.  (b) Under the authority and direction of the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, any deputy surveyor or other agent of the United States shall have free access to any such public records for the purpose of taking extracts therefrom or making copies thereof, without charge of any kind.  (c) The Commissioner of State Lands and the clerks in his or her office shall be allowed to take extracts from or make copies of any of the public records in the office of the Commissioner of State Lands.  (d) All other persons may have the right to inspect the public records under the supervision of the Commissioner of State Lands or the clerks in his or her office.  (e) The Commissioner of State Lands shall assign a space in his or her office for the reception and safekeeping of records and shall allow free access to the records by the authorities of the United States.
AR Code § 22-5-702 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 7 - Field Notes and Records|§ 22-5-702. Copies, extracts, etc. — Recording — Admissibility as evidence

 (a) All certified transcripts and copies of any of the public records in the office of the Commissioner of State Lands, properly certified by the Commissioner of State Lands, shall be entitled to be recorded in all deed records and shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state in the same manner and with like effect as the originals.  (b) Any certified extract, entry of field notes, maps, records, or other papers, properly certified by the Commissioner of State Lands, shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state in the same manner as if the copy of the entire field notes, maps, records, or other papers had been produced.
AR Code § 22-5-703 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 7 - Field Notes and Records|§ 22-5-703. Counties may obtain field notes — Appropriations

 (a)  (1) The county court of each county is authorized to ascertain at what price the field notes of survey of the lands in the county, together with township maps thereof, can be obtained. After the court shall have obtained a knowledge of the amount of expenses necessary to procure the field notes and township maps, it shall cause the price to be posted in an advertisement, at the courthouse door, requesting all the justices of the county to attend the next county court.  (2) If a majority of the justices present shall vote in favor of paying the ascertained price, then the county court may proceed to procure the field notes and maps from the office of the Commissioner of State Lands. The field notes and maps so procured, certified by the Commissioner of State Lands, shall be lodged in the office of the clerk of the county court.    (b) For putting this section into effect, each county is authorized to make the necessary appropriations out of any money in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated.
AR Code § 22-5-704 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 7 - Field Notes and Records|§ 22-5-704. Fees for copies

 (a) The clerk of each county court shall issue, when called by any person, a copy of the field notes and maps of the county and is authorized to charge fifty cents (50¢) for each copy.  (b) No copy shall contain more than three hundred twenty (320) acres without an additional charge of fifty percent (50%) on such enlargement on any one (1) copy, to be paid by the applicant.  (c) The Commissioner of State Lands is directed to furnish free of charge to any county in this state which has lost its field notes of land surveys of the county by the burning of its courthouse copies of the field notes relating to the survey of lands in the county, at as early a time as may be, after the county judge of the county shall file with the Commissioner of State Lands an application for copies of the lost or destroyed field notes.  (d) Each county surveyor shall have the liberty of copying any of the field notes and maps kept in the county courthouse for his or her own use, without charge of any kind.  (e) It shall be the duty of the county clerk of each county to make a true report of all moneys collected by him or her for copies issued of the field notes and maps to the county court at settlement term in each year.  (f) It shall be the duty of the court to charge the clerk thirty percent (30%) on all moneys collected by him or her pursuant to this section, and the court shall order the sheriff of the county to collect the percentage so charged and pay it over to the county treasurer, to be used as other county funds.
AR Code § 22-5-705 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 7 - Field Notes and Records|§ 22-5-705. Applicability of Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act

 The office of the Commissioner of State Lands shall be subject to the Arkansas Administrative Procedure Act, § 25-15-201 et seq.
AR Code § 22-5-801 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-801. Leases and permits — Purpose of this section and §§ 22-5-802 — 22-5-813 — Definition

 (a) It is the purpose and intent of this section and §§ 22-5-802 — 22-5-813 to charge the Commissioner of State Lands with the authority and responsibility for considering applications for and granting leases and permits for the taking of sand, gravel, oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, coal and other minerals, and timber or logs from the beds and bars of navigable rivers and lakes in this state or from any other lands or interests in lands held in the name of the State of Arkansas or any state agency or institution, excluding tax-forfeited lands and minerals, and to supervise activities on state-owned lands by leaseholders and permittees.  (b) As used in this subchapter, “log” means a bulky piece or length of unshaped timber, a length of a tree trunk ready for sawing, or a portion of the trunk of a felled tree that is sunk on the bed of submerged land owned by the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 22-5-802 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-802. Leases and permits — Exemptions for state agencies

 (a) The provisions of this section and §§ 22-5-801 and 22-5-803 — 22-5-813 shall not be applicable to the severance, sale, or other disposition of sand, gravel, timber or logs, or minerals salvaged, severed, or removed by a state agency from lands held in the name of or managed by the agency if the sand, gravel, timber or logs, or minerals are salvaged, severed, or removed in the course of managing, developing, and improving the lands by the state agency. This exemption shall not apply to sales for commercial purposes.  (b) Any state agency, department, or institution or any county, municipality, or other division of government desiring to sever or take any sand, gravel, timber or logs, or minerals from any lands held in the name of or managed by the state or a state agency or from the beds and bars of rivers in this state, other than lands held in the name of or managed by the agency or division of government so desiring, shall obtain a permit to do so from the Commissioner of State Lands but shall not be required to comply with the bid procedures contained in this section and §§ 22-5-801 and 22-5-803 — 22-5-813 or to pay any fee, royalty, or taxes otherwise required by this section and §§ 22-5-801 and 22-5-803 — 22-5-813.  (c) The provisions of this section and §§ 22-5-801 and 22-5-803 — 22-5-813 relating to the authority to lease and permit lands held in the name of or managed by the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission shall not be applicable to the lands of that agency. The commission shall retain control over the procedures for awarding and shall retain the authority over the issuance of leases for the mineral rights and of permits for the rights to produce and sever minerals from lands held in its name or managed by it. Provided, that the commission shall use the same requirements, procedures, standards, and methods required under this section and §§ 22-5-801 and 22-5-803 — 22-5-813 for other state agencies to lease mineral rights and to issue permits to produce and sever minerals.
AR Code § 22-5-803 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-803. Leases and permits — Penalties

 (a)  (1) Upon conviction, a person, firm, company, corporation, or association is guilty of a Class D felony if the person, firm, company, corporation, or association without first obtaining a lease or permit to do so from the Commissioner of State Lands knowingly removes any sand, gravel, oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, coal or other minerals, or any timber or logs from:  (A) The beds or bars of navigable rivers and lakes in this state; or  (B) Any other lands or interest in lands held in the name of the state.    (2) Each day of unauthorized taking shall constitute a separate offense.    (b) In addition to the fine mentioned in subsection (a) of this section, the State of Arkansas may bring suit in the name of the state to recover the value of the sand, gravel, oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, coal or other minerals, or timber or logs which have been illegally removed, as well as all severance taxes and royalties due as a result of the removal.
AR Code § 22-5-804 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-804. Leases and permits — Natural Resources Committee — Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission

 (a)  (1) The Natural Resources Committee is created and shall be composed of the following members:  (A) The Secretary of the Department of Finance and Administration;  (B) The Director of Production and Conservation of the Oil and Gas Commission;  (C) The State Geologist;  (D) The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture;  (E) The Commissioner of State Lands;  (F) The Executive Secretary of the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission;  (G) The Secretary of the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism;  (H) The Director of the Division of Environmental Quality; and  (I) The Chair of the Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission.    (2) A member of the committee may designate a person within the member's organization to attend meetings and conduct committee business on the member's behalf.    (b) The chair of the committee shall be the Commissioner of State Lands.  (c) The committee shall establish a schedule of minimum fees and royalties, as well as the terms and conditions for various types of permits and leases. No permit or lease shall be granted for less than the minimums prescribed in the schedule.  (d) The committee shall have the authority to change the schedule of minimum fees and royalties and the terms of permits and leases.  (e) The Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission shall have the authority, for all lands held in the name of and managed by its agency:  (1) To establish a schedule of minimum fees and royalties, as well as the terms and conditions for various types of permits and leases for Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission lands;  (2) To take bids on and to award the leases and permits to produce or sever minerals from those lands and to set up application procedures and fees for those leases and permits;  (3) To set the length of time for leases or permits to expire and the terms and conditions for their transfer or renewal;  (4) To set the minimum fees and royalties for leases and permits and to ensure that severance taxes on minerals from such leases or permits are paid to the proper agencies; and  (5) Shall have such other duties, responsibilities, and authority required for the issuance of mineral leases and permits under this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-803 and 22-5-805 — 22-5-813 for other state lands.
AR Code § 22-5-806 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-806. Leases and permits — Offer to pay minimums — Notice — Award

 (a) Any person applying for a lease or permit under the provisions of this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-805 and 22-5-807 — 22-5-813 shall offer in the application to pay at least the minimums prescribed in the schedule for the lease or permit.  (b)  (1) Upon receipt of an application for a lease or permit, the office of the Commissioner of State Lands shall determine whether issuing a permit or lease would be in the best interests of the State of Arkansas. If so, the Commissioner of State Lands, within ten (10) days after that determination, shall cause to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in this state for no fewer than three (3) consecutive days, and in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which the property is located for not less than one (1) day, a notice that an application has been filed.  (2) The notice shall contain a description of the permit or lease sought, the minimum fee or royalty, and the terms and conditions prescribed for the permit or lease and shall state that persons may bid on the lease or permit by filing a sealed bid in writing with the office of the Commissioner of State Lands within the time specified in the publication.  (3) All bids shall be submitted not less than twenty (20) days from the last day of publication.    (c)  (1) If no other bids for the lease or permit are filed with the Commissioner of State Lands within the specified time period, the lease or permit may be awarded to the person applying therefor.  (2) If other bids are received, the lease or permit may be awarded to the highest bidder, but if two (2) or more bids are, in the judgment of the Commissioner of State Lands, reasonably close, the Commissioner of State Lands may require an open auction between the high bidders.  (3) After the bidding process is completed, the Commissioner of State Lands, with the recommendations of the Natural Resources Committee, may reject all offers considered unreasonable or may establish terms considered reasonable and in the best interest of the state, which the highest bidder may accept, without further advertising by the state.
AR Code § 22-5-807 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-807. Leases and permits — Notice to, and recommendations from, interested agencies

 (a) When an application for a lease or permit is filed with the Commissioner of State Lands for the taking or production of any sand, gravel, oil, natural gas, casinghead gas, coal, or other minerals or the severance of any timber or logs from state-owned lands, the Commissioner of State Lands shall so notify the Arkansas Geological Survey, the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission, the Oil and Gas Commission, the Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission, the Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism, the Division of Environmental Quality, the Arkansas Forestry Commission, and any other appropriate state agency that has or may have a particular interest in the area proposed to be covered by the lease or permit.  (b) Any interested agency shall have an opportunity to investigate the proposed production or taking of sand, gravel, or minerals or the severance of timber or logs under the lease or permit and to report its findings and recommendations to the Commissioner of State Lands, including any recommendations for conditions or limitations to be imposed on the lessee or permittee with respect to the production of sand, gravel, minerals, or the severance of timber or logs under the lease or permit, within the time specified in the notice.  (c) The Commissioner of State Lands may deny an application or may grant a permit or lease subject to such conditions and requirements as he or she deems appropriate to properly protect the interests of the State of Arkansas.  (d) No permit or lease shall be granted on interests held in the name of or managed by a state agency or institution without the written consent of the agency or institution.  (e) The issuance of a permit or lease shall not be unreasonably delayed or denied without justifiable cause.
AR Code § 22-5-808 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-808. Leases and permits — Records — Fees — Disposition of funds

 (a) The office of the Commissioner of State Lands shall maintain a permanent record of all leases and permits issued under this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-807 and 22-5-809 — 22-5-813.  (b)  (1) The person, firm, company, corporation, or association making application or filing a competitive bid for a lease or permit with the State of Arkansas shall pay a fee to cover the cost of processing its application.  (2) The amount of the fee shall be set by the Commissioner of State Lands and shall be deposited as cash funds as defined by § 19-4-801.    (c) The funds shall be used to pay for the advertising, processing, and recording of applications received.
AR Code § 22-5-810 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-810. Leases and permits — Liability — Transferability — Renewal

 (a) Each person, firm, company, corporation, association, or other business entity holding a lease or permit for the taking or production of any sand, gravel, timber or logs, minerals, or other natural resources shall be absolutely liable for all severance taxes, royalties, and actual consideration for all the sand, gravel, or minerals produced or timber or logs severed under the lease or permit regardless of whether the lessee or permittee is actually producing or severing the minerals or timber or logs from the land.  (b)  (1) All leases issued under the authority of this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-809 and 22-5-811 — 22-5-813 shall be transferable only with the approval of the Commissioner of State Lands.  (2) Any lease transferred in violation of subdivision (b)(1) of this section shall be subject to cancellation by the Commissioner of State Lands.  (3) All permits issued under the authority of this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-809 and 22-5-811 — 22-5-813 shall not be transferable.    (c) Upon the expiration of any lease or permit issued under the authority of this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-809 and 22-5-811 — 22-5-813, the lease or permit shall not be renewed or reissued.
AR Code § 22-5-811 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-811. Leases and permits — Existing ones to continue

 Any person, firm, company, corporation, state agency, or other business entity holding a lease or permit on March 21, 1975, for the taking or production of any sand, gravel, minerals, or timber or logs from state-owned lands shall be permitted to continue to take or produce sand, gravel, minerals, or timber or logs from state-owned lands in accordance with the existing lease or permit.