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AR Code § 22-5-812 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-812. Leases and permits — Rules

 (a) The Commissioner of State Lands shall promulgate any rules which may be deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-811 and 22-5-813.  (b) The Commissioner of State Lands shall include in the rules all grounds and conditions for the revocation or termination of any lease or permit issued under this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-811 and 22-5-813 and shall provide for reasonable notice to the lessee or permittee of an opportunity to be heard prior to terminating or revoking any lease or permit.  (c) The Arkansas State Game and Fish Commission shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to lease mineral rights and to issue permits to produce and sever minerals on commission lands in conformity with the requirements, procedures, standards, and methods as provided in this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-811 and 22-5-813.
AR Code § 22-5-813 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-813. Leases and permits — Compliance with this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-812

 The office of the Commissioner of State Lands may conduct a continuing check of the operations by lessees or permittees to assure that each lessee or permittee is meeting all the requirements and complying with the conditions of the lease or permit and the provisions of this section and §§ 22-5-801 — 22-5-812.
AR Code § 22-5-814 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-814. Removal of sand or gravel from navigable waters

 (a) Sand and gravel may be removed from the beds or bars of any navigable river or lake by the Arkansas Department of Transportation, any county or road district, or any federal agency to be used for road building or maintenance, without paying the State of Arkansas any amount whatsoever.  (b) All persons, firms, or corporations taking or removing sand or gravel from the beds or bars of any navigable river or lake within the State of Arkansas, and selling the sand or gravel for commercial gain to the department, to any county or road district, or to any federal agency for the purpose of road construction or maintenance, and all highway contractors who remove sand or gravel from the beds or bars of any navigable river or lake within the State of Arkansas for the purpose of road building or maintenance, shall be required to pay to the State of Arkansas the customary royalties as provided by law.  (c) Any person, firm, or corporation taking or removing sand or gravel from the beds or bars of any navigable river or lake within the State of Arkansas, to be used in road building, shall keep a detailed account of all gravel or sand so removed.  (d) A copy of the account shall be filed with the Commissioner of State Lands, a copy with the county judge of the county where the sand or gravel is taken and removed, and a copy shall be retained by the person removing the sand or gravel.
AR Code § 22-5-818 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 8 - Mineral, Timber, and Other Resources|§ 22-5-818. Commercial mining at Crater of Diamonds State Park prohibited

 No commercial mining shall be permitted at the Crater of Diamonds State Park. Recreational mining by individuals shall continue to be permitted at the park.
AR Code § 22-6-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-101. Record of land sales

 (a) In addition to the memorandum of sales or entry of lands to be made upon the maps or plats, the Commissioner of State Lands shall procure a well-bound book in which he or she shall enter each location or purchase of lands and in which he or she shall specify the tract sold, to whom sold, the date of sale, and the price and how paid.  (b) The Commissioner of State Lands shall always discriminate the class to which the lands sold belong.  (c) The Commissioner of State Lands shall make to the Auditor of State quarterly reports of the transactions of his or her office. These reports shall show the class of lands, the number of acres, the price per acre, the amount paid and the kind of funds so paid, together with a report of fees certified to the Treasurer of State by the Commissioner of State Lands.
AR Code § 22-6-102 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-102. Correction of errors growing out of erroneous sales

 (a) The Commissioner of State Lands shall have the power to correct errors that exist or may exist arising from the erroneous sale of lands belonging or formerly belonging to the state.  (b) The Commissioner of State Lands shall have the power to correct all manifest errors in the description of lands sold, in the amounts of notes given for lands sold by the state, and also in cases where notes may have been given for the purchase of a greater number of acres than has been confirmed to the state.  (c) It shall be the duty of the Commissioner of State Lands to maintain a record of errors existing in the sales of swamp and overflowed lands.  (d) Certified extracts from the record shall be received as evidence in any court of this state.  (e) In all cases where lands have been erroneously confirmed to the state and sold by it, twice sold by commissioners, sold by them when the lands were unconfirmed or misdescribed, in whole or in part, or when the sales are in any way irregular, informal, or incomplete, the Commissioner of State Lands shall issue a certificate or take steps to perfect the entry or to enable the purchasers, their heirs, or assigns to have refunded to them any money which they may have paid on any entry that is void or voidable.  (f) In all cases where by any reason the State of Arkansas shall be unable to make title to any purchaser of state lands, it shall be lawful for the Commissioner of State Lands to issue a refunding certificate for the amount received from the purchase which shall have been paid into the State Treasury.  (g) The Auditor of State, upon examination of the certificate, if he or she finds that the certificate is properly issued and that the money has been paid into the State Treasury, shall draw his or her warrant upon the Treasurer of State therefor.  (h) The Commissioner of State Lands, on production of proof satisfactory to him or her, may correct errors and put land in a situation to have deeds thereon made.  (i) The action of the Commissioner of State Lands shall be final unless set aside by judgment or decree of a court having competent jurisdiction thereof.  (j)  (1) The Commissioner of State Lands may furnish a person with a statement of any amounts that may be due in order to perfect any entry or purchase to be paid directly into the State Treasury, or he or she may issue a warrant for any amount due, after issuing a refunding certificate.  (2) For such service, the Commissioner of State Lands shall be allowed such fees as allowed by law.    (k) Any action to correct errors on the part of the Commissioner of State Lands shall be legal and binding until overruled or set aside by the decision of a court having competent jurisdiction.
AR Code § 22-6-103 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-103. Issuance of replacement certificates of purchase

 The Commissioner of State Lands shall issue certificates of purchase only in cases in which it shall appear by the records that no certificates have ever been issued and in cases where the affidavit of the applicant, or some person for him or her, shall be filed stating that the original certificate had not been assigned or that it has been lost or destroyed.
AR Code § 22-6-104 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-104. Execution of deed on original or patent certificate

 (a) The owner of any original or patent certificate for any seminary, saline, internal improvements, swamp and overflowed, real estate bank, or state bank lands, or the assignee or the parties in whom the legal title to the land exists, may present the certificate to the Commissioner of State Lands, who, if he or she finds that the sale of the land was made in conformity to law and that the land has been fully paid for, shall execute, under his or her hand and official seal, a deed conveying all rights, title, and interest of the state thereto.  (b) The seal of the Commissioner of State Lands shall be sufficient verification and authentication of the deed so made and shall entitle the deed to record, which shall be received as evidence in any court of this state.  (c) The original or patent certificates upon which deeds are made shall be filed in the Commissioner of State Lands' office, and the Commissioner of State Lands shall keep an abstract of the deeds so made, from which he or she may issue duplicates upon sufficient proof of the loss of original deeds.  (d) In all cases where sufficient proof is presented of the loss or destruction of any deeds made to any lands belonging to this state, by any officer authorized so to do, where evidence exists in the Commissioner of State Lands' office of the issuance of the former deeds, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of State Lands to issue duplicates or make new deeds therefor, as the case may be, referring therein to the deeds previously issued.  (e) The duplicates or new deeds shall have the like force and effect as the original deeds.
AR Code § 22-6-105 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-105. Execution of deed on certificate of purchase

 (a) The owner of any certificate of purchase for any swamp and overflowed, seminary, saline, internal improvement, real estate bank, or state bank lands, or the assignee or the party in whom the legal title to the lands exist, may present the certificates and other evidences of the legal title to the lands to the Commissioner of State Lands. If the Commissioner of State Lands finds that the sale of the lands was in conformity to law, the lands have been fully paid for, and the evidences of assignment have been made in accordance with law, he or she shall execute, under his or her hand and official seal, a deed conveying all the right, title, and interest of the state in and to the lands.  (b) The deed of the state shall not be issued to any approved swamp and overflowed lands until after the issuance of the patent by the United States to the state for the lands.
AR Code § 22-6-106 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-106. Issuance of deed on proof of payment

 The Commissioner of State Lands is authorized and empowered to execute, under his or her hand and official seal, a deed to purchasers from the state of any seminary, saline, internal improvement, real estate bank, or state bank lands, upon the filing in his or her office of the receipts of the Treasurer of State, showing that the purchase money for the lands, together with the fee for the deed, has been fully paid to the Treasurer of State as required by law.
AR Code § 22-6-107 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-107. Deeds to school lands sold prior to 1881

 (a) The Commissioner of State Lands is authorized and empowered to execute, under his or her hand and official seal, a deed to purchasers or their assigns or legal representatives of sixteenth section or school lands, upon presentation to the Commissioner of State Lands of proper evidence of full payment for the lands, in all cases where the sale of the land occurred prior to the passage of “An act to provide for the sale of the sixteenth section in this State”, approved March 22, 1881.  (b) The certificates and evidences of assignment mentioned in subsection (a) of this section, upon which deeds are so made, shall be filed in the Commissioner of State Lands' office. He or she shall keep a record of the deeds so made, from which he or she may issue duplicates upon sufficient proof of loss of, or errors in, the original deeds.  (c) In all cases where sufficient proof is presented of the loss, destruction, or erroneous issue of any deeds made to any lands belonging to the state by any officer authorized so to do, when evidence exists in the Commissioner of State Lands' office of the proper issuance of the former deeds, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of State Lands to issue duplicates or make new deeds, as the case may be, referring therein to the deeds previously issued.  (d) The duplicates or new deeds shall have the like force and effect as the original deeds.
AR Code § 22-6-108 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-108. Seal of Commissioner of State Lands sufficient verification

 The seal of the Commissioner of State Lands shall be sufficient verification and authentication of the deed made by him or her for any class of lands mentioned in this act, and the deed shall be received as evidence of the legal title to the lands in any court in this state.
AR Code § 22-6-109 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-109. Cancellation of deed upon dishonor of check

 (a) The Commissioner of State Lands is empowered and authorized to cancel, set aside, and hold for naught any redemption or sale deed issued by him or her for any state-owned land in any instance where a personal check tendered to and accepted by him or her in payment of the redemption or purchase price thereof is not paid upon presentation to the bank upon which it is drawn.  (b) Upon failure of payment, the Commissioner of State Lands may issue a cancellation deed cancelling and setting aside the redemption or sale deed and shall file the cancellation deed for record in the county in which the lands are located and pay the expense incident thereto from the maintenance fund of the office of the Commissioner of State Lands.
AR Code § 22-6-110 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-110. Confirmation of sales of lands paid for with levee bonds

 (a) All sales of lands formerly owned by the State of Arkansas conducted pursuant to the decrees of the Pulaski County Chancery Court in favor of the State of Arkansas, condemning the lands for sale to pay the unpaid purchase price thereof, which sales were held and conducted by the commissioner of the court in substantial conformity to the decrees, were reported to and were approved and confirmed by the court, and were made for a price payable in Arkansas levee bonds to May 1, 1878, are ratified and confirmed and made valid as if the lands had been paid for in valid funds.  (b) When the owner and occupant of any of the lands shall present to the Commissioner of State Lands a duly certified copy of the proceedings of the court affecting the lands claimed by him or her and showing that the land was sold prior to May 1, 1878, and paid for in Arkansas levee bonds and that the sale was approved and confirmed by the court, and when the owner shall file a petition with the Commissioner of State Lands setting forth the evidence of his or her title, showing title derived by him or her from the purchaser at the sale so held under decree of the court prior to May 1, 1878, and showing that the claimant and those under whom he or she claims title have continuously paid taxes on the lands for at least seven (7) years immediately preceding the filing of the petition, it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of State Lands to execute to the record owner a deed in the name of the State of Arkansas, quieting all the right, title, and claim of the State of Arkansas in the land claimed and held by each owner.
AR Code § 22-6-111 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-111. Price of swamp, internal improvement, seminary, saline, or school lands — Exemptions

 (a)  (1) No swamp, internal improvement, seminary, or saline lands shall be sold for less than two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per acre, and no state school land shall be sold for less than two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per acre nor for less than the market value ascertained by appraisement.  (2) When any lands or interest therein may be recovered by the state by litigation, the lands or interest shall be ordered sold by the court as in sales of land upon decree in equity.  (3) After paying expenses, the balance of the purchase money shall be deposited into the State Treasury, as provided in §§ 6-20-202 and 6-20-203.    (b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the donation of state lands as provided by law.  (c) Nothing in this section or §§ 22-6-301 — 22-6-304 shall prevent the Commissioner of State Lands from accepting outstanding refunding certificates issued by the state for lands previously sold in payment for state lands.  (d) Nothing in this section or §§ 22-6-301 — 22-6-304 shall affect the sale of any state lands where written application was filed with the Commissioner of State Lands prior to February 1, 1919.  (e) Nothing in this section or §§ 22-6-301 — 22-6-304 shall affect the law in regard to the sale by the state of tax-forfeited lands.
AR Code § 22-6-112 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-112. Preference to war veterans in sale of agricultural land

 In the disposition of state-owned tracts of lands suitable for agriculture, the Commissioner of State Lands shall give first preference, where they are qualified as farmers, to war veterans who have been bona fide citizens of this state for five (5) years or more, who have been in active military service in time of war for ninety (90) days or more, and who have been discharged or relieved therefrom under conditions other than dishonorable.
AR Code § 22-6-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-113. State's retention of mineral interest — Exemption

 (a) Irrespective of any other law on the subject, in any conveyance of title to lands owned by the State of Arkansas, except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, the state shall retain ownership of not less than one-half (½) interest in and to all the oil, gas, and other minerals therein or thereunder.  (b) The provisions of this section shall not affect the provisions of law governing the sale of tax-forfeited lands by the State of Arkansas.
AR Code § 22-6-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-115. Prohibited acts of county officials affecting title

 (a) No county clerk, county assessor, sheriff, or other county official shall file or prepare and issue any type of deed, mortgage, lease, or other legal document, nor shall he or she extend and assess any taxes on state or political subdivision lands for any type of taxes, nor shall he or she include any such lands on any delinquent list, without first notifying the state or the department owning the lands by registered letter, return receipt requested, sixty (60) days prior to taking such action, setting forth the proposed action to be taken and including a complete legal description of the lands.  (b) Any action taken without complying with the requirements of this section shall be declared null, void, and invalid, as against the state or political subdivision thereof, in any court having jurisdiction of the cause.
AR Code § 22-6-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 6 - Sale Or Other Disposition Of State Lands|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 22-6-116. Certificates by county collectors correcting or cancelling original certificates

 (a) When any county collector shall determine that the original certification to the Commissioner of State Lands of any lands, or town or city lots, should be cancelled, corrected, or in any way changed, said official shall issue a certificate to the Commissioner of State Lands. Such certificate shall contain the legal description of the property, state the change, and state the appropriate manner in which to make such change.  (b) Upon receipt of any cancellation or correction certificate, the Commissioner of State Lands shall determine whether the certificate offers sufficient evidence to warrant cancellation or correction of the certification of any real property. If the Commissioner of State Lands determines that cancellation or correction is warranted, the Commissioner of State Lands shall approve the cancellation or correction certificate, amend the records of the Commissioner of State Lands, forward the certificate to the county collector, and the certificate shall be filed with the recorder of the county and properly recorded in the deed records. A recorded copy of such certificate shall be transmitted to any other county officials upon whose records the parcel is recorded.  (c) Whenever a cancellation or correction certificate has been recorded in the records of the Commissioner of State Lands, the Commissioner of State Lands shall issue a cancellation or correction deed on property which has been redeemed, sold, or otherwise disposed of as tax-forfeited land. The Commissioner of State Lands shall forward the deed to be filed in the county where the property is located.  (d) No recording fee shall be charged by or against the recorder on any cancellation or correction certificate or on any cancellation or correction deed issued by the Commissioner of State Lands.  (e) When any county assessor shall determine that the information on tax-delinquent parcels is erroneous, whether by legal description, name of record owner, double assessment, or other cause, the assessor shall inform the county collector of such change, and the county collector shall forward a cancellation or correction certificate to the Commissioner of State Lands as specified in subsection (a) of this section.  (f) Should information contained in the records of the Commissioner of State Lands be found to be erroneous, whether by legal description, name of record owner, or other cause, the Commissioner of State Lands may, at his or her discretion, waive all or part of penalties and interests applied thereon as a result of the inaccuracies.