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AR Code § 15-56-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 2 - Mining Claims on Public Lands|§ 15-56-203. Affidavit of assessment work

 On or before December 31 of any year in which the time in which the assessment work or improvement required by law to hold the claim expires, the owner of the claim or, in his or her absence, his or her agent or the party who was in charge of the work for the claimant may make an affidavit and file it for record in the recorder's office in the county in which the claim is situated. This affidavit shall be, in substance, as follows:   “State of Arkansas, County of , being duly sworn, deposes and says that at least dollars worth of work or improvements were performed or made upon (here describe claim) situated in Mining District, County of and State of Arkansas, between the day of and the day of A. D., and that such expenditure was made by or at the expense of , owners of said claim, for the purpose of complying with the law for holding the claim. (Signature) (Jurat)   Click to view form.   The affidavit when so filed and recorded, shall be prima facie evidence of the performance of such labor or the making of such improvements.
AR Code § 15-56-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 2 - Mining Claims on Public Lands|§ 15-56-204. Establishment of possessory right to claim — Right of action against claimant

 (a) When any owner or claimant of any mining claim on any of the lands subject to location as mining claims in this state under the laws of the United States shall have had possession of a claim for a period of three (3) years and shall have performed the necessary amount of annual labor or improvement to hold the claim, as required by law for the time period, such possession and labor or improvement shall be sufficient to establish his or her possessory right to the claim.  (b) However, if the claimant shall have performed the necessary work for one (1) year during the specified three-year time period and shall have resumed work at any time before the rights of others intervene, then he or she shall be entitled to the possessory right to the claim.  (c) No person shall maintain an action against a claimant for the recovery of a mining claim unless the action is commenced within one (1) year after his or her right of action accrues.
AR Code § 15-56-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 2 - Mining Claims on Public Lands|§ 15-56-205. Indexed plat book

 (a)  (1) It shall be the duty of the recorder of any county in which mining location notices and proof of labor performed are recorded to keep a suitable bound plat book properly arranged, showing all the legal subdivisions affected by notices, in which he or she shall keep a complete index of all instruments recorded, showing the number of the book and page on which they are recorded. This index shall be kept up to date of recording.  (2) Any recorder who shall neglect, refuse, or fail to keep the index provided for in this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100).    (b) The recorder shall make the plat book available for the free use of all miners who may wish to examine it.
AR Code § 15-56-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-301. Multiple owner authority to lease mineral lands — Mineral defined

 (a) Whenever any mineral lands in fee, or severed mineral rights and interests in, on, and under any lands situated in the State of Arkansas shall be owned, or held by two (2) or more persons, firms, or corporations in joint tenancy, in common or in coparceny, and there shall be no operation thereof under existing valid mining and operating leases, any one (1) or more of the owners or holders of mineral lands in fee, or severed mineral interests, in, on, and under the land, or the lessees of any one (1) or more of any such mineral owners may have the lands or mineral interests, leased and operated, in the manner provided in this subchapter.  (b) The word “mineral” as used herein shall include oil, gas, asphalt, coal, iron, zinc, lead, cinnabar, bauxite, and salt water whose naturally dissolved components or solutes are used as a source of raw materials for bromine and other products derived therefrom in bromine production.
AR Code § 15-56-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-302. Summons — Validity of lessee's title

 (a) Summons shall be issued and served as in other cases in circuit court.  (b) All persons, if any, whose names or whereabouts are stated in the petition to be unknown to the plaintiff shall be deemed and taken as defendants by the name or designation of “all whom it may concern”, and such persons may be constructively summoned, as provided by Rule 4 of the Arkansas Rules of Civil Procedure. However, the validity of the lessee's title under the lease, when approved by the court, shall not thereafter be subject to attack by any person whatsoever, including, but not limited to, nonresidents, minors, or other incompetents, except by direct appeal in the manner provided by law.
AR Code § 15-56-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-303. Parties in interest — Right to appear or intervene

 Any persons having or claiming an interest in mineral lands in fee, or in any segregated mineral rights, not made a party in the petition may appear and unite or intervene in the cause.
AR Code § 15-56-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-304. Petition to lease or operate — Parties defendant

 Any owners, partners, or corporate shareholders, or parties as set forth in § 15-56-301 desiring the leasing and operating of mineral lands or mineral interests shall file, in the circuit court in the county in which the mineral lands or mineral interests or the greater part thereof lie, a written petition describing the lands under which the mineral interests exist and shall make as parties defendant owners of the various interests or their lessee, if any, in the mineral lands or mineral rights in, on, and under the lands. The petition shall state, as far as known, the amount of interest held by each, with a prayer that the unleased interests or any part thereof or certain portions of the mineral lands and interests be leased and that the money derived from leases be paid to the owners as the court may direct. Any lessor whose lessee is either a plaintiff or defendant shall not be a necessary party to the suit.
AR Code § 15-56-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-305. Receiver — Disposition of proceeds

 (a) Upon the filing of the petition, the circuit court shall appoint a receiver, who shall be authorized to negotiate for and to execute, acknowledge, and deliver a lease on mineral lands or severed mineral interests for a cash, commodity in kind, or tonnage royalty, as is the customary manner, and terms for the product, for the best interest of, or compensation to, the parties holding thereunder, and to collect, divide, and pay over the proceeds, secured for the leases, pro rata to and among owners, as their interests may appear.  (b) Any rents, bonus money, royalties, or other proceeds that may accrue to any unknown persons shall be paid by the receiver into the registry of the clerk of the court to be held by the clerk, and any bond of the receiver shall be eliminated thereby.
AR Code § 15-56-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-306. Reporting and approval of leases

 (a) A lease executed by a receiver, when acknowledged and delivered, shall be binding on all parties subject only to approval or rejection by the court as herein provided.  (b) Not later than thirty (30) days after making the lease, the receiver shall report the making of the lease to the court. If it shall appear to the court that the consideration for the lease was fair and equitable at the time the consideration was made, the court shall approve the consideration and the lease shall be binding as though executed by the various owners and their spouses.
AR Code § 15-56-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-307. Sale of land or mineral rights — Lease unaffected

 The lease executed by the receiver under the approval of the court as provided in § 15-56-306 shall not terminate with the sale of the lands or mineral interests therein, thereon, or thereunder. Any person purchasing or holding thereafter shall take the land or mineral rights subject to the lease executed by the receiver pursuant to § 15-56-306.
AR Code § 15-56-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-308. Discharge of receiver — Accounting

 Upon any lease or contract being executed by the receiver appointed by the circuit court as provided in this subchapter, and upon the lease or contract's being reported, and approved by the court, and all considerations, if any, being accounted for by the receiver, with any money left in the hands of the receiver being paid into the registry of the court, the receiver shall be discharged, and the lessee or assigns shall thereafter account to the respective owners for all royalties arising or accruing under the term of the lease or contract, with payment to be made by the lessee or operator for any unknown persons into the registry of the court as the interest of the persons may appear.
AR Code § 15-56-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-309. Execution of agreements subsequent to discharge of receiver

 After discharge of the receiver, if it should become necessary for unit operating agreements, royalty unitization agreements, royalty pooling agreements, field unitization and repressure agreements, or other agreements and contracts relative thereto to be executed, the clerk of the court is authorized to petition the circuit court for the authority to execute the agreements, with notice to such persons, if any, as the court may direct.
AR Code § 15-56-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-310. In rem proceedings against unleased interest in minerals

 The proceedings provided for in this subchapter shall be for all purposes an action in rem against the unleased interest in minerals as described in this subchapter.
AR Code § 15-56-311 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 3 - Leases Generally|§ 15-56-311. Failure of lessee to report output

 Any person, firm, or corporation leasing lands in this state under written contracts providing for a royalty to be paid the lessor for ore deposits or minerals taken out of or off of the land, or any officer, agent, or employee of the lessee, who, with the intent to defraud the lessee out of any part of the royalty, fails, neglects, or refuses to report the true amount or quantity of ore, deposits, or minerals taken from the lands, or who conceals the true amount so taken, or who falsely reports the amount so taken shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for not less than one (1) year nor more than five (5) years.
AR Code § 15-56-401 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 4 - Leases by Life Tenants|§ 15-56-401. Exemptions

 This subchapter shall not apply to the execution of oil and gas leases and shall in no wise infringe upon or affect the provisions of §§ 15-73-301 — 15-73-308.
AR Code § 15-56-402 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 4 - Leases by Life Tenants|§ 15-56-402. Authority to execute leases

 Whenever any land in this state is devised by will or conveyed by grant to any person by any language which at common law would have vested in that person an estate in fee tail, then the person who at common law would have been invested with a fee tail estate in the lands and who under the provisions of § 18-12-301 is or shall be invested with a life estate therein is authorized and empowered to execute mineral leases, other than oil and gas leases, on that land in the manner set forth in this subchapter.
AR Code § 15-56-403 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 4 - Leases by Life Tenants|§ 15-56-403. Petition to lease by life tenant — Contents

 (a) Whenever any life tenant shall desire to lease any land for the production of any minerals, other than oil and gas, he or she shall file a verified petition with the circuit court of the county in which the lands, or the greater part of the lands, may be situated, praying for authority to execute a lease. A certified copy of the will or conveyance under which he or she claims shall be attached to the petition. The life tenant shall make as parties respondent to the petition all persons then in being who under the terms of the will or grant would become vested with title to the lands or any interests therein should the death of the life tenant occur on the date of the filing of the petition.  (b) The petition shall set forth:  (1) The description of the land;  (2) From whom the petitioner acquired his or her title;  (3) The nature and kind of minerals, other than oil and gas, to be covered by and included in the lease;  (4) The name of the proposed lessee;  (5) The true consideration for the lease;  (6) The nature and amount of the royalty proposed to be reserved therein; and  (7) A general statement as to the provisions of the proposed lease.    (c) The petition shall pray:  (1) For authority to execute the lease;  (2) That the court award the life tenant with title to the proportion of the royalties reserved in the lease and which may accrue under the lease, not exceeding one-half (½) of the royalties, together with a part of the bonus consideration paid therefor and delay rentals, if any, payable under the lease, and any other payments provided for in the lease, as the court shall determine is fair compensation to the life tenant for the lease upon his or her interest in the premises and as damages to the life estate by the use of the surface of the lands in the exploration for and production of the minerals therefrom; and  (3) For the appointment of a trustee to receive and hold moneys, rents, and royalties that accrue to the contingent remainder estate under the lease.
AR Code § 15-56-404 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 4 - Leases by Life Tenants|§ 15-56-404. Court determination

 (a) The court shall consider the petition and may in its absolute discretion require that other persons as it deems proper be made parties to the proceeding. The court may hear testimony to determine whether or not the execution of the lease is advisable.  (b) The court shall also determine what part of the bonus consideration paid for the lease; of the delay rentals, if any, accruing thereunder; of the other payments, if any, provided for therein; and of the royalties reserved therein and accruing thereunder, not exceeding one-half (½) of the royalties, should be awarded the life tenant as compensation for the lease upon his or her interest in the premises and for the damage to his or her life estate on account of the execution of the lease.
AR Code § 15-56-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 4 - Leases by Life Tenants|§ 15-56-405. Court order — Disposition of royalties

 (a) If the court after hearing as provided in § 15-56-404 shall determine that the lease should be executed, the judge shall enter an order authorizing the life tenant to execute the lease.  (b) The court shall further:  (1) Fix and determine the part of the bonus consideration paid for the lease; the delay rentals, if any, payable under the lease; other payments, if any, other than royalties provided for in the lease, which shall be allowed the life tenant; and the portion of the royalties reserved in the lease and that may accrue under the lease which shall be allowed the life tenant. In so doing, the court may allow the life tenant all or any part of the bonus consideration paid for the lease, the delay rentals, if any, payable under the lease, and other payments, if any, other than royalties, payable under the lease, but not more than one-half (½) of the royalties reserved in and which may accrue under the lease. The order of the court, upon the approval and confirmation of the lease, as provided in § 15-56-407, shall vest in the life tenant title to such part of the bonus consideration paid for the lease and delay rentals, if any, and title to other payments, if any, provided for in the lease, other than royalties, as are allowed to the life tenant and shall vest title to such proportionate part of the royalties reserved in and which may accrue under the lease as are allowed to the life tenant, free and clear of any limitations, conditions, and restrictions imposed by the will or deed by which the petitioner acquired title and free and clear of any present or future claim of any persons asserting or attempting to assert a reversional or remainder interest therein on account of the deed or will. However, any interest allowed the life tenant in the royalties reserved in or accruing under the terms of the lease shall expire upon the termination of the lease;  (2) Appoint some suitable person as trustee for the benefit of the contingent remaindermen and reversioners and require that the trustee shall execute bond in a sum the court deems proper, which bond shall be approved by the court;  (3) Direct and authorize the life tenant, after the filing of the bond by the trustee and its approval by the court, to execute to the lessee a mineral lease covering the lands, which lease shall reserve a royalty in kind, quantity, or amount approved by the court; and  (4) Make further orders in the premises as seem equitable and just.
AR Code § 15-56-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 4 - Leases by Life Tenants|§ 15-56-406. Trustee

 (a) The trustee shall be under the continuing control of the circuit court. The court may remove the trustee at will, and upon the death, removal, or resignation of the trustee, the court may appoint his or her successor.  (b) The trustee, by and with the consent and approval of the court, may invest the funds coming into his or her hands in those securities into which guardians are authorized to invest the moneys of their wards.  (c) As compensation for his or her services, the trustee shall be allowed whatever sum the court may fix, not exceeding five percent (5%) of moneys collected by him or her.  (d) The court may at any time require the trustee to execute an additional bond.  (e) The trustee shall:  (1) Faithfully account for all moneys coming into his or her hands;  (2) File annual written verified reports of his or her accounts as trustee with the court of his or her appointment for its approval or rejection; and  (3) Upon the death of the life tenant, pay over to the persons then entitled thereto all of the moneys so accrued, together with any investment thereof, upon order of the circuit court.
AR Code § 15-56-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 4 - Leases by Life Tenants|§ 15-56-407. Confirmation of lease by court — Effect

 (a) After the trustee has executed the bond required by the court, the life tenant shall execute and present to the court for its examination the mineral lease so authorized. This lease shall reflect the portion of the consideration, rentals, other payments, if any, and royalties which shall be paid to the life tenant and the portion thereof which shall be paid to the trustee.  (b) If the court finds that the lease conforms to its previous orders, and shall be further satisfied that the consideration therefor has been paid to the trustee and the life tenant in conformity with the previous orders of the court, it shall approve the lease and confirm the sale thereof. At that time, the lessee shall become vested with the leasehold interest in and to the minerals, other than oil and gas, which are included in the lease and are situated in, on, and under the lands, free and clear of any limitations, restrictions, or conditions imposed upon the lands in the grant or will under which the life tenant acquired title to the lands and free and clear of any present or future claim of any person asserting or attempting to assert any reversional or remainder interest therein on account of the deed or will, subject to the conditions imposed by the lease.
AR Code § 15-56-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 5 - Mineral Resources Generally|Chapter 56 - Mineral Lands And Interests|Subchapter 4 - Leases by Life Tenants|§ 15-56-408. Divestiture of contingent remaindermen's title

 The order of the court fixing the proportionate part of the consideration, rentals, other payments, if any, and royalties reserved in and accruing under the lease allowed to the life tenant and the order confirming the execution of the lease shall operate to work a divestiture of title of the contingent remaindermen, and each of them, in and to the proportionate part of the consideration, rentals, other payments, if any, and the royalties reserved and accruing under the lease allowed to the life tenant, and in and to the leasehold estate insofar as said interest is conveyed by the lease, and to free the respective interests of any limitations, restrictions, or conditions imposed by the original will or deed.