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AR Code § 15-31-113 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 31 - Arkansas Forestry Commission|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 15-31-113. Legislative findings — Purpose

 (a) The General Assembly finds:  (1) The Arkansas Forestry Commission enforces laws pertaining to wildland fires, timber theft, and unlawful dumping on forest land;  (2) Under current law, fines resulting from violations of the wildland fire laws are deposited with local school districts; and  (3) The law is silent on where to deposit fines resulting from violations of the dumping and timber theft laws.    (b) The purpose of this section and § 15-31-114 is to establish that fines generated by law enforcement activities of the commission be deposited into the State Forestry Fund.
AR Code § 15-31-114 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 31 - Arkansas Forestry Commission|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 15-31-114. Classification of fines

 Fines deposited into the State Forestry Fund shall be classified as special revenues.
AR Code § 15-31-115 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 31 - Arkansas Forestry Commission|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 15-31-115. Classification of revenues

 Income derived from management of state forests by the Arkansas Forestry Commission and income derived from management of state nurseries by the commission shall be classified as special revenues under the Revenue Classification Law, § 19-6-101 et seq.
AR Code § 15-31-116 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 31 - Arkansas Forestry Commission|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 15-31-116. Donation of fire control or fire rescue equipment — Definition

 (a)  (1) A person may donate fire control or fire rescue equipment to the Arkansas Forestry Commission for the commission's use or for distribution to volunteer fire departments by the commission.  (2) Breathing apparatus that is donated to the commission shall be recertified to the manufacturer's specifications by a technician certified by the manufacturer before it is used by the commission or made available to a volunteer fire department.    (b)  (1) A person is not liable in civil damages for personal injury, property damage, or death resulting from a defect in equipment donated in good faith by a person under this section unless the person's act or omission proximately causing the claim, damage, or loss constitutes malice, gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct.  (2) The commission, the State Forester, the Department of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture, and other officers and employees of the department are not liable in civil damages for personal injury, property damage, or death resulting from a defect in equipment sold, loaned, or otherwise made available in good faith by the State Forester under this section unless the act or omission of the commission, the State Forester, the department, the secretary, or the officer or employee of the department proximately causing the claim, damage, or loss constitutes malice, gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct.    (c) As used in this section, “fire control or fire rescue equipment” means and includes vehicles, firefighting tools, protective gear, breathing apparatus, and other supplies and tools used in firefighting or fire rescue.
AR Code § 15-31-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 31 - Arkansas Forestry Commission|Subchapter 2 - Assistance to Private Owners|§ 15-31-201. Administration

 The administration of the provisions of this subchapter shall be under the direction of the State Forester.
AR Code § 15-31-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 31 - Arkansas Forestry Commission|Subchapter 2 - Assistance to Private Owners|§ 15-31-202. Authority to designate and estimate trees — Forestry advice

 (a) The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized to designate, upon request, forest trees of private forest landowners for sale or removal, by blazing or otherwise, and to measure or estimate the volume of the trees under the terms and conditions as provided in this subchapter.  (b) Upon receipt of a request from a forest landowner for technical forestry assistance or service, the State Forester or his or her authorized agent may:  (1) Designate forest trees for removal for lumber, veneer, poles, piling, pulpwood, cordwood, ties, or other forest products by blazing, spotting with paint, or otherwise designating them in an approved manner;  (2) Measure or estimate the commercial volume contained in the trees designated;  (3) Furnish the forest landowner with a statement of the volume of the trees so designated and estimated; and  (4) Offer general forestry advice concerning the management of the landowner's forest.
AR Code § 15-31-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 31 - Arkansas Forestry Commission|Subchapter 2 - Assistance to Private Owners|§ 15-31-203. Payment for services — Free services

 (a) For designating, measuring, or estimating services, the landowner or his or her agent, upon presentation of a statement, shall pay to the State Forester, within thirty (30) days of receipt of the statement, an amount not to exceed five percent (5%) of the sale price or fair market value of the stumpage so designated and measured or estimated.  (b) However, for the purpose of further encouraging the use of approved scientific forestry principles on the private forest lands of this state and to permit explanation of the application of principles, the State Forester, where he or she deems it advisable, may designate and measure or estimate without charge the trees of a forest landowner on an area not in excess of eighty (80) acres.
AR Code § 15-31-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 31 - Arkansas Forestry Commission|Subchapter 2 - Assistance to Private Owners|§ 15-31-204. Employee interest in the purchase of estimated timber

 (a) An employee of the Arkansas Forestry Commission shall not be directly or indirectly interested in the purchase of timber estimated under this subchapter.  (b) If an employee of the commission violates this section or if a person aids or abets an employee of the commission in the violation of this section, upon conviction he or she is guilty of a violation and shall be fined in a sum of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) and if employed by the commission, he or she shall be removed from employment with the commission.
AR Code § 15-31-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 31 - Arkansas Forestry Commission|Subchapter 2 - Assistance to Private Owners|§ 15-31-205. Disposition of revenues

 All moneys collected under the provisions of this subchapter shall be deposited with the State Forester and shall be used by him or her in carrying out the provisions of this subchapter.
AR Code § 15-32-101 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 15-32-101. Boundaries to be ascertained before timber is cut

 (a) Any person who desires to cut and remove any timber from any land in this state, unless the land has been surveyed and the boundaries thereof ascertained and known, before cutting and removing the timber, the person shall:  (1) Cause the land to be surveyed and the metes and bounds of the land marked and plainly established;  (2) Rely in good faith on an existing marked line or established corners; or  (3) Acquire a document signed by the landowner selling the timber and signed by the adjoining landowners, indicating that the landowners agree on the location of the boundary.    (b) This section shall apply to any person purchasing timber rights from lands of this state as well as to landowners.  (c) The provisions of this section are not intended to repeal or in any manner interfere with the provisions of Acts 1883, No. 83.  (d) Any person who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions of this section shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor and shall be fined, for each offense, in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than three hundred dollars ($300) and may be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six (6) months.  (e) This section shall not apply to the cutting and removing of timber by a public utility or its contractors for the purpose of constructing or maintaining a right-of-way.
AR Code § 15-32-201 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 2 - County Timber Inspector|§ 15-32-201. County surveyor to act as timber inspector

 The county surveyors of each county of the State of Arkansas shall be ex officio timber inspectors for their respective counties and shall discharge the duties and receive the fees herein provided.
AR Code § 15-32-202 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 2 - County Timber Inspector|§ 15-32-202. Oath

 The county surveyors, as ex officio timber inspectors of their respective counties as provided in § 15-32-201, before entering upon the duties of office, shall take and subscribe the following oath:   “I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Arkansas; that I will not engage, directly or indirectly, in the purchase for my own benefit, or for the benefit of any other person, of any of the public lands so long as I remain county timber inspector for the county; and that I will faithfully, and to the best of my ability, discharge the duties of the county timber inspector, so help me God.”
AR Code § 15-32-203 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 2 - County Timber Inspector|§ 15-32-203. Bond — Contents

 The county surveyor shall also execute a bond to the State of Arkansas in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) with two (2) or more securities to be approved as provided in Acts 1875, No. 82, § 1 [superseded], conditioned that he or she will faithfully perform his or her duties as county timber inspector and deliver to his or her successor in office all bills, papers, journals, books, and other effects appertaining to his or her office.
AR Code § 15-32-204 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 2 - County Timber Inspector|§ 15-32-204. Oath and bond filed in recorder's office — Suit on bond

 The oath of office and bond as county timber inspector shall be filed in the county recorder's office. Any person feeling himself or herself aggrieved may commence an action in his or her own name on the bond in like manner as actions may be brought on other official bonds.
AR Code § 15-32-205 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 2 - County Timber Inspector|§ 15-32-205. Inspector prohibited from purchasing public lands — Penalty

 (a) The county timber inspector is prohibited from purchasing any of the public lands, directly or indirectly, either in his or her own name or in the name of any other person in trust for him or her.  (b) For every tract or parcel of land purchased in violation of this section, the county timber inspector shall forfeit two hundred dollars ($200).
AR Code § 15-32-206 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 2 - County Timber Inspector|§ 15-32-206. Deputies — Authority to administer oaths

 (a) The county timber inspectors may appoint one (1) or more deputies for their respective counties for whose conduct and fidelity in the discharge of their duties as such the county timber inspector making the appointment shall be responsible upon his or her official bond.  (b) The county timber inspectors and their deputies shall have power and authority to administer oaths for any purpose relating to their office.
AR Code § 15-32-207 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 2 - County Timber Inspector|§ 15-32-207. Quarterly reports and payment of funds

 (a)  (1) The county timber inspectors shall make quarterly reports to the Auditor of State of their action as such of:  (A) All moneys collected by them;  (B) All suits pending; and  (C) Other matters that may be of interest to the state.    (2) The Auditor of State shall charge county timber inspectors with all amounts due the state by the county timber inspectors as shown by their reports, in a book kept for that purpose.    (b) Each county timber inspector shall quarterly on the first Monday of January, April, July, and October of each year pay to the Treasurer of State all moneys he or she may have in his or her hands belonging to the state, taking his or her duplicate receipt for the money, one (1) of which he or she will file with the Auditor of State, who will credit his or her respective account with the money.
AR Code § 15-32-208 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 2 - County Timber Inspector|§ 15-32-208. Rules and regulations governing duties of deputies

 The county timber inspectors shall prescribe by written rules and regulations the duties of their deputies not inconsistent with this subchapter.
AR Code § 15-32-301 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting|§ 15-32-301. Liability for unlawfully cutting, etc

 (a) Any person who shall knowingly cut down, destroy, or carry away any tree, timber, lumber, staves, or shingles made therefrom, contrary to this subchapter, any person who shall aid and abet or assist any other person in so doing, and any person who shall purchase or receive any trees, timber, lumber, staves, or shingles knowing them to have been cut contrary to the provisions of this subchapter shall be jointly and severally liable to the owner in double the value thereof, to be recovered by action at law in the name of the state in case those items should be cut from the lands of the state or in the name of the corporation or person owning the land in case those items shall be so cut from other lands.  (b) A violation of any of the provisions of this subchapter shall be grounds for an attachment against the property of the persons who shall be guilty of the violation, to be issued in the same manner as attachments in other civil actions.
AR Code § 15-32-302 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting|§ 15-32-302. Attachment procedure

 In case the tree or timber shall be so unlawfully cut from state lands, then no bond shall be required on the part of the state, but the attachment shall issue upon the filing of an affidavit of the county timber inspector, deputy, or other person authorized by the county timber inspector setting forth sufficient grounds therefor. In all other respects, the proceedings upon attachments under this subchapter shall be the same as proceedings upon attachment in any other civil action.
AR Code § 15-32-303 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting|§ 15-32-303. Seizure of logs unlawfully cut from state lands — Filing of notice and complaint

 In case a county timber inspector finds anywhere in his or her county any logs, timber, lumber, staves, shingles, shingle bolts, stocks, headings, wood, bark, stone, mineral, or other material unlawfully cut, dug, removed, or taken from any state lands, he or she shall:   (1) Seize the materials or cause them to be seized;  (2) Give written notice of the seizure to any person or persons who may be found in possession or control of the materials; and  (3)  (A) Cause a complaint to be filed in some court of competent jurisdiction charging the logs, timber, lumber, staves, shingles, shingle bolts, stocks, headings, wood, bark, stone, mineral, or other material to have been unlawfully cut, dug, removed, or taken from state lands and charging the materials to be the property of the state.  (B) If no persons shall be found in possession or control of the materials, then the complaint shall state that fact.
AR Code § 15-32-304 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting|§ 15-32-304. Verification of complaint — Issuance and service of summons

 (a) The complaint required by § 15-32-303 shall be sworn to by the county timber inspector or any credible witness.  (b)  (1) On the filing of the complaint, the clerk of the court shall issue a summons against the persons so named in the complaint as defendants commanding them to appear as in other actions at law before the court and show cause why the property mentioned in the complaint shall not be adjudged to be the property of the State of Arkansas.  (2) The summons shall be served in the same manner as a summons in any other cause, and the trial of the cause shall proceed in all respects as the trial of other civil actions.
AR Code § 15-32-305 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting|§ 15-32-305. Return of officer when no one in possession — Warning order — Appeals

 (a) If a person is not found in possession of the logs, timber, lumber, staves, shingles, shingle bolts, stocks, headings, wood, bark, stone, mineral, or other material described in the complaint required under § 15-32-303 and a person does not claim the logs, timber, lumber, staves, shingles, shingle bolts, stocks, headings, wood, bark, stone, mineral, or other material described in the complaint required under § 15-32-303, or if the officer whose duty it is to serve the summons fails to find the parties named in the summons, then, upon the return of the officer or upon the oath of the county timber inspector or other person acting under his or her authority, the clerk of the court shall make out a warning order and publish the warning order as is now provided by law in proceedings by attachment.  (b) Appeals may be prosecuted in any such cause the same as in other civil actions.  (c) In case the State of Arkansas appeals, no bond shall be required.
AR Code § 15-32-306 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting|§ 15-32-306. Disposition of logs under judgment

 If judgment is rendered for the state in any action, the county timber inspector shall sell the logs, timber, lumber, staves, shingles, shingle bolts, stocks, headings, wood, bark, stone, mineral, or other material at public sale but may sell the materials at private sale upon order of the court rendering judgment or upon order of the judge thereof, either in term time or vacation.
AR Code § 15-32-307 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting|§ 15-32-307. Prosecuting attorney

 (a) It shall be the duty of the prosecuting attorney of the circuit in which any suit on behalf of the state instituted by the county timber inspector or by his or her authority under the provisions of this subchapter may be pending to prosecute the suit on the part of the state.  (b)  (1) Immediately upon receiving information of any trespass upon lands in his or her circuit, every prosecuting attorney shall prosecute the proper criminal action against the offender and advise the county timber inspector thereof of the county in which the trespass occurred.  (2) When required by the county timber inspector, the prosecuting attorney shall prosecute a civil action for damages for any trespass or to recover possession of any material taken from any land.
AR Code § 15-32-308 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting|§ 15-32-308. Distribution of proceeds

 The proceeds of all sales from seizure and fines under this subchapter shall be paid as follows:   (1) When a county timber inspector or his or her deputy makes the seizure upon his or her own information:  (A) Forty percent (40%) of the proceeds shall be paid to the county timber inspector;  (B) Ten percent (10%) of the proceeds shall be paid to the prosecuting attorney; and  (C) The remaining fifty percent (50%) of the proceeds shall be paid into the State Treasury; and    (2) When the seizure is made on the information of someone else:  (A) Twenty-five percent (25%) of the proceeds shall be paid to the county timber inspector;  (B) Fifteen percent (15%) of the proceeds shall be paid to the informant;  (C) Ten percent (10%) of the proceeds shall be paid to the prosecuting attorney; and  (D) The remaining fifty percent (50%) of the proceeds shall be paid into the State Treasury.
AR Code § 15-32-309 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting|§ 15-32-309. Trespass or waste — Communicating information

 All county sheriffs and township officers shall immediately communicate to the prosecuting attorney and county timber inspector any information received by them respecting the commission of any trespass or waste on any public lands.
AR Code § 15-32-310 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 15 - Natural Resources and Economic Development|Subtitle 3 - Forest Resources|Chapter 32 - Logging|Subchapter 3 - Trespass and Unlawful Cutting|§ 15-32-310. Certificate of Secretary of State — Presumptive evidence

 In any criminal or civil action growing out of a trespass upon any public lands, the certificate of the Secretary of State under the Great Seal of the State of Arkansas that any specified piece or tract of land belongs to the state or is mortgaged to the state or that the state has any interest legal or equitable in the piece or tract of land shall be presumptive evidence of the facts stated therein.