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AR Code § 22-5-405 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 4 - Title to Lands|§ 22-5-405. Deeds to lands in lakes or rivers

 (a) The Commissioner of State Lands is empowered and authorized to execute deeds to lands described in § 22-5-404 to riparian owners upon application and the filing of proof of record ownership of adjacent lands and proof of proper survey of the lands, conveying all the right, title, and interest of the State of Arkansas to lands as have emerged or may emerge to the mean high-water mark of any such stream or lake.  (b) All applicants for deeds under this section shall, upon filing an application therefor, deposit with the Commissioner of State Lands the estimated cost of survey of the lands to be fixed by the Commissioner of State Lands. He or she shall thereupon direct the county surveyor of the county in which the lands are located, or some other competent surveyor to be selected by the Commissioner of State Lands, to accurately survey the lands and compile the field notes and plat the lands in reference to the survey of adjacent lands, by the extension of township, range, and section lines, and to file the field notes and plats in the office of the Commissioner of State Lands.  (c) Upon the filing of the field notes and plats, the Commissioner of State Lands shall pay for the cost of the survey of lands applied for out of the money deposited as provided in subsection (b) of this section.  (d) The applicant shall, after the filing of the field notes and survey, file affidavits of at least three (3) competent persons having full personal knowledge of the facts, stating that the lands applied for have actually emerged to high-water mark and are capable of cultivation, whereupon the Commissioner of State Lands may issue the deed upon the payment of a deed fee of five dollars ($5.00).
AR Code § 22-5-406 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 4 - Title to Lands|§ 22-5-406. Limited quitclaim of streambed of Mulberry River

 (a) The State of Arkansas quitclaims, to the owners of adjacent lands, title to the streambed of the Mulberry River, excluding oil, gas, and other mineral rights underlying the stream, to the center of the stream. However, the state retains an easement to run with the land for free passage by the public over the land by canoe, boat, other watercraft, swimming, wading, or walking, and for fishing, recreation, travel, commerce, and other purposes.  (b)  (1) The State of Arkansas relinquishes and quitclaims to the owners of oil, gas, and other minerals underlying adjacent lands, and to their lessees, all right, title, and interest in and to the oil, gas, and other minerals underlying the bed of the Mulberry River.  (2) No affirmative action shall be required by the mineral owner or lessee of the State of Arkansas to enable the mineral owner or lessee to retain ownership of or leasehold interest in the minerals under the bed of the Mulberry River.  (3)  (A) If the mineral owner or lessee desires record proof of his or her continued ownership of the oil, gas, and other minerals, he or she may file an application with the Commissioner of State Lands for a quitclaim deed covering the oil, gas, and other minerals under the bed of the river.  (B) If the lands have been surveyed and platted, the mineral owner may furnish the Commissioner of State Lands a copy of the survey and plat.  (C) If the survey and plat sufficiently identify the land, no further survey shall be required.    (4)  (A) In the alternative, the mineral owner may file with his or her application a deposit of the estimated cost of a survey, and the Commissioner of State Lands shall direct the county surveyor of the county in which the lands are located, or some other competent surveyor, to make an accurate survey of the lands and to plat them in reference to the survey of adjacent lands and file the survey and plat in the office of the Commissioner of State Lands.  (B) Upon the filing of the survey and plat, the Commissioner of State Lands shall pay for the cost of the survey out of the money deposited as provided in subdivision (b)(4)(A) of this section.  (C) If the deposit is insufficient for that purpose, the Commissioner of State Lands may require an additional deposit.  (D) If any deposited funds remain after payment, they shall be refunded to the depositor.    (5) After the survey and plat are filed, the applicant shall file affidavits of at least two (2) competent persons having full personal knowledge of the facts, establishing that the applicant is the present owner or lessee of the minerals in and under the streambed.  (6) Upon receipt of the survey and affidavits, the Commissioner of State Lands may issue a quitclaim deed to the applicant upon the payment of a deed fee of one dollar ($1.00). The quitclaim deed establishes that the state makes no claim to the oil, gas, and other minerals under the bed of the stream.
AR Code § 22-5-407 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 4 - Title to Lands|§ 22-5-407. Sixteenth section school lands

 (a) Any person claiming to be the owner of land in this state known as sixteenth section school land, whose claim is based on a regular, unbroken chain of title for a period of not less than twelve (12) years, and to whose claim there has not been an adverse claimant for a period of not less than twelve (12) years, and the owner and those from whom he or she derived title have been in actual possession and have paid taxes thereon for a period of not less than twelve (12) years, and who is in actual possession at the time application is made to the state for a deed thereto, shall have all title, legal and equitable, that the State of Arkansas may have or appear to have in any such lands vested in the owner or parties and their grantees.  (b) The Commissioner of State Lands, upon proper proof being made to him or her, is directed to execute a deed conveying to the parties all the right, title, and interest that the state may have in the lands.
AR Code § 22-5-408 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 4 - Title to Lands|§ 22-5-408. State Bank lands

 (a) Where the claim of the State of Arkansas to any land conveyed to the Bank of the State of Arkansas under and by virtue of the Acts of the General Assembly of January 31, 1843, and February 3, 1843, providing for the liquidation of the assets of the bank, and the Acts of January 4, 1845, and January 10, 1845, authorizing the officers of the bank to compromise debts due the bank and to take property in payment of the debts, and the Act of December 23, 1846, vesting the title in the State of Arkansas to all property so conveyed to the bank, conflicts with the title of any person who, together with those under whom he or she claims and from whom he or she deraigns title either by deed, devise, or inheritance, has been in continuous possession and paying the taxes assessed against the land for more than forty (40) years prior to the passage of this section, the State of Arkansas relinquishes its title to the land in favor of the occupant and claimant thereof.  (b) When the owner or occupant shall present to the Commissioner of State Lands satisfactory proof that he or she and those under whom he or she claims and from whom he or she deraigns title have been in continuous possession of the land for a period of forty (40) years or have continuously paid the taxes thereon for a period of forty (40) years under color of title, it is the duty of the Commissioner of State Lands to execute to the owner, occupant, or claimant a quitclaim deed conveying to him or her all the title and interest of the State of Arkansas in the land, upon payment of a fee of five dollars ($5.00).
AR Code § 22-5-409 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 4 - Title to Lands|§ 22-5-409. Escheated corporation lands

 Where land has escheated to the state under the provisions of § 1 of Act of January 11, 1843, p. 56, the title of the state may be conveyed to the present owner by a quitclaim deed executed by the Commissioner of State Lands upon the filing with him or her of an application for the deed, accompanied by the affidavit of some credible, disinterested person showing that the applicant is the owner of the lands and that the taxes thereon have been paid for the past seven (7) years.
AR Code § 22-5-410 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 4 - Title to Lands|§ 22-5-410. Overdue tax lands and internal improvement lands

 (a) Where the claim of the State of Arkansas to any land sold to the state under decree of the Pulaski County Chancery Court and under decree of the circuit and chancery courts of the various counties of the state, known as overdue tax decrees, and under decrees of the Pulaski County Chancery Court wherein various tracts of internal improvement lands were decreed to be sold and were sold back to the state, conflicts with the claim of any citizen or resident of the State of Arkansas who has been in possession of the land, or who, together with those under whom he or she claims and from whom he or she deraigns title by deed or inheritance, shall have paid the regular amount of county and state taxes assessed against the land, the taxes having been assessed against the land at the same rate as other lands to which the state has and had no claim were assessed, for twenty (20) years continuously prior to the passage of this section, the State of Arkansas relinquishes its title to the land in favor of the occupant and claimant thereof.  (b) When the owner or occupant shall present to the Commissioner of State Lands satisfactory proof that he or she and those under whom he or she claims and from whom he or she deraigns title have been in continuous and undisturbed possession of the land for a period of twenty (20) years, or shall have continuously paid taxes thereon for a period of twenty (20) years under color of title, it is the duty of the Commissioner of State Lands to execute to the owner, occupant, or claimant a deed quitclaiming all the title and interest of the state in the land on payment to the Commissioner of State Lands of a fee of five dollars ($5.00).
AR Code § 22-5-411 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 4 - Title to Lands|§ 22-5-411. Filing of deeds to state property

 (a) A copy of the deed or other primary evidence of title to realty belonging to the State of Arkansas shall be filed in the office of the Commissioner of State Lands and shall be preserved by the Commissioner of State Lands as the other public records and files of his or her office.  (b) The realty belonging to the State of Arkansas shall not, for the purposes of this section, include realty acquired by the State Highway Commission.  (c) The officer charged with the administration of the affairs of each state office, department, agency, or institution having under its supervision and management realty owned by the State of Arkansas shall file with the Commissioner of State Lands a copy of the deed or other primary evidence of title to such property conveyed under fee simple title, and acquired by the state through gift or purchase or otherwise, within sixty (60) days after the acquisition and shall likewise notify the Commissioner of State Lands when any lands are disposed of.  (d) The Commissioner of State Lands shall designate one (1) of his or her deputies to periodically call upon each state office, department, agency, and institution for the purpose of obtaining a copy of the deed or other primary evidence of title and for the purpose of determining whether the state office, department, agency, or institution has disposed of title to any state lands.  (e) A statement by the administrative officer of any state office, department, agency, or institution to the effect that the office, department, agency, or institution does not supervise, control, or manage any realty owned by the state shall constitute sufficient compliance with this section.  (f) In the event any office, department, agency, or institution does supervise, control, or manage realty belonging to the state for which no evidence of title can be found, the administrative officer in charge of the office, department, agency, or institution shall conduct an investigation to ascertain the facts pertaining to the acquisition of the realty by the state. A report of the investigation shall be made to the Commissioner of State Lands within sixty (60) days following the conclusion of the investigation.  (g) In the event any state office, department, agency, or institution shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this section, the Commissioner of State Lands shall report such failure or refusal to comply to the Governor, who shall notify the administrative officer of any such office, department, agency, or institution to immediately report to him or her the reasons for his or her failure or refusal to comply.  (h) Willful failure or refusal to comply with this section by any officer shall constitute nonfeasance in office.
AR Code § 22-5-501 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland|§ 22-5-501. Authority to acquire

 (a) The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized and empowered to acquire and hold in the name of the State of Arkansas title to lands which the commission determines, because of location, topographical, geological, and physical characteristics, are chiefly valuable for the production of forest crops, watershed protection, erosion and flood control, forestation, reforestation, and recreation.  (b) Lands, when so acquired, shall be appropriately named, designated, administered, protected, and developed as state forests.
AR Code § 22-5-502 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland|§ 22-5-502. Methods of acquisition

 (a) Lands may be acquired by gift, devise, purchase, or exchange from any county, municipality, state or federal agency or department, person, firm, corporation, or association.  (b) The Arkansas Forestry Commission shall not purchase or acquire any lands until the purchase price is available and the title and conveyance thereto, except as to tax titles, are examined and approved by the Attorney General as conveying good and merchantable title.
AR Code § 22-5-503 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland|§ 22-5-503. Exchange of lands

 The Arkansas Forestry Commission may exchange tracts of land acquired under the provisions of this subchapter for suitable land of equal value in furtherance of the administration and consolidation of these holdings and may sell and convey, upon terms requiring proper conservation practices, parts of tracts acquired under this subchapter suitable for cultivation.
AR Code § 22-5-504 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland|§ 22-5-504. Tax-forfeited lands — Distribution

 (a) Any lands acquired by the Commissioner of State Lands in any county through tax sale, which are deemed by the Arkansas Forestry Commission to be suitable for forest purposes, may be conveyed to the state as forestlands by the proper officers of the county without reimbursement therefor.  (b) Upon the acquisition of any lands in the furtherance of this subchapter, a survey of the tax returns to the county from each tract of land for the previous ten (10) consecutive years shall be made to determine the average annual tax income to the county and the political subdivisions therein from each tract involved. In making this study, taxes rendered upon improvement value shall not be included.  (c)  (1) The Arkansas Forestry Commission shall cause a record to be opened and kept showing, by counties, all lands in the State of Arkansas administered and managed by the commission as state forests and shall, annually on July 1, cause to be remitted to each county an amount equal to the average annual tax as determined in subsection (b) of this section. This amount is to be distributed as provided in subdivision (c)(2) of this section.  (2) The income received by each county shall be distributed as follows:  (A) Fifty percent (50%) to the county general fund; and  (B) Fifty percent (50%) to the county school fund to be distributed by the county treasurer, within thirty (30) days from the date of receipt thereof, to the respective school districts of the county in the proportion that the area of state forestlands located in each school district bears to the total area of state forestlands within the county.
AR Code § 22-5-505 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland|§ 22-5-505. Quieting title to acquired lands

 Upon the written request of the Arkansas Forestry Commission, the Attorney General shall institute and prosecute to final decree all requisite suits to quiet the title of the state in and to lands acquired; and, in the prosecution of the suits, the state shall be exempted from the payment of costs.
AR Code § 22-5-506 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland|§ 22-5-506. Funding

 (a) The purchase price of lands acquired shall be paid at the time of acquisition from the State Forestry Fund, and the acquisition shall not impose any liability upon the general credit or taxing power of the state.  (b) All lands acquired under the provisions of this subchapter shall become the property of the state.  (c) The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized, empowered, and directed to make requisite expenditures from the fund in executing the provisions of this subchapter and in protecting, developing, and administering the lands in the production, conservation, and marketing of forest products and in the forestation and reforestation of the lands.
AR Code § 22-5-507 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland|§ 22-5-507. Cooperation with United States

 (a) The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized and directed to fully cooperate with the departments, officers, and agencies of the federal government to meet the requirements of the rules, regulations, and acts of Congress relating to the objectives of this subchapter and to accept all funds and lands that may be available for the furthering of the provisions of this subchapter.  (b) The commission is empowered to enter into such contracts and agreements with federal departments, officers, and agencies, not contrary to the laws of this state, as may be deemed necessary or convenient to the objectives of this subchapter.  (c) The commission is further empowered to pay to the federal government the amount of money specified in the agreements and contracts, including any payments of interest required by the contracts or agreements.  (d) All payments, whether for interest or otherwise, shall be made from the State Forestry Fund and shall not impose any liability upon the general credit or taxing power of the state.
AR Code § 22-5-508 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland|§ 22-5-508. Management of forests

 (a) It shall be the duty of the State Forester, in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter, the rules promulgated by the Arkansas Forestry Commission, and approved methods of forestry, to manage, control, protect, develop, utilize, and handle the lands in the state forests in such a manner as to best serve the greatest permanent advantage to the people of this state.  (b) Where lands in the state forests are suited for demonstration and education purposes, the commission shall promulgate plans and procedures by which agricultural youth organizations may take an active part in assisting in carrying out the development, control, utilization, and experimentation provided for by this subchapter.  (c) In the same manner as state school lands, forestlands may be leased by the commission for grazing, for the production of oil, gas, and other mineral or substances, and for other uses where the commission finds leasing and use will not militate against the purposes of this subchapter.
AR Code § 22-5-509 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland|§ 22-5-509. Rules

 The Arkansas Forestry Commission is authorized and directed to approve, promulgate, and publish rules, and amendments or modifications thereof, reasonably required in directing and controlling the proper execution of the duties and attaining the objectives of this subchapter. These rules shall have the force and effect of law.
AR Code § 22-5-510 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 5 - Acquisition of Forestland|§ 22-5-510. Records and reports

 The Arkansas Forestry Commission shall cause a record of all its proceedings relating to state forests, including the date of acquisition, description, source of title, purchase price, amounts expended in the development of each tract, and the forest to which allotted, to be kept in the office of the Department of Agriculture.
AR Code § 22-5-601 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 6 - Trespass|§ 22-5-601. Investigators

 (a) For the purpose of protecting the timber and lands of the state against trespass and to obtain reliable information upon which to predicate the proceedings provided for in this subchapter, the Attorney General shall have the authority to employ agents to make the necessary investigations and reports.  (b) The agents shall report to the Attorney General all cases wherein they discover any trespassing on the lands of the state and shall also investigate reports made by others as to such trespass.  (c) Different persons may, in the discretion of the Attorney General, be employed to make investigations, although not more than one (1) person shall be under employment at any given time.  (d) An agent shall receive for his or her compensation an amount not exceeding ten dollars ($10.00) per day while actually engaged in service pursuant to this section to the exclusion of all other business, may be reimbursed for necessary expenses while so engaged, and shall file with the Attorney General an itemized verified statement of his or her expenses.
AR Code § 22-5-602 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 6 - Trespass|§ 22-5-602. Suit to recover value of cut timber and to restrain trespass

 Whenever the Attorney General shall receive or obtain information that anyone is cutting timber upon state lands, it shall be the duty of the Attorney General to institute suit to recover the value of the timber that has been cut and to restrain further trespass upon the land.
AR Code § 22-5-603 (2020)
2020 Arkansas Code|Title 22 - Public Property|Chapter 5 - State Lands Generally|Subchapter 6 - Trespass|§ 22-5-603. Suit for ejectment and recovery of rental value

 Whenever the Attorney General shall have information that anyone is in possession of land that has been forfeited to the state and the period of redemption has expired, he or she shall institute suit to eject the person from the land and to recover the rental value of the land during the time it was occupied after the period of redemption had expired.