Arkansas Code Title 15, Subtitle 6, Chapter 76, Subchapter 3 - Brine Production

• § 15-76-301 - Declaration of Policy.
  It is declared to be in the public interest to: (1) Foster, encourage, and promote the development and production in the state of the...
• § 15-76-302 - Definitions.
  As used in this subchapter: (1) "Aquifer" means any subsurface geological interval in which brine may lie or from which brine is being produced...
• § 15-76-303 - Penalties.
  (a) Any person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject, upon conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction, to a...
• § 15-76-304 - Injunctions by the Commission.
  (a) Whenever it shall appear that any person is violating, or threatening to violate, any provision of this subchapter or any rule, regulation, or...
• § 15-76-305 - Injunctions Against the Commission.
  (a) No temporary restraining order or injunction of any kind shall be granted against the Oil and Gas Commission or members thereof or against...
• § 15-76-306 - Authority of the Commission.
  (a) The Oil and Gas Commission shall have jurisdiction of and authority over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce effectively the...
• § 15-76-307 - Procedure and Rules of the Commission.
  (a) The Oil and Gas Commission shall prescribe its rules of order and procedure with respect to all hearings or proceedings hereunder in accordance...
• § 15-76-308 - Formation of Brine Production Units.
  (a) (1) All producers, as defined in § 15-76-302, may make application to the Oil and Gas Commission for the establishment of brine production...
• § 15-76-309 - Petition for Formation of a Brine Production Unit or a Brine Expansion Unit.
  A petition for formation of a brine production unit or a brine expansion unit may be filed by a producer and shall contain the...
• § 15-76-310 - Order Requiring Unit Operation -- in General.
  (a) The Oil and Gas Commission, upon the application of any producer and upon the circumstances set forth in this section and §§ 15-76-311...
• § 15-76-311 - Contents of Order.
  The order requiring the operation of an area as a brine production unit or a brine expansion unit shall include: (1) A description of...
• § 15-76-312 - Unlawful Drainage -- Unit Inclusion or Accounting.
  (a) Any owner of an interest in a tract which is adjacent to a brine production unit formed by the Oil and Gas Commission...
• § 15-76-313 - Operator.
  (a) The producer who either has incurred or shall incur the greater share or portion of the capital investment required under the plan of...
• § 15-76-314 - Participation by Owners and Royalties.
  (a) (1) Upon the establishment of a unit, each owner of an unleased interest in the unit shall elect within sixty (60) days from...
• § 15-76-315 - Valuation of Brine.
  (a) (1) (A) The value of brine during any given year with respect to any unit established hereunder and for all purposes hereof shall...
• § 15-76-316 - Production From Tracts Within Unit.
  The portion of brine produced from a unit created under this subchapter and allocated to any particular tract shall be deemed, for all purposes,...
• § 15-76-317 - Liability for Unit Expenses.
  (a) The liability of each owner in a unit for the payment of unit expenses shall at all times be several and not joint...
• § 15-76-318 - Drilling Permits -- Fees.
  (a) Before any well shall be drilled either in search of brine or for the injection of effluent, the person desiring to drill the...
• § 15-76-319 - Abandoned Wells.
  (a) Each abandoned well shall be plugged in the manner and within the time required by regulations prescribed by the Oil and Gas Commission,...
• § 15-76-320 - Antitrust.
  The formation of a brine production unit or brine expansion unit as provided in this subchapter and the operation of the unit under order...
• § 15-76-321 - Judicial Review.
  (a) Any interested person adversely affected by any provisions of this subchapter or by any rule, regulation, or order made by the Oil and...
• § 15-76-322 - Appellate Procedure.
  In all proceedings brought under authority of this subchapter or of any rule, regulation, or order issued hereunder, and in all proceedings instituted for...
• § 15-76-323 - Subpoena Power of the Commission.
  (a) The Oil and Gas Commission is empowered to issue subpoenas for witnesses, to require their attendance in the giving of testimony before it,...
• § 15-76-324 - Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality.
  (a) Nothing contained in this subchapter shall affect the jurisdiction of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality over owners or producers of brine or...

Last modified: November 15, 2016