Arkansas Code Title 18, Subtitle 2, Chapter 15, Subchapter 7 - Dams, Mills, Etc.

• § 18-15-701 - Findings No Bar to Prosecution or Action Under Other Law -- Exception.
  The inquest of the jury or the order and permission of the court founded thereupon shall not bar any prosecution or action, which any...
• § 18-15-702 - Penalty.
  Any person who shall build or raise any dam or any other stoppage or obstruction in or across any watercourse without first obtaining permission...
• § 18-15-703 - Nuisance.
  All dams, stoppages, or obstructions not made according to law shall be deemed to be public nuisances and shall be dealt with accordingly.
• § 18-15-704 - Erection of Certain Dams Permitted.
  By proceeding as provided in this subchapter, any person may erect a dam across any watercourse not being a navigable stream if the person...
• § 18-15-705 - Petition Required.
  (a) If a dam is proposed to be erected pursuant to § 18-15-704, the person proposing to erect the dam, if it is likely...
• § 18-15-706 - Issuance of Writ -- Inquiry by Jury.
  (a) (1) On filing the petition, it shall be the duty of the court to cause a writ of ad quod damnum to be...
• § 18-15-707 - Summons.
  (a) Upon the return of the inquest, the court shall cause the proprietor of the land, one (1) acre of which shall have been...
• § 18-15-708 - Refusal of Permit.
  If upon a view of the inquest returned by the sheriff and other evidence, if any shall be produced, it shall appear to the...
• § 18-15-709 - Order.
  (a) If upon view it shall appear to the court that none of the evils provided against in § 18-15-708 are likely to ensue,...
• § 18-15-710 - Rebuilding or Repairing Dam and Mill.
  Whenever the dam and mill or other machinery has been destroyed or materially impaired, they shall be rebuilt or repaired within three (3) years...
• § 18-15-711 - Raising of Dam.
  Any owner of any dam and mill, or other machinery erected by virtue of this subchapter, may raise his or her dam by permission...
• § 18-15-712 - Erection of Dam by Owner of Land on One Side of Watercourse.
  (a) Any person being the owner in fee simple of the land on one (1) side of a watercourse, including part of the bed...
• § 18-15-713 - Cutting Canal Through Another's Land.
  Where mills or other machinery are proposed to be built, so as to be propelled by water drawn from lakes through canals cut therefrom,...
• § 18-15-714 - Right of Third Person to Build.
  If any person or his or her legal representatives to whom permission to erect a dam in virtue of this subchapter has been given...

Last modified: November 15, 2016