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15-72-202. Penalties for violation of certain sections.
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15-72-202. Penalties for violation of certain sections.
(a) Any person, firm, or corporation violating § 15-72-206, § 15-72-208(a), § 15-72-217, § 15-72-208(b), § 15-72-210, or § 15-72-211 is subject to a civil penalty for each violation not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), to be assessed by the Oil and Gas Commission.
(b) If the civil penalty is not recovered by the commission within the time frame specified by the commission, the civil penalty and a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court may be recovered in an action brought by the commission in the name of the State of Arkansas.
(c) The civil penalty and attorney's fees collected shall be turned into the general road fund of the county where a leak is located to be used on the roads, bridges, and highways of the county, in the discretion of the county court.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 15-72-202
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15-72-202. Penalties for violation of certain sections.
(a) Any person, firm, or corporation violating § 15-72-206, § 15-72-208(a), § 15-72-217, § 15-72-208(b), § 15-72-210, or § 15-72-211 is subject to a civil penalty for each violation not to exceed two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), to be assessed by the Oil and Gas Commission.
(b) If the civil penalty is not recovered by the commission within the time frame specified by the commission, the civil penalty and a reasonable attorney's fee to be fixed by the court may be recovered in an action brought by the commission in the name of the State of Arkansas.
(c) The civil penalty and attorney's fees collected shall be turned into the general road fund of the county where a leak is located to be used on the roads, bridges, and highways of the county, in the discretion of the county court.
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15-72-206. Casing oil or gas wells — Keeping sands separate.
(a) The owner or operator of any well put down for the purpose of exploring for, or producing, oil or gas, shall, during the course of drilling, case off all fresh or salt water from each oil-producing or gas-producing sand encountered while drilling, the casing to be set in the well in such manner as to exclude all water from penetrating the first into a lower oil-bearing or gas-bearing sand, the well shall be cased in such manner as to exclude all fresh or salt water from all oil-bearing or gas-bearing sands encountered during the course of the drilling operations.
(b) Should any well so drilled produce oil or gas in paying quantities through the first or any succeeding oil-bearing or gas-bearing sand, the oil or gas shall be conserved by either casing or mudding it off, so as to confine it in the gas-bearing or oil-bearing sand where found.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 15-72-206
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15-72-208. Proper confinement of gas by possessor of well.
(a) Any person, copartnership, corporation, owner, lessee, or manager in possession of any well producing natural gas, in order to prevent the gas from wasting by escape shall, within four (4) days after penetrating the gas-bearing sand in any well drilled, shut in and confine the gas in the well until the gas therein shall be utilized for light, fuel, or steam power.
(b)(1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation having possession or control of any gas well, whether as contractor, owner, lessee, or manager, to allow or permit the flow of natural gas of any such well to flow into the open air without being confined to such well or pipe or other safe receptacles for a longer period than three (3) days after the gas shall have been struck and produced in that well.
(2) If the well cannot be confined within three (3) days, the person controlling the well shall continue with the utmost diligence to confine it as soon as possible.
(c) Failure to comply with subsection (b) of this section shall subject the person failing to the penalties and procedure set out in § 15-72-202 (b).
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 15-72-208
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15-72-210. Gas leaks in pipelines, machinery, etc.
(a) It is the duty of any person discovering any leak in any pipeline for the transportation of natural gas, or in any machinery, apparatus, or device used in the regulation, distribution, or transportation thereof immediately to notify the owner of the pipeline or other appliance and also to notify the gas inspector of the leak.
(b) It is the duty of the owner of the pipeline or other apparatus from which gas is escaping to immediately repair it.
(c) It is the duty of the gas inspector on receiving reliable information of the leak or on personal knowledge thereof immediately to notify the owner of the pipeline or appliance of the leak and to immediately repair it.
(d) Should the owner of the pipeline, apparatus, appliance, or device fail to at once repair the leak or use the utmost diligence to do so, he or she shall be subject to the penalty set out in § 15-72-202 (b).
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 15-72-210
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15-72-217. Plugging dry or abandoned well by lessee or operator.
(a) All lessees or operators drilling or operating for crude oil or natural gas within the State of Arkansas shall immediately, in a practical and workmanlike manner under the supervision of the oil or gas inspector, as provided in this section, plug all dry holes or abandoned oil or gas wells in accordance with Oil and Gas Commission plugging rules.
(b)(1) If after notice and a hearing the commission finds that a well drilled for the exploration, development, storage, or production of oil or gas, or as injection, salt water disposal, salt water source, brine injection or disposal has been abandoned, as defined by the commission, or is leaking salt water, oil, gas, or other deleterious substances into any fresh water formation or onto the surface of the land in the vicinity of the well, or creates an imminent danger to the health or safety of the public, the commission shall issue an order that the well be properly plugged, replugged, or repaired to remedy the situation.
(2)(A) If the well operator fails to obey the order within the time set by the order, the commission may:
(i) Authorize a person to enter upon the land on which the well is located and plug, replug, or repair the well, as may be reasonably required to remedy the condition; or
(ii)(a) Transfer the well, the well-site equipment, or any hydrocarbons from the well that are stored on the well site.
(b) “Well-site equipment” includes without limitation an associated tank battery and production facility equipment.
(B) Any proceeds received from the transfer of a well, well-site equipment, or hydrocarbons from the well under subdivision (b)(2)(A) of this section shall be deposited in the Abandoned and Orphaned Well Plugging Fund.
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Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 15-72-217
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 15-72-217. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.