8-4-307. Private rights unchanged.

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8-4-307. Private rights unchanged.

8-4-307. Private rights unchanged. (a) Persons other than the state or the Division of Environmental Quality shall not acquire actionable right by virtue of this subchapter. The basis for proceedings that result from violation of any standard or rule promulgated by the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission shall inure solely to and shall be for the benefit of the people of the state generally, and it is not intended to create in any way new rights or to enlarge existing rights or to abrogate existing private rights. (b) A determination by the division that air pollution or air contamination exists or that any standard or rule has been violated, whether or not a proceeding or action is brought by the state, shall not create, by reason thereof, any presumption of law or finding of fact that shall inure to or be for the benefit of any person other than the state.

Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 8-4-307

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. A text match is a research starting point; applicability is not established.