24.16 Applications for private sale.
24.17 Receipt and certificate.
24.18 Entry of sale and patent.
24.19 Certificate of sale.
24.20 Payments and accounts.
24.21 Accounts with purchasers.
24.22 Excessive payments to be refunded.
24.24 Effect of certificate.
24.25 Issuance and record of patent.
24.251 Patents, issuance; county may record.
24.27 Purchase money a loan.
24.30 Liability of former purchaser.
24.31 Advertisement and resale of forfeited lands.
24.32 Resale and redemption.
24.33 Resale may be canceled.
24.341 Offset to refund on void sales.
24.35 Annulment of certificates and patents.
24.355 Limitation of actions.
24.36 Lost certificates and patents.
24.39 Leases of public lands.
24.40 Easements; annexation.
24.51 Constitutional board.
24.53 Investigate land claims; deduct expenses.
24.54 Records; copies as evidence.
24.55 Executive secretary; deputy; staff; appointments; duties; oath.
24.59 Sale of public lands to state under Warren Knowles-Gaylord Nelson stewardship 2000 program.
SUBCHAPTER II
TRUST FUNDS
24.605 Accounts in trust funds for deposit of proceeds from sale of certain lands.
24.61 Authorized investments and loans.
24.63 Term, amount, interest rate.
24.64 Reimbursements for certain administrative services.
24.65 Date when interest and principal become due.
24.67 Certificates of indebtedness.
24.68 Payment of state trust fund loans.
24.69 Sale of state trust fund loans.
24.70 Collection from borrowers other than school districts.
24.71 Collections from school districts.
24.715 Collections from federated public library systems.
24.716 Collections from drainage districts.
24.717 Collections from local professional baseball park districts.
24.718 Collections from local exposition districts.
24.74 Duty of attorney general and revenue department.
24.75 Interest, how accounted for.
24.76 Common school fund.
24.77 Common school fund income.
24.78 Distribution of the common school fund income.
24.80 Normal school fund.
24.82 Agricultural college fund.
PUBLIC LANDS ADMINISTRATION
24.01
24.01
Definitions and classification. In chs.
23 to
29, unless the context requires otherwise or unless otherwise defined:
24.01(1)
(1) “Agricultural college lands" embraces all lands granted to the state by an act of congress entitled “An act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," approved July 2, 1862, as well as any land received under s.
24.09 (1) (bm) in exchange for such land.
24.01(2)
(2) “Board" means the board of commissioners of public lands, except that this definition does not apply to ch.
25.
24.01(3)
(3) “Department" means department of natural resources.
24.01(4)
(4) “Marathon County lands" embraces all lands acquired by the state pursuant to chapter 22 of the general laws of 1867, as well as any land received under s.
24.09 (1) (bm) in exchange for such land.
24.01(5)
(5) “Normal school lands" embraces all parcels of said “swamp lands" which the legislature has declared or otherwise decided, or may hereafter declare or otherwise decide, were not or are not needed for the drainage or reclamation of the same or other lands, as well as any land received under s.
24.09 (1) (bm) in exchange for such land.
24.01(6)
(6) “Public lands" embraces all lands and all interests in lands owned by the state either as proprietor or as trustee which constitute any part of the lands defined or specified in this section.
24.01(8)
(8) “Secretary" means secretary of natural resources.
24.01(9)
(9) “Swamp lands" embraces all lands which have been or may be transferred to the state pursuant to an act of congress entitled “An act to enable the state of Arkansas and other states to reclaim the swamp lands within their limits," approved September 28, 1850, or pursuant to an act of congress entitled “An act for the relief of purchasers and locators of swamp and overflowed lands," approved March 2, 1855, as well as any land received under s.
24.09 (1) (bm) in exchange for such land.
24.01(10)
(10) “University lands" embraces all lands the proceeds of which are denominated “the university fund" by
article X, section 6, of the constitution, as well as any land received under s.
24.09 (1) (bm) in exchange for such land.
24.01(11)
(11) “Warden" means conservation warden, and includes county, special and deputy conservation wardens.
24.02
24.02
Addition to the public lands. Addition to any class of lands specified in s.
24.01, except lands purchased for forest reserve and Marathon County lands, may be effected by grant, conveyance or devise made as a donation to the state for the purpose of the fund to which such class belongs. But no such proffered donation shall be accepted until the title of the donor has been examined and approved by the attorney general.
24.03
24.03
Escheats. The board of commissioners of public lands shall, whenever it shall have reason to believe that any lands have escheated to the state for defect of heirs, cause due inquiry to be made to ascertain the rights of the state, and the attorney general shall bring any suit or action or take any requisite proceeding necessary to protect and secure the rights of the state. The board may either take possession of, or cause to be sued for and recovered as aforesaid when necessary, any real estate believed to have escheated to the state, or may proceed directly to sell all the right, title and interest of the state therein, without first obtaining possession thereof and without establishing title thereto by action.
24.04
24.04
Administrative receipts and disbursements. 24.04(1)(1)
Receipts. The board shall collect from purchasers of land a fee of $5 for every certificate and $5 for every patent issued by it. The board shall pay the moneys collected, together with all moneys for expenses of advertising, damages and costs received either by redemption or resale of any public lands forfeited after being sold by the state, into the state treasury to the credit of the common school fund. The executive secretary of the board may take the acknowledgments of the board to all certificates and patents, and no fees may be charged therefor.
24.04(2)
(2) Disbursements. All expenses necessarily incurred in caring for and selling public lands shall be deducted from the gross receipts of the fund to which the proceeds of the sale of the land will be added. Expenses necessarily incurred in caring for public lands may include expenses for reforestation, erosion and insect control, submerged log monitoring, surveys, appraisals, soil surveys and soil mapping activities and other land management practices that serve to protect or enhance the interests of the beneficiaries of the trust funds.
