24.07 Sale of land with water power.
24.09 Procedure before sale or exchange; withdrawal; resale.
24.12 Forfeit for failure to pay.
24.14 Rights of swamp-land purchasers.
24.145 State-owned swamp lands; proceeds; disposition.
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 Patent and record thereof.
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.
24.40 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.
SUBCHAPTER II
TRUST FUNDS
24.61 Authorized investments and loans.
24.63 Term, amount, interest rate.
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.
24.695 Payment of interest by state.
24.70 Collection from borrowers other than school districts.
24.71 Collections from school 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.
24.01(2)
(2) "Board" means the board of commissioners of public lands.
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.
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.
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.
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.
