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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 18 - Property
Subtitle 4 - Mortgages and Liens
Chapter 44 - Mechanics' and Materialmen's Liens
Subchapter 3 - Wells, Mines, and Quarries -- Trucking and Teaming Contractors
§ 18-44-302. Right to lien -- Extent
Universal Citation: AR Code § 18-44-302 (2017)
- (a) Any person, corporation, firm, association, or partnership, designated as a trucking contractor or teaming contractor and engaged in the hauling of oil field equipment used in, or about, the drilling of oil and gas wells or the operation of oil or gas leases in the production of oil or gas therefrom, who under contract, express or implied, made with the owner or lessee of any land, or the owner of any gas, oil, or mineral leasehold interest in land, or the owner of any gas pipeline or oil pipeline, or owner of any oil or gas pipeline right-of-way, or with the trustee, agent, or receiver of any such owner, furnishes trucks, teams, tractors, draglines, and any other equipment and labor for the hauling of fuel, material, machinery, or supplies used in the digging, drilling, torpedoing, operating, completing, equipping, maintaining, or repairing of any oil or gas well, water well, or oil or gas pipeline, including any and all tanks or other receptacles used or intended for the storage of oil, regardless of where the oil is produced, or used for the clearing of land for location of wells, rights-of-way, or digging of earthen pits upon the land shall have a lien on:
- (1) The whole of the land or leasehold interest in the land, the oil pipeline or gas pipeline, including the pipeline right-of-way, the buildings and appurtenances located thereon, and the materials and supplies so hauled by trucks or teams furnished;
- (2) All other materials and supplies located upon the land or leasehold interest, whether hauled by the trucks, teams, tractors, draglines, or other equipment, or not and the oil well, gas well, water well, or oil or gas pipeline for which they are hauled; and
- (3) All the other oil wells, gas wells, buildings, and appurtenances including pipelines, leasehold interests, and land used in operating for oil or gas under a leasehold interest.
- (b)
- (1) Also included in the lien are the pipelines and the pipeline right-of-way for which the materials, equipment, and supplies were hauled by the trucks, teams, tractors, draglines, or other equipment and all other materials, supplies, or equipment placed upon the land or leasehold interest, whether they are movable or not.
- (2) If the hauling is done and performed for a leaseholder, the lien created shall not attach to the underlying fee title to the land.
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