§ 18-44-202 — Right to lien in general - Extent

Arkansas § 18-44-202

• Jurisdiction: Arkansas
• Title: 18

Text

(a) Any person, corporation, firm, association, partnership, material man, artisan, laborer, or mechanic who when under contract, express or implied, made with the owner or lessee of any land, mine, or quarry, 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, performs labor, or furnishes 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, mine or quarry, 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, shall have a lien on: (1) The whole of the land or leasehold interest therein; (2) Any oil pipeline or gas pipeline including the right-of-way for the pipeline; (3) Any lease for oil and gas purposes, the buildings and appurtenances, the materials and supplies so furnished, the oil well, gas well, water well, oil or gas pipeline, mine, or quarry for which they are furnished, and on all of the other oil wells, gas wells, buildings and appurtenances including pipelines, leasehold interests, and land used in operating for oil, gas, and other minerals; or (4) The leasehold, land, or pipeline and the right-of-way therefor for which the material and supplies were furnished or labor performed, whether they are movable or not. (b) If labor supplies, machinery, or material are furnished to a leaseholder, the lien created by this section shall not attach to the underlying fee title to the land.

Legislative History

Acts 1923, No. 615, § 1; Pope's Dig., § 8905; A.S.A. 1947, § 51-701.