Arkansas Code Title 15. Natural Resources and Economic Development § 15-73-401. Authorization--Preconditions

Whenever any land in fee, the oil and gas in, on, and under such lands, situated in the State of Arkansas, shall be owned by two (2) or more persons, firms, or corporations in joint tenancy, in common or in coparcenary, and there shall be no actual production therefrom of oil and gas, and no outstanding oil and gas lease thereon covering the entire leasehold estate, any one (1) or more of the owners of the land in fee, and of the oil and gas interest on and in such land, may have a sale and partition of the entire oil and gas leasehold interest therein and thereon, in the manner hereinafter provided.