Ark. Code § 15-72-602

Current with legislation from 2024 Fiscal and Special Sessions.

Section 15-72-602 - Definitions

As used in this subchapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) "Commission" means the Oil and Gas Commission;

(2) "Gas" means natural gas either while in its original state or after the natural gas has been processed by removal from the natural gas of component parts not essential to its use for light and fuel, or carbon oxides, ammonia, hydrogen, nitrogen, or noble gas;

(3) "Gas storage facility" means any person, firm, or corporation authorized to do business in this state and engaged in the business of capturing, producing, or storing gas;

(4) "Native gas" means gas which has not been previously withdrawn from the earth;

(5) "Natural gas public utility" means any person, firm, or corporation authorized to do business in this state and engaged in the business of producing, transporting, or distributing natural gas by means of pipelines into, within, or through this state for ultimate public consumption; and

(6) "Underground storage" means storage in a subsurface stratum or formation of the earth.

Ark. Code § 15-72-602

Amended by Act 2023, No. 140,§ 1, eff. 8/1/2023.

Acts 1957, No. 82, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 53-902.