§ 15-32-407 - Recording of mortgages and sales of marked logs. - Arkansas Statutes

15-32-407. Recording of mortgages and sales of marked logs.

(a) All mortgages, liens, bills of sales, or other written instruments in any way affecting the ownership of any marked logs, which shall specify the marks placed upon the logs and when they were cut, shall be recorded in the office of the county timber inspector.

(b) No conveyance, lien, mortgage, or transfer shall be valid except as to the parties thereto, until it is recorded or until it shall be filed with some deputy county timber inspector, who shall immediately forward the instrument to the inspector.

(c) The filing and recording of all instruments and papers shall have the same effect as notice as the recording of deeds and mortgages in the office of the recorder of deeds.