Opinion No.

The Honorable Steven L. Breedlove State Representative Post Office Box 893 Greenwood, Arkansas 72936

Dear Representative Breedlove:

I am writing in response to your request for an opinion on whether House Bill 2741, introduced in the now-concluded 2007 Regular Session, is constitutional. That bill was entitled "A n Act to Quite Title in Abandoned Mineral Interests in the Surface Estate Owner; and for Other Purposes." The bill authorizes a person owning the "surface estate" in land to file a petition in circuit court to "quiet title" to, or "merge" the surface estate into the severed mineral…