1. (a) No carrier by pipeline and no gathering system shall transport oil from any lease or wells if the said pipeline or gathering system has reason to believe the owner or operator of said lease or wells to which it is connected has violated any rule or order of the Oil and Gas Commission or any conservation laws of the state with reference to oil and gas.

2. (b)

   1. (1) No pipeline company shall transport oil from any gathering system which the said pipeline company has reason to believe has violated any rule or order of the commission or any conservation law of this state with reference to oil and gas.
   2. (2) It shall be the duty of the pipeline company to suspend transportation of any oil from said gathering system until such time as such pipeline company is notified in writing by the agent of the commission that the violation on the part of the gathering system has been discontinued and that the gathering system is complying with the rules and orders of the commission and the conservation laws of the State of Arkansas.

3. (c)

   1. (1) In order to carry out the spirit and purposes of this and other rules tending to provide orderly production of crude oil without waste and to give equal opportunity for marketing oil to all operators bringing wells into production in said field, all pipeline companies are hereby directed to make connection of their lines to the lease tanks on properties or leases in rotation as wells are completed, regardless of ownership.
   2. (2) Connections shall be accepted and taken by the pipeline which by geographical location and least expense is the logical connection unless some other line is willing to accept the same.
   3. (3) All wells which are at the present time unconnected shall be given connection by the pipeline to which the same are or may be allocated before the owners of such pipelines make connections to their own wells or wells of affiliated companies.

Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to codification into the Code of Arkansas Rules provided as follows: "(Source: 1992 rule book)"