CHAPTER 3. ROCK, MINERAL, COAL, OIL, AND GAS RESOURCES
- Part 1. Prospecting Permits and Mining Leases
- 77-3-101. Definitions.
- 77-3-102. Mining leases authorized.
- 77-3-103. Prospecting permits authorized.
- 77-3-104. Notice of permit or lease approval.
- 77-3-105. Assignment of leases or permits.
- 77-3-106. Disposition of royalties, fees, and penalties.
- 77-3-107. through reserved.
- 77-3-111. Applications for mining lease.
- 77-3-112. Examination of lands prior to leasing.
- 77-3-113. Quantity of lands covered by lease.
- 77-3-114. Restrictions on mining leases on lands already subject to coal, oil, or gas lease.
- 77-3-115. Lease provisions.
- 77-3-116. Royalty provisions.
- 77-3-117. Modification of lease provisions.
- 77-3-118. Restrictions on removal of minerals and gems during preliminary prospecting period.
- 77-3-119. Bonds to state.
- 77-3-120. Bonds to protect prior purchasers, lessees, or contractees.
- 77-3-121. Pooling agreements and unit plans of operation.
- 77-3-122. Sales, contracts for sale, and other leases subject to mining leases.
- 77-3-123. Failure of title.
- 77-3-124. through reserved.
- 77-3-130. Limitation on public inspection rights.
- 77-3-131. Limitations on prospecting permits.
- 77-3-132. Leasing privileges of permittee.
- Part 2. Nonmetallic Minerals, Excluding Coal, Oil, and Gas
- 77-3-201. Nonmetallic mineral leases authorized.
- 77-3-202. Fee.
- 77-3-203. Duration of lease.
- 77-3-204. Royalty provisions.
- 77-3-205. Report of lessee and payment of royalty.
- 77-3-206. Disposition of royalties, fees, and penalties.
- 77-3-207. Land leased for other purposes.
- 77-3-208. Stone, gravel, and sand permits for public use.
- 77-3-209. and reserved.
- 77-3-211. Limitation on public inspection rights.
- Part 3. Coal
- 77-3-301. Coal leases authorized.
- 77-3-302. Lands subject to coal leasing.
- 77-3-303. Rules relating to coal leasing.
- 77-3-304. Protection of rights of purchasers or prior lessees.
- 77-3-305. Limitations on leasing.
- 77-3-306. Conditions on manner of mining.
- 77-3-307. Improvements of former lessee.
- 77-3-308. Limitation on public inspection rights.
- 77-3-309. and reserved.
- 77-3-311. Form of lease.
- 77-3-312. Leasing procedures.
- 77-3-313. Bond requirements.
- 77-3-314. Duration of lease.
- 77-3-315. Repealed.
- 77-3-316. Rental and royalty terms.
- 77-3-317. Report and payment of royalty.
- 77-3-318. Disposition of royalties and other receipts.
- 77-3-319. and reserved.
- 77-3-321. Repealed.
- Part 4. Oil and Gas
- 77-3-401. Oil and gas leases authorized.
- 77-3-402. Rules.
- 77-3-403. Hearings on questions related to leases.
- 77-3-404. Limitation on area under single lease.
- 77-3-405. Leased lands to be generally compact and contiguous.
- 77-3-406. Number of leases which one person may hold.
- 77-3-407. New leases on lands leased prior to February 28, 1953.
- 77-3-408. Certain state officers not to be interested in leases.
- 77-3-409. Misconduct of officers in relation to oil and gas leases.
- 77-3-410. False statements relating to oil and gas leases.
- 77-3-411. Notice of lease sale required.
- 77-3-412. through reserved.
- 77-3-421. Duration of lease.
- 77-3-422. Lease extension clause.
- 77-3-423. Annual rental.
- 77-3-424. Power to terminate lease in absence of commencement of drilling or payment of delay drilling penalty.
- 77-3-425. Dry hole clause.
- 77-3-426. Lessee to prevent waste.
- 77-3-427. Provision for offset wells -- compensatory royalties.
- 77-3-428. Additional development following completion of productive well.
- 77-3-429. Operating agreements.
- 77-3-430. Pooling agreements and unit operations.
- 77-3-431. Report of lessees.
- 77-3-432. Royalty.
- 77-3-433. Shut-in gas royalty.
- 77-3-434. Manner of making royalty payment.
- 77-3-435. Payments due to state -- audit -- notice -- action.
- 77-3-436. Disposition of royalties and other money.
- 77-3-437. Amendment of existing leases.
- 77-3-438. Assignments of leases.
- 77-3-439. Surrender of leases.
- 77-3-440. Forfeiture and cancellation of leases.
- 77-3-441. Restriction on new lease following termination of old lease.
- 77-3-442. Disposition of property of lessee upon termination of lease.
- 77-3-443. Reservation in lease for disposition of surface.
- 77-3-444. Limitation on overriding royalties and payments out of production.
- 77-3-445. through reserved.
- 77-3-451. Limitation on public inspection rights.
- Part 5. Underground Storage of Natural Gas
- 77-3-501. Lease for underground storage of natural gas authorized.
- 77-3-502. Rules.
- 77-3-503. Hearings on questions related to leases.
- 77-3-504. Lessee's right to hearing.
- 77-3-505. Bond of lessees.
- 77-3-506. Disposition of leased land.
- 77-3-507. Lessee to prevent waste.
- 77-3-508. Duration of lease.
- 77-3-509. Disposition of funds.
- 77-3-510. Cancellation and forfeiture of lease.
- 77-3-511. Termination and surrender of lease.
- 77-3-512. Disposition of lessee's property upon termination of lease.