Chapter 70 - Oil and Gas.
- Article 1 - Assignments and Leases, 70-1-1 through 70-1-5.
- Section 70-1-1 - Production of oil, gas or other minerals; assignments of royalties to be recorded.
- Section 70-1-2 - Effect of recording or failure to record.
- Section 70-1-3 - Forfeiture of oil, gas or mineral lease; release from record.
- Section 70-1-4 - Failure to execute release; action to obtain release; damages; attachment.
- Section 70-1-5 - Demand for release must precede action.
- Article 2 - Oil Conservation Commission; Division; Regulation of Wells, 70-2-1 through 70-2-38.
- Section 70-2-1 - Short title.
- Section 70-2-10 - Perjury; punishment.
- Section 70-2-11 - Power of commission and division to prevent waste and protect correlative rights.
- Section 70-2-12 - Enumeration of powers.
- Section 70-2-12.1 - Disposition of produced water; no permit required.
- Section 70-2-13 - Additional powers of commission or division; hearings before examiner; hearings de novo.
- Section 70-2-14 - Requirement for financial assurance.
- Section 70-2-15 - Allocation of allowable production among fields when division limits total amount of production.
- Section 70-2-16 - Allocation of allowable production in field or pool.
- Section 70-2-17 - Equitable allocation of allowable production; pooling; spacing.
- Section 70-2-18 - Spacing or proration unit with divided mineral ownership.
- Section 70-2-19 - Common purchasers; discrimination in purchasing prohibited.
- Section 70-2-2 - Waste prohibited.
- Section 70-2-20 - Repealed.
- Section 70-2-21 - Purchase, sale or handling of excess oil, natural gas or products prohibited.
- Section 70-2-22 - Rules and regulations to effectuate prohibitions against purchase or handling of excess oil or natural gas; penalties.
- Section 70-2-23 - Hearings on rules, regulations and orders; notice; emergency rules.
- Section 70-2-24 - Reports of governmental departments or agencies as to market demand to be deemed prima facie correct.
- Section 70-2-25 - Rehearings; appeals.
- Section 70-2-26 - Review of oil conservation commission decision; appeals.
- Section 70-2-27 - Temporary restraining order or injuction [injunction]; grounds; hearing; bond.
- Section 70-2-28 - Actions for violations.
- Section 70-2-29 - Actions for damages; institution of actions for injunctions by private parties.
- Section 70-2-3 - Waste; definitions.
- Section 70-2-30 - Violation of court order grounds for appointment of receiver.
- Section 70-2-31 - Violations of the Oil and Gas Act; penalties.
- Section 70-2-32 - Seizure and sale of illegal oil or gas or products; procedure.
- Section 70-2-33 - Definitions.
- Section 70-2-34 - Regulation, conservation and prevention of waste of carbon dioxide, helium and other non-hydrocarbon gases.
- Section 70-2-35 - Legal representation before the federal energy regulatory commission.
- Section 70-2-36 - Removing or altering marks of identification; penalty.
- Section 70-2-36.1 - Repealed.
- Section 70-2-37 - Oil and gas reclamation fund created; disposition of fund.
- Section 70-2-38 - Oil and gas reclamation fund administered; plugging wells on federal land; right of indemnification; annual report; contractors selling equipment for salvage.
- Section 70-2-4 - Oil conservation commission; members; term; officers; quorum; power to administer oaths.
- Section 70-2-5 - Oil conservation division; director; state petroleum engineer.
- Section 70-2-6 - Commission's and division's powers and duties.
- Section 70-2-7 - Rules of procedure in hearings; manner of giving notice; record of rules, regulations and orders.
- Section 70-2-8 - Subpoena power; immunity of natural persons required to testify.
- Section 70-2-9 - Failure or refusal to comply with subpoena; refusal to testify; body attachment; contempt.
- Article 3 - Pipelines, 70-3-1 through 70-3-22.
- Section 70-3-1 - Rates for pipeline common carriers transporting oil or products between points in New Mexico.
- Section 70-3-10 - Attachment of articles to pipeline which may cause leakage or loss; disturbance of pipeline; penalty.
- Section 70-3-11 - Short title.
- Section 70-3-12 - Definitions.
- Section 70-3-13 - Powers and duties of commission.
- Section 70-3-13.1 - Master meter outreach and education.
- Section 70-3-14 - Adoption of regulations; notice and hearing.
- Section 70-3-15 - Validity of regulation; judicial review.
- Section 70-3-16 - Waiver of regulations.
- Section 70-3-17 - Continuity of service.
- Section 70-3-18 - Compliance.
- Section 70-3-19 - Enforcement; penalties.
- Section 70-3-2 - License; fees; disposition.
- Section 70-3-20 - Pipeline safety engineer and staff.
- Section 70-3-21 - Pipeline safety fund; created; assessment and collection of fees.
- Section 70-3-22 - Pipeline safety fee.
- Section 70-3-3 - Exceptions.
- Section 70-3-4 - Pipelines; crossing of railroads and highways.
- Section 70-3-5 - Eminent domain power.
- Section 70-3-6 - Private telegraph or telephone line along right-of-way of pipeline.
- Section 70-3-7 - Use of public highways by pipeline; grant of right by county commissioners.
- Section 70-3-8 - Application for use of highway for pipeline; investigation; rejection; appeal; permit; bond.
- Section 70-3-9 - Pipeline highway use forms.
- Article 3A - Gathering Line Land Acquisition, 70-3A-1 through 70-3A-7.
- Section 70-3A-1 - Short title.
- Section 70-3A-2 - Definitions.
- Section 70-3A-3 - Easement; offer and counterproposal.
- Section 70-3A-4 - Petition; appointment of hearing officer.
- Section 70-3A-5 - Scope of review by the hearing officer.
- Section 70-3A-6 - Report; appeal.
- Section 70-3A-7 - Abandonment of easement.
- Article 4 - Liens on Wells and Pipelines, 70-4-1 through 70-4-15.
- Section 70-4-1 - Liens for labor and material furnished or hauled for use of oil and gas wells or pipelines.
- Section 70-4-10 - Definition of words "person" and "subcontractor".
- Section 70-4-11 - Preference to laborers; no preference to first contractors.
- Section 70-4-12 - Materials exempt from attachment.
- Section 70-4-13 - Personal liability.
- Section 70-4-14 - Name of act.
- Section 70-4-15 - Conflicting laws repealed, Chapter 82, "1929 New Mexico Statutes Annotated" excepted.
- Section 70-4-2 - Labor, hauling and materials considered under continuous contract.
- Section 70-4-3 - Liens of subcontractors.
- Section 70-4-4 - Claim of lien; contents and filing.
- Section 70-4-5 - Recording; index; fees.
- Section 70-4-6 - Liability of owner limited to contract price.
- Section 70-4-7 - Limitation of action to enforce.
- Section 70-4-8 - Enforcement of lien.
- Section 70-4-9 - Joinder of actions; attorney's fees; costs.
- Article 5 - Liquefied and Compressed Gases, 70-5-1 through 70-5-23.
- Section 70-5-1 - Definitions.
- Section 70-5-10 - Revenue; suspense fund.
- Section 70-5-11 - Proof of responsibility.
- Section 70-5-12 - Power of bureau and commission to refuse to grant, suspend or cancel a license.
- Section 70-5-13 - Provisions for hearings.
- Section 70-5-14 - Notice; hearing.
- Section 70-5-15 - Finding; record.
- Section 70-5-16 - Appeal.
- Section 70-5-17 - No formal notice required of hearing on application for license; appeal.
- Section 70-5-18 - Civil penalty for failure to comply with act or any order, rule or regulation.
- Section 70-5-19 - Municipalities; taxes; license fees.
- Section 70-5-2 - Short title.
- Section 70-5-20 - Enforcement.
- Section 70-5-21 - Misdemeanor.
- Section 70-5-22 - Administrative penalty assessments.
- Section 70-5-23 - Containers to be filled only by owner or upon the owner's authorization.
- Section 70-5-3 - Rules and regulations for design, construction, assembling, equipping and installing of containers and equipment.
- Section 70-5-4 - Acts concerning LP gas or CNG subject to commission rules and regulations.
- Section 70-5-5 - Power to adopt and promulgate rules and regulations; exceptions to act.
- Section 70-5-6 - License; exceptions.
- Section 70-5-7 - Requiring competent employees in transporting, dispensing, installation, service or repair.
- Section 70-5-8 - Authority of inspectors.
- Section 70-5-9 - Annual license fees; inspection fees.
- Article 6 - Underground Storage of Natural Gas, 70-6-1 through 70-6-8.
- Section 70-6-1 - Public interest and welfare.
- Section 70-6-2 - Definitions.
- Section 70-6-3 - Acquisition of lands for purposes of underground natural gas storage; lands controlled by public body, executor, administrator, guardian, receiver or trustee.
- Section 70-6-4 - Appropriation of underground storage facilities; limitations.
- Section 70-6-5 - Findings of oil conservation division.
- Section 70-6-6 - Commission or division procedure.
- Section 70-6-7 - Exercise of right of eminent domain.
- Section 70-6-8 - Ownership of injected gas.
- Article 7 - Statutory Unitization Act, 70-7-1 through 70-7-21.
- Section 70-7-1 - Purpose of act.
- Section 70-7-10 - Previously established units.
- Section 70-7-11 - Unit operations of less than an entire pool.
- Section 70-7-12 - Operation; expressed or implied covenants.
- Section 70-7-13 - Income from unitized substances.
- Section 70-7-14 - Lien for costs.
- Section 70-7-15 - Liability for expenses.
- Section 70-7-16 - Division orders.
- Section 70-7-17 - Property rights.
- Section 70-7-18 - Existing rights, rights in unleased land and royalties and lease burdens.
- Section 70-7-19 - Agreements not violative of laws governing monopolies or restraint of trade.
- Section 70-7-2 - Short title.
- Section 70-7-20 - Evidence of unit to be recorded.
- Section 70-7-21 - Unlawful operation.
- Section 70-7-3 - Additional powers and duties of the oil conservation division.
- Section 70-7-4 - Definitions.
- Section 70-7-5 - Requisites of application for unitization.
- Section 70-7-6 - Matters to be found by the division precedent to issuance of unitization order.
- Section 70-7-7 - Division orders.
- Section 70-7-8 - Ratification or approval of plan by owners.
- Section 70-7-9 - Amendment of plan of unitization.
- Article 8 - Emergency Petroleum Products Supplies, 70-8-1 through 70-8-6.
- Article 9 - Petroleum Recovery Research Center, 70-9-1 through 70-9-4.
- Article 10 - Oil and Gas Proceeds Payments, 70-10-1 through 70-10-6.
- Article 11 - Office of Interstate Natural Gas Markets, 70-11-1 through 70-11-8.
- Section 70-11-1 - Purpose.
- Section 70-11-2 - Office created; duties.
- Section 70-11-3 - Director.
- Section 70-11-4 - Duties and general powers.
- Section 70-11-5 - Technical advisory committee; composition; duties.
- Section 70-11-6 - Repealed.
- Section 70-11-7 - Findings and purpose.
- Section 70-11-8 - Natural gas pipeline study; additional duties.
- Article 12 - Surface Owners Protection Act, 70-12-1 through 70-12-10.
- Section 70-12-1 - Short title.
- Section 70-12-10 - Temporary provision; applicability.
- Section 70-12-2 - Applicability.
- Section 70-12-3 - Definitions.
- Section 70-12-4 - Compensation for oil and gas operations.
- Section 70-12-5 - Notice of operations; proposed surface use and compensation agreement.
- Section 70-12-6 - Entry without agreement; bond.
- Section 70-12-7 - Damages.
- Section 70-12-8 - Remedies not exclusive.
- Section 70-12-9 - Emergency situations.