2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - CHAPTER 353 MINERAL CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT

• .010   Definitions for chapter.
• .020   Oil and gas lease or contract, when lessor may avoid.
• .030   Nonproductive well, when lease or contract satisfied by.
• .040   When offset wells to be drilled.
• .050   Plat, showing well, to be filed if well is to extend through coal-bearing strata -- Copies to certain persons.
• .060   Objections to location of well -- Hearing.
• .070   Index of plats -- Agreement permitting well operator to select location.
• .080   Drilling through coal bed.
• .090   Gas found beneath or between coal beds.
• .100   Casings to remain in place during life of productive well.
• .110   Abandonment of well drilled through coal strata -- Plugging of well.
• .120   Method of plugging well drilled through coal-bearing strata.
• .130   Alternative methods that may be used when strata shot.
• .140   Gas escape pipe, when to be used.
• .150   Unused oil, gas or salt water well to be closed to prevent waste.
• .160   Gas waste to be prevented -- Presumption of negligence.
• .170   Putting pressure on strata -- Wells may remain open if conforming to Federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
• .180   Requirements for plugging abandoned well -- Bids -- Remedy for possessor of adjacent land or for department.
• .190   Salt and saltpetre works to be inclosed -- Liability.
• .200   Department of Mines and Minerals to enforce oil and gas law -- Hearings.
• .205   Department to release production data on crude oil and natural gas.
• .210   Agreement consolidating oil and gas leases may be executed by trustee representing contingent future interests.
• .220   Nature of agreement.
• .230   Petition for court approval -- Affidavits -- Guardian ad litem -- Order of approval.
• .240   Agreement consolidating oil and gas leases may be executed by guardian.
• .250   Nature of agreement.
• .260   Petition for court approval -- Affidavits -- Guardian ad litem -- Order of approval.
• .270   Repealed, 1986.
• .280   Repealed, 1986
• .290   Repealed, 1986
• .300   Appointment of trustee to execute mineral lease where contingent future interests are involved.
• .310   Jurisdiction of court.
• .320   Who may institute proceedings.
• .330   Parties -- Representation of minors, mentally disabled, and persons not in being.
• .340   Alignment of parties -- Process.
• .350   Bond of trustee -- Terms of sale of lease.
• .360   Execution of sale of lease -- Report -- Confirmation.
• .370   Separate lease by guardian or conservator unnecessary.
• .380   Disposition of proceeds.

Severed Mineral Interests of Unknown or Missing Owners

• .460   Definitions.
• .462   Jurisdiction in Circuit Court.
• .464   When court may declare trust and appoint trustee -- Persons authorized to institute proceedings.
• .466   Persons to be joined as defendants -- Verified petition showing effort to locate owners -- Advertisement and lis pendens notice, contents -- Trustee ad litem.
• .468   If advantageous to unknown or missing owner, court may declare trust -- Bond of trustee -- Sale of lease -- Trustee's report -- When court not to authorize trustee's lease -- Trustee to use percentage of funds to search for owner -- Period during which unknown or missing owner may establish identity and title.
• .470   When trustee may convey title in mineral interest to surface owner -- Payment to surface owner -- Final report of trustee -- Termination of trust.
• .472   Payment to surface owner when leased mineral never produced commercially.
• .474   Payment of attorneys' fees, expenses, and court costs.
• .476   When action by unknown or missing owner is barred.

Oil and Gas Conservation

• .500   Declaration of policy of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
• .510   Definitions for KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
• .520   Territorial application of KRS 353.500 to 353.720 -- Waste of oil and gas prohibited.
• .530   Director of Division of Oil and Gas Conservation -- Qualifications -- Duties -- Oath.
• .540   Authority of department -- Jurisdiction.
• .550   Specific authority over oil and gas operators.
• .560   Further authority.
• .565   Kentucky Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
• .570   Permit required -- May authorize operation prior to issuance of permit.
• .575   Duty of applicant to meet and confer with permittee if drilling will disturb permitted area.
• .580   Expiration of permit -- Extensions.
• .590   Application for permit -- Fees -- Plat -- Bond to insure plugging -- Schedule -- Blanket bonds -- Corporate guarantee -- Use of forfeited funds -- Oil and gas well plugging fund -- Wells not included in "water supply well."
• .5901   Operations and reclamation proposal for land with complete severance -- Contents, distribution, and agreement or mediation -- Mediation report.
• .591   Purpose and application of KRS 353.592 and 353.593.
• .592   Powers of the department.
• .593   Appeals.
• .595   Notice to surface owner of intent to drill oil or gas well -- Compensation for damage to surface -- Restoration of surface.
• .597   Replacement of disrupted water supply by well operator.
• .600   Repealed, 1992.
• .610   Conditions under which permits may be issued -- Exceptions.
• .620   Variance from requirements of KRS 353.610.
• .630   Pooling of oil and gas interests -- Conditions.
• .640   Pooling order -- Notice -- Provisions -- Surrender or sharing of interest -- Limited participation.
• .645   Operation and development as a unit of oil and gas interests in a pool or pools -- Application for unit -- Hearing -- Unitization order.
• .650   Exclusion of royalty interest in computing share of production -- Limitation.
• .651   Deep wells -- Establishment and regulation of drilling units -- Pooling of interests -- Exceptions.
• .652   Unit operation of pool -- Procedure.
• .653   Share of production from drilling unit or unitized pool.
• .654   Drilling without consent of landowner prohibited.
• .655   Use of shackle rods or related cables.
• .656   Display of danger signs on oil storage facilities.
• .660   Report required after termination of operations -- Contents -- Confidentiality of information -- Exceptions.
• .670   Promulgation of regulations -- Hearing -- Written record of hearing.
• .680   Repealed, 1996.
• .690   Production of evidence -- Failure to comply.
• .700   Review of order of department by civil action -- Appeal.
• .710   Suit to enjoin violation -- By department, person adversely affected, Attorney General.
• .720   Construction of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
• .730   Investigation of abandoned wells -- Application -- Report -- Bond.

Kentucky Gas Pipeline Authority

• .750   Definitions for KRS 353.750 to 353.776.
• .752   Kentucky Gas Pipeline Authority established -- Membership.
• .754   Procedure and organization -- Regulations.
• .756   Purpose of authority -- Powers of the authority.
• .758   Issuance of revenue bonds -- Proceeds of bonds -- Notes or temporary bonds.
• .760   Bonds of authority not debts of Commonwealth.
• .762   Discretionary securing of bonds by trust indentures.
• .764   Enforcement of rights by bond holder or trustee of trust indenture.
• .766   Status of authority bonds as securities.
• .768   Issuance of revenue refunding bonds.
• .770   Treatment of moneys received.
• .772   Exemptions from taxation.
• .774   KRS 45A.045 not applicable to authority projects.
• .776   Reporting of activities.

Penalties

• .990   Penalties.
• .991   Penalties for violation of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
• .992   Penalties.