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2009 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 353 MINERAL CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
353.040 When offset wells to be drilled.
Download pdfthe oil or gas from the adjoining property is being taken out of the ground and marketed
from one or more wells located on such adjoining property within two hundred (200) feet
of the boundary line of the leasehold, and the lessor gives the lessee written notice that oil
or gas from such well or wells is being marketed, the lessee shall, within three (3) months
after receipt of the notice, begin to drill an offset well to each such well, except that the
offset wells need not be less than five hundred (500) feet from each other. If the lessee
fails to commence and complete the offset wells with diligence, the lease shall
automatically expire and be void. This section does not apply to a lease that is being
operated or on which a well is being drilled. Effective: October 1, 1942
History: Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 3766b-4c.
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