Louisiana Title 31 - Mineral code
- RS 31 — Title 31.mineral code
- RS 31:1 — Title 31mineral code
- RS 31:2 — Relation to civil code
- RS 31:3 — Freedom of contract and limitations thereon
- RS 31:4 — The landowner's
- RS 31:5 — Ownership of solid minerals
- RS 31:6 — Right to search for fugitive minerals; elements of ownership of land
- RS 31:7 — Reduction of minerals to possession
- RS 31:8 — Rights of landowners to explore for and
- RS 31:9 — Correlative rights of owners of common reservoir or deposit
- RS 31:10 — Liability to others with interests in common reservoir or deposit
- RS 31:11 — Correlative rights of landowner and owner of a mineral right and between owners of mineral rights
- RS 31:12 — Protection of the landowner's rights
- RS 31:13 — Damages for removal of solid minerals
- RS 31:14 — Drainage of fugitive minerals; exclusion of liability; exceptions
- RS 31:15 — Creation of mineral rights
- RS 31:16 — Basic mineral rights; status as real rights
- RS 31:17 — Rescission for lesion beyond moiety unavailable
- RS 31:18 — The nature of mineral rights and
- RS 31:19 — Capacity to create mineral rights
- RS 31:20 — Authority to create mineral rights
- RS 31:21 — The mineral servitude
- RS 31:22 — Certain rights and obligations of mineral servitude owner
- RS 31:23 — Right of servitude owner to operate; protection thereof
- RS 31:24 — Who may create mineral servitudes
- RS 31:25 — Right of conditional landowner to create mineral servitude
- RS 31:26 — Usufructuary may not create mineral servitude
- RS 31:27 — Modes of extinction of mineral servitudes
- RS 31:28 — Commencement of prescription
- RS 31:29 — How prescription of nonuse is interrupted
- RS 31:30 — Date on which prescription interrupted and commenced anew
- RS 31:31 — Operations beyond prescriptive date; effect as interruption
- RS 31:32 — Interruption by additional operations
- RS 31:33 — Unit operations; effect as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:34 — Shut-in well; testing as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:35 — Unitization with tested shut-in well as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:36 — Production as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:37 — Unit production as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:38 — Good faith production for beneficial purpose required
- RS 31:39 — Attempt to restore or secure new production as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:40 — Interruption applicable to all minerals and modes of use
- RS 31:41 — Commencement of prescription anew following attempt to restore or secure new production
- RS 31:42 — By whom a mineral servitude may be used
- RS 31:43 — When a person is acting on behalf of servitude owner
- RS 31:44 — Adoption of operations by another
- RS 31:45 — Time within which adoption must be made
- RS 31:46 — Procedure for adoption
- RS 31:47 — Compulsory unit operations; adoption unnecessary
- RS 31:48 — Obligation of servitude owner to pay costs
- RS 31:49 — Unsuccessful operations; waiver of damages when adopted
- RS 31:50 — Adoption a matter of right
- RS 31:51 — Adoption when servitude under lease
- RS 31:52 — Right to claim production in absence of adoption
- RS 31:53 — Adoption possible only as specifically provided
- RS 31:54 — Interruption of prescription by acknowledgment; formal requirements
- RS 31:55 — Express intent required
- RS 31:56 — Contractual extension of servitude; requirements
- RS 31:57 — Extended servitude subject to rules of prescription
- RS 31:58 — Prescription not affected by minority or other disability
- RS 31:59 — Suspension of prescription by obstacle
- RS 31:60 — Suspension effective as to all minerals
- RS 31:61 — Compulsory unitization order not an obstacle; establishment of mining plan is an obstacle
- RS 31:62 — Indivisibility of the mineral servitude
- RS 31:63 — Presumption arising from separate description of tracts forming continuous body of land
- RS 31:64 — Presumption when servitudes created on noncontiguous tracts
- RS 31:65 — Division of servient estate not division of servitude
- RS 31:66 — Right of owners of contiguous tracts to create single servitude
- RS 31:67 — Right of co-owners to create single servitude in partition of land
- RS 31:68 — Effect of limitation of servitude rights to specified horizons or levels
- RS 31:69 — Effect of partial conveyances of servitude rights
- RS 31:70 — Effect of contracts for use or development of portion of servitude
- RS 31:71 — Partial unitization not a division
- RS 31:72 — Conventional alteration of the
- RS 31:73 — Single servitude may not exist on noncontiguous tracts
- RS 31:74 — Right to fix term or shorten prescriptive period; effect of stipulation for prescriptive period greater than ten years
- RS 31:75 — Right to contract regarding rules of use
- RS 31:76 — Transactions involving outstanding
- RS 31:77 — Application of after-acquired title doctrine
- RS 31:78 — Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; acquisition of outstanding servitude
- RS 31:79 — Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; extinction of outstanding servitude
- RS 31:80 — The mineral royalty
- RS 31:81 — Executive and operating rights not included
- RS 31:82 — Who may create a mineral royalty
- RS 31:83 — Creation of mineral royalty by conditional owner
- RS 31:84 — Creation of mineral royalty by usufructuary
- RS 31:85 — Modes of extinction of the mineral royalty
- RS 31:86 — Commencement of prescription
- RS 31:87 — Production as interruption of prescription; commencement of prescription anew
- RS 31:88 — Saved production sufficient to interrupt prescription
- RS 31:89 — Unit production as an interruption of prescription
- RS 31:90 — Tested shut-in well as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:91 — Unitization with tested shut-in well; effect as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:92 — Interruption applicable to all minerals
- RS 31:93 — Application of rules concerning acknowledgment and extension of prescription
- RS 31:94 — Acknowledgment by servitude owner of previously created mineral royalty
- RS 31:95 — Limited effect of acknowledgment of previously created royalty
- RS 31:96 — Previously created royalty; dependency on mineral servitude when acknowledged
- RS 31:97 — Prescription not affected by minority or other disability
- RS 31:98 — Suspension of prescription by obstacle
- RS 31:99 — Obstacle to production from servitude suspends prescription as to dependent royalty
- RS 31:100 — Suspension effective as to all minerals
- RS 31:101 — Indivisibility of the mineral royalty
- RS 31:102 — Rule regarding effect of partial conveyance; applicability to mineral royalty
- RS 31:103 — Conventional alteration of the
- RS 31:104 — Transactions involving outstanding
- RS 31:105 — Executive rights
- RS 31:106 — Executive right a mineral right
- RS 31:107 — Interruption of prescription accruing against executive right
- RS 31:108 — Nature of executive and nonexecutive interests
- RS 31:109 — Obligation of owner of executive interest
- RS 31:110 — Lease in violation of obligation valid; right of nonexecutive to damages
- RS 31:111 — Effect of certain transactions involving executive right
- RS 31:112 — Right of nonexecutive to operate
- RS 31:113 — Executive right as appendage of another mineral right
- RS 31:114 — The mineral lease
- RS 31:115 — Requirement of term; limitation of continuation without drilling or mining operations or production
- RS 31:116 — Who may grant mineral leases
- RS 31:117 — Granting of mineral lease by owner under conditional title
- RS 31:118 — Right of usufructuaries to lease
- RS 31:119 — The obligations of the lessor
- RS 31:120 — Lessor's warranty and limitation of liability for breach thereof
- RS 31:121 — Right of lessee to lease from adverse claimants
- RS 31:122 — The obligations of the lessee
- RS 31:123 — Rent and the obligation to make timely payment thereof
- RS 31:124 — Production in paying quantities required; definition
- RS 31:125 — Amount of royalties relevant to reasonableness of lessee's expectation
- RS 31:126 — Transactions involving the lessee's interest
- RS 31:127 — Lessee's right to assign or sublease
- RS 31:128 — Responsibility of assignee or sublessee to original lessor
- RS 31:129 — Assignor or sublessor not relieved of obligations or liabilities unless discharged
- RS 31:130 — Lease not divided by partial assignment or sublease
- RS 31:131 — Lessor must accept performance by assignee or sublessee
- RS 31:132 — Demands by lessor; effect on assignee or sublessee
- RS 31:133 — Termination and remedies for violation
- RS 31:134 — Right to relief for violation
- RS 31:135 — Rules of default applicable except as specified
- RS 31:136 — Written notice; requirement and effect on claims for damages or dissolution of lease
- RS 31:137 — Nonpayment of royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand
- RS 31:138 — Required response of lessee to notice
- RS 31:138.1 — Division order; precedence of lease; penalties for failure to pay royalties due
- RS 31:139 — Effect of payment in response to notice
- RS 31:140 — Effect of nonpayment in response to notice or failure to state cause therefor
- RS 31:141 — Dissolution not a favored remedy
- RS 31:142 — Dissolution may be partial or entire
- RS 31:143 — Summary eviction not applicable
- RS 31:144 — Leases involving outstanding mineral rights
- RS 31:145 — After-acquired title doctrine; applicability in absence of special clause
- RS 31:146 — The lessor's privilege
- RS 31:147 — Right to seize property on premises or within fifteen days of removal
- RS 31:148 — Manner of enforcement
- RS 31:149 — Mineral rights reserved from acquisitions of land by governments or agencies thereof imprescriptible
- RS 31:149.1 — Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:149.2 — Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:149.3 — Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:150 — Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:151 — Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:152 — Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:153 — Possession and acquisitive prescription
- RS 31:154 — Possession of land as including
- RS 31:155 — Possession without title as including mineral rights
- RS 31:156 — Interruption of possession of mineral rights
- RS 31:157 — Interruption of possession by acknowledgment
- RS 31:158 — Interruption of possession by judicial demand
- RS 31:159 — The effect of acquisitive prescription
- RS 31:160 — Perfection of title by prescription as including mineral rights
- RS 31:161 — Interruption of acquisitive prescription
- RS 31:162 — Suspension of acquisitive prescription
- RS 31:163 — Acquisitive prescription; unavailability to mineral servitude owner
- RS 31:164 — Co-ownership
- RS 31:165 — Creation of mineral royalty by co-owner of land
- RS 31:166 — Granting of mineral lease by co-owner of land
- RS 31:167 — Mineral right owner may not compel partition of land
- RS 31:168 — Co-ownership of mineral rights
- RS 31:169 — Those who are not co-owners of mineral rights
- RS 31:170 — Right of co-owner of mineral servitude to create mineral royalties
- RS 31:171 — Right of co-owner of mineral lease to create dependent rights
- RS 31:172 — Mineral servitudes and royalties subject to partition
- RS 31:173 — Mineral lessee's interest subject to partition; susceptibility of dependent rights to partition
- RS 31:174 — Use by one co-owner inures to benefit of all
- RS 31:175 — Co-owner of mineral servitude may not operate independently
- RS 31:176 — Co-owner of mineral servitude may act to prevent waste or destruction or extinction of servitude
- RS 31:177 — Co-owner of mineral lease may not operate independently except to prevent waste, destruction, or termination
- RS 31:178 — Partition of land and its effect on
- RS 31:179 — Mineral right owner as party to partition of land
- RS 31:180 — Appraisal of land to be partitioned required
- RS 31:181 — Service of appraisal required
- RS 31:182 — Opposition to appraisal permitted
- RS 31:183 — Distribution of proceeds of partition sale
- RS 31:184 — Effect of failure to appraise mineral right or interest therein
- RS 31:185 — Owner of appraised mineral right entitled to participate in proceeds of sale
- RS 31:186 — Owner of right derived from all co-owners of land unaffected by licitation
- RS 31:187 — Mineral right created by party acquiring land not affected by sale
- RS 31:188 — Rights of usufructuaries in minerals
- RS 31:189 — Conventional usufruct may include enjoyment of mineral rights
- RS 31:190 — Usufructuary of land entitled to enjoyment of mines or quarries worked; exception
- RS 31:191 — When oil and gas wells and lignite operations considered open mines
- RS 31:192 — When usufructuary of land entitled to grant lease
- RS 31:193 — Nature of usufruct of a mineral right
- RS 31:194 — Usufructuary not obligated to account to naked owner
- RS 31:195 — Right of naked owner of land to enjoyment of minerals
- RS 31:196 — Obligations of naked owner arising from enjoyment of rights in minerals
- RS 31:197 — Secured rights in mineral rights
- RS 31:198 — Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:198.1 — Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:199 — Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:200 — Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:201 — Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:202 — Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:203 — Mortgage of mineral rights
- RS 31:204 — Mortgage may include pledge; effect of pledge
- RS 31:205 — General provisions
- RS 31:206 — Miscellaneous provisions
- RS 31:207 — Effect of failure to furnish act evidencing extinction or expiration of right; mineral lease
- RS 31:208 — Effect of good faith dispute as to extinction or expiration of right
- RS 31:209 — Applicability to demand for dissolution of mineral lease
- RS 31:210 — Protection of purchasers of production;
- RS 31:210.1 — Interest on purchase payment of production
- RS 31:210.2 — Declaration of interest; when third party purchasers of oil may withhold payment
- RS 31:211 — Availability of mandamus for nonpayment of sums due for production
- RS 31:212 — Right to attorney's fee incurred in securing writ
- RS 31:212.1 — Sales relative to minerals after they are severed are subject to the laws of registry
- RS 31:212.21 — Nonpayment of production payment or royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand
- RS 31:212.22 — Required response of obligor to notice
- RS 31:212.23 — Effects of payment or nonpayment with or without stating reasonable cause therefor; division order
- RS 31:212.31 — Payment information to interest owners
- RS 31:212.32 — Accumulation of proceeds from production
- RS 31:213 — Definitions
- RS 31:214 — Application of code
- RS 31:215 — Operating agreements
- RS 31:216 — Filing
- RS 31:217 — Declaration in lieu of agreement