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2023 Arizona Revised Statutes
Title 27 - Minerals, Oil and Gas
Chapter 1 - STATE AGENCIES AND OFFICERS
Article 1 - Arizona Geological Survey
Article 2 - State Mine Inspector
Article 1 - Mining Locations
Article 2 - Rights of Co-Owners
Article 3 - Lease of State Lands for Mineral Claims
Article 4 - Mineral Exploration Permits and Mineral Leases
Article 5 - Lease of State Lands for Common Variety Minerals
Article 1 - General Provisions
Article 2 - Explosives and Blasting
Article 3 - Hoists, Shafts and Underground Operations
Article 4 - Prevention of Hazardous Dust and Gas Conditions Chapter 3 - OPERATION OF MINES
Article 5 - Open Pits
Article 6 - Aggregate Mining Operations
Article 7 - Rules and Regulations
Article 1 - Production and Conservation
Article 1.1 - Fieldwide Unitization
Article 2 - Lease of State Lands for Oil and Gas
Article 3 - Interstate Oil Compact
Article 4 - Geothermal Resources
Article 1 - Administration
Article 2 - General Regulatory Provisions
Article 3 - Exploration Operations Reclamation Plan
Article 4 - Mining Unit Reclamation Plan
Article 5 - Financial Assurance
Article 6 - Enforcement
Article 1 - Administration
Article 2 - General Regulatory Provisions
Article 3 - Exploration Operations Reclamation Plan
Article 4 - Aggregate Mining Unit Reclamation Plan
Article 5 - Financial Assurance
Article 6 - Enforcement
Article 1 - Arizona Geological Survey
- § 27-101 - Definitions
- § 27-102 - Arizona geological survey; state geologist; powers
- § 27-103 - Objectives of Arizona geological survey
- § 27-104 - Qualifications of employees; private activities relating to geological services prohibited
- § 27-105 - Immunity
- § 27-106 - Duties of Arizona geological survey; mining, mineral and natural resources educational museum
- § 27-107 - Powers and duties; fund
- § 27-108 - Publications; deposit
- § 27-110 - Trade secrets; confidentiality; definition
- § 27-111 - Mining, mineral and natural resources educational museum advisory council; membership; duties; terms; compensation
Article 2 - State Mine Inspector
- § 27-121 - Qualifications of state mine inspector; affidavit; continuing education; deputy inspectors; salary; seal; immunity
- § 27-122 - Deputy inspectors
- § 27-123 - Education and training fees
- § 27-124 - Mine inspections required; powers of inspector
- § 27-125 - Inspection report
- § 27-126 - Annual report to governor
- § 27-127 - Restrictions on divulging information by inspectors and employees; dismissal for violation
- § 27-128 - Inspection of mines; violation; classification
- § 27-129 - Locating abandoned mines; public education; donor immunity
- § 27-131 - Abandoned mines safety fund; annual report
Article 1 - Mining Locations
- § 27-201 - Location of mining claim upon discovery of mineral in place
- § 27-202 - Method of locating a lode claim; monument; location notice; amendments
- § 27-203 - Completing lode, placer or millsite locations; recording location notice; monumenting; map, plat or sketch requirements; abandonment of claims; recorder duties and fees
- § 27-204 - Monumenting lode claims
- § 27-205 - Locating and monumenting placer and millsite claims
- § 27-206 - Relocation
- § 27-208 - Affidavit of annual work; affidavit of claim maintenance fee payment; fees
- § 27-209 - Sufficiency of description of mining claims
- § 27-210 - Existing claims
Article 2 - Rights of Co-Owners
- § 27-221 - Notice to delinquent co-owner to contribute share of annual labor expense or maintenance fees
- § 27-222 - Acknowledgment of contribution by delinquent co-owner
Article 3 - Lease of State Lands for Mineral Claims
- § 27-231 - Definition of mineral
- § 27-233 - Preferred right to renew mineral lease; evaluation of geologic and economic evidence
- § 27-234 - Rent; royalty; appeal; interest; penalty; lien
- § 27-235 - Offering permits and leases at auction; terms of lease; financial security termination
- § 27-236 - Suspension of royalty rights
- § 27-237 - Review by commissioner
- § 27-238 - Existing leases
- § 27-239 - Inspections, investigations and audits
Article 4 - Mineral Exploration Permits and Mineral Leases
- § 27-251 - Application for mineral exploration permit
- § 27-252 - Terms of mineral exploration permit; definition
- § 27-253 - Renewal of permit
- § 27-254 - Mineral lease
- § 27-255 - Bonds
- § 27-256 - Assignment
Article 5 - Lease of State Lands for Common Variety Minerals
- § 27-271 - Definition of common variety minerals
- § 27-271.01 - Inventory of trust land containing common mineral products, materials and property
- § 27-272 - Common variety mineral leases; terms and conditions; rules
- § 27-273 - Performance and reclamation bonds
- § 27-274 - Trade secrets; confidentiality; definition
- § 27-276 - Enforcement
Article 1 - General Provisions
- § 27-301 - Definitions
- § 27-302 - Operations subject to chapter; enforcement by inspector; violation; classification
- § 27-303 - Notification to inspector of beginning or suspending operations
- § 27-304 - Operator responsibility
- § 27-305 - Employee responsibility
- § 27-306 - First aid; inspectors as qualified instructors
- § 27-307 - Notice to operator of dangerous condition; compliance; failure to comply as prima facie evidence of negligence; order to cease operations
- § 27-308 - Complaint to inspector of dangerous conditions by employee; inspection
- § 27-309 - Reports of fatal accidents to inspector; investigation
- § 27-310 - Copy of law available for inspection
- § 27-311 - Fire prevention and protection
- § 27-312 - Safety equipment
- § 27-313 - Machinery
- § 27-314 - Electrical installations
- § 27-315 - Unauthorized persons
- § 27-316 - Intoxicating liquors and drugs
- § 27-317 - Waste dumps and tailings areas; signs; violation; classification
- § 27-318 - Abandoned and inactive mines to be secured; inspector authority; violation; classification
Article 2 - Explosives and Blasting
- § 27-321 - Explosives; records; inspection
- § 27-322 - Explosives; marking; utilization and storage
- § 27-323 - Explosives; rules and regulations; access to operations
- § 27-324 - Blasting
- § 27-325 - Use of tamping bar
Article 3 - Hoists, Shafts and Underground Operations
- § 27-341 - Escapement shafts
- § 27-342 - Mine outlets
- § 27-343 - Structures over mine outlet
- § 27-344 - Timbering support
- § 27-345 - Shelter areas
- § 27-346 - Ladder-ways
- § 27-347 - Construction of ladder-ways
- § 27-348 - Shaft stations
- § 27-349 - Tracks and roadbeds; maintenance underground
- § 27-350 - Lights; trolley wires
- § 27-351 - Hoists; operator; indicator
- § 27-352 - Inspection and construction of hoists
- § 27-353 - Safety cage and catches
- § 27-354 - Cross-heads; buckets
- § 27-355 - Hoisting tools and materials
- § 27-356 - Protection from falling materials
- § 27-357 - Hoist release signal
- § 27-358 - Signaling apparatus
- § 27-359 - Signal code
- § 27-360 - Precautions against flooding
- § 27-361 - Common system of drainage; contribution of cost
- § 27-362 - Order for inspection
- § 27-363 - Danger signals; visitors
- § 27-364 - Interfering with equipment
- § 27-365 - Regulation of underground use of internal combustion engines
- § 27-366 - Maps of underground workings
- § 27-367 - Maintenance and use of loading equipment
- § 27-368 - Ventilation; condition of airways; testing
- § 27-369 - Evacuation; procedure; routes
- § 27-370 - Stench warning
- § 27-371 - Radon control
- § 27-372 - Uranium operations; testing for radon daughters
- § 27-373 - Cap lamps
Article 4 - Prevention of Hazardous Dust and Gas Conditions Chapter 3 - OPERATION OF MINES
Article 5 - Open Pits
- § 27-421 - Ingress and egress
- § 27-422 - Banks
- § 27-423 - Tracks, roadbeds and roadways
- § 27-424 - Operation of heavy equipment
- § 27-425 - Open pits; fencing or blocking
Article 6 - Aggregate Mining Operations
- § 27-441 - Definitions
- § 27-442 - Aggregate mining operations; community notice; application
- § 27-443 - Application fee; aggregate community notice fund
- § 27-444 - Community notice; public meeting
- § 27-445 - Approval of community notice or major modification
- § 27-446 - Claims of deviation from an approved community notice
- § 27-447 - Inspection and enforcement
- § 27-448 - Sand and gravel safety rules
Article 7 - Rules and Regulations
- § 27-461 - Definitions
- § 27-462 - Administration by inspector; rules and regulations
- § 27-463 - Procedure
- § 27-464 - Notice of proposed adoption of rule
- § 27-469 - Exceptions to rules and regulations
Article 1 - Production and Conservation
- § 27-501 - Definitions
- § 27-502 - Declaration of policy
- § 27-503 - Waste of oil or gas prohibited; powers of commissioner to prevent waste
- § 27-504 - Drilling units; rules and regulations; exceptions
- § 27-505 - Pooling of interests
- § 27-506 - Regulation of drilling in pools; notice of sale, transfer or purchase
- § 27-507.01 - Common purchaser of crude oil and petroleum; duties; ratable taking; discrimination prohibited
- § 27-508.01 - Common purchaser of gas; duties; ratable taking; discrimination prohibited
- § 27-509 - Certificate of compliance
- § 27-510 - Certificate of clearance
- § 27-511 - Confiscation proceedings
- § 27-512 - Sale of illegal oil or gas or illegal products
- § 27-513 - Permit to drill well
- § 27-513.01 - Appointment by drilling permittee of attorney upon whom to serve process
- § 27-514 - Commission; appointment; terms; compensation
- § 27-515 - Administration; powers of the commission; fees
- § 27-516 - Rules
- § 27-517 - Hearings; reporter; fees
- § 27-519 - Refusal to obey subpoena
- § 27-520 - Judicial review; procedures
- § 27-521 - Duties of attorney general
- § 27-522 - Records
- § 27-523 - Deposit of monies; expenses
- § 27-524 - Enforcement
- § 27-525 - Injunctions and restraining orders
- § 27-526 - Appeals
- § 27-527 - Violation; classification
Article 1.1 - Fieldwide Unitization
- § 27-531 - Integration of interests and spacing units
- § 27-532 - Order; units and unit areas; plan of unitization
- § 27-533 - Ratification or approval of plan by lessees and owners
- § 27-534 - Unlawful operation
- § 27-535 - Status and powers of unit; liability and expenses; lien
- § 27-536 - Modification of property rights, leases and contracts; title to property; distribution of proceeds; delivery in kind; effect of operations; matters not affected
- § 27-537 - Enlargement of area; creation of new units; amendment of plan
- § 27-538 - Federal taxation
- § 27-539 - Validation of unit agreements
Article 2 - Lease of State Lands for Oil and Gas
- § 27-551 - Definitions
- § 27-552 - Rules and regulations
- § 27-553 - Leasing state lands for oil and gas
- § 27-554 - Designation of known geological structures of producing oil and gas fields
- § 27-555 - Lease of state lands not located within known geological structure of producing oil and gas field; application; lease extension; provisions of lease; withdrawal of lands from leasing
- § 27-555.01 - Extension of lease due to lack of transportation, processing facilities or market
- § 27-556 - Lease of state lands located within known geological structure of producing oil or gas field; sealed bids; call for bids; publication; lease extension; provisions of lease; acreage limitation
- § 27-557 - Unit operations; unit agreements
- § 27-558 - Conservation laws
- § 27-559 - Development of water for use in operations; taking over well which yields fresh water
- § 27-560 - Surface use by lessee; liability for damages; bond; appraisal of damages; appeal
- § 27-561 - Assignment of lease; recording
- § 27-562 - Surrender
- § 27-563 - Payment of noncompetitive lease royalties in kind or cash
- § 27-564 - Receipt and sale of royalty oil
- § 27-565 - Application to purchase royalty oil
- § 27-566 - Notice to lessee of election; storage
- § 27-567 - Sales of royalty oil
- § 27-568 - Delivery of oil to purchaser
- § 27-569 - Prohibitions on resale
- § 27-570 - Bond and penalties; waiver
- § 27-571 - Inspecting well records; trade secrets; confidentiality; definition
Article 3 - Interstate Oil Compact
- § 27-601 - Authorization to enter compact
- § 27-602 - Extension of expiration date
- § 27-603 - Official representative
Article 4 - Geothermal Resources
- § 27-651 - Definitions
- § 27-652 - Supervision by commission
- § 27-653 - Information; filing; confidentiality
- § 27-654 - Drilling bond; amount; responsibility
- § 27-655 - Commission approval prior to operation; information; hearing
- § 27-656 - Rules and orders; hearing
- § 27-657 - Agent for process
- § 27-658 - Notice of sale or conveyance of well or land
- § 27-659 - Application to drill
- § 27-660 - Safety requirements
- § 27-661 - Drilling record; samples
- § 27-662 - Monthly report
- § 27-663 - Unlawful interference; classification
- § 27-664 - Cooperative development agreements; unitization
- § 27-665 - Unitization; requirements
- § 27-666 - Pooling
- § 27-667 - Relationship of geothermal resources to water laws
- § 27-668 - Leasing state lands for development of geothermal resources
- § 27-669 - Designation of known geothermal resource areas
- § 27-670 - Lease of state lands; application; call for bids; publication; withdrawal of lands from leasing
- § 27-671 - Provisions of lease
- § 27-672 - Unit operations; unit agreements
- § 27-673 - Surface use by lessee; liability for damages; bond; appraisal of damages; appeal
- § 27-674 - Assignment of lease; recording
- § 27-675 - Surrender
- § 27-676 - Enjoining violations
- § 27-677 - Violation; civil penalty
Article 1 - Administration
- § 27-901 - Definitions
- § 27-902 - Division of mined land reclamation; coordination of programs and activities
- § 27-903 - Exemption for state lands; agreements for coordination with other governmental agencies and landowners
- § 27-904 - Rules; contributions
- § 27-905 - Certificate of disclosure of violations; remedies; definition
Article 2 - General Regulatory Provisions
- § 27-921 - Surface disturbances created by new exploration operation or mining unit
- § 27-922 - Surface disturbances created by existing exploration operation or mining unit; extension; continuing operations
- § 27-923 - Creating surface disturbances of five acres or less
- § 27-924 - Inactive mining units
- § 27-925 - Remedial response to emergencies and governmental orders
- § 27-926 - Initiation, extension and completion of reclamation
- § 27-927 - Substantial changes to approved reclamation plan; fee
- § 27-928 - Transferring an approved reclamation plan
- § 27-929 - Notice of plan or substantial change
- § 27-930 - Public disclosure of information; definition
- § 27-931 - Variances
- § 27-932 - Coordination with other governmental agencies
- § 27-933 - Denials; appeals
- § 27-934 - Plan submission fee; accounting and appropriation of revenues
- § 27-935 - Plan review and evaluation by private consultants
Article 3 - Exploration Operations Reclamation Plan
- § 27-951 - Submission and contents of reclamation plan
- § 27-952 - Notice of complete, incomplete or denied plan
- § 27-953 - Approval; criteria
- § 27-954 - Beginning new exploration operations
- § 27-955 - Annual renewal
Article 4 - Mining Unit Reclamation Plan
- § 27-971 - Submission and contents of reclamation plan
- § 27-972 - Notice of complete, incomplete or denied plan
- § 27-973 - Approval; criteria
- § 27-974 - Preservation and conservation of soil; exceptions
- § 27-975 - Features excluded from reclamation plan or allowed to remain following reclamation; public protection measures
- § 27-976 - Beginning new mining units
Article 5 - Financial Assurance
- § 27-991 - Financial assurance requirements; form
- § 27-992 - Mining unit or existing exploration operation
- § 27-993 - New exploration operation
- § 27-994 - Duplication of financial assurance not required
- § 27-995 - Incremental financial assurance
- § 27-996 - Release of financial assurance
- § 27-997 - Rules; release, forfeiture or exercise of financial assurance
Article 6 - Enforcement
- § 27-1021 - Inspections
- § 27-1022 - Compliance orders
- § 27-1023 - Enforcement action on reclamation plan approval
- § 27-1024 - Injunctive relief; civil penalties
- § 27-1025 - Agency order; appeal
- § 27-1026 - Violation; classification
Article 1 - Administration
- § 27-1201 - Definitions
- § 27-1202 - Coordination of programs and activities
- § 27-1203 - Exemption for state lands; agreements for coordination with other governmental agencies and landowners
- § 27-1203.01 - Exemption for limited, intermittent-use projects
- § 27-1204 - Rules; contributions
- § 27-1205 - Certificate of disclosure of violations; remedies; definition
Article 2 - General Regulatory Provisions
- § 27-1221 - Surface disturbances created by new exploration operation or aggregate mining unit
- § 27-1222 - Surface disturbances created by existing exploration operation or aggregate mining unit; extension; continuing operations
- § 27-1223 - Creating surface disturbances of five acres or less
- § 27-1224 - Inactive aggregate mining units
- § 27-1225 - Remedial response to governmental orders
- § 27-1226 - Initiation, extension and completion of reclamation
- § 27-1227 - Substantial changes to approved reclamation plan
- § 27-1228 - Transferring an approved reclamation plan
- § 27-1229 - Notice of plan or substantial change; new exploration operations; new aggregate mining units
- § 27-1230 - Notice of plan for existing exploration operations and existing aggregate mining units
- § 27-1231 - Public disclosure of information; definition
- § 27-1232 - Coordination with other governmental agencies
- § 27-1233 - Fees; plan submissions; substantial changes; aggregate mining reclamation fund
- § 27-1234 - Plan review and evaluation by private consultants
- § 27-1235 - Appeals
- § 27-1236 - Licensing time frames
- § 27-1237 - Variances
Article 3 - Exploration Operations Reclamation Plan
- § 27-1251 - Submission and contents of reclamation plan
- § 27-1252 - Notice of complete, incomplete or denied plan
- § 27-1253 - Approval; criteria
- § 27-1254 - Beginning new exploration operations
- § 27-1255 - Annual renewal
Article 4 - Aggregate Mining Unit Reclamation Plan
- § 27-1271 - Submission and contents of reclamation plan
- § 27-1272 - Notice of complete, incomplete or denied plan
- § 27-1273 - Approval; criteria
- § 27-1274 - Preservation and conservation of soil; exceptions
- § 27-1275 - Features excluded from reclamation plan or allowed to remain following reclamation; public protection measures
- § 27-1276 - Beginning new aggregate mining units
- § 27-1277 - Annual status report
Article 5 - Financial Assurance
- § 27-1291 - Financial assurance requirements; form
- § 27-1292 - Aggregate mining unit or existing exploration operation
- § 27-1293 - New exploration operation
- § 27-1294 - Duplication of financial assurance not required
- § 27-1295 - Incremental financial assurance
- § 27-1296 - Release of financial assurance
- § 27-1297 - Rules; release, forfeiture or exercise of financial assurance
Article 6 - Enforcement
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