2016 California Code
Public Resources Code - PRC
DIVISION 6 - PUBLIC LANDS
PART 2 - LEASING OF PUBLIC LANDS
CHAPTER 3 - Oil and Gas and Mineral Leases
ARTICLE 1 - Provisions Relating to All State Lands
Section 6814.
6814. The commission, in the name of the people of the State, may bring action to determine the title to oil and gas in land against persons, associations of persons, and corporations claiming the oil and gas adversely and to recover damages for oil and gas removed therefrom. Any person, association of persons, corporation, or city not a party to such a suit and claiming the oil or gas in the land, or any part thereof, may intervene in such an action and have his rights adjudicated. The State hereby consents to be sued by any person, association of persons, corporation, or city for the purpose of quieting title to the right to oil or gas, or both, in any land, claimed by the State and by such person, association of persons, corporation, or city. Any other person, association of persons, corporation, or city not made a party to such an action but claiming any interest in the oil or gas may intervene in such suit.
All such actions shall be brought and tried in the county where the land or some part thereof is situated.
(Added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.)
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