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2018 Idaho Statutes
Title 47 - MINES AND MINING
Chapter 3 - OIL AND GAS WELLS — GEOLOGIC INFORMATION, AND PREVENTION OF WASTE
Section 47-312 - ACT NOT CONSTRUED TO RESTRICT PRODUCTION — WASTE PROHIBITED.
Universal Citation: ID Code § 47-312 (2018)
47-312. ACT NOT CONSTRUED TO RESTRICT PRODUCTION — WASTE PROHIBITED. It is not the intent or purpose of this law to require the proration or distribution or the production of oil and gas among the fields of Idaho on the basis of market demand. This act shall never be construed to require, permit, or authorize the commission or any court to make, enter, or enforce any order, rule, regulation or judgment requiring restriction of production due to market demand of any pool or of any well (except as provided in section 47-315, Idaho Code, hereof) to an amount less than the well or pool can produce without waste in accordance with sound engineering practices. The waste of oil and gas or either of them as defined in this chapter is hereby prohibited.
History:
[(47-312) 47-328, added 1963, ch. 148, sec. 14, p. 433; am. 2012, ch. 73, sec. 5, p. 215; am. and redesig. 2017, ch. 271, sec. 4, p. 681.]
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