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2025 Kansas Statutes
Chapter 55 - Oil And Gas
Article 1 - Oil And Gas Wells; Regulatory Provisions
- 55-101 Natural gas for residents of platted land outside city; laying and maintenance of pipes.
- 55-102 Control and management of oil and gas wells; unlawful acts, penalties; flaring, venting or use of gas permitted, when.
- 55-103 Repealed.
- 55-104 Repealed.
- 55-105 Repealed.
- 55-106 Repealed.
- 55-107 Repealed.
- 55-108 Repealed.
- 55-109 Repealed.
- 55-110, 55-111 Repealed.
- 55-112 Transportation of gas; standards for.
- 55-113 Repealed.
- 55-114 Penalty for violation of K.S.A. 55-112.
- 55-115 Repealed.
- 55-116 Repealed.
- 55-117 Repealed.
- 55-118 Repealed.
- 55-119 Repealed.
- 55-120 Repealed.
- 55-121 Repealed.
- 55-122 Repealed.
- 55-123, 55-124 Repealed.
- 55-125 through 55-127 Repealed.
- 55-128 Repealed.
- 55-128a Repealed.
- 55-128b Repealed.
- 55-128c Repealed.
- 55-128d Repealed.
- 55-129 Repealed.
- 55-130 Repealed.
- 55-131 Repealed.
- 55-132 Repealed.
- 55-132a, 55-132b Repealed.
- 55-133 Repealed.
- 55-134 Repealed.
- 55-135 Repealed.
- 55-136, 55-137 Repealed.
- 55-138 Repealed.
- 55-139 Repealed.
- 55-140 Repealed.
- 55-140a Repealed.
- 55-140b Repealed.
- 55-141 Repealed.
- 55-141a Repealed.
- 55-142 Repealed.
- 55-143 Conservation fee fund; authorized expenditures; accounting procedures; reduction of fees and assessments, when.
- 55-144 through 55-149 Reserved.
- 55-150 Definitions.
- 55-151 Application of intent to drill wells, required information; notification of surface owner; fee and contents; information to department of health and environment and county clerk; approval of application, when; conditions; compliance with rules and regulations.
- 55-152 Rules and regulations; recommendations of advisory committee; annual review of drilling methods.
- 55-153 Advisory committee on regulation of oil and gas activities.
- 55-154 Certification of compliance with statutes and rules and regulations.
- 55-155 Licensure of operators and contractors; requirements; fees; transfers of operator responsibility; notification of surface owner.
- 55-156 Protection of water prior to abandoning of well; penalty for noncompliance.
- 55-157 Cementing in surface casing and additional pipe prior to testing, completion or abandonment of well; penalty for noncompliance.
- 55-158 Submission of bond logs and surveys; penalties.
- 55-159 Notification of commission prior to setting surface casing or plugging; inspections; penalty.
- 55-160 Notification of commission prior to reentering plugged well; inspections.
- 55-161 Investigation of abandoned wells; integrity tests; costs.
- 55-162 Finding reasonable cause to believe that person has violated act or rules and regulations; hearing; procedure; order; immediate remedial action; reconsideration and judicial review; investigations; sealing of well; removal of seal, penalty.
- 55-163 Repealed.
- 55-164 Administrative penalties; procedure; costs and attorney fees; disposition of moneys.
- 55-165 Maintenance of information on wells.
- 55-166 Repealed.
- 55-167 Repealed.
- 55-168 Insufficient moneys in abandoned oil and gas well fund; liabilities imposed on the conservation fee fund.
- 55-169 Kansas surface owner notice act; citation of act.
- 55-169a Same; definitions.
- 55-169b Authorization for rules and regulations.
- 55-170 Reserved.
- 55-171 Permit required for the storage or disposal of salt water, oil or refuse in surface ponds.
- 55-172 Salt water, oil or refuse from wells; prevention of escape.
- 55-173 Notice prior to abandonment and plugging of wells; notification of surface owner.
- 55-174 Penalty for failure to notify of intent to drill.
- 55-175 Appointment of agents by the commission.
- 55-176 Commission's costs assessed against operators and agents; disposition of moneys.
- 55-177 Removal of structures and abutments from lands after abandoning wells; exception.
- 55-178 Abandoned wells; complaint concerning pollution or water loss; commission investigation.
- 55-179 Responsibility for remedial actions related to abandoned wells; hearings; orders; plugging.
- 55-180 Investigation of pollution by the commission; abandoned well plugging; costs; reimbursement authorized.
- 55-181 Administration and enforcement of rules, regulations and orders.
- 55-182 Agents of commission; right of ingress and egress; restoration of premises.
- 55-183 Rules and regulations; publication; fees, taxes and other charges required to be fixed by rules and regulations.
- 55-184 Act supplemental to existing laws.
- 55-185 Repealed.
- 55-186 Spill notification requirements.
- 55-187 through 55-190 Reserved.
- 55-191 Definitions.
- 55-192 Abandoned oil and gas well fund established; well plugging assurance fund abolished.
- 55-193 Repealed.
- 55-194 Annual report.
- 55-195 through 55-1,100 Reserved.
- 55-1,101 Definitions.
- 55-1,102 Filing of rates and other information required; use of information; disclosure.
- 55-1,103 Limitations on manner of offering services and facilities.
- 55-1,104 Commission review of fees, terms, practices; complaint; procedure.
- 55-1,105 Rules and regulations.
- 55-1,106 Exemptions from rate averaging or pricing systems.
- 55-1,107 Issuance of more than one certificate of convenience and necessity; exit fees prohibited.
- 55-1,108 Contractual obligations, when amended.
- 55-1,109 Notice of lack of capacity to serve required.
- 55-1,110 Severability of act.
- 55-1,111 Commission review of exit tap on gathering system, access, service, abandonment; procedure.
- 55-1,112 through 55-1,114 Reserved.
- 55-1,115 Underground storage of hydrocarbons; corporation commission regulation of underground porosity storage of natural gas.
- 55-1,116 Natural gas underground storage; fee fund.
- 55-1,117 Underground storage of hydrocarbons; definitions; department of health and environment regulation of other underground storage.
- 55-1,117a Department of health and environment regulation of underground crude oil storage.
- 55-1,118 Subsurface hydrocarbon storage fund.
- 55-1,119 Penalties for violations of K.S.A. 55-1,117 or rules and regulations adopted thereunder.
- 55-1,120 Salt solution mining wells; abandonment, legal responsibility for.
- 55-1,121 Salt solution mining well plugging fund.
- 55-1,122 Representatives of secretary; right of ingress and egress.
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