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2006 Kentucky Revised Statutes - CHAPTER 353 MINERAL CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- .010 Definitions for chapter.
- .020 Oil and gas lease or contract, when lessor may avoid.
- .030 Nonproductive well, when lease or contract satisfied by.
- .040 When offset wells to be drilled.
- .050 Plat, showing well, to be filed if well is to extend through coal-bearing strata -- Copies to certain persons.
- .060 Objections to location of well -- Hearing.
- .070 Index of plats -- Agreement permitting well operator to select location.
- .080 Drilling through coal bed.
- .090 Gas found beneath or between coal beds.
- .100 Casings to remain in place during life of productive well.
- .110 Abandonment of well drilled through coal strata -- Plugging of well.
- .120 Method of plugging well drilled through coal-bearing strata.
- .130 Alternative methods that may be used when strata shot.
- .140 Gas escape pipe, when to be used.
- .150 Unused oil, gas or salt water well to be closed to prevent waste.
- .160 Gas waste to be prevented -- Presumption of negligence.
- .170 Putting pressure on strata -- Wells may remain open if conforming to Federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
- .180 Requirements for plugging abandoned well -- Bids -- Remedy for possessor of adjacent land or for department.
- .190 Salt and saltpetre works to be inclosed -- Liability.
- .200 Department of Mines and Minerals to enforce oil and gas law -- Hearings.
- .205 Department to release production data on crude oil and natural gas.
- .210 Agreement consolidating oil and gas leases may be executed by trustee representing contingent future interests.
- .220 Nature of agreement.
- .230 Petition for court approval -- Affidavits -- Guardian ad litem -- Order of approval.
- .240 Agreement consolidating oil and gas leases may be executed by guardian.
- .250 Nature of agreement.
- .260 Petition for court approval -- Affidavits -- Guardian ad litem -- Order of approval.
- .270 Repealed, 1986.
- .280 Repealed, 1986
- .290 Repealed, 1986
- .300 Appointment of trustee to execute mineral lease where contingent future interests are involved.
- .310 Jurisdiction of court.
- .320 Who may institute proceedings.
- .330 Parties -- Representation of minors, mentally disabled, and persons not in being.
- .340 Alignment of parties -- Process.
- .350 Bond of trustee -- Terms of sale of lease.
- .360 Execution of sale of lease -- Report -- Confirmation.
- .370 Separate lease by guardian or conservator unnecessary.
- .380 Disposition of proceeds.
Severed Mineral Interests of Unknown or Missing Owners
- .460 Definitions.
- .462 Jurisdiction in Circuit Court.
- .464 When court may declare trust and appoint trustee -- Persons authorized to institute proceedings.
- .466 Persons to be joined as defendants -- Verified petition showing effort to locate owners -- Advertisement and lis pendens notice, contents -- Trustee ad litem.
- .468 If advantageous to unknown or missing owner, court may declare trust -- Bond of trustee -- Sale of lease -- Trustee's report -- When court not to authorize trustee's lease -- Trustee to use percentage of funds to search for owner -- Period during which unknown or missing owner may establish identity and title.
- .470 When trustee may convey title in mineral interest to surface owner -- Payment to surface owner -- Final report of trustee -- Termination of trust.
- .472 Payment to surface owner when leased mineral never produced commercially.
- .474 Payment of attorneys' fees, expenses, and court costs.
- .476 When action by unknown or missing owner is barred.
Oil and Gas Conservation
- .500 Declaration of policy of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
- .510 Definitions for KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
- .520 Territorial application of KRS 353.500 to 353.720 -- Waste of oil and gas prohibited.
- .530 Director of Division of Oil and Gas Conservation -- Qualifications -- Duties -- Oath.
- .540 Authority of department -- Jurisdiction.
- .550 Specific authority over oil and gas operators.
- .560 Further authority.
- .565 Kentucky Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
- .570 Permit required -- May authorize operation prior to issuance of permit.
- .575 Duty of applicant to meet and confer with permittee if drilling will disturb permitted area.
- .580 Expiration of permit -- Extensions.
- .590 Application for permit -- Fees -- Plat -- Bond to insure plugging -- Schedule -- Blanket bonds -- Corporate guarantee -- Use of forfeited funds -- Oil and gas well plugging fund -- Wells not included in "water supply well."
- .5901 Operations and reclamation proposal for land with complete severance -- Contents, distribution, and agreement or mediation -- Mediation report.
- .591 Purpose and application of KRS 353.592 and 353.593.
- .592 Powers of the department.
- .593 Appeals.
- .595 Notice to surface owner of intent to drill oil or gas well -- Compensation for damage to surface -- Restoration of surface.
- .597 Replacement of disrupted water supply by well operator.
- .600 Repealed, 1992.
- .610 Conditions under which permits may be issued -- Exceptions.
- .620 Variance from requirements of KRS 353.610.
- .630 Pooling of oil and gas interests -- Conditions.
- .640 Pooling order -- Notice -- Provisions -- Surrender or sharing of interest -- Limited participation.
- .645 Operation and development as a unit of oil and gas interests in a pool or pools -- Application for unit -- Hearing -- Unitization order.
- .650 Exclusion of royalty interest in computing share of production -- Limitation.
- .651 Deep wells -- Establishment and regulation of drilling units -- Pooling of interests -- Exceptions.
- .652 Unit operation of pool -- Procedure.
- .653 Share of production from drilling unit or unitized pool.
- .654 Drilling without consent of landowner prohibited.
- .655 Use of shackle rods or related cables.
- .656 Display of danger signs on oil storage facilities.
- .660 Report required after termination of operations -- Contents -- Confidentiality of information -- Exceptions.
- .670 Promulgation of regulations -- Hearing -- Written record of hearing.
- .680 Repealed, 1996.
- .690 Production of evidence -- Failure to comply.
- .700 Review of order of department by civil action -- Appeal.
- .710 Suit to enjoin violation -- By department, person adversely affected, Attorney General.
- .720 Construction of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
- .730 Investigation of abandoned wells -- Application -- Report -- Bond.
Kentucky Gas Pipeline Authority
- .750 Definitions for KRS 353.750 to 353.776.
- .752 Kentucky Gas Pipeline Authority established -- Membership.
- .754 Procedure and organization -- Regulations.
- .756 Purpose of authority -- Powers of the authority.
- .758 Issuance of revenue bonds -- Proceeds of bonds -- Notes or temporary bonds.
- .760 Bonds of authority not debts of Commonwealth.
- .762 Discretionary securing of bonds by trust indentures.
- .764 Enforcement of rights by bond holder or trustee of trust indenture.
- .766 Status of authority bonds as securities.
- .768 Issuance of revenue refunding bonds.
- .770 Treatment of moneys received.
- .772 Exemptions from taxation.
- .774 KRS 45A.045 not applicable to authority projects.
- .776 Reporting of activities.
Penalties
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