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2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 31 Mineral code
- RS 31 Title 31.mineral code
- RS 31:1 Title 31mineral code
- RS 31:2 Relation to civil code
- RS 31:3 Freedom of contract and limitations thereon
- RS 31:4 The landowner's
- RS 31:5 Ownership of solid minerals
- RS 31:6 Right to search for fugitive minerals; elements of ownership of land
- RS 31:7 Reduction of minerals to possession
- RS 31:8 Rights of landowners to explore for and
- RS 31:9 Correlative rights of owners of common reservoir or deposit
- RS 31:10 Liability to others with interests in common reservoir or deposit
- RS 31:11 Correlative rights of landowner and owner of a mineral right and between owners of mineral rights
- RS 31:12 Protection of the landowner's rights
- RS 31:13 Damages for removal of solid minerals
- RS 31:14 Drainage of fugitive minerals; exclusion of liability; exceptions
- RS 31:15 Creation of mineral rights
- RS 31:16 Basic mineral rights; status as real rights
- RS 31:17 Rescission for lesion beyond moiety unavailable
- RS 31:18 The nature of mineral rights and
- RS 31:19 Capacity to create mineral rights
- RS 31:20 Authority to create mineral rights
- RS 31:21 The mineral servitude
- RS 31:22 Certain rights and obligations of mineral servitude owner
- RS 31:23 Right of servitude owner to operate; protection thereof
- RS 31:24 Who may create mineral servitudes
- RS 31:25 Right of conditional landowner to create mineral servitude
- RS 31:26 Usufructuary may not create mineral servitude
- RS 31:27 Modes of extinction of mineral servitudes
- RS 31:28 Commencement of prescription
- RS 31:29 How prescription of nonuse is interrupted
- RS 31:30 Date on which prescription interrupted and commenced anew
- RS 31:31 Operations beyond prescriptive date; effect as interruption
- RS 31:32 Interruption by additional operations
- RS 31:33 Unit operations; effect as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:34 Shut-in well; testing as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:35 Unitization with tested shut-in well as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:36 Production as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:37 Unit production as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:38 Good faith production for beneficial purpose required
- RS 31:39 Attempt to restore or secure new production as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:40 Interruption applicable to all minerals and modes of use
- RS 31:41 Commencement of prescription anew following attempt to restore or secure new production
- RS 31:42 By whom a mineral servitude may be used
- RS 31:43 When a person is acting on behalf of servitude owner
- RS 31:44 Adoption of operations by another
- RS 31:45 Time within which adoption must be made
- RS 31:46 Procedure for adoption
- RS 31:47 Compulsory unit operations; adoption unnecessary
- RS 31:48 Obligation of servitude owner to pay costs
- RS 31:49 Unsuccessful operations; waiver of damages when adopted
- RS 31:50 Adoption a matter of right
- RS 31:51 Adoption when servitude under lease
- RS 31:52 Right to claim production in absence of adoption
- RS 31:53 Adoption possible only as specifically provided
- RS 31:54 Interruption of prescription by acknowledgment; formal requirements
- RS 31:55 Express intent required
- RS 31:56 Contractual extension of servitude; requirements
- RS 31:57 Extended servitude subject to rules of prescription
- RS 31:58 Prescription not affected by minority or other disability
- RS 31:59 Suspension of prescription by obstacle
- RS 31:60 Suspension effective as to all minerals
- RS 31:61 Compulsory unitization order not an obstacle; establishment of mining plan is an obstacle
- RS 31:62 Indivisibility of the mineral servitude
- RS 31:63 Presumption arising from separate description of tracts forming continuous body of land
- RS 31:64 Presumption when servitudes created on noncontiguous tracts
- RS 31:65 Division of servient estate not division of servitude
- RS 31:66 Right of owners of contiguous tracts to create single servitude
- RS 31:67 Right of co-owners to create single servitude in partition of land
- RS 31:68 Effect of limitation of servitude rights to specified horizons or levels
- RS 31:69 Effect of partial conveyances of servitude rights
- RS 31:70 Effect of contracts for use or development of portion of servitude
- RS 31:71 Partial unitization not a division
- RS 31:72 Conventional alteration of the
- RS 31:73 Single servitude may not exist on noncontiguous tracts
- RS 31:74 Right to fix term or shorten prescriptive period; effect of stipulation for prescriptive period greater than ten years
- RS 31:75 Right to contract regarding rules of use
- RS 31:76 Transactions involving outstanding
- RS 31:77 Application of after-acquired title doctrine
- RS 31:78 Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; acquisition of outstanding servitude
- RS 31:79 Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; extinction of outstanding servitude
- RS 31:80 The mineral royalty
- RS 31:81 Executive and operating rights not included
- RS 31:82 Who may create a mineral royalty
- RS 31:83 Creation of mineral royalty by conditional owner
- RS 31:84 Creation of mineral royalty by usufructuary
- RS 31:85 Modes of extinction of the mineral royalty
- RS 31:86 Commencement of prescription
- RS 31:87 Production as interruption of prescription; commencement of prescription anew
- RS 31:88 Saved production sufficient to interrupt prescription
- RS 31:89 Unit production as an interruption of prescription
- RS 31:90 Tested shut-in well as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:91 Unitization with tested shut-in well; effect as interruption of prescription
- RS 31:92 Interruption applicable to all minerals
- RS 31:93 Application of rules concerning acknowledgment and extension of prescription
- RS 31:94 Acknowledgment by servitude owner of previously created mineral royalty
- RS 31:95 Limited effect of acknowledgment of previously created royalty
- RS 31:96 Previously created royalty; dependency on mineral servitude when acknowledged
- RS 31:97 Prescription not affected by minority or other disability
- RS 31:98 Suspension of prescription by obstacle
- RS 31:99 Obstacle to production from servitude suspends prescription as to dependent royalty
- RS 31:100 Suspension effective as to all minerals
- RS 31:101 Indivisibility of the mineral royalty
- RS 31:102 Rule regarding effect of partial conveyance; applicability to mineral royalty
- RS 31:103 Conventional alteration of the
- RS 31:104 Transactions involving outstanding
- RS 31:105 Executive rights
- RS 31:106 Executive right a mineral right
- RS 31:107 Interruption of prescription accruing against executive right
- RS 31:108 Nature of executive and nonexecutive interests
- RS 31:109 Obligation of owner of executive interest
- RS 31:110 Lease in violation of obligation valid; right of nonexecutive to damages
- RS 31:111 Effect of certain transactions involving executive right
- RS 31:112 Right of nonexecutive to operate
- RS 31:113 Executive right as appendage of another mineral right
- RS 31:114 The mineral lease
- RS 31:115 Requirement of term; limitation of continuation without drilling or mining operations or production
- RS 31:116 Who may grant mineral leases
- RS 31:117 Granting of mineral lease by owner under conditional title
- RS 31:118 Right of usufructuaries to lease
- RS 31:119 The obligations of the lessor
- RS 31:120 Lessor's warranty and limitation of liability for breach thereof
- RS 31:121 Right of lessee to lease from adverse claimants
- RS 31:122 The obligations of the lessee
- RS 31:123 Rent and the obligation to make timely payment thereof
- RS 31:124 Production in paying quantities required; definition
- RS 31:125 Amount of royalties relevant to reasonableness of lessee's expectation
- RS 31:126 Transactions involving the lessee's interest
- RS 31:127 Lessee's right to assign or sublease
- RS 31:128 Responsibility of assignee or sublessee to original lessor
- RS 31:129 Assignor or sublessor not relieved of obligations or liabilities unless discharged
- RS 31:130 Lease not divided by partial assignment or sublease
- RS 31:131 Lessor must accept performance by assignee or sublessee
- RS 31:132 Demands by lessor; effect on assignee or sublessee
- RS 31:133 Termination and remedies for violation
- RS 31:134 Right to relief for violation
- RS 31:135 Rules of default applicable except as specified
- RS 31:136 Written notice; requirement and effect on claims for damages or dissolution of lease
- RS 31:137 Nonpayment of royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand
- RS 31:138 Required response of lessee to notice
- RS 31:138.1 Division order; precedence of lease; penalties for failure to pay royalties due
- RS 31:139 Effect of payment in response to notice
- RS 31:140 Effect of nonpayment in response to notice or failure to state cause therefor
- RS 31:141 Dissolution not a favored remedy
- RS 31:142 Dissolution may be partial or entire
- RS 31:143 Summary eviction not applicable
- RS 31:144 Leases involving outstanding mineral rights
- RS 31:145 After-acquired title doctrine; applicability in absence of special clause
- RS 31:146 The lessor's privilege
- RS 31:147 Right to seize property on premises or within fifteen days of removal
- RS 31:148 Manner of enforcement
- RS 31:149 Mineral rights reserved from acquisitions of land by governments or agencies thereof imprescriptible
- RS 31:149.1 Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:149.2 Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:149.3 Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:150 Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:151 Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:152 Repealed by acts 2004, no. 919, §2, eff. august 1, 2004.
- RS 31:153 Possession and acquisitive prescription
- RS 31:154 Possession of land as including
- RS 31:155 Possession without title as including mineral rights
- RS 31:156 Interruption of possession of mineral rights
- RS 31:157 Interruption of possession by acknowledgment
- RS 31:158 Interruption of possession by judicial demand
- RS 31:159 The effect of acquisitive prescription
- RS 31:160 Perfection of title by prescription as including mineral rights
- RS 31:161 Interruption of acquisitive prescription
- RS 31:162 Suspension of acquisitive prescription
- RS 31:163 Acquisitive prescription; unavailability to mineral servitude owner
- RS 31:164 Co-ownership
- RS 31:165 Creation of mineral royalty by co-owner of land
- RS 31:166 Granting of mineral lease by co-owner of land
- RS 31:167 Mineral right owner may not compel partition of land
- RS 31:168 Co-ownership of mineral rights
- RS 31:169 Those who are not co-owners of mineral rights
- RS 31:170 Right of co-owner of mineral servitude to create mineral royalties
- RS 31:171 Right of co-owner of mineral lease to create dependent rights
- RS 31:172 Mineral servitudes and royalties subject to partition
- RS 31:173 Mineral lessee's interest subject to partition; susceptibility of dependent rights to partition
- RS 31:174 Use by one co-owner inures to benefit of all
- RS 31:175 Co-owner of mineral servitude may not operate independently
- RS 31:176 Co-owner of mineral servitude may act to prevent waste or destruction or extinction of servitude
- RS 31:177 Co-owner of mineral lease may not operate independently except to prevent waste, destruction, or termination
- RS 31:178 Partition of land and its effect on
- RS 31:179 Mineral right owner as party to partition of land
- RS 31:180 Appraisal of land to be partitioned required
- RS 31:181 Service of appraisal required
- RS 31:182 Opposition to appraisal permitted
- RS 31:183 Distribution of proceeds of partition sale
- RS 31:184 Effect of failure to appraise mineral right or interest therein
- RS 31:185 Owner of appraised mineral right entitled to participate in proceeds of sale
- RS 31:186 Owner of right derived from all co-owners of land unaffected by licitation
- RS 31:187 Mineral right created by party acquiring land not affected by sale
- RS 31:188 Rights of usufructuaries in minerals
- RS 31:189 Conventional usufruct may include enjoyment of mineral rights
- RS 31:190 Usufructuary of land entitled to enjoyment of mines or quarries worked; exception
- RS 31:191 When oil and gas wells and lignite operations considered open mines
- RS 31:192 When usufructuary of land entitled to grant lease
- RS 31:193 Nature of usufruct of a mineral right
- RS 31:194 Usufructuary not obligated to account to naked owner
- RS 31:195 Right of naked owner of land to enjoyment of minerals
- RS 31:196 Obligations of naked owner arising from enjoyment of rights in minerals
- RS 31:197 Secured rights in mineral rights
- RS 31:198 Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:198.1 Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:199 Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:200 Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:201 Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:202 Repealed by acts 1990, no. 1079, 8, eff. sept. 1, 1990.
- RS 31:203 Mortgage of mineral rights
- RS 31:204 Mortgage may include pledge; effect of pledge
- RS 31:205 General provisions
- RS 31:206 Miscellaneous provisions
- RS 31:207 Effect of failure to furnish act evidencing extinction or expiration of right; mineral lease
- RS 31:208 Effect of good faith dispute as to extinction or expiration of right
- RS 31:209 Applicability to demand for dissolution of mineral lease
- RS 31:210 Protection of purchasers of production;
- RS 31:210.1 Interest on purchase payment of production
- RS 31:210.2 Declaration of interest; when third party purchasers of oil may withhold payment
- RS 31:211 Availability of mandamus for nonpayment of sums due for production
- RS 31:212 Right to attorney's fee incurred in securing writ
- RS 31:212.1 Sales relative to minerals after they are severed are subject to the laws of registry
- RS 31:212.21 Nonpayment of production payment or royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand
- RS 31:212.22 Required response of obligor to notice
- RS 31:212.23 Effects of payment or nonpayment with or without stating reasonable cause therefor; division order
- RS 31:212.31 Payment information to interest owners
- RS 31:212.32 Accumulation of proceeds from production
- RS 31:213 Definitions
- RS 31:214 Application of code
- RS 31:215 Operating agreements
- RS 31:216 Filing
- RS 31:217 Declaration in lieu of agreement
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