2023 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 61. Public Buildings and Public Works
§61-309. Oil, gas and mineral leases upon state lands - Drilling contracts - Notice - Disposition of royalties, bonuses or rentals.
A. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services is hereby authorized and empowered to offer for sale and sell and execute and deliver oil and gas or mineral leases upon the lands described in Section 1 of Title 73 of the Oklahoma Statutes under the control of said Office of Management and Enterprise Services. The Office of Management and Enterprise Services is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into contracts with persons or corporations for the drilling of oil and gas wells on any such property owned by the state. No such lease or drilling contract shall be entered into by said Office of Management and Enterprise Services which provides for the payment of a royalty to the State of Oklahoma of less than one-eighth (1/8) of all of the oil, gas, or casinghead gas produced, saved, and sold from said lands, plus cash bonus, of the royalty in said leases. Such Office shall give notice of its intention to offer for sale said lease or drilling contract by advertising said fact for a period of at least twenty-one (21) days electronically on an authorized state website and in a legal newspaper published and of general circulation in the county where said lands are located. The Office shall award such lease, leases, or drilling contracts to the highest responsible bidder. All bidding shall be by sealed written or electronic bids filed with said Office of Management and Enterprise Services.
B. All royalties, bonuses, and rentals accruing to the state from any contracts or leases executed pursuant to the provisions of subsection A of this section and all other monies received from the sale of any such leases, bonuses, and royalties or other contracts made by said Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall be credited to the Maintenance of State Buildings Revolving Fund of the State of Oklahoma.
Added by Laws 1935, p. 22, § 1, emerg. eff. May 13, 1935. Amended by Laws 1936, Ex. Sess., p. 22, § 1, emerg. eff. Jan. 6, 1937; Laws 1937, p. 86, § 1, emerg. eff. May 14, 1937; Laws 1983, c. 304, § 121, eff. July 1, 1983; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 799. Renumbered from § 98 of Title 74 by Laws 2013, c. 209, § 21, eff. July 1, 2013. Amended by Laws 2022, c. 238, § 39, eff. Nov. 1, 2022.
