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WA Rev Code § 79.13.500 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.13 - Land Leases.|79.13.500 - Amateur radio repeater stations—Legislative intent.

RCW 79.13.500 Amateur radio repeater stations—Legislative intent.The department leases state lands and space on towers located on state lands to amateur radio operators for their repeater stations. These sites are necessary to maintain emergency communications for public safety and for use in disaster relief and search and rescue support.The licensed amateur radio operators of the state provide thousands of hours of public communications service to the state every year. Their communication network spans the entire state, based in individual residences and linked across the state through a series of mountain-top repeater stations. The amateur radio operators install and maintain their radios and the electronic repeater stations at their own expense. The amateur radio operators who use their equipment to perform public services should not bear the sole responsibility for supporting the electronic repeater stations.In recognition of the essential role performed by the amateur radio operators in emergency communications, the legislature intends to reduce the rental fee paid by the amateur radio operators while assuring the department full market rental for the use of state-owned property.[ 2003 c 334 § 461; 1988 c 209 § 1. Formerly RCW 79.12.015.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.13.510 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.13 - Land Leases.|79.13.510 - Amateur radio electronic repeater sites and units—Reduced rental rates—Frequencies.

RCW 79.13.510 Amateur radio electronic repeater sites and units—Reduced rental rates—Frequencies.The department shall determine the lease rate for amateur radio electronic repeater sites and units available for public service communication. For the amateur operator to qualify for a rent of one hundred dollars per year per site, the amateur operator shall do one of the following: (1) Register and remain in good standing with the state's radio amateur civil emergency services and amateur radio emergency services organizations, or (2) if an amateur group, sign a statement of public service developed by the department.The legislature's biennial appropriations shall account for the estimated difference between the one hundred dollar per year, per site, per lessee paid by the qualified amateur operators and the fair market amateur rent, as established by the department.The amateur radio regulatory authority approved by the federal communication commission shall assign the radio frequencies used by amateur radio lessees. The department shall develop guidelines to determine which lessees are to receive reduced rental fees as moneys are available by legislative appropriation to pay a portion of the rent for electronic repeaters operated by amateur radio operators.[ 2003 c 334 § 462; 1995 c 105 § 1; 1988 c 209 § 2. Formerly RCW 79.12.025.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.13.520 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.13 - Land Leases.|79.13.520 - Nonprofit television reception improvements districts—Rental of public lands—Intent.

RCW 79.13.520 Nonprofit television reception improvements districts—Rental of public lands—Intent.The department shall determine the fair market rental rate for leases to nonprofit television reception improvement districts. It is the intent of the legislature to appropriate general funds to pay a portion of the rent charged to nonprofit television reception improvement districts. It is the further intent of the legislature that such a lessee pay an annual lease rent of fifty percent of the fair market rental rate, as long as there is a general fund appropriation to compensate the trusts for the remainder of the fair market rental rate.[ 2003 c 334 § 464; 1994 c 294 § 1. Formerly RCW 79.12.055.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.Effective date—1994 c 294: "This act shall take effect July 1, 1994." [ 1994 c 294 § 3.]
WA Rev Code § 79.13.530 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.13 - Land Leases.|79.13.530 - Geothermal resources—Guidelines for development.

RCW 79.13.530 Geothermal resources—Guidelines for development.In an effort to increase potential revenue to the geothermal account, the department shall, by December 1, 1991, adopt rules providing guidelines and procedures for leasing state-owned land for the development of geothermal resources.[ 2003 c 334 § 465; 1991 c 76 § 3. Formerly RCW 79.12.095.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.010 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.010 - Definitions.

RCW 79.14.010 Definitions.As used in this chapter, "public lands" means lands and areas belonging to or held in trust by the state, including tide and submerged lands of the Pacific Ocean or any arm thereof and lands of every kind and nature including mineral rights reserved to the state.[ 2003 c 334 § 471; 1967 c 163 § 6; 1955 c 131 § 1. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 1. Formerly RCW 78.28.280.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.1967 c 163 adopted to implement Amendment 42—Severability—1967 c 163: See notes following RCW 64.16.005.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.020 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.020 - Leases authorized—Terms—Duration.

RCW 79.14.020 Leases authorized—Terms—Duration.The department is authorized to lease public lands for the purpose of prospecting for, developing, and producing oil, gas, or other hydrocarbon substances. Each such lease is to be composed of not more than six hundred forty acres or an entire government surveyed section, except a lease on river bed, lake bed, tide and submerged lands which is to be composed of not more than one thousand nine hundred twenty acres. All leases shall contain such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the rules adopted by the commissioner in accordance with the provisions of this chapter. Leases may be for an initial term of from five up to ten years and shall be extended for so long thereafter as lessee shall comply with one of the following conditions: (1) Prosecute development on the leased land with the due diligence of a prudent operator upon encountering oil, gas, or other hydrocarbon substances; (2) produce any of said substances from the leased lands; (3) engage in drilling, deepening, repairing, or redrilling any well thereon; or (4) participate in a unit plan to which the commissioner has consented under RCW 78.52.450.[ 2003 c 334 § 472; 1986 c 34 § 1; 1985 c 459 § 2; 1955 c 131 § 2. Prior: 1937 c 161 §§ 2, 3; 1927 c 255 §§ 175, 176. Formerly RCW 78.28.290.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.Severability—1985 c 459: See note following RCW 79.14.510.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.030 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.030 - Rental fees—Minimum royalties.

RCW 79.14.030 Rental fees—Minimum royalties.The department shall require as a prerequisite to the issuing of any lease a rental as set by the board but not less than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre or such prorated share of the rental per acre as the state's mineral rights ownership for the first year of such lease, payable in advance to the department at the time the lease is awarded and a like rental annually in advance thereafter so long as such lease remains in force. However, the rental shall cease at such time as royalty accrues to the state from production from such lease. Commencing with the lease year beginning on or after oil, gas, or other hydrocarbon substances are first produced in quantities deemed paying quantities by lessee on the land subject to such lease, lessee shall pay a minimum royalty as set by the board but not less than five dollars per acre or fraction thereof or such prorated share of the rental per acre as the state's mineral rights ownership at the expiration of each year. Royalties payable by the lessee shall be the royalties from production as provided for in RCW 79.14.070 or the minimum royalty provided herein, whichever is greater. However, if such a lease is unitized, the minimum royalty shall be payable only on the leased acreage after production is obtained in such paying quantities from such lease.[ 2003 c 334 § 473; 1985 c 459 § 3; 1980 c 151 § 1; 1955 c 131 § 3. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 4; 1927 c 255 § 176. Formerly RCW 78.28.300.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.Severability—1985 c 459: See note following RCW 79.14.510.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.040 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.040 - Compensation to owners of private rights and to state for surface damage.

RCW 79.14.040 Compensation to owners of private rights and to state for surface damage.No lessee shall commence any operation upon lands covered by the lease until such lessee has provided for compensation to owners of private rights therein according to law, or in lieu thereof, filed a surety bond with the department in an amount sufficient in the opinion of the commissioner to cover such compensation until the amount of compensation is determined by agreement, arbitration, or judicial decision and has provided for compensation to the state of Washington for damage to the surface rights of the state in accordance with the rules adopted by the department.[ 2003 c 334 § 474; 1955 c 131 § 4. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 6; 1927 c 255 § 175. Formerly RCW 78.28.310.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.050 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.050 - Drilling operations beyond lease term—Lease provisions.

RCW 79.14.050 Drilling operations beyond lease term—Lease provisions.All leases shall provide that if oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances are not encountered on or before the end of the initial term, the lease shall not terminate if the lessee is then prosecuting drilling operations on the leased lands with due diligence, in which event the same shall remain in force so long as lessee shall keep one string of tools in operation on the leased lands, allowing not to exceed ninety days between the completion of one well and the commencement of the next until such substances are encountered in quantities deemed paying quantities by lessee. All leases shall further provide that if oil, gas or other hydrocarbon substances in paying quantities shall have been discovered on the leased lands prior to the expiration of the initial term, then in the event at any time after the expiration of the initial term production on the leased land shall cease from any cause, the lease shall not terminate provided lessee resumes operations for the drilling of a well or the restoration of production within ninety days from such cessation. The lease shall remain in force during the prosecution of such operations, and if production results therefrom, then so long as production continues.[ 1985 c 459 § 4; 1955 c 131 § 5. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 7; 1927 c 255 § 180. Formerly RCW 78.28.320.]NOTES:Severability—1985 c 459: See note following RCW 79.14.510.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.060 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.060 - Surrender of lease—Liability.

RCW 79.14.060 Surrender of lease—Liability.Every lessee shall have the option of surrendering his or her lease as to all or any portion or portions of the land covered thereby at any time and shall be relieved of all liability thereunder with respect to the land so surrendered except for monetary payments theretofore accrued and except for physical damage to the premises embraced by his or her lease which have been occasioned by his or her operations.[ 2013 c 23 § 258; 1955 c 131 § 6. Prior: 1937 c 161 §§ 8, 10. Formerly RCW 78.28.330.]
WA Rev Code § 79.14.070 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.070 - Royalties.

RCW 79.14.070 Royalties.All oil and gas leases issued pursuant to this chapter shall be upon a royalty of not less than twelve and one-half percent of the gross production of all oil, gas or other hydrocarbons produced and saved from the lands covered by such lease.[ 1955 c 131 § 7. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 9; 1927 c 255 § 176. Formerly RCW 78.28.340.]
WA Rev Code § 79.14.080 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.080 - Leases of land within a geologic structure.

RCW 79.14.080 Leases of land within a geologic structure.Oil and gas leases shall not be issued on unleased lands which have been classified by the department as being within a known geologic structure of a producing oil or gas field, except as follows: Upon application of any person, the department shall lease in areas not exceeding six hundred forty acres, at public auction, any or all unleased lands within such geologic structure to the person offering the greatest cash bonus therefor at such auction. Notice of the offer of such lands for lease will be given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in Olympia, Washington, and in such other publications as the department may authorize. The first publication shall be at least thirty days prior to the date of sale.[ 2003 c 334 § 475; 1955 c 131 § 8. Prior: 1937 c 161 §§ 5, 11. Formerly RCW 78.28.350.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.090 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.090 - Cancellation or forfeiture of leases—New leases.

RCW 79.14.090 Cancellation or forfeiture of leases—New leases.The department is authorized to cancel any lease issued as provided in this section for nonpayment of rentals or royalties or nonperformance by the lessee of any provision or requirement of the lease. However, before any such cancellation is made, the department shall mail to the lessee by registered mail, addressed to the post office address of such lessee shown by the records of the department, a notice of intention to cancel such lease specifying the default for which the lease is subject to cancellation. If lessee shall, within thirty days after the mailing of said notice to the lessee, commence and thereafter diligently and in good faith prosecute the remedying of the default specified in such notice, then no cancellation of the lease shall be entered by the department. Otherwise, the cancellation shall be made and all rights of the lessee under the lease shall automatically terminate, except that lessee shall retain the right to continue its possession and operation of any well or wells in regard to which lessee is not in default. Further, failure to pay rental and royalty required under leases within the time prescribed therein shall automatically and without notice work a forfeiture of such leases and of all rights thereunder. Upon the expiration, forfeiture, or surrender of any lease, no new lease covering the lands or any of them embraced by such expired, forfeited, or surrendered lease, shall be issued for a period of ten days following the date of such expiration, forfeiture, or surrender. If more than one application for a lease covering such lands or any of them shall be made during such ten-day period the department shall issue a lease to such lands or any of them to the person offering the greatest cash bonus for such lease at a public auction to be held at the time and place and in the manner as the department shall adopt by rule.[ 2003 c 334 § 476; 1955 c 131 § 9. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 12; 1927 c 255 § 179. Formerly RCW 78.28.360.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.100 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.100 - Cooperative or unit plans—Communization or drilling agreements.

RCW 79.14.100 Cooperative or unit plans—Communization or drilling agreements.For the purpose of more properly conserving the natural resources of any oil or gas pool, field, or like area, lessees thereon and their representatives may unite with each other, or jointly or separately with others, in collectively adopting and operating under a cooperative or unit plan of development or operation of such pool, field, or like area, or any part thereof, whenever determined and certified by the department to be necessary or advisable in the public interest. The department is authorized, in its discretion, with the consent of the holders of leases involved, in order to conform with the terms and conditions of any such cooperative or unit plan to establish, alter, change, or revoke exploration, drilling, producing, rental, and royalty requirements of such leases with like consent on the part of the lessees, in connection with the institution and operation of any such cooperative or unit plan as the department may deem necessary or proper to secure the proper protection of the public interest.When separate tracts cannot be independently developed and operated in conformity with an established well spacing or development program, any lease or any portion thereof may be pooled with other lands, whether or not owned by the state of Washington under a communization or drilling agreement providing for an apportionment of production or royalties among the separate tracts of land comprising the drilling or spacing unit when determined by the department to be in the public interest, and operations or production pursuant to such an agreement shall be deemed to be operations or production as to each such lease committed thereto.The term of any lease that has become the subject of any cooperative or unit plan of development or operation of a pool, field, or like area, which plan has the approval of the department, shall continue in force until the termination of such plan, and in the event such plan is terminated prior to the expiration of any such lease, the original term of such lease shall continue. Any lease under this chapter hereinafter committed to any such plan embracing lands that are in part within and in part outside of the area covered by any such plan, shall be segregated in separate leases as to the lands committed and the land not committed as of the effective date of unitization.[ 2003 c 334 § 477; 1955 c 131 § 10. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 14. Formerly RCW 78.28.370.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.110 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.110 - Customary provisions in leases.

RCW 79.14.110 Customary provisions in leases.The department is authorized to insert in any lease issued under the provisions of this chapter such terms as are customary and proper for the protection of the rights of the state and of the lessee and of the owners of the surface of the leased lands not in conflict with the provisions of this chapter.[ 2003 c 334 § 478; 1955 c 131 § 11. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 15; 1927 c 255 § 178. Formerly RCW 78.28.380.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.120 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.120 - Rules.

RCW 79.14.120 Rules.The department is required to adopt and publish, for the information of the public, all reasonable rules necessary for carrying out the provisions of this chapter. The department may amend or rescind any rule adopted under the authority contained in this section. However, no rule or amendment of the same or any order rescinding any rule shall become effective until after thirty days from the adoption of the same by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published at the state capitol and shall take effect and be in force at times specified therein. All rules of the department and all amendments or revocations of existing rules shall be recorded in an appropriate book or books, shall be adequately indexed, and shall be kept in the office of the department and shall constitute a public record. Such rules of the department shall be printed in pamphlet form and furnished to the public free of cost.[ 2003 c 334 § 479; 1955 c 131 § 12. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 16; 1927 c 255 § 178. Formerly RCW 78.28.390.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.130 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.130 - Wells to be located minimum distance from boundaries—Exception.

RCW 79.14.130 Wells to be located minimum distance from boundaries—Exception.Each lease issued under this chapter shall provide that without the approval of the department, no well shall be drilled on the lands demised thereby in such manner or at such location that the producing interval thereof shall be less than three hundred thirty feet from any of the outer boundaries of the demised lands, except that if the right to oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons underlying adjoining lands be vested in private ownership, such approval shall not be required.[ 2003 c 334 § 480; 1955 c 131 § 13. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 17. Formerly RCW 78.28.400.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.140 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.140 - Rights-of-way over public lands—Payment for timber.

RCW 79.14.140 Rights-of-way over public lands—Payment for timber.Any person granted a lease under the provisions of this chapter shall have a right-of-way over public lands, as provided by law, when necessary, for the drilling, recovering, saving, and marketing of oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons. Before any such right-of-way grant shall become effective, a written application for, and a plat showing the location of such a right-of-way and the land necessary for the well site and drilling operations, with reference to adjoining lands, shall be filed with the department. All timber on the right-of-way and the land necessary for the drilling operation, shall be appraised by the commissioner and paid for in money by the person to whom the lease is granted.[ 2003 c 334 § 481; 1955 c 131 § 14. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 18. Formerly RCW 78.28.410.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.
WA Rev Code § 79.14.150 (2021)
2021 Revised Code of Washington|Title 79 - Public Lands|Chapter 79.14 - Mineral, Coal, Oil, and Gas Leases.|79.14.150 - Sales of timber—Rules.

RCW 79.14.150 Sales of timber—Rules.All sales of timber, as prescribed in this chapter, shall be made subject to the right, power, and authority of the department to adopt rules governing the manner of the removal of the merchantable timber upon any lands embraced within any lease with the view of protecting the same and other timber against destruction or injury by fire or from other causes. The rules shall be binding upon the lessee, his or her successors in interest, and shall be enforced by the department.[ 2003 c 334 § 482; 1955 c 131 § 15. Prior: 1937 c 161 § 19. Formerly RCW 78.28.420.]NOTES:Intent—2003 c 334: See note following RCW 79.02.010.