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64 OK Stat § 64-1062 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1062. Appraisement of land - Rules and regulations.

|The Commissioners of the Land Office are hereby authorized and empowered to make and promulgate rules and regulations relating to the appraisement of land and any improvements located upon such land as may be owned by the state, leasing and subleasing such lands and improvements, reservation of rights and interests, collection of rentals, conservation and preservation of such lands and the fertility thereof and any other rules and regulations necessary in order that the purposes for which such lands are owned and held by the state may be accomplished. |Added by Laws 1965, c. 401, § 2, emerg. eff. July 5, 1965. Renumbered from § 260 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 114, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1063 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1063. Leases authorized - Duration, terms and conditions - Public competition - Assignment.

|The Commissioners of the Land Office are authorized to lease for oil and gas purposes any of the school or other lands owned by the State of Oklahoma, which such Commissioners may deem valuable for oil and gas. Each such lease shall be a commence-type lease and shall provide for a term not less than one year and not to exceed five (5) years and as long thereafter as oil or gas may be produced therefrom in paying quantities, upon such terms and conditions and in such quantities as the Commissioners shall by rules and regulations prescribe. Each such lease shall provide for the delivery to the state of a royalty of not less than one-eighth (1/8) part of the oil or gas produced from the leased premises or in lieu thereof the payment to the state of the market value of said royalty interest, as the Commissioners may elect. The leases shall be offered by public competition after notice of the lease auction published one time not less than thirty (30) days prior to the lease auction date in two newspapers authorized by law to publish legal notices. One of the newspapers shall be published in the county where the land is located or other newspaper as authorized by Section 106 of Title 25 of the Oklahoma Statutes. The other shall be a newspaper of general circulation in this state. Such leasing shall be let by sealed bids and each lease awarded to the highest responsible bidder, such oil and gas leases may be assigned only with the consent and approval of the Commissioners of the Land Office; provided, the Commissioners have the right to reject any and all bids. The Commissioners of the Land Office shall provide any other notice of oil and gas lease sales to all interested parties by any means it determines is needed to attract the best competition. |Added by Laws 1917, c. 253, p. 462, § 1. Amended by Laws 1968, c. 243, § 1, emerg. eff. April 24, 1968; Laws 1981, c. 54, § 1, eff. Oct. 1, 1981; Laws 2003, c. 205, § 2, eff. July 1, 2003. Renumbered from § 281 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 115, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1064 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1064. School lands - Leasing for oil and gas.

|When any tract of the school or other public lands, granted to the State of Oklahoma under the Act of Congress known as the "Enabling Act", or any or all of state-owned lands set apart and designated for the use, benefit, and occupancy of state educational institutions, is known by the Commissioners of the Land Office of the state to contain oil or gas, or where such lands are, by said Commissioners, deemed valuable for oil and gas purposes, such Commissioners shall enter of record in their office their finding, declaring that such oil or gas character exists, and further declaring that the oil and gas deposits are segregated from the surface use and interest therein, and such segregation of such deposits shall conclusively withhold the same from sale, lease or other alienation, except as provided in this article. |R.L. 1910, § 7195. Amended by Laws 1933, c. 106, p. 209, § 1. Renumbered from § 282 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 116, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1065 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1065. Lease of surface interest to reserve mineral deposits.

|Each agricultural, timber, grazing or other lease to any surface interest in land in which the deposits are segregated, as provided in the preceding section shall reserve to the state, its lessees or grantees the right to drill and operate oil and gas wells on such premises, and the easement, use and right-of-way to enter upon and fully enjoy the mining right reserved in this article. |R.L. 1910, § 7196. Renumbered from § 283 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 117, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1066 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1066. Community oil and gas lease.

|The lease contract of the state, with any lessee for oil and gas purposes, shall stipulate, and the advertisement for bids for leasing such land shall specify a fixed royalty, to be determined by the commissioners of the land office, and in no event less than twelve and one-half percent (12 1/2%) of the total output of such oil and gas, and in addition thereto any bonus offered for such lease, and shall also require a deposit of sufficient earnest money in the hands of the commission as the commission may require to accompany each bid, with appropriate conditions of forfeiture for failure to comply with the terms and conditions of bidding upon such lands. All leases for oil and gas provided in this article shall contain a provision requiring the lessee to drill a sufficient number of wells upon the leased premises to offset the wells upon adjoining contiguous premises, and a further provision that a failure to faithfully operate the leased premises for oil and gas to as full an extent as individual and corporate premises are being operated within the general oil and gas field, where such land is located, shall forfeit such lease to the state. No transfer or assignment of any lease shall be valid or convey any right in the assignee without the consent in writing of the commissioners of the land office. The board of commissioners may make such additional rules that are determined necessary to enforce the provisions of this article. Provided, the commissioners of the land office shall have authority to enter into agreements upon such terms and conditions as they may impose, providing for the communitizing of any oil and gas lease executed by them with other leases to be jointly operated and developed as a unit when they deem such communitization to be to the best interest of the funds and property under their management. This provision shall apply to existing leases as well as to leases to be entered into hereafter. (The word "communitizing" or "communitization", as used herein shall be defined as a combining of diverse interests or interests owned by different parties in lands and minerals on an area for a common development for oil and gas purposes so that such area may be considered as a unit or a whole.) |R.L. 1910, § 7198. Amended by Laws 1941, p. 304, § 1, emerg. eff. May 1, 1941; Laws 1997, c. 118, § 2, eff. July 1, 1997. Renumbered from § 285 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 118, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1067 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1067. Lessee liable to surface holder for damages.

|Any person, firm or corporation leasing under the provisions of this article, and operating for oil and gas, shall be liable to the surface owner, the lessee or purchaser, for all damages or loss accruing to the surface interest in said land and to all crops and improvements thereupon and appurtenances and hereditaments thereunto belonging, whether said land be agricultural, timber, grazing or otherwise. |R.L.1910, § 7200. Renumbered from Title 64, § 287 by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 119, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1068 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1068. Condemnation under certain conditions.

|Should the lessee or owner of the surface interest and the lessee of the oil and gas interest specified in this article, be unable to agree upon the damage and loss sustained by such surface lessee or owner, by such lessee of the oil and gas interests therein, the latter may condemn the same for such purpose under the law of eminent domain to like extent and in the same manner and upon the same procedure and remedies as is provided for the assessment of damages and compensation to the owner of the fee in case of condemnation for railway purposes. |R.L.1910, § 7201. Renumbered from Title 64, § 288 by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 120, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1069 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1069. Bonuses, royalties and delayed rental income - Multiyear Education Distribution Stabilization Revolving Fund.

|A. The proceeds derived in bonuses and royalties and from other inducements and considerations for the execution and operation of the oil and gas leases as authorized in this title, except oil and gas leases on state-owned lands set apart and designated for the use, benefit, and occupancy of state educational institutions, shall be for the use and benefit of the lands which were granted by the United States to the State of Oklahoma, and to the territory now comprising the area embraced within the state, under the provisions of the Enabling Act and any and all other Acts of Congress. Bonus and delay rental income received by the Land Office and other income as designated by the Secretary of the Land Office for transfer and received by the Land Office may be distributed to current beneficiaries in like manner as lease income received from surface leases, except that if determined to be in the best interest of the trust, the distributions may be made upon a schedule determined by a five-year rolling average of bonus and delay rental income. |B. There is hereby created a revolving fund for the Commissioners of the Land Office to be designated the "Multiyear Education Distribution Stabilization Revolving Fund". The fund shall be a continuing fund, not subject to fiscal year limitations, and shall consist of bonus and delay rental income received by the Commission, if it is determined by the Commission to be in the best interest of the trust to make distributions of the income upon a five-year rolling average schedule as authorized in subsection A of this section. Monies in the fund may be invested by the State Treasurer in the manner prescribed in Section 89.1a et seq. of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes. Interest income derived from the investment of monies in the fund shall be credited to and placed in the fund.R.L. 1910, § 7203. Amended by Laws 1933, c. 106, p. 209, § 2; Laws 2010, c. 41, § 45, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010. Renumbered from § 289 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 121, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 114, § 2, eff. July 1, 2012; Laws 2013, c. 250, § 4, emerg. eff. May 13, 2013.
64 OK Stat § 64-1070 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1070. Leasing authorized.

|The Commissioners of the Land Office are hereby authorized to lease for oil and gas purposes all lands between mean high-water mark in all streams or rivers of two (2) chains or over. All the streams are declared the property of the State of Oklahoma. |Added by Laws 1919, c. 206, p. 293, § 1, emerg. eff. March 28, 1919. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 46, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010. Renumbered from § 290 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 122, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1071 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1071. Mode of leasing.

|The lands described in Section 290 of this title are to be leased under the same provisions as the school and other lands of the State of Oklahoma. |Added by Laws 1919, c. 206, p. 293, § 2, emerg. eff. March 28, 1919. Amended by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 47, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010. Renumbered from § 291 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 123, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1072 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1072. Contracts authorized.

|The Commissioners of the Land Office shall be, and they are hereby authorized to execute supplemental contracts to lessees on all lease contracts embracing more than thirty thousand (30,000) acres in one body without submitting same to bids for the renewal of said leases, providing that if oil and gas, or either of them, are being produced on said tracts of land in paying quantities at the expiration of said leases, that then, and in that event, said leases shall be extended for so long a period of time as gas and oil, or either of them, shall be produced on said tracts of land in paying quantities; provided, however, that drilling operations shall be commenced within six (6) months from the date of passage of this resolution, and shall be prosecuted with diligence. |Added by Laws 1919, c. 304, p. 442. Renumbered from § 292 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 124, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1073 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1073. Royalty proceeds from sale of oil and gas production.

|The royalty proceeds derived from the sale of oil or gas production under any oil and gas lease granted by the Commissioners of the Land Office shall be paid to the Commissioners pursuant to the terms of the Production Revenue Standards Act. |Added by Laws 1987, c. 204, § 39, operative July 1, 1987. Amended by Laws 1992, c. 190, § 16, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 2010, c. 41, § 48, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010. Renumbered from § 293 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 125, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1074 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1074. Division of proceeds of sales and leases.

|In accordance with Section 12 of the Enabling Act of this state, the income, interest, rentals and proceeds of the sale of the following lands, now collected and hereafter to be collected, are hereby made available to the institutions to which the grants were made, namely; for the benefit of - |The University of Oklahoma250,000 acres.The University Preparatory School150,000 acres.Oklahoma State University250,000 acres.Langston University100,000 acres.The normal schools now established or hereafter to be established 300,000 acres.R.L. 1910, § 7225. Amended by Laws 1998, c. 246, § 29, eff. Nov. 1, 1998. Renumbered from § 351 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 126, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1075 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1075. New College Fund - Designation.

|The State Auditor and Inspector, Treasurer and Commissioners of the Land Office, and all other officers of the state are hereby directed and required to use the term "New College Fund" upon all their records as the proper name for designating fund created by virtue of the Enabling Act. Hereafter such fund shall be known and referred to as above specified. |R.L. 1910, § 7226. Amended by Laws 1979, c. 30, § 37, emerg. eff. April 6, 1979. Renumbered from § 352 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 127, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1076 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1076. Proceeds made available.

|In accordance with Section 3, Article 15, Chapter V., Session Laws of 1907 and 1908, the income, interest, rentals and proceeds from section numbered thirty-six, township numbered nine north, of range three west, of the Indian Meridian, in Cleveland County, Oklahoma, now collected and hereafter to be collected are hereby made available for the use and benefit of the University of Oklahoma. |Added by Laws 1910-11, c. 85, p. 189, § 1. Renumbered from § 353 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 128, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1078 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1078. Apportionment of income among institutions.

|The State Treasurer shall apportion the income derived from the "Section Thirteen Fund State Educational Institutions" among the educational institutions entitled thereto, in accordance with the division and distribution made in Section 1, of Article 11, Chapter 34, Session Laws of 1907-1908, entitled "An Act to provide for the division and distribution of the income, rentals, interest, and proceeds from certain lands among certain educational institutions, and making appropriations of such fund in pursuance thereof, designating a name by which such fund shall hereafter be known, and declaring an emergency"; and shall likewise apportion the income derived from the "New College Fund" to the educational institutions entitled thereto, in accordance with Section 1, Article 5, Chapter 28, Session Laws of 1909, entitled "An Act to provide for making available to various educational institutions the income, interest, rentals, and proceeds from certain lands, and making appropriations of such funds; designating a name by which such fund shall hereafter be known and declaring an emergency". The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall notify the chairman of the board having control of each of said educational institutions, and the president of each of said institutions, of the amount apportioned to it. The amount so apportioned to each educational institution shall, immediately after each successive apportionment, become available and are hereby appropriated for the use of the respective institutions, and shall be paid out in accordance with the law. |Added by Laws 1913, c. 101, p. 177, § 2. Amended by Laws 1979, c. 47, § 71, emerg. eff. April 9, 1979. Renumbered from § 355 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 130, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010. Amended by Laws 2012, c. 304, § 527.
64 OK Stat § 64-1079 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1079. Receipts to constitute Public Building Fund - Transfer from General Revenue Fund.

|A. All monies heretofore or hereafter received from the sale or rentals of Section 33 and lands granted in lieu thereof, the same being lands granted to the State of Oklahoma for charitable and penal institutions and public buildings, shall constitute and be known as the "Public Building Fund". |B. On or before July 15, 2008, and on or before July 15 each year thereafter, the State Treasurer shall transfer from the General Revenue Fund an amount equal to all monies accruing in the Public Building Fund for the previous fiscal year to the State Land Reimbursement Fund which shall be expended in accordance with the provisions of Section 194 of Title 62 of the Oklahoma Statutes.R.L. 1910, § 7227. Amended by Laws 1910-11, c. 89, p. 194, § 1; Laws 2007, c. 323, § 1, eff. July 1, 2007. Renumbered from § 371 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 131, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1081 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1081. Lease for oil and gas development.

|Any county, township, school district, city or town that now owns or may hereafter acquire any land under control of the board of county commissioners, board of town trustees, directors of school districts, boards of education or the governing body of any city acting by and through its duly constituted officers is hereby authorized and empowered to enter, from time to time, into valid oil and gas mining lease or leases of such land to any person, firm, association, or corporation for oil and gas development for a primary term not to exceed ten (10) years and as long thereafter as oil or gas is or can be produced, and any such oil and gas lease may provide that the lessee therein shall have the right and power to consolidate the land covered by said lease with other adjoining land for the purpose of joint development and operation of the entire consolidated premises as a unit, in which event, the lessor in such lease shall share in the royalty on oil and gas produced from said consolidated tract in the proportion that the area of the land covered by such lease bears to the total area of said consolidated tract, or for the purpose of constructing permanent improvements thereon for a term not to exceed ten (10) years. This law does not apply to agricultural purposes. |Added by Laws 1943, p. 160, § 1, emerg. eff. April 1, 1943. Renumbered from § 405 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 133, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1082 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1082. Notice by publication.

|The leases mentioned in the preceding section shall be executed only after notice by publication for two (2) weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the land is situated and a public sale thereof to the highest and best bidder: Provided, that all leases heretofore executed by the board of county commissioners, board of town trustees, directors of school districts or boards of education covering lands under their control are hereby validated. |Added by Laws 1943, p. 160, § 2, emerg. eff. April 1, 1943. Renumbered from § 406 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 134, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1084 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1084. County separate school lands - Leases.

|Oil and gas mining lease or leases of lands belonging to the county separate schools of any county shall be entered into by the board of county commissioners as to such lands not located within any independent school district, and shall be entered into by the board of education of any independent school district in which any such lands are located. Such leases shall be for the term and conditioned as are leases executed by governing boards under the provisions of Section 1, Chapter 8, Title 64, Session Laws 1943; and said leases must be offered for sale and sold in the manner prescribed by Section 2, Chapter 8, Title 64, Session Laws 1943. |Added by Laws 1949, p. 439, § 2, emerg. eff. June 6, 1949. Renumbered from § 408 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 136, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1086 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1086. Execution of instruments - Approval by Governor.

|Any instrument, easement, contract, or deed which may be required in, or convenient to, the exercise of the powers granted in Section 1 of this act shall be executed by the chairman or presiding officer and attested by the secretary, if such instrument be executed by a board or commission, and if such instrument be executed by an officer, it shall be signed by said officer. No such contract, easement, deed or instrument of conveyance shall be effective unless and until the approval of the Governor is endorsed thereon in writing. |Added by Laws 1941, p. 306, § 2, emerg. eff. Feb. 28, 1941. Renumbered from § 422 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 138, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1088 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1088. Partial invalidity.

|If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this act is held to be invalid, the decision shall not affect the validity or the meaning of the remaining portions of this act. The Legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared invalid. |Added by Laws 1941, p. 307, § 4, emerg. eff. Feb. 28, 1941. Renumbered from § 424 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 140, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
64 OK Stat § 64-1089 (2021)
2021 Oklahoma Statutes|Title 64. Public Lands|§64-1089. Rights and powers cumulative.

|Each and all of the rights, powers and remedies granted and conferred by the terms of this act shall be cumulative and shall be construed to be in addition to those already existing, except that at any private or voluntary sale of state-owned lands by the Commissioners of the Land Office such sale shall be held only upon resolution adopted by a unanimous vote of the Commissioners of the Land Office. |Added by Laws 1941, p. 307, § 5, emerg. eff. Feb. 28, 1941. Renumbered from § 425 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 141, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.