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MS Code § 53-1-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-43. Suits to restrain violations or threatened violations; lien remedy

 Whenever it shall appear that any person is violating or threatening to violate any statute of this state with respect to the conservation of oil and gas, or any provision of Sections 53-1-1 through 53-1-47, inclusive, and Sections 53-3-1 through 53-3-21, inclusive, or any rule, regulation or order made by the board thereunder, and fails or refuses to cease such violation or threats of violation on notice so to do, by the board or supervisor, the board may bring suit against such person in the chancery court in the county of the residence of the defendant, or in the county of the residence of any defendant, if there be more than one (1) defendant, or in the county where the violation is alleged to have occurred or is threatened, to restrain such person from continuing such violation or from carrying out the threat of violation. In such suit the board may obtain injunctions, prohibitory and mandatory, including temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions, as the facts may warrant, including, when appropriate, an injunction restraining any person from moving or disposing of any illegal oil, illegal gas, illegal condensate, or illegal product.   In the event the board should fail to bring suit within ten (10) days to enjoin any actual or threatened violation of any statute of this state with respect to the conservation of oil and gas, or of any provision of Sections 53-1-1 through 53-1-47, inclusive, and Sections 53-3-1 through 53-3-21, inclusive, or of any rule, regulation or order made thereunder, then any person or party in interest adversely affected by such violation, and who has notified the board in writing of such violation, or threat thereof, and has requested the board to sue, may, to prevent any or further violation, bring suit for that purpose in the chancery court of any county in which the board could have brought suit, and the board shall be made a party to such suit.   The board may utilize the provisions of Section 85-7-132, Mississippi Code of 1972, in prosecuting violations of Sections 53-1-1 through 53-1-47 and Sections 53-3-1 through 53-3-21, or any rule, regulation or order made by the board thereunder.
MS Code § 53-1-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|In General|§ 53-1-45. Appeals to Supreme Court

 An appeal may be taken, in accordance with the General Laws of the State of Mississippi relating to appeals, from any judgment of the circuit court or decree of any chancery court in any appeal proceeding brought under authority of this section; and such appeal, when docketed in the Supreme Court, shall be placed on the preference docket of such court, and may be advanced as such court may direct.
MS Code § 53-1-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|Administration Expense Tax|§ 53-1-71. Definitions for Sections 53-1-73 through 53-1-77

 As used in Sections 53-1-73 through 53-1-77:   The term "barrel of oil" shall be forty-two (42) United States standard gallons corrected to sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit and all measurements for volume shall be in one hundred percent (100%) strappings.   "Cubic foot of gas" shall be that volume of gas which occupies one (1) cubic foot of space at a pressure of ten (10) ounces above an assumed atmospheric pressure of fourteen and four-tenths (14.4) pounds per square inch corrected to sixty (60) degrees Fahrenheit flowing temperature.   The term "person" shall mean any individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any state, municipality, political subdivision of any state, or any agency, department or instrumentality of the United States, or any other entity, or any officer, agent or employee of any of the above.   In addition to the customary meaning of oil, the term "oil" shall include any type of salvaged crude oil which, after any treatment, becomes marketable.
MS Code § 53-1-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|Administration Expense Tax|§ 53-1-73. Charge imposed to pay for administration expenses

 For the purposes of paying the costs and expenses incurred in connection with the administration and enforcement of the oil and gas conservation laws of the State of Mississippi and of the rules, regulations and orders of the State Oil and Gas Board, there is levied and assessed against each barrel of oil produced in the State of Mississippi a charge not to exceed sixty (60) mills on each barrel of such oil sold, and against each one thousand (1,000) cubic feet of gas produced and sold a charge not to exceed six (6) mills on each one thousand (1,000) cubic feet of gas. The State Oil and Gas Board shall fix the amount of such charge in the first instances, and may, from time to time, change, reduce or increase the amount thereof, as in its judgment the charges against the fund may require, but the amounts fixed by the board shall not exceed the limits hereinabove prescribed; and it shall be the duty of the board to make collection of such assessments. All monies collected shall be used exclusively to pay the expenses and other costs in connection with the functioning of the State Oil and Gas Board and the administration of the oil and gas conservation laws of the State of Mississippi now in force or hereafter enacted and the rules, regulations and orders of the board.
MS Code § 53-1-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|Administration Expense Tax|§ 53-1-75. Persons liable

 The persons owning an interest (working interest, royalty interest, payments out of production or any other interest) in the oil or gas subject to the charge provided in Section 53-1-73 shall be liable for the charge in proportion to their ownership at the time of production. The charge assessed and fixed in Section 53-1-73 shall be payable monthly on a well by well basis, and the persons required to remit the charge shall remit the sum due to the board on or before the twenty-fifth day of the month next following the month in which the production is sold out of which the assessment arises; the remittance shall comply with any rules and regulations which may be adopted by the board in regard thereto.   Remittances with respect to all production against which any assessment hereunder is levied shall be made by the following persons:   With respect to assessments against oil or gas purchased in this state at the well under any contract or agreement requiring payment for such production to the respective persons owning any interest therein (including working interests, royalty interests, payments out of production or any other interests in such production), by the person purchasing such production.   With respect to any oil, or gas purchased in this state at the well without any contract or agreement requiring payment for such production to respective persons owning an interest therein, and with respect to any oil or gas produced from any well but not sold at that well, by the operator of the well from which the production is obtained.   The persons remitting the charge required in this section are hereby authorized, empowered and required to deduct from any amounts due the persons owning an interest in the oil or gas at the time of production the proportionate amount of the charge before making payment to such owners.
MS Code § 53-1-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board|Contributions to Interstate Oil Compact Commission|§ 53-1-101. Authority to contribute to interstate oil compact commission

 The State Oil and Gas Board may pay annually out of the funds of the board the annual membership dues payable to the Interstate Oil Compact Commission for the membership of the State of Mississippi in that organization. The State Oil and Gas Board may pay the reasonable and necessary travel expenses incurred by the members and staff of the State Oil and Gas Board and by the designee appointed by the Governor to the Interstate Oil Compact Commission for travel to meetings of the commission to the extent those expenses are payable by law.
MS Code § 53-3-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-1. Definitions for certain sections

 Unless the context otherwise requires, words and terms appearing in Sections 53-3-3 through 53-3-21, inclusive, shall have the meaning attributed to them in Section 53-1-3.
MS Code § 53-3-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-3. Waste unlawful

 Waste of oil or gas as defined in Section 53-1-3 is hereby made unlawful.
MS Code § 53-3-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-9. Allowable production; meters

 Whenever the state oil and gas board has fixed for the purpose of preventing waste, as defined in Section 53-1-3, the total amount of oil or gas which may be produced in any pool in this state at an amount less than that amount which the pool can produce, the board shall allocate or apportion the allowable production among the producers in the pool on a reasonable basis so as to prevent reasonably avoidable drainage from each developed unit which is not equalized by counter-drainage, and so that each producer will have the opportunity to produce or receive his just and equitable share, as above set forth.   After the effective date of any rule, regulation, or order of the state oil and gas board fixing the allowable production of oil or gas, or both, for any pool, no person shall produce from any well, lease, or property more than the allowable production which is applicable; nor shall such amount be produced in a different manner than that which may be authorized.   The state oil and gas board shall require interested persons, firms or corporations to place uniform meters of a type approved by the board wherever the board may designate on all pipe lines, flow lines, gathering systems, barge terminals, loading racks, refineries, or other places deemed necessary or proper to prevent waste and the transportation of illegally produced oil or gas; such meters at all times shall be under the supervision and control of the board, and it shall be a violation of Sections 53-1-1 through 53-1-47, inclusive, and Sections 53-3-1 through 53-3-21, inclusive, for any person, firm or corporation to refuse to attach or install such meter when ordered to do so by the board.
MS Code § 53-3-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-13. Permit fee; disposition of fees

  Any person securing a permit to drill a well in search of oil or gas under the provisions of Section 53-3-11 shall pay to the Oil and Gas Supervisor a fee of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) upon and for the issuance of the permit. A lesser sum may be paid if the State Oil and Gas Board shall adopt a rule fixing the amount to be paid at a sum less than Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00). Any such permit, when issued and the fee paid thereon, shall be good for a period of one (1) year from the date thereof; and in the event drilling has commenced within one (1) year, the permit shall be good for the life of the well commenced, unless during the course of drilling or production the operator is changed. In the event a change of operators from that listed in the drilling permit is desired, the operator listed and the proposed new operator shall apply to the State Oil and Gas Board for authority to change operators on forms to be prescribed by order of the State Oil and Gas Board. The fee for such change of operators shall be One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) per change, or some lesser sum as may be fixed by order of the board.   The State Oil and Gas Supervisor, as ex officio Secretary of the State Oil and Gas Board, shall remit to the State Treasurer all monies collected by reason of the assessments made, fixed and authorized under the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, and the State Treasurer shall deposit all such monies in a special fund known as the "Oil and Gas Conservation Fund."
MS Code § 53-3-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-15. Certificate of compliance required before connection with pipe lines; cancellation

 Owners or operators of oil or gas wells shall, before connecting with any oil or gas pipe line, secure from the state oil and gas board a certificate showing compliance with the conservation laws of the state and conservation rules, regulations and orders of the board. No operator of a pipe line shall connect with any well until the owner or operator of such well shall furnish a certificate from the board that such conservation laws and such rules, regulations and orders have been complied with. This section shall not prevent a temporary connection of not more than seven days' duration with any well in order to take care of production and prevent waste until opportunity shall have been given the owner or operator of such well to secure such certificate.   The state oil and gas board shall have the power to cancel any certificate of compliance issued under the provisions of this section when it appears, after due notice and hearing, that the owner or operator of a well covered by the provisions of same has violated or is violating, in connection with the operation of said well or the production of oil or gas therefrom, any of the oil or gas conservation laws of this state or any of the rules, regulations or orders of the board promulgated thereunder. Upon notice from the board to the operator of any pipe line connected to any such oil or gas well that the certificate of compliance with reference to such well has been cancelled by the board, the operator of such pipe line shall disconnect from such well and it shall be unlawful for the operator of such pipe line to transport oil or gas therefrom until a new certificate of compliance has been issued by the board. It shall be unlawful for the owner or operator of any well to produce oil or gas therefrom (except as to a temporary connection as hereinabove provided), unless there is in effect a certificate of compliance covering such well.
MS Code § 53-3-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-17. Illegal transactions

 The sale, purchase, or acquisition, or the transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product is hereby prohibited.   Unless and until the state oil and gas board provides for certificates of clearance, or some other method, so that any person may have an opportunity to determine whether any contemplated transaction of sale, purchase, or acquisition, or of transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way, involves illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product, no penalty shall be imposed for the sale, purchase or acquisition, or the transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way, of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product, except under circumstances hereinafter stated. Penalties shall be imposed by the board for each transaction prohibited in this section when the person committing the same knows that illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product is involved in such transaction or when such person could have known or determined such fact by the exercise of reasonable diligence or from facts within his knowledge. However, regardless of lack of actual notice or knowledge, penalties as provided in Section 53-1-47 shall apply to any sale, purchase, or acquisition, and to the transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way, without a certificate of clearance, of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product, where administrative provision is made for identifying the character of the commodity as to its legality. It shall likewise be a violation for which penalties shall be imposed for any person to sell, purchase, or acquire, or to transport, refine, process, or handle in any other way any oil, gas or any product without complying with any rule, regulation, or order of the board relating thereto.
MS Code § 53-3-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-21. Penalties for violations of Sections 53-3-3 through 53-3-19

 Any person who violates any of the provisions of Sections 53-3-3 through 53-3-19, inclusive, or any rule, regulation or order made thereunder, shall be subject to the penalties and punishment set forth in Section 53-1-47.
MS Code § 53-3-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-23. Flexible oil or gas drilling units

  Whenever a drilling unit for oil or gas is formed comprised entirely of lands within the State of Mississippi, with one or more unit boundaries being the center of the main navigable channel of the Mississippi River or any other navigable river constituting the boundary between the State of Mississippi and another state, such unit shall be a flexible unit. The size and shape of such unit shall change as the boundary line between the states changes.   Subsequent changes in the acreage content of such unit occasioned by the shifting of the state boundary line shall not occasion a reduction in the allowable acreage allocated to such unit.   This section shall cover and include oil and gas units which have been heretofore formed or which may be hereafter formed.
MS Code § 53-3-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-25. Application for permit to drill in search of oil or gas

 Before any person shall commence the drilling of any well in search of oil or gas, the person shall file with the board his application for a permit to drill, accompanied by a certified plat and by a fee of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00), payable to the State Oil and Gas Board. When two (2) or more separately owned tracts of land are embraced within the unit for which the permit is sought, the application shall affirmatively state whether there are separately owned tracts in the drilling unit for which the permit is sought, and if so, whether the person owning the drilling rights therein and the rights to share in the production therefrom have agreed to develop their lands as a drilling unit and to the drilling of the well, as contemplated by Section 53-3-7. If drilling operations have not commenced within one (1) year after date of issuance, the permit shall become void. If the application complies in all respects with the rules and regulations of the board relating thereto, a permit shall be issued promptly by the supervisor. The issuance of the permit shall constitute the establishment of the drilling unit as designated in the application and shall likewise constitute the approval of the well location set out in the permit. On good cause shown, the unit may be altered by the board after notice and hearing.   If the application for permit does not comply in all respects with the rules and regulations of the board relating thereto, the application shall be disallowed and the supervisor shall promptly notify the applicant of the reason or reasons for the disallowance.
MS Code § 53-3-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-27. Application to commence drilling of stratigraphic test or well below freshwater level; duration of permit

 Before any person shall commence the drilling of a stratigraphic test or any well below the freshwater level (other than an oil or gas well or injection well), such person shall file with the board his application for a permit to drill, accompanied by a fee of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00), or some lesser sum as may be fixed by order of the board, payable to the State Oil and Gas Board. If the application complies in all respects with the rules and regulations of the board relating thereto, a permit shall be issued promptly by the supervisor. Any such permit, when issued and the fee paid thereon, shall be good for a period of one (1) year from the date thereof; and in the event drilling has commenced within one (1) year, the permit shall be good for the life of the well commenced, unless during the course of drilling or production the operator is changed.   If the application for a permit does not comply in all respects with the rules and regulations of the board relating thereto, said application shall be disallowed, and the supervisor shall promptly notify the applicant of the reason or reasons for the disallowance.
MS Code § 53-3-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-29. Application to commence drilling injection well; duration of permit

 Before any person shall commence the drilling of an injection well, such person shall file with the board his application for a permit to drill, accompanied by a fee of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00), or some lesser sum as may be fixed by order of the board, payable to the State Oil and Gas Board. If the application complies in all respects with the rules and regulations of the board relating thereto, a permit shall be issued by the supervisor upon approval by the State Oil and Gas Board, after notice and hearing. Any such permit, when issued and the fee paid thereon, shall be good for a period of one (1) year from the date thereof; and in the event drilling has commenced within one (1) year, the permit shall be good for the life of the well commenced, unless during the course of drilling or production the operator is changed.
MS Code § 53-3-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals|Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil|In General|§ 53-3-31. Application to rework abandoned well to injection well; duration of permit

 Before any person shall commence operations to rework an abandoned well to an injection well, such person shall file with the board his application to rework, accompanied by a fee of Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00), or some lesser sum as may be fixed by order of the board, payable to the State Oil and Gas Board. If the application complies in all respects with the rules and regulations of the board relating thereto, a permit shall be issued by the supervisor upon approval by the State Oil and Gas Board, after notice and hearing. Any such permit, when issued and the fee paid thereon, shall be good for a period of one (1) year from the date thereof; and in the event drilling has commenced within one (1) year, the permit shall be good for the life of the well commenced, unless during the course of drilling or production the operator is changed.