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2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:101.15. Termination date

RS 30:101.15 - Termination date
The provisions of this Part shall terminate and have no effect after June 30, 2027.
Acts 2022, No. 100, §2, eff. July 1, 2023.
NOTE: Pursuant to its own terms, R.S. 30:101.15 will terminate after June 30, 2027.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:102. Lessees to notify lessors of the termination of mineral leases

RS 30:102 - Lessees to notify lessors of the termination of mineral leases
Within ninety days after the expiration of:
(1) Production under a mineral lease previously maintained by production and
(2) all other rights to maintain that lease,
the lessee or his assigns shall notify the lessor or his representative that the lease has terminated, unless such notification is already provided in the lease.
Acts 1984, No. 559, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:103. Operators to report to owners amount of oil or gas produced

RS 30:103 - Operators to report to owners amount of oil or gas produced
Operators taking or producing oil or gas from lands who do not market through a pipeline company shall report monthly to each owner of an oil or gas interest in the lands. These monthly reports shall show the amount of oil or gas produced from the lands during the previous calendar month, the amount disposed of, and the amount which has not been disposed of. Reports shall be sent by certified mail to each owner of a royalty, oil or gas interest, who has furnished his name and address to the operator.
Acts 2001, No. 973, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:103.1. Operators and producers to report to owners of unleased oil and gas interests

RS 30:103.1 - Operators and producers to report to owners of unleased oil and gas interests
A. Whenever there is included within a drilling unit, as authorized by the commissioner of conservation, lands producing oil or gas, or both, upon which the operator or producer has no valid oil, gas, or mineral lease, said operator or producer shall issue the following reports to the owners of said interests by a sworn, detailed, itemized statement:
(1) Within ninety calendar days from completion of the well, an initial report which shall contain the costs of drilling, completing, and equipping the unit well.
(2) After establishment of production from the unit well, quarterly reports which shall contain the following:
(a) The total amount of oil, gas, or other hydrocarbons produced from the lands during the previous quarter.
(b) The price received from any purchaser of unit production.
(c) Quarterly operating costs and expenses.
(d) Any additional funds expended to enhance or restore the production of the unit well.
B. No operator or producer shall be required under the provisions of this Section to report any information which is not known by such operator or producer at the time of a report. However, the operator or producer shall report the required information to the owner of the unleased interest within thirty days after such information is obtained by the operator or producer, or in the next quarterly report, whichever due date is later.
C. Reports shall be sent by certified mail to each owner of an unleased oil or gas interest who has requested such reports in writing, by certified mail addressed to the operator or producer. The written request shall contain the unleased interest owner's name and address. Initial reports shall be sent no later than ninety calendar days after the completion of the well. The operator or producer shall begin sending quarterly reports within ninety calendar days after receiving the written request, whichever is later, and shall continue sending quarterly reports until cessation of production.
D. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section to the contrary, at the time a report is due pursuant to this Section, if the share of the total costs of drilling, completing, and equipping the unit well and all other unit costs allocable to an owner of an unleased interest is less than one thousand dollars, no report shall be required. However, during January of the next calendar year, the operator or producer shall report such costs to the owner.
Added by Acts 1950, No. 387, §1; Acts 2001, No. 973, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:103.2. Failure to report; penalty

RS 30:103.2 - Failure to report; penalty
Whenever the operator or producer permits ninety calendar days to elapse from completion of the well and thirty additional calendar days to elapse from date of receipt of written notice by certified mail from the owner or owners of unleased oil and gas interests calling attention to failure to comply with the provisions of R.S. 30:103.1, such operator or producer shall forfeit his right to demand contribution from the owner or owners of the unleased oil and gas interests for the costs of the drilling operations of the well.
Added by Acts 1950, No. 387, §2; Acts 2001, No. 973, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:104. Failure to report punishable; fine

RS 30:104 - Failure to report punishable; fine
Whoever fails to make the reports, required of him by R.S. 30:103 shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for each failure to report to any individual royalty or mineral owner.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:108. R.S. 30:105 to 30:106 not applicable to state lands

RS 30:108 - R.S. 30:105 to 30:106 not applicable to state lands
R.S. 30:105 to 30:1061 shall not apply to minerals produced from lands belonging to the state.
1Repealed. See, now, R.S. 31:210.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:111. Payment for materials furnished or used in drilling well; market price

RS 30:111 - Payment for materials furnished or used in drilling well; market price
Owners of unleased mineral interests and lessees in any drilling unit authorized by the department of conservation of this state, shall not be liable or obligated to pay to the operator or producer for materials furnished or used in the drilling, completion, and production of any oil, gas, or mineral well drilled on said unit a sum in excess of the prevailing market price of such materials.
Acts 1950, No. 526, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:112. Mineral lessee's address, secretary of state as agent to receive notices

RS 30:112 - Mineral lessee's address, secretary of state as agent to receive notices
A. A mineral lease shall include the lessee's complete address. The lessee shall be responsible for informing the lessor of any subsequent change in address.
B. If a certified letter addressed to the lessee by the lessor is returned as undeliverable and no forwarding address is known, the secretary of state shall be notified by the lessor that the secretary of state will subsequently serve as the lessee's agent and receive all notices concerning the lease until such time as the lessee supplies the lessor with a current address.
Acts 1984, No. 303, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:121. State Mineral and Energy Board created; composition and powers

RS 30:121 - State Mineral and Energy Board created; composition and powers
A. The State Mineral and Energy Board, as created by Act No. 93 of the 1936 Regular Session of the Legislature, is hereby continued. The board shall be composed of the governor and the secretary of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources, ex officio, and nine members appointed by the governor. Each appointment by the governor shall be submitted to the Senate for confirmation. Six members shall constitute a quorum.
B. Each appointed member shall serve a term concurrent with that of the governor making the appointment.
C. The governor shall be ex officio chairman or may designate the board to elect its chairman to serve for two years. The board shall be a body corporate with power to sue and be sued. The domicile of the board shall be in Baton Rouge and it shall possess, in addition to the powers herein granted, all of the usual powers incident to corporations. If the governor serves as ex officio chairman, in case of a tie, the vote of the governor shall determine the issue. If the governor has designated the board to elect its chairman, the chairman may vote only once on any motion. The deputy secretary or the undersecretary of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources may serve as a proxy member of the board in the absence of the secretary with full authority to act for the secretary as a member of the board.
D. The board shall administer the state's proprietary interest in minerals as herein provided. The governor may appoint to the board members engaged in the industry and related business activity which members and which board shall be subject to the provisions of R.S. 42:1101 through R.S. 42:1168.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 59, §1; Acts 1956, No. 43, §1; Acts 1960, No. 453, §1; Acts 1962, No. 352, §1, emerg. eff. July 11, 1962; Acts 1977, No. 667, §1, eff. July 20, 1977; Acts 1978, No. 581, §1; Acts 1979, No. 649, §1; Acts 1980, No. 728, §1; Acts 2003, No. 774, §7; Acts 2006, No. 145, §1; Acts 2009, No. 196, §2, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2023, No. 150, §5, eff. Jan. 10, 2024.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:122. Compensation

RS 30:122 - Compensation
The appointed members shall receive no salaries, but attending members shall receive seventy-five dollars for each day or part thereof while attending regular or called board meetings, committee meetings, or attending to official business of the board, plus actual expenses as provided for state employees.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 59, §1; Acts 1955, No. 115, §1; Acts 1981, No. 514, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:123.1. Registration of prospective leaseholders

RS 30:123.1 - Registration of prospective leaseholders
A. All prospective leaseholders of leases awarded by the State Mineral and Energy Board shall register with the office of mineral resources. Registration shall be in the form and content as prescribed by the office of mineral resources. At a minimum, the registration shall include the current physical address, telephone number, e-mail address, and facsimile number of the prospective leaseholder. In addition, the prospective leaseholder shall submit written documentation from the Louisiana secretary of state indicating that the prospective leaseholder is registered and in good standing with the secretary of state. For such purposes, a copy of the detailed record from the secretary of state web site evidencing that the company is in good standing shall suffice.
B. The registration with the office of mineral resources shall be renewed annually by January thirty-first each year by updating all information on the registration form on file at the office of mineral resources and by providing the required documentation of good standing from the Louisiana secretary of state.
C. If at any time during the period for which a given mineral lease is in full force and effect, the office of the mineral resources finds that any current record lessee of that lease is not properly registered with the office of mineral resources, the office of mineral resources shall notify the record lessee in writing by certified mail, return receipt requested, and request proper registration by a fixed date no more than thirty days after receipt of the notification. Should the record lessee, after being duly notified, fail to properly register by the date fixed in the notification, the State Mineral and Energy Board may levy liquidated damages against that lessee in the amount of one hundred dollars per day until the record lessee is properly registered with the office of mineral resources. The liquidated damage assessment may be waived, in whole or in part, by the State Mineral and Energy Board.
Acts 2008, No. 283, §1; Acts 2009, No. 196, §2, eff. July 1, 2009.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:125. Application for lease; fee

RS 30:125 - Application for lease; fee
A. All proposals for mineral leases under this Section and R.S. 30:126 shall be submitted to and examined by the assistant secretary of the office of mineral resources who shall transmit them to the board for its action. All proposals shall be submitted by application as provided herein in the form required by the office of mineral resources, giving the description of the land, including a map, and submission of four hundred dollars, payable to the office of mineral resources, to satisfy the cost of processing the application. The fee shall not be returned, even in the event of a bid.
B. Repealed by Acts 2008, No. 283, §2.
Acts 1989, No. 282, §1, eff. June 27, 1989; Acts 1992, No. 177, §1; Acts 1995, No. 92, §1, eff. July 1, 1995; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 106, §1, eff. April 18, 2002; Acts 2005, No. 449, §1, eff. July 11, 2005; Acts 2007, No. 451, §1; Acts 2008, No. 283, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:128. Transfers; approval by board; fees; penalties

RS 30:128 - Transfers; approval by board; fees; penalties
A. No transfer or assignment in relation to any lease of minerals or mineral rights owned by the state shall be valid unless approved by the State Mineral and Energy Board. The mineral board may charge a fee of one hundred dollars to cover the cost of preparing and docketing transfers or assignments of leases of mineral or mineral rights. All parties to transfers or assignments in relation to any lease of mineral or mineral rights from the state shall be registered prospective leaseholders with the office of mineral resources. Transfers or assignments shall not be granted to prospective leaseholders that are not currently registered with the office of mineral resources.
B.(1) Failure to obtain approval of the board of any transfer or assignment of a lease within sixty days of execution of the transfer or assignment shall subject the transferor or assignor to a civil penalty of one hundred dollars per day beginning on the sixty-first day following the execution of the transfer or assignment. The penalty shall continue to accrue on a daily basis until the date on which the transfer or assignment is received by the office of mineral resources for submission to the board for approval or to a maximum amount of one thousand dollars.
(2) The penalties shall be paid into the Mineral and Energy Operation Fund on behalf of the board. The board may waive all or any part of the penalties provided in this Section.
C. A transfer for purposes of this Section shall not be deemed to occur by the granting of a mortgage in, collateral assignment of production from, or other security interest in a mineral lease or sublease or the transfer of an overriding royalty interest, production, payment, net profits interest, or similar interest in a mineral lease or sublease.
Acts 1993, No. 114, §1, eff. May 26, 1993; Acts 1995, No. 1087, §4; Acts 1999, No. 169, §1; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 106, §1, eff. April 18, 2002; Acts 2005, No. 449, §1, eff. July 11, 2005; Acts 2009, No. 196, §2, eff. July 1, 2009.
NOTE: SEE ACTS 1993, NO. 114, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:129.1. Public notice of approval of unitization, royalty or other agreements

RS 30:129.1 - Public notice of approval of unitization, royalty or other agreements
The board shall give ten days public notice prior to exercise of its powers and duties in approving for execution unitization agreements, royalty agreements or agreements that could be assimilated to a conveyance involving minerals or mineral rights of the state, exclusive of agreements involving the state's royalty in kind entered into pursuant to R.S. 30:142, which royalty in kind agreements are already subject to advertisement and bidding as therein provided. The board shall give this notice by publication in either the official journal of the state or in the Louisiana Register created by R.S. 49:953(B) at the board's election. The notice shall be sufficient if it contains at least a digest or summary of the nature of the proposal, a general description of the state property interest affected thereby, and the time and place of the meeting at which such a proposal will be considered for execution, provided that a full copy of the instrument effecting the proposed agreement is otherwise made available for public inspection in the offices of the board during such notice period by anyone desiring to examine the same. The notice provided in this Section shall constitute judicial advertisement and legal notice within the contemplation of Chapter 5 of Title 43 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.
Added by Acts 1974, Ex.Sess., No. 12, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1975.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:130. Records; execution of division orders and other documents

RS 30:130 - Records; execution of division orders and other documents
The office of mineral resources shall keep the records of the board, including all leases and all bids, proposals, assignments, or transfers pertaining to leases. The office of mineral resources shall be the official custodian of such records and shall certify the contents when appropriate. The office of mineral resources may set and collect a fee of one dollar per copy to cover the cost of certification of records. The board may authorize a member of the board or of the staff of the office of mineral resources to sign for the state all division orders or other documents which are necessary or customary with respect to the production and sale of oil, gas, or other minerals by lessors and royalty owners.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 290, §1; Acts 1958, No. 353, §1; Acts 1977, No. 667, §1, eff. July 20, 1977; Acts 2002, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 106, §1, eff. April 18, 2002.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:131. Surveys, reports and investigations

RS 30:131 - Surveys, reports and investigations
The Department of Public Works, parish surveyors, State Highway Engineers, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College and any board, department or institution of the state and the governing authorities of political subdivisions shall make such surveys, reports and investigations, and furnish such records and information as may be required by the State Mineral and Energy Board for the purposes of determining boundaries, character, title, location and other matters relating to lands.
Acts 2009, No. 196, §2, eff. July 1, 2009.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:132. Attorney for the board

RS 30:132 - Attorney for the board
The attorney general shall be the attorney for the board, but the board shall have authority to employ additional counsel and fix and pay the compensation for additional counsel or counselors, subject, however, to the authority of the attorney general and the secretary of the Department of Energy and Natural Resources to approve the counsel, whereupon the attorney general shall issue, under his power of appointment of assistants, a commission to the counsel as assistant attorney general. However, any contract for legal services which exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars shall be subject to approval by the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget.
Amended by Acts 1952, No. 384, §1; Acts 1962, No. 352, §1; Acts 1964, No. 312, §1; Acts 1995, No. 1293, §1, eff. July 1, 1995; Acts 2023, No. 150, §5, eff. Jan. 10, 2024.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:134. Roads, etc.; payment to parishes; compromise of claims

RS 30:134 - Roads, etc.; payment to parishes; compromise of claims
The provisions of this Subpart shall extend to the public roads, canals, and similar properties, the title to which is in either the state or the parishes. Where road beds belonging to the parishes are leased by the board, the leases shall provide for the payment of a royalty to the parish in which production occurs of at least one-sixteenth of the minerals produced, to be used by the police jury for public purposes. The governor, the attorney general and the executive counsel or any two of them, may settle and compromise with the parishes or other claimants, all matters relating to lands or rights referred to in this Section, upon terms and conditions any two of them decide. In connection with agreements these officers, or any two of them, may stipulate for the reconveyance of lands to the state and for payment of royalties and rentals and the division thereof between the state and the parishes or other claimants.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:135. Secretary and other employees

RS 30:135 - Secretary and other employees
The Department of Energy and Natural Resources, through the office of mineral resources, shall provide the necessary staff functions to assist the board in its leasing, supervisory, and other activities, and the assistant secretary thereof shall serve as secretary to the board.
Amended by Acts 1950, No. 291, §1; Acts 1977, No. 667, §1, eff. July 20, 1977; Acts 2023, No. 150, §5, eff. Jan. 10, 2024.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:136.1. Proceeds from mineral royalties, leases, and bonuses; payment into the Bond Security and Redemption Fund; payment into the Louisiana Investment Fund for Enhancement (L.I.F.E.)

RS 30:136.1 - Proceeds from mineral royalties, leases, and bonuses; payment into the Bond Security and Redemption Fund; payment into the Louisiana Investment Fund for Enhancement (L.I.F.E.)
A. The proceeds of all royalties from all mineral leases to be granted, as well as all mineral leases heretofore granted, by the state of Louisiana on state-owned land, lake and river beds, and other water bottoms belonging to the state remaining after complying with dedication of such revenues heretofore made and after deductions of any appropriations of such revenues made by law for the payment of the expenses of the State Mineral and Energy Board, shall be paid into the state treasury and shall be credited to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund.
B. The proceeds of all leases and bonuses, including annual delay rentals under said leases to be granted as well as all proceeds from mineral leases and delay rentals thereunder heretofore granted, by the state of Louisiana on state-owned land, lake and river beds, and other water bottoms belonging to the state remaining after complying with dedications of such revenues heretofore made and after deduction of any appropriations of such revenues made by law for the payment of the expenses of the State Mineral and Energy Board, shall be paid into the state treasury for credit to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund.
C. Repealed by Acts 2023, No. 345, §2, see Act.
D. After deposit to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund as required under the provisions of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana, an additional fifteen dollars per acre shall be collected from the mineral lessees and deposited into the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Conservation Fund, and an additional fifteen dollars per acre shall be collected from the mineral lessees and deposited into the Oil and Gas Regulatory Dedicated Fund Account created by R.S. 30:21. The funds deposited under the provisions of this Subsection shall be used to supplement funds available to the recipient agencies and shall not be used to supplant other funds available to those recipient agencies.
Added by Acts 1975, No. 511, §1. Amended by Acts 1976, No. 244, §1, eff. July 1, 1977; Acts 1979, No. 454, §1; Acts 1979, No. 577, §2; Acts 1979, No. 791, §2, eff. July 18, 1979; Acts 1981, Ex.Sess., No. 41, §1, eff. Nov. 23, 1981; Acts 1986, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 25, §1, eff. Dec. 24, 1986; Acts 1992, No. 984, §§9, 18; Acts 2000, 2d Ex. Sess., No. 8, §1; Acts 2005, No. 89, §1; Acts 2009, No. 196, §2, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2015, No. 362, §1; Acts 2021, No. 114, §18, eff. July 1, 2022; Acts 2023, No. 345, §2, see Act.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:136.2. Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 1182, §11, eff. July 1, 2001.

RS 30:136.2 - Repealed by Acts 2001, No. 1182, §11, eff. July 1, 2001.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:137. Agreements to offset, compensate, and recover from future royalties

RS 30:137 - Agreements to offset, compensate, and recover from future royalties
The State Mineral and Energy Board is hereby empowered to enter into agreements with lessees or other parties under state oil, gas and mineral leases or other agreement heretofore or hereafter issues to offset, compensate, and recover from royalty thereafter accruing to the state of Louisiana, amounts equal to any royalty or other payments (all herein called "royalty") which such lessees or other parties have paid to the state was, is, or may become lawfully entitled because of overpayment or action by the Federal Power Commission; provided, however, that with respect to any royalty based on amounts received by the lessee or other parties for sales of natural gas that may be subject to refund by order or directive of the Federal Power Commission, such agreements may require the immediate payment of such portion of such royalty that is determined to be proper by the State Mineral and Energy Board, such payment to be subject to the offsetting, compensation, and recovery provisions of R.S. 30:137 to 141.
Acts 1963, No. 13, §1; Acts 2009, No. 196, §2, eff. July 1, 2009.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:138. Agreements to offset, etc., to be made against any payable royalty

RS 30:138 - Agreements to offset, etc., to be made against any payable royalty
The agreements referred to in R.S. 30:137 may provide for such offset, compensation and recovery by such lessees or other parties to be made against any royalty payable to the state of Louisiana by such lessees or other parties.
Acts 1963, No. 13, §2.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:139. Validation of agreements

RS 30:139 - Validation of agreements
All agreements of the character contemplated by R.S. 30:137 which have heretofore been entered into by the State Mineral and Energy Board are hereby ratified, confirmed, and validated; however, such agreements may be modified or amended in accordance with the terms of R.S. 30:137 to 141.
Acts 1963, No. 13, §3; Acts 2009, No. 196, §2, eff. July 1, 2009.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:140. Compliance with agreement as compliance with lease

RS 30:140 - Compliance with agreement as compliance with lease
The compliance by any mineral lessee or other party with the provisions of any agreement executed pursuant to the provisions of R.S. 30:137 to 30:141, or ratified in R.S. 30:139, shall with respect to the subject matter of such agreement, be deemed a full compliance with the provisions of the mineral lease or other contract affected by said agreement.
Acts 1963, No. 13, §4.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:141. Power of mineral board not derogated - Other rights and remedies not modified

RS 30:141 - Power of mineral board not derogated - Other rights and remedies not modified
R.S. 30:137 to 141 are not intended in any way to derogate from or question the power and authority of the State Mineral and Energy Board to enter into any agreements of any type whatsoever pursuant to its power and authority heretofore expressly or impliedly granted by law; and the provisions hereof shall not modify in any way the right of any lessee or other party to invoke the rights and remedies available under existing laws.
Acts 1963, No. 13, §5; Acts 2009, No. 196, §2, eff. July 1, 2009.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:145. Distribution of mineral royalties to parishes

RS 30:145 - Distribution of mineral royalties to parishes
Effective January 1, 1975, and in accordance with the provisions of Article VII, Section 4(E) of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, the state treasurer of the state of Louisiana is hereby authorized and directed to remit an amount equal to one-tenth of the royalties accruing to the state in each month from mineral leases on state owned lands, lake and river beds, and other water bottoms belonging to the state or the title to which is in the public for mineral development to the governing authority of the parish in which severance or production occurs. In the calendar year beginning January 1, 1975 and thereafter, the distribution of the aforesaid royalties to the parish shall be made by the state treasurer on the twentieth day after the last day of every third month. Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding sentences, so long as any bonds issued by a parish payable from a pledge and dedication of moneys deposited in the Royalty Road Fund established by Article IV, Section 2, of the Louisiana Constitution of 1921 (the "Royalty Road Fund") or additional bonds hereafter issued on a parity therewith remain outstanding, or until irrevocable provision is made for their payment in principal and interest, the state treasurer, prior to remitting any such royalty payments directly to the parish in any calendar year shall make all payments required for debt servicing by the resolutions or other instruments providing for the issuance of such bonds in that calendar year.
Added by Acts 1975, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 29, §1, eff. Feb. 20, 1975.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:146. Transfer of funds

RS 30:146 - Transfer of funds
The state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to transfer to the governing authority of the respective parishes in this state on or before March 31, 1975, those sums of money credited to said parishes and being held on deposit on December 31, 1974, in the Royalty Road Fund and moneys on account with the state treasurer on December 31, 1974, consisting of the unexpended and unencumbered proceeds from the sale of any bonds heretofore issued by a parish and which are secured by a pledge of moneys in the Royalty Road Fund, other than moneys in any funds dedicated to or held for the payment of any outstanding bonds or committed to the payment of any other contractual obligations. If the above funds are encumbered on December 31, 1974, and subsequently become unencumbered, the state treasurer shall transfer said funds to the parish for whose account they are held, to be used in the manner provided by law and in accordance with the requirements of any resolutions heretofore adopted in connection with the issuance and sale of such bonds.
Added by Acts 1975, 1st Ex.Sess., No. 29, §1, eff. Feb. 20, 1975.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:148.1. Lessor defined

RS 30:148.1 - Lessor defined
For the purposes of this Subpart the term "lessor" shall refer to and include the State Mineral and Energy Board, any school district, levee district, drainage district, municipal or parochial subdivision of this state, any penal or charitable institution, any state university or college, and any other unit or institution deriving its authority and powers from the sovereignty of the state.
Acts 1995, No. 88, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 2008, No. 315, §1; Acts 2009, No. 196, §2, eff. July 1, 2009.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:148.2. Lands which may be leased

RS 30:148.2 - Lands which may be leased
A. Any lessor may, through its governing authority, lease any lands of which the lessor has title, custody, or possession, and the State Mineral and Energy Board may lease lands, bodies of any lakes, bays or coves, sea, arms of the sea, or other navigable waters and beds thereof belonging to the state or the title to which is in the public:
(1) For the purpose of granting to the lessee the right to erect and use on the surface of the leased premises tanks and facilities for the receipt, storage, withdrawal, transportation, and shipment of oil, natural gas, liquid or liquified hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, goods, wares, and merchandise, and for other purposes necessary or incidental thereto, including the construction of houses for employees, warehouses, pipelines, separation and dehydration facilities, pump stations, compressor stations, loading stations, wharves, and docks.
(2) For the purpose of injection, storage, transportation, shipment, and withdrawal of oil, natural gas, liquid hydrocarbons, or carbon dioxide in any underground reservoir lying beneath such lands or water bodies, and beds thereof, and for other purposes necessary or incidental thereto, including drilling of any wells for injection, storage, or withdrawal of such product stored in such underground reservoir and the construction of houses for employees, warehouses, pipelines, separation and dehydration facilities, compressor stations, pump stations, loading stations, wharves, and docks.
(3) For the purpose of making and using caverns in salt domes lying beneath such lands or water bodies, and beds thereof, for the injection, storage, transportation, shipment, and withdrawal of oil, natural gas, liquid hydrocarbons, or carbon dioxide and for other purposes necessary or incidental thereto, including drilling of any wells for making such caverns and for injecting, storing, and withdrawing of such product in such caverns and the construction and maintenance of facilities for housing employees, pipelines, separation and dehydration facilities, compressor stations, pump stations, loading stations, wharves, and docks.
B. In addition, where otherwise consistent with the provisions of this Subpart as applied to leased premises, the State Mineral and Energy Board may grant surface or subsurface agreements for the right to erect and use on unleased premises such facilities and equipment.
Acts 1995, No. 88, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 1997, No. 180, §1; Acts 2004, No. 104, §1, eff. May 28, 2004; Acts 2008, No. 315, §1; Acts 2009, No. 196, §2, eff. July 1, 2009.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:148.3. Application for lease

RS 30:148.3 - Application for lease
Any person, firm, or corporation desiring to lease any land or bodies of any lakes, bays or coves, sea, arms of the sea, or other navigable waters and beds thereof under the provisions of this Subpart shall present to the lessor a written application, together with a cash deposit of fifty dollars. The application shall set forth the name, current physical address, telephone number, e-mail address, and contact person of the applicant, a reasonably definite legal description of the location in the form required by the lessor, the amount of acreage that the applicant desires to lease, and a request that the acreage described therein be leased to the applicant under the provisions of this Subpart. The application shall be held confidential by the lessor until advertisement. Applications shall be mailed or delivered to the lessor at its official office or business domicile or submitted by such other means as may be authorized by the lessor. The deposit of fifty dollars shall be returned to the applicant if he makes an unsuccessful bid after a sum sufficient to pay the advertising costs have been deducted.
Acts 1995, No. 88, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 2008, No. 315, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:148.4. Advertisement

RS 30:148.4 - Advertisement
A.(1) Upon receipt of application for the lease, accompanied by deposit, the lessor shall publish an advertisement in the official journal of the parish wherein the land and bodies of lakes, bays or coves, sea, arms of the sea, or other navigable waters and beds thereof are located. The advertisement must appear not more than sixty days prior to the date for the opening of bids and at least once a week during three consecutive weeks within those sixty days and shall set forth therein a legal description of the land or water bodies and beds thereof to be leased, the time when and the place where bids therefor will be received and publicly opened, whether the bid must be for the whole or may be for any particularly described portion of the land or water bodies and beds thereof advertised, any particular minimum consideration deemed by the lessor in its best interest, and such other requirements or information as the lessor may deem necessary. If the lands or bodies of lakes, bays or coves, sea, arms of the sea, or other navigable waters and beds thereof are situated in two or more parishes, the advertisement shall be published in the official journal for each of the parishes in which a part of such lands or water bodies may be located.
(2) In addition to Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, the applicant shall provide notice by regular or certified mail of the application for the lease to any residence or business located within one-half mile of the land and bodies of lakes, bays, or coves, sea, arms of the sea, or other navigable waters and beds to be leased.
B. Upon receipt of an application for a lease under the provisions of this Subpart, the lessor shall provide notification of such to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
Acts 1995, No. 88, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 2008, No. 315, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:148.5. Submission and opening of bids; execution of leases

RS 30:148.5 - Submission and opening of bids; execution of leases
A. Sealed bids shall be mailed or delivered to the lessor at the time and place designated in the advertisement and shall be held confidential by the lessor.
B. On the date and at the time and place advertised, the bids shall be publicly opened by the lessor. The lessor may accept the bid or bids submitted that are determined to be the most advantageous to the lessor and may execute any lease granted under such terms and conditions as it may deem proper in accordance with the provisions of this Subpart. The lessor, however, shall have the right to reject all bids in its sole discretion. All leases signed by the lessor or by the lessor's duly authorized representative shall be executed in as many copies as may be necessary to meet the following requirements: one copy shall be furnished to the lessee; one copy shall be furnished to the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries; one copy shall be recorded in the conveyance records of the parish or parishes wherein the land or water bodies lie; and one copy shall be retained in the records of the lessor.
Acts 1995, No. 88, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 2008, No. 315, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:148.6. Restrictions on area; term; consideration

RS 30:148.6 - Restrictions on area; term; consideration
A. No lease shall cover an area larger than six hundred forty acres, provided, however, a lease for the underground storage of oil, natural gas, liquid hydrocarbons, or carbon dioxide in an underground reservoir shall be limited only by the extent of the underground storage reservoir beneath the lands or water bodies and beds leased. All leases shall be for a term which may be determined by the lessor and advertised as such, but not exceeding twenty-five years. A lease may also provide to lessees an option to renew and extend the lease, or for a renewal and extension subject to approval by the lessor, upon such terms and conditions as may be advertised and stipulated in the lease, so long as the total of any such options, or renewals or extension do not exceed an additional period of twenty-five years. The lease shall grant to the lessee the right to remove from the leased premises at any time during the life of the lease any and all property placed thereon by the lessee.
B. All leases executed under the provisions of this Subpart shall provide for reasonable consideration as set forth in the advertisement, which may include, among other consideration, any one or combination of the following: bonus, rental, or consideration for injection or withdrawal of stored product.
C. Any contract entered into for the lease of state lands for any purpose shall require that access by the public to public waterways through the state lands covered by the lease shall be maintained and preserved for the public by the lessee. The provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the secretary of the agency having control over the property from restricting access to public waterways if he determines that a danger to the public welfare exists. The provisions of this Section shall not apply in cases involving title disputes.
Acts 1995, No. 88, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 1999, No. 1142, §1; Acts 2008, No. 315, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:148.7. Supervision of leases

RS 30:148.7 - Supervision of leases
The lessor shall have full supervision of leases to see that the terms and stipulations thereof are complied with and may take any appropriate action, and file any suit to protect the interest of the lessor, or annul any lease for sufficient cause.
Acts 1995, No. 88, §1, eff. June 12, 1995.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:148.8. Oil, gas, and mineral rights not affected; exceptions

RS 30:148.8 - Oil, gas, and mineral rights not affected; exceptions
Nothing in this Subpart is intended to authorize the leasing of lands or bodies of lakes, bays or coves, sea, arms of the sea, or other navigable waters and beds thereof for the exploration and development of same for the production of oil, gas, sulphur, or other minerals, provided, however, such absence of authorization shall not be construed as prohibiting drilling for the purpose of injection, storage, or withdrawal of any stored oil, natural gas, liquid hydrocarbons, or carbon dioxide into or from any underground reservoirs or salt dome caverns, or the drilling of wells for the purpose of making caverns in salt domes covered by any lease granted pursuant to the provisions of this Subpart. Such absence of authorization shall not be construed to prohibit the production of any oil, natural gas, or liquid hydrocarbons which may remain in a partially depleted underground reservoir determined by the commissioner of conservation of the state of Louisiana to be suitable for use as an underground storage reservoir in accordance with the provisions of this Title.
Acts 1995, No. 88, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 2008, No. 315, §1.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:148.9. Oil; natural gas; liquid hydrocarbons; carbon dioxide; lease for underground storage

RS 30:148.9 - Oil; natural gas; liquid hydrocarbons; carbon dioxide; lease for underground storage
A. Any lease for the underground storage of oil, natural gas, liquid hydrocarbons, or carbon dioxide granted pursuant to the provisions of this Subpart shall be granted conditionally and shall not be final until the following conditions are met:
(1) Lessee shall request a public hearing with the commissioner of conservation within sixty days after the conditional award of such lease.
(2) After the public hearing is held, the lessee shall obtain an order from the commissioner of conservation finding that the proposed project is in the public interest.
B. Any lease granted hereunder shall be subject to the provisions of R.S. 30:18, 22, and 23, Statewide Order No. 29-M (LAC 43:XVII.Chapter 3), and Statewide Order No. 29-N-1 (LAC 43:XVII.Chapter 1), as applicable.
(1)-(3) Repealed by Acts 2008, No. 315, §2.
Acts 1995, No. 88, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 2008, No. 315, §§1, 2; Acts 2013, No. 367, §1, eff. June 12, 2013.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:149. Storage of carbon dioxide; distribution of funds

RS 30:149 - Storage of carbon dioxide; distribution of funds
A. For purposes of this Section, "specific area of interest" means an individual tract of property that is the subject of any contractual agreement entered into by the State Mineral and Energy Board for the purpose of injection, storage, sequestration, transportation, shipment, or withdrawal of carbon dioxide.
B. Any revenues collected by the office of mineral resources pursuant to any contractual agreement for the storage of carbon dioxide beneath state-owned land or water bottoms shall be immediately forwarded to the state treasurer for deposit into the state treasury. After complying with the provisions of Article VII, Section 9(B) of the Constitution of Louisiana relative to the Bond Security and Redemption Fund, the state treasurer shall remit the funds as follows:
(1) Thirty percent of the revenue shall be remitted to the Mineral and Energy Operation Fund. The revenue remitted to the Mineral and Energy Operation Fund under this Subsection shall be in lieu of any other revenues collected pursuant to any contractual agreement for the storage of carbon dioxide beneath the state-owned land or water bottoms that is required by law to be remitted to the Mineral and Energy Operation Fund.
(2) Thirty percent of the revenue shall be remitted to the governing authority of the parish located in a specific area of interest. If the specific area of interest is located in more than one parish, the monies shall be divided between the parishes in proportion to the amount of property located in each parish pursuant to the contractual agreement.
(3) The remaining revenue shall be deposited into the state general fund.
C. Nothing in this Section shall impact existing constitutional or statutory dedications from funds collected by the office of mineral resources on behalf of a state department or an agency as defined in R.S. 30:151.
Acts 2023, No. 378, §1, eff. June 14, 2023.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:151. "Agency" defined

RS 30:151 - "Agency" defined
In this Subpart the term "agency" means a levee district, drainage district, road district, school district, school board, or other board, commission, parish, municipality, state university, state college, state penal or charitable institution or agency, unit or institution of the state or subdivision thereof.
2023 Louisiana Laws › Revised Statutes › Title 30 - Minerals, Oil, and Gas and Environmental Quality › §30:152. Agency lands; school boards sixteenth section lands; leases authorized

RS 30:152 - Agency lands; school boards sixteenth section lands; leases authorized
A. Every agency is authorized to lease its land for the development and production of minerals. School boards are authorized to lease sixteenth section lands for the development and production of minerals.
B. The provisions of R.S. 30:148.1 through 148.7 and R.S. 47:648.1 shall not authorize the breach of any term or condition of any state agency lease applying to lands or mineral interest owned or administered by any school board.
Acts 1940, No. 162, §2; Acts 1983, No. 493, §1; Acts 1988, No. 514, §1, eff. July 8, 1988.
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