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.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 53 - Oil, Gas, and Other Minerals
Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil
§ 53-3-1. Definitions for certain sections
§ 53-3-5. Drilling and production regulated
§ 53-3-7. Integration of interests; pooling agreements and orders
§ 53-3-9. Allowable production; meters
§ 53-3-15. Certificate of compliance required before connection with pipe lines; cancellation
§ 53-3-17. Illegal transactions
§ 53-3-19. Procedure for seizure and sale of illegal gas and oil as contraband
§ 53-3-21. Penalties for violations of Sections 53-3-3 through 53-3-19
§ 53-3-25. Application for permit to drill in search of oil or gas
§ 53-3-29. Application to commence drilling injection well; duration of permit
§ 53-3-31. Application to rework abandoned well to injection well; duration of permit
§ 53-3-33. Application to rework operating well or injection well
§ 53-3-37. Penalties for violations concerning reports
§ 53-3-39. Payment of interest on royalty proceeds which have not been disbursed