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Chapter 1 - State Oil and Gas Board
In General
§ 53-1-1. Declaration of policy - It is hereby declared to be in the public interests...
§ 53-1-3. Definitions - Unless the context otherwise requires, the words defined in this...
§ 53-1-5. Board created - At the expiration of the term of the members appointed...
§ 53-1-7. State supervisor - The board shall appoint a State Oil and Gas Supervisor,...
§ 53-1-9. Employees - The supervisor shall have the authority, and it shall be...
§ 53-1-11. Attorney for board - The Attorney General shall be the attorney for the board...
§ 53-1-13. Board; employee eligibility - No person while engaged in the business of, or in...
§ 53-1-15. Expenses - Each member of the board, its employees, and the supervisor...
§ 53-1-19. Rules of procedure before board to be consistent with Title 25, Chapter 43; recording and preservation of proceedings - The board shall prescribe its rules of order or procedure...
§ 53-1-21. Public hearing - No rule, regulation, or order and no change, renewal, or...
§ 53-1-23. Emergency rules, regulations, or orders - In the event an emergency is found to exist by...
§ 53-1-25. Notice and service of process - In any instance the board may give notice by personal...
§ 53-1-27. Record of rules, regulations and orders - All rules, regulations, and orders made by the board shall...
§ 53-1-29. Request for hearing - Any interested person shall have the right to have the...
§ 53-1-31. Records; inspection by public - The permanent records of the board shall be available, upon...
§ 53-1-33. Supervisor and his representatives to have access to all wells - The supervisor and his representatives or employees shall have access...
§ 53-1-35. Subpoena of witnesses; contempt - The board, or any member thereof, or the supervisor is...
§ 53-1-37. Service of notices and process upon board - All notices or other process authorized or required to be...
§ 53-1-39. Appeals to the chancery court; pending cases in circuit court - In addition to other remedies now available, the state, or...
§ 53-1-41. Restraining orders, injunctions against board - No temporary restraining order or injunction of any kind shall...
§ 53-1-43. Suits to restrain violations or threatened violations; lien remedy - Whenever it shall appear that any person is violating or...
§ 53-1-45. Appeals to Supreme Court - An appeal may be taken, in accordance with the General...
§ 53-1-47. Penalty for violations - (i) Any person, who, for the purpose of evading the...
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...
§ 53-1-73. Charge imposed to pay for administration expenses - For the purposes of paying the costs and expenses incurred...
§ 53-1-75. Persons liable - The persons owning an interest (working interest, royalty interest, payments...
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...
Chapter 3 - Development, Production and Distribution of Gas and Oil
§ 53-3-1. Definitions for certain sections - Unless the context otherwise requires, words and terms appearing in...
§ 53-3-3. Waste unlawful - Waste of oil or gas as defined in Section 53-1-3...
§ 53-3-5. Drilling and production regulated - The state oil and gas board shall have the power...
§ 53-3-7. Integration of interests; pooling agreements and orders - The portion of the production allocated to the owner of...
§ 53-3-9. Allowable production; meters - Whenever the state oil and gas board has fixed for...
§ 53-3-15. Certificate of compliance required before connection with pipe lines; cancellation - Owners or operators of oil or gas wells shall, before...
§ 53-3-17. Illegal transactions - The sale, purchase, or acquisition, or the transportation, refining, processing,...
§ 53-3-19. Procedure for seizure and sale of illegal gas and oil as contraband - Apart from, and in addition to, any other remedy or...
§ 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...
§ 53-3-25. Application for permit to drill in search of oil or gas - Before any person shall commence the drilling of any well...
§ 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...
§ 53-3-29. Application to commence drilling injection well; duration of permit - Before any person shall commence the drilling of an injection...
§ 53-3-31. Application to rework abandoned well to injection well; duration of permit - Before any person shall commence operations to rework an abandoned...
§ 53-3-33. Application to rework operating well or injection well - Before any person shall commence operations to rework an operating...
§ 53-3-37. Penalties for violations concerning reports - Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of...
§ 53-3-39. Payment of interest on royalty proceeds which have not been disbursed - Purchasers of oil or gas production from any oil or...
Cooperative Development and Operation Under Leases -
Facilities for Exploration, Production, or Transportation of Oil or Gas in Navigable Waters
§ 53-3-71. Construction, operation and maintenance of facilities for exploration, production, or transportation of oil or gas in navigable waters - Any person, firm or corporation duly authorized to engage in...
§ 53-3-73. Fee for permit - Any person, firm or corporation applying for a permit to...
§ 53-3-75. Restrictions and prohibitions - The right to construct, operate and maintain any facility as...
Unitization of Oil and Gas Fields and Pools
§ 53-3-101. Applications; hearings - The State Oil and Gas Board upon the application of...
§ 53-3-103. Oil and Gas Board may order unit operation - The State Oil and Gas Board may issue an order...
§ 53-3-105. Provisions and requirements of board's order - The order issued by the State Oil and Gas Board...
§ 53-3-107. When order becomes effective - An order requiring unit operations pursuant to Section 53-3-103, Mississippi...
§ 53-3-109. Amendment of orders; extension of units and inclusion of additional pools - The State Oil and Gas Board, after notice and hearing,...
§ 53-3-111. How production allocated - The portion of unit production allocated to a separately owned...
§ 53-3-113. Authority of unit operator; production by others prohibited - From and after the effective date of an order of...
§ 53-3-115. Time and manner of giving notice - The notice provided for in Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119 shall...
§ 53-3-117. Administration of Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119 - In administering Sections 53-3-101 through 53-3-119, the oil and gas...
§ 53-3-119. Court review of order of oil and gas board by appeal to the chancery court - Any interested person adversely affected by any provision of Sections...
Underground Storage of Natural Gas or Compressed Air
§ 53-3-151. Definitions - As used in Sections 53-3-151 through 53-3-165: (a) "underground storage"...
§ 53-3-153. Legislative declaration - The underground storage of natural gas or compressed air which...
§ 53-3-155. Underground storage authorized pursuant to board's order - The use of an underground reservoir, stratum or formation as...
§ 53-3-157. Protection against pollution or against escape of natural gas or compressed air; property rights - The State Oil and Gas Board shall issue such orders,...
§ 53-3-159. Right of eminent domain - Any company, person or association of persons, municipality, association of...
§ 53-3-161. Right of landowner to drill and make other use of land - The right of condemnation granted by Section 53-3-159, shall be...
§ 53-3-163. Action for provable damages - If any property owner whose interest has been acquired under...
§ 53-3-165. Storage in offshore waters prohibited - No provisions of Sections 53-3-151 through 53-3-165 shall operate so...
Transportation of Crude Oil
§ 53-3-201. Required documentation for transportation of crude oil - The State Oil and Gas Board shall adopt regulations to...
§ 53-3-203. Enforcement; penalty - Any law enforcement officer or the supervisor of the State...
Chapter 5 - Geological and Mineral Survey
§ 53-5-7. Objects of survey - The object of the survey shall be: An examination of...
§ 53-5-11. Reports to be published - The regular and special reports of the survey, with proper...
§ 53-5-13. Survey employees may go on lands - For the purpose of making the survey hereinbefore provided for,...
§ 53-5-15. Board may cooperate with United States Geological Survey - The board of the Mississippi Geological Survey, in the conduct...
§ 53-5-17. Geological and mineral resource surveys; expenditures by counties and municipalities - The boards of supervisors of the various counties of this...
§ 53-5-19. Governmental subdivisions may cooperate and share costs of survey - Two or more governmental subdivisions may combine upon the agreement...
§ 53-5-21. Payment of costs of survey - Payments to the agency or agencies making the surveys authorized...
§ 53-5-23. Priorities for performance of work - The Mississippi Geological, Economic and Topographical Survey may set up...
Chapter 7 - Surface Mining and Reclamation of Land
§ 53-7-1. Citation of chapter - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 53-7-5. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall...
§ 53-7-9. Administration and enforcement of chapter - The department is designated as the agency to administer this...
§ 53-7-17. Commission to retain exclusive jurisdiction on passage of federal strip mining legislation - Upon the passage of any federal surface mining legislation, the...
§ 53-7-19. Powers and duties of commission - The commission shall have the following powers and duties regarding...
§ 53-7-27. Submission of application for permit, proposed initial reclamation plan, and performance bond; form of application - The policy shall be maintained in full force and effect...
§ 53-7-35. Reclamation standards and methods; alternative methods; concurrent reclamation; continuing right of entry; action on bond - 1. Preventing or removing water from contact with toxic-material producing...
§ 53-7-45. Review of Permit Board action or decision - Any interested party may seek a review or an appeal...
§ 53-7-47. Mining prohibited in national and state park lands - To the extent that the commission, the Permit Board and...
§ 53-7-53. Records, reports and equipment to be maintained by permittees - The Permit Board shall require each permittee to: Establish and...
§ 53-7-57. Inspection by representatives of local soil and water conservation districts; recommendations of progress of reclamation activities - Any representative of the local soil and water conservation district,...
§ 53-7-71. Reclamation work; utilizing services of governmental agencies and private contractors; competitive bidding; right of access - In the reclamation of land affected by surface mining for...
Chapter 9 - Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation of Land
Mississippi Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Law
§ 53-9-1. Short title - This chapter may be cited as the "Mississippi Surface Coal...
§ 53-9-3. Legislative findings and declarations - The Legislature finds and declares that: The State of Mississippi,...
§ 53-9-5. Purpose - It is the purpose of this chapter: To assume for...
§ 53-9-7. Definitions - For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall...
§ 53-9-9. Administration and enforcement of chapter - The department is designated as the agency to administer this...
§ 53-9-23. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit-reissuance - Before granting the reissuance of any permit, the permit board...
§ 53-9-26. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; application cost assistance to small operators - If the Permit Board finds that the probable total annual...
§ 53-9-27. Filing of permit application with chancery court clerk; public inspection; exclusion of confidential information - Each applicant for a permit shall file, within ten (10)...
§ 53-9-29. Reclamation plan included in application; contents - The reclamation plan shall include in the degree of detail...
§ 53-9-32. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; preparation of plain language summary of proposed operation and reclamation - Upon receipt of a complete application for a surface coal...
§ 53-9-33. Surface coal mining and reclamation permit; requisites for approval of application for permit; schedule of notices of violation; permit to mine on prime farmland; restriction on transfer of rights; modification of permit provisions - Any determination made by the permit board under paragraph (e)...
§ 53-9-39. Disposition of application for permit; manner of notifying interested parties; hearing before review board and notification of decision; temporary relief; right to judicial appeal - The notification required under paragraph (b) of this subsection shall...
§ 53-9-45. Promulgation of regulations and performance standards relating to surface mining; variances - For the purposes of this subsection, the term "steep slope"...
§ 53-9-49. Authorized departures from performance standards; experimental practices - To encourage advances in mining and reclamation practices or to...
§ 53-9-51. Records, reports and equipment to be maintained by permittees; evaluation of results; specification of monitoring sites; entry and inspection by department; release of materials to public - The monitoring, data collection and analysis required by this section...
§ 53-9-53. Sign at entrance of surface coal mining and reclamation operation - Each permittee shall conspicuously maintain at the entrance to the...
§ 53-9-57. Criminal penalties; violation of condition of permit or order - Any person who willfully and knowingly violates this chapter or...
§ 53-9-61. Criminal penalties; resisting, preventing, impeding, or interfering with performance of duties - Any person who, except as permitted by law, willfully resists,...
§ 53-9-63. Nonexclusivity of penalty provisions - Nothing in Sections 53-9-55 through 53-9-57 shall be construed to...
§ 53-9-73. Cooperation with Secretary of Interior - The commission may enter into a cooperative agreement with the...
§ 53-9-75. Application of chapter to public corporations - Any agency, unit or instrumentality of federal, state or local...
§ 53-9-81. Inapplicability of chapter - This chapter shall not apply to any of the following...
§ 53-9-83. Lease of state coal deposits - In computing the three-year period, the commission may include periods...
§ 53-9-87. Training, examination, and certification of persons responsible for blasting - The commission shall promulgate regulations requiring the training, examination and...
Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation Program
§ 53-9-103. Only abandoned mines eligible for program expenditures - Only abandoned mine lands are eligible for reclamation or drainage...
§ 53-9-107. Right of entry upon property adversely affected by past coal mining; order and required findings; right of entry upon property to conduct studies or exploratory work - then, thirty (30) days after giving notice by mail to...
§ 53-9-117. Interdepartmental cooperation; provision of technical expertise, personnel, equipment, materials, and supplies - All departments, boards, commissions and agencies of this state shall...
§ 53-9-119. Injunctions - The commission, in addition to any other remedies allowed by...
§ 53-9-121. Power and authority to implement program; promulgation of rules and regulations; cooperative projects - The commission shall have the power and authority to engage...
§ 53-9-123. Authority with regard to land affected by noncoal mining practices; agreement of landowner; required findings; limitations on expenditure of funds - The commission shall have the authority granted in Sections 53-9-107(1)...
Chapter 10 - Interstate Mining Compact
§ 53-10-1. Findings and purposes - The Legislature finds and declares that: Within the state, mining...
§ 53-10-2. Membership - Pursuant to the findings of the Legislature and subject to...
§ 53-10-3. Limitations - No provisions of the Interstate Mining Compact, nor any policies...
§ 53-10-4. Expenses - The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality may pay annually out...
§ 53-10-5. General power of Governor and withdrawal - Within the limitations of this section, the Governor shall be...
Chapter 11 - Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act
§ 53-11-1. Short title - This chapter shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 53-11-5. Definitions - As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have...
§ 53-11-13. Order requiring unit operation of a geologic sequestration facility - If the board finds pursuant to Section 53-11-9(1) that a...
§ 53-11-17. Hearings before the board; notice; rules of procedures; emergency; service of process; public records; request for hearings; orders and compliance orders - All public hearings before the board under this chapter shall...
§ 53-11-21. Effect of acting as storage operator - Any provision in this chapter, or in any rule, regulation...
§ 53-11-29. Refusing to monitor or producing false or inaccurate readings - It shall be a violation of this chapter for any...
§ 53-11-31. Appeal to chancery court - Any interested person adversely affected by any provision or section...
§ 53-11-33. No effect upon enhanced oil or gas recovery operations - Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter, nothing in...