Subject to such reasonable limitations as may be set out in the plan of unitization, the unit shall have a first and prior lien upon the leasehold estate and other oil and gas rights (exclusive of a one-eighth royalty interest or exclusive of the interest provided in the unit operating plan which allocates costs, if it is different than one-eighth) in and to each separately owned tract, the interest of the owners thereof in and to the unit production and all equipment in the possession of the unit, to secure the payment of the amount of the unit expense charged to and assessed against such separately owned tract.
History: 1953 Comp., § 65-14-14, enacted by Laws 1975, ch. 293, § 14.
Structure New Mexico Statutes
Article 7 - Statutory Unitization Act
Section 70-7-1 - Purpose of act.
Section 70-7-3 - Additional powers and duties of the oil conservation division.
Section 70-7-5 - Requisites of application for unitization.
Section 70-7-6 - Matters to be found by the division precedent to issuance of unitization order.
Section 70-7-7 - Division orders.
Section 70-7-8 - Ratification or approval of plan by owners.
Section 70-7-9 - Amendment of plan of unitization.
Section 70-7-10 - Previously established units.
Section 70-7-11 - Unit operations of less than an entire pool.
Section 70-7-12 - Operation; expressed or implied covenants.
Section 70-7-13 - Income from unitized substances.
Section 70-7-14 - Lien for costs.
Section 70-7-15 - Liability for expenses.
Section 70-7-16 - Division orders.
Section 70-7-17 - Property rights.
Section 70-7-18 - Existing rights, rights in unleased land and royalties and lease burdens.
Section 70-7-19 - Agreements not violative of laws governing monopolies or restraint of trade.