Any county, township, school district, city or town that now owns or may hereafter acquire any land under control of the board of county commissioners, board of town trustees, directors of school districts, boards of education or the governing body of any city acting by and through its duly constituted officers is hereby authorized and empowered to enter, from time to time, into valid oil and gas mining lease or leases of such land to any person, firm, association, or corporation for oil and gas development for a primary term not to exceed ten (10) years and as long thereafter as oil or gas is or can be produced, and any such oil and gas lease may provide that the lessee therein shall have the right and power to consolidate the land covered by said lease with other adjoining land for the purpose of joint development and operation of the entire consolidated premises as a unit, in which event, the lessor in such lease shall share in the royalty on oil and gas produced from said consolidated tract in the proportion that the area of the land covered by such lease bears to the total area of said consolidated tract, or for the purpose of constructing permanent improvements thereon for a term not to exceed ten (10) years. This law does not apply to agricultural purposes.
Added by Laws 1943, p. 160, § 1, emerg. eff. April 1, 1943. Renumbered from § 405 of this title by Laws 2010, c. 41, § 133, emerg. eff. April 2, 2010.
Structure Oklahoma Statutes
§64-1001. Commissioners of the Land Office - Personnel.
§64-1002. Administration of state school lands - Powers and duties.
§64-1002A. Exchange of land for other properties.
§64-1004. Retention of realtors to secure tenants in commercial leasing of trust property.
§64-1005. Administration of Office – Appointment and duties of Secretary.
§64-1006. Commissioners of the Land Office - Secretary - Employees.
§64-1007. Division heads under supervision of Secretary.
§64-1009. Commissioners of the Land Office Fund - Deposit of funds - Use of funds.
§64-1010. Employee real estate appraiser license - Payment of fee.
§64-1011. Revolving fund created - Payments into fund - Payments from fund – Cash fund.
§64-1012. Fees and resolutions.
§64-1013. Investment of permanent school funds and other educational funds.
§64-1015. Appraisals and determining fair market value.
§64-1016. Appraisers - Prohibited activities - Violations.
§64-1017. False statements or affidavits – Perjury - Penalty.
§64-1018. Destruction of timber or improvements - Unlawful entry - Damages.
§64-1019. Lien on crops to secure rentals.
§64-1020. Sale of oil, gas or mineral leases.
§64-1021. Fee on natural gas sold to state or political subdivision.
§64-1022. Reservation and retention of oil, gas and other minerals under certain lands.
§64-1023. Trust property - Commercial, agricultural and mineral leases.
§64-1024. Bribes - Duty to report - Discharge for failure to report.
§64-1025. Embezzlement - Discharge upon conviction.
§64-1026. Records - Destroying or forging a felony.
§64-1027. Statutes of limitation - Prosecutions.
§64-1029. Cash Journal - Checks and drafts - Endorsement - Penalty.
§64-1033. Recordation of instruments - Fees.
§64-1034. Record of proceedings - Approval - Number of concurring members required.
§64-1035. Secretary - Duties - Financial statement to Governor and Legislature.
§64-1036. Accounts and records of Land Office – Audits – Filing copies of audits.
§64-1038. Power of Commissioners to sue and be sued – Attorney General to represent.
§64-1039. Checks, warrants or vouchers - Remaining unpaid for three years.
§64-1040. Certain lands to be sold.
§64-1041. Disposition of proceeds.
§64-1042. Limitations of purchase.
§64-1043. Preference right of lessees.
§64-1044. Record for taxation - Tax sales.
§64-1045. Cancellation of certificate - Redemption.
§64-1046. Conditions imposed follow land.
§64-1048. Irrigation and flood control projects - Sale of lands.
§64-1049. Oil and gas - Reservation - Lease.
§64-1050. Lessee - Preference right.
§64-1051. Failure to pay bid - Reimbursement of lessee.
§64-1053. Public auction - Extension of time.
§64-1054. Notice of sale - Publication.
§64-1055. Deed - Reservation of oil and gas.
§64-1056. All public lands subject to lease.
§64-1057. Commissioners of the Land Office - Delinquency – Collection procedures.
§64-1058. Assignment of lease as security.
§64-1059. Removal of crops and improvements.
§64-1060. Records made public.
§64-1062. Appraisement of land - Rules and regulations.
§64-1063. Leases authorized - Duration, terms and conditions - Public competition - Assignment.
§64-1064. School lands - Leasing for oil and gas.
§64-1065. Lease of surface interest to reserve mineral deposits.
§64-1066. Community oil and gas lease.
§64-1067. Lessee liable to surface holder for damages.
§64-1068. Condemnation under certain conditions.
§64-1072. Contracts authorized.
§64-1073. Royalty proceeds from sale of oil and gas production.
§64-1074. Division of proceeds of sales and leases.
§64-1075. New College Fund - Designation.
§64-1076. Proceeds made available.
§64-1078. Apportionment of income among institutions.
§64-1079. Receipts to constitute Public Building Fund - Transfer from General Revenue Fund.
§64-1081. Lease for oil and gas development.
§64-1082. Notice by publication.
§64-1083. Abandoned municipality - Definition - Oil and gas leases thereon.
§64-1084. County separate school lands - Leases.
§64-1085. State lands - Contracts for use - Damages.
§64-1086. Execution of instruments - Approval by Governor.
§64-1087. Negotiations and conveyances in lieu of condemnation proceedings.
§64-1089. Rights and powers cumulative.
§64-1090. Prospecting - Permits.
§64-1091. Notice and sale of lease.
§64-1092. Prospectors liable for damages to surface.
§64-1093. Rules and regulations.