Sec. 52.179. LEASE UNDER PERMIT. If oil or gas should be produced in paying quantities upon any land included in this law, the owner of the permit shall report the development to the commissioner within 30 days thereafter and apply for a lease upon such whole surveys or tracts in each permit as the owner or owners of a combination of permits may desire to be leased, and accompany the application with a log of the wells, and the correctness of the log shall be sworn to by the owner, manager, or driller, and thereupon a lease shall be issued without the payment of any additional sum of money and for a period not to exceed 10 years, subject to renewal or renewals.
Acts 1977, 65th Leg., p. 2460, ch. 871, art. I, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1977.
Structure Texas Statutes
Subtitle D - Disposition of the Public Domain
Section 52.171. School and Asylum Lands
Section 52.172. Sale and Lease by Agent
Section 52.174. Failure to Drill Offset
Section 52.175. Lease of Oil and Gas After Forfeiture
Section 52.176. Forfeiture of Rights
Section 52.177. Rights of Subsequent Purchaser
Section 52.178. Operation Under Permit
Section 52.179. Lease Under Permit
Section 52.180. Payments Under Permit
Section 52.181. Relinquishment Under Permit
Section 52.182. Damages to Soil
Section 52.183. Effective Date of Lease
Section 52.184. Statement of Consideration
Section 52.185. University Land
Section 52.186. Lease of Certain Minerals When Owner of the Soil Unavailable
Section 52.188. Assignments to the Owner of the Soil