Mineral Code
La. Laws div. RS, tit. 31
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section31:1. Title and form of citationsection31:2. Relation to Civil Codesection31:3. Freedom of contract and limitations thereonsection31:4. Substances to which Code applicablesection31:5. Ownership of solid mineralssection31:6. Right to search for fugitive minerals; elements of ownership of landsection31:7. When minerals reduced to possessionsection31:8. Landowner's right of enjoyment for mineral extractionsection31:9. Correlative rights of owners of common reservoir or depositsection31:10. Liability to others with interests in common reservoir or depositsection31:11. Reasonable regard for concurrent uses of the land burdened by mineral rightssection31:12. Protection of landowner's interest in mineralssection31:13. Damages for removal of solid mineralssection31:14. Drainage of fugitive minerals; exclusion of liability; exceptionssection31:15. Right of landowner to convey, reserve, or lease right to explore and developsection31:16. Basic mineral rights; status as real rightssection31:17. Rescission for lesion beyond moiety unavailablesection31:18. Nature of mineral rightssection31:19. Capacity to create mineral rightssection31:20. Authority to create mineral rightssection31:21. Nature of mineral servitudesection31:22. Certain rights and obligations of mineral servitude ownersection31:23. Right of servitude owner to operate; protection thereofsection31:24. Right of landowner to create mineral servitudesection31:25. Right of conditional landowner to create mineral servitudesection31:26. Usufructuary may not create mineral servitudesection31:27. Extinction of mineral servitudessection31:28. Commencement of prescription of nonusesection31:29. How prescription of nonuse is interruptedsection31:30. Date on which prescription interrupted and commenced anewsection31:31. Operations beyond prescriptive date; effect as interruptionsection31:32. Interruption by additional operationssection31:33. Unit operations; effect as interruption of prescriptionsection31:34. Shut-in well; testing as interruption of prescriptionsection31:35. Unitization with tested shut-in well as interruption of prescriptionsection31:36. Production as interruption of prescriptionsection31:37. Unit production as interruption of prescriptionsection31:38. Good faith production for beneficial purpose requiredsection31:39. Attempt to restore or secure new production as interruption of prescriptionsection31:40. Interruption applicable to all minerals and modes of usesection31:41. Commencement of prescription anew following attempt to restore or secure new productionsection31:42. By whom a mineral servitude may be usedsection31:43. When a person is acting on behalf of servitude ownersection31:44. Adoption of operations by anothersection31:45. Time within which adoption must be madesection31:46. Procedure for adoptionsection31:47. Compulsory unit operations; adoption unnecessarysection31:48. Obligation of servitude owner to pay costssection31:49. Unsuccessful operations; waiver of damages when adoptedsection31:50. Adoption a matter of rightsection31:51. Adoption when servitude under leasesection31:52. Right to claim production in absence of adoptionsection31:53. Adoption possible only as specifically providedsection31:54. Interruption of prescription by acknowledgment; formal requirementssection31:55. Express intent requiredsection31:56. Contractual extension of servitude; requirementssection31:57. Extended servitude subject to rules of prescriptionsection31:58. Prescription not affected by minority or other disabilitysection31:59. Suspension of prescription by obstaclesection31:60. Suspension effective as to all mineralssection31:61. Compulsory unitization order not an obstacle; establishment of mining plan is an obstaclesection31:62. Mineral servitude indivisible except as specifically providedsection31:63. Presumption arising from separate description of tracts forming continuous body of landsection31:64. Presumption when servitudes created on noncontiguous tractssection31:65. Division of servient estate not division of servitudesection31:66. Right of owners of contiguous tracts to create single servitudesection31:67. Right of co-owners to create single servitude in partition of landsection31:68. Effect of limitation of servitude rights to specified horizons or levelssection31:69. Effect of partial conveyances of servitude rightssection31:70. Effect of contracts for use or development of portion of servitudesection31:71. Partial unitization not a divisionsection31:72. Parties free to contract except as specifically limitedsection31:73. Single servitude may not exist on noncontiguous tractssection31:74. Right to fix term or shorten prescriptive period; effect of stipulation for prescriptive period greater than ten yearssection31:75. Right to contract regarding rules of usesection31:76. Expectancy of extinction not an article of commercesection31:77. Application of after-acquired title doctrinesection31:78. Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; acquisition of outstanding servitudesection31:79. Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; extinction of outstanding servitudesection31:80. Nature of mineral royaltysection31:81. Executive and operating rights not includedsection31:82. Who may create mineral royaltysection31:83. Creation of mineral royalty by conditional ownersection31:84. Creation of mineral royalty by usufructuarysection31:85. Extinction of mineral royaltiessection31:86. Commencement of prescription of nonusesection31:87. Production as interruption of prescription; commencement of prescription anewsection31:88. Saved production sufficient to interrupt prescriptionsection31:89. Unit production as an interruption of prescriptionsection31:90. Tested shut-in well as interruption of prescriptionsection31:91. Unitization with tested shut-in well; effect as interruption of prescriptionsection31:92. Interruption applicable to all mineralssection31:93. Application of rules concerning acknowledgment and extension of prescriptionsection31:94. Acknowledgment by servitude owner of previously created mineral royaltysection31:95. Limited effect of acknowledgment of previously created royaltysection31:96. Previously created royalty; dependency on mineral servitude when acknowledgedsection31:97. Prescription not affected by minority or other disabilitysection31:98. Suspension of prescription by obstaclesection31:99. Obstacle to production from servitude suspends prescription as to dependent royaltysection31:100. Suspension effective as to all mineralssection31:101. Mineral royalty indivisible except as specifically providedsection31:102. effect of partial conveyance; applicability to mineral royaltysection31:103. Freedom of contract; application of rules to mineral royaltysection31:104. Rules applicable to transactions involving outstanding servitudes; applicability to mineral royaltiessection31:105. Nature of executive rightsection31:106. Executive right a mineral rightsection31:107. Interruption of prescription accruing against executive rightsection31:108. Nature of executive and nonexecutive interestssection31:109. Obligation of owner of executive interestsection31:110. Lease in violation of obligation valid; right of nonexecutive to damagessection31:111. Effect of certain transactions involving executive rightsection31:112. Right of nonexecutive to operatesection31:113. Executive right as appendage of another mineral rightsection31:114. Nature of mineral lease; creation on noncontiguous tracts; effect of unit operationssection31:115. Requirement of term; limitation of continuation without drilling or mining operations or productionsection31:116. Who may grant a mineral leasesection31:117. Granting of mineral lease by owner under conditional titlesection31:118. Right of usufructuaries to leasesection31:119. Obligations of lessorsection31:120. Lessor's warranty and limitation of liability for breach thereofsection31:121. Right of lessee to lease from adverse claimantssection31:122. Lessee's obligation to act as reasonably prudent operatorsection31:123. Rent and the obligation to make timely payment thereofsection31:124. Production in paying quantities required; definitionsection31:125. Amount of royalties relevant to reasonableness of lessee's expectationsection31:126. Interests created out of lessee's interest dependent thereon and not prescriptiblesection31:127. Lessee's right to assign or subleasesection31:128. Responsibility of assignee or sublessee to original lessorsection31:129. Assignor or sublessor not relieved of obligations or liabilities unless dischargedsection31:130. Lease not divided by partial assignment or subleasesection31:131. Lessor must accept performance by assignee or sublesseesection31:132. Demands by lessor; effect on assignee or sublesseesection31:133. Termination of mineral leasesection31:134. Right to relief for violationsection31:135. Rules of default applicable except as specifiedsection31:136. Written notice; requirement and effect on claims for damages or dissolution of leasesection31:137. Nonpayment of royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demandsection31:138. Required response of lessee to noticesection31:138.1. Division order; precedence of lease; penalties for failure to pay royalties duesection31:139. Effect of payment in response to noticesection31:140. Effect of nonpayment in response to notice or failure to state cause thereforsection31:141. Dissolution not a favored remedysection31:142. Dissolution may be partial or entiresection31:143. Summary eviction not applicablesection31:144. After-acquired title clause may bind lessor and successors in titlesection31:145. After-acquired title doctrine; applicability in absence of special clausesection31:146. Lessor's privilegesection31:147. Right to seize property on premises or within fifteen days of removalsection31:148. Manner of enforcementsection31:149. Mineral rights reserved from acquisitions of land by governments or agencies thereof imprescriptible; prescriptive period in acquisitions for economic developmentsection31:149.1. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.section31:149.2. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.section31:149.3. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.section31:150. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.section31:151. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.section31:152. Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.section31:153. How mineral rights are possessedsection31:154. Possession under title as including mineral rightssection31:155. Possession without title as including mineral rightssection31:156. Interruption of possession by use or exercise of mineral rightssection31:157. Interruption of possession by acknowledgmentsection31:158. Interruption of possession by judicial demandsection31:159. Mineral rights not established by acquisitive prescriptionsection31:160. Perfection of title by prescription as including mineral rightssection31:161. Interruption of acquisitive prescriptionsection31:162. Suspension of acquisitive prescriptionsection31:163. Acquisitive prescription; unavailability to mineral servitude ownersection31:164. Creation of mineral servitude by co-owner of landsection31:165. Creation of mineral royalty by co-owner of landsection31:166. Granting of mineral lease by co-owner of landsection31:167. Mineral right owner may not compel partition of landsection31:168. Mineral rights susceptible of undivided ownershipsection31:169. Those who are not co-owners of mineral rightssection31:170. Right of co-owner of mineral servitude to create mineral royaltiessection31:171. Right of co-owner of mineral lease to create dependent rightssection31:172. Mineral servitudes and royalties subject to partitionsection31:173. Mineral lessee's interest subject to partition; susceptibility of dependent rights to partitionsection31:174. Use by one co-owner inures to benefit of allsection31:175. Co-owner of mineral servitude may not operate independentlysection31:176. Co-owner of mineral servitude may act to prevent waste or destruction or extinction of servitudesection31:177. Co-owner of mineral lease may not operate independently except to prevent waste, destruction, or terminationsection31:178. When land burdened by mineral right may be judicially partitioned in kindsection31:179. Mineral right owner as party to partition of landsection31:180. Appraisal of land to be partitioned requiredsection31:181. Service of appraisal requiredsection31:182. Opposition to appraisal permittedsection31:183. Distribution of proceeds of partition salesection31:184. Effect of failure to appraise mineral right or interest thereinsection31:185. Owner of appraised mineral right entitled to participate in proceeds of salesection31:186. Owner of right derived from all co-owners of land unaffected by licitationsection31:187. Mineral right created by party acquiring land not affected by salesection31:188. Mineral rights not included in usufruct of land except as specifically providedsection31:189. Conventional usufruct may include enjoyment of mineral rightssection31:190. Usufructuary of land entitled to enjoyment of mines or quarries worked; exceptionsection31:191. When oil and gas wells and lignite operations considered open minessection31:192. Right of usufructuary of land to grant leasesection31:193. Nature of usufruct of a mineral rightsection31:194. Usufructuary not obligated to account to naked ownersection31:195. Right of naked owner of land to enjoyment of mineralssection31:196. Obligations of naked owner arising from enjoyment of rights in mineralssection31:197. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, §8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.section31:198. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, §8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.section31:198.1. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, §8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.section31:199. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, §8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.section31:200. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, §8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.section31:201. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, §8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.section31:202. Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, §8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.section31:203. Mineral rights susceptible of mortgage; effect of mortgagesection31:204. Security interest in minerals and proceeds thereofsection31:205. When transfer, assignment, or termination of mortgage or pledge effective against parties dealing with mortgagee or pledgeesection31:206. Obligation of owner of expired mineral right to furnish recordable act evidencing extinction or expiration of right; mineral leasesection31:207. Effect of failure to furnish act evidencing extinction or expiration of right; mineral leasesection31:208. Effect of good faith dispute as to extinction or expiration of rightsection31:209. Applicability to demand for dissolution of mineral leasesection31:210. When purchaser protected in paying party in interest under lease for minerals producedsection31:210.1. Interest on purchase payment of productionsection31:210.2. Declaration of interest; when third party purchasers of oil may withhold paymentsection31:211. Availability of mandamus for nonpayment of sums due for productionsection31:212. Right to attorney's fee incurred in securing writsection31:212.1. Sales relative to minerals after they are severed are subject to the laws of registrysection31:212.21. Nonpayment of production payment or royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demandsection31:212.22. Required response of obligor to noticesection31:212.23. Effects of payment or nonpayment with or without stating reasonable cause therefor; division ordersection31:212.31. Payment information to interest ownerssection31:212.32. Accumulation of proceeds from productionsection31:213. Definitionssection31:214. Applicability of Code to existing rightssection31:215. Contracts; partnership statussection31:216. Filingsection31:217. Declaration in lieu of agreement
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