Chapter 55, OIL AND GAS

55-711. Assessment of costs of administering K.S.A. 55-701 through 55-713; disposition of moneys. (a) Subject to the provisions of K.S.A. 55-143, and amendments thereto, the state corporation commission is hereby directed to tax and assess against the parties involved in any hear…

55-712. Enforcement of act; agents. The commission is hereby authorized to employ or designate such agents as may in its judgment be necessary to enforce and administer the provisions of this act, and the rules and regulations and orders promulgated thereunder; such agents, with …

55-713. Invalidity of part. If any clause, sentence, section, provision, or part of this act shall be adjudged to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall not invalidate, impair, or affect the remainder of this act,…

55-801. Representative may be appointed to agree upon compact with petroleum-producing states; objectives of compact. The governor is authorized to appoint a representative to meet with representatives of the governors of other petroleum-producing states, and of the United States…

55-802. When compact binding. No compact made under the authority of this act shall bind this state, unless and until: (a) Said compact shall be ratified by the legislatures of two of the states of Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas, and New Mexico, and the legislature of this s…

55-803. "Interstate compact to conserve oil and gas" ratified. The "interstate compact to conserve oil and gas" entered into by the representatives of this state and the representatives of certain other oil-producing states at Dallas, Texas, on the sixteenth day of February, 1935…

55-804. Text of such compact. Said "interstate compact to conserve oil and gas" so ratified, approved and confirmed, is in words and figures as follows: "AN INTERSTATE COMPACT TO CONSERVE OIL AND GAS "Article I "This agreement may become effective within any compacting state at a…

55-862. Further extension of compact to conserve oil and gas to September 1, 1979; amendment of compact; notice, withdrawal. The governor of the state of Kansas is hereby authorized and directed, for and in the name of the state of Kansas, to execute and deliver an agreement with…

55-863. Same; text of compact set out in K.S.A. 55-804 with exception of amendment. The interstate compact to conserve oil and gas referred to in the above section, and which was by statute regularly ratified, approved, confirmed and extended by the state of Kansas (K.S.A. 55-857…

55-864. Substance of agreement executed by governor. The agreement to amend, extend and renew said interstate compact to conserve oil and gas, and which the governor of this state is hereby authorized and directed to execute for and in the name of the state of Kansas shall be in …

55-865. Official representative of Kansas; appointment, oath, expenses. The governor of Kansas is authorized to appoint a representative of the state of Kansas to the interstate oil compact commission who shall act as the official representative of the state of Kansas on such com…

55-866. Withdrawal from compact; notice. The governor of Kansas is authorized and empowered for and on the behalf of the state of Kansas to determine if and when it shall be for the best interest of the state of Kansas to withdraw from said compact upon sixty (60) days' notice as…

55-901. Disposal of salt water; rules and regulations; assessment of costs; disposition of moneys. (a) The owner or operator of any oil or gas well which may be producing and which produces salt water or waters containing minerals in an appreciable degree shall have the right to …

55-903. Reporting violations to the commission; prosecution. Any county or district attorney who finds that there is probable cause to believe that a violation of subsection (a) of K.S.A. 55-904, and amendments thereto, has occurred shall immediately notify the state corporation …

55-904. Disposal of salt water; penalties for violations. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, partnership or other association of persons: (1) To knowingly and willfully dispose of or cause the disposal of salt water produced in conjunction with the produc…

55-1003. Disposal of oil-field or gas-field brines and mineralized waters; plans and specifications; approval; disposal wells; notice and hearing; judicial review; eminent domain. Each company or corporation engaged in the production of petroleum or natural gas in Kansas, or orga…

55-1004. Unlawful to dispose of certain waste in oil-field disposal wells at excessive pressures; penalties. It shall be unlawful for any person having possession, control or the use of any oil-field waste disposal well wherein salt water, mineralized brine, oil or refuse produce…

55-1005. Disposal wells for salt brines and other oil field wastes; minimum depth; penalty. It shall be unlawful to use wells for the disposal of salt brines or other oil field wastes which do not meet the requirements for minimum depth established by the rules and regulations of…

55-1007. Authority to enjoin party from maintaining a disposal well. The attorney general or county attorney shall, at all times, have the power to enjoin any party from maintaining a disposal well if it shall appear that such party has violated the provisions of K.S.A. 55-1005. …

55-1101. Containers; definitions. The term "person" as used in this act shall mean and include any person, firm, or corporation. The term "liquefied petroleum gas" as used in this act shall mean and include any material which is composed predominantly of any of the following hydr…

55-1102. Unlawful acts. (a) If a liquefied petroleum gas container shall bear upon the surface thereof in plainly legible characters the name, mark, initials or other identifying device of the owner thereof, it shall be unlawful for any person except such owner or a person author…

55-1103. Unlawful to fill or refill unmarked containers if notified by owner. If the owner of any liquefied petroleum gas container, which is not marked as to ownership in the manner prescribed in subsection (a) of K.S.A. 55-1102, shall notify any person in writing that he or she…

55-1104. Evidence of unlawful use. The use of a liquefied petroleum gas container marked and identified as described in subsection (a) of K.S.A. 55-1102, without the written consent of the owner or a person authorized in writing by the owner to give such consent, or the possessio…

55-1105. Penalty for violation of act. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment for not more than six (6) months or by …

55-1201. Definitions. As used in this act (a) "underground storage" shall mean storage in a subsurface stratum or formation of the earth; (b) "natural gas" shall mean gas either while in its original state or after the same has been processed by removal therefrom of component par…

55-1202. Public interest and welfare. The underground storage of natural gas which promotes conservation thereof, which permits the building of reserves for orderly withdrawal in periods of peak demand, which makes more readily available our natural gas resources to the domestic,…

55-1203. Appropriation of certain property. Any natural gas public utility may appropriate for its use for the underground storage of natural gas any subsurface stratum or formation in any land which the commission shall have found to be suitable and in the public interest for th…

55-1204. Underground storage of natural gas; certificate of commission; notice and hearing; assessment of costs; disposition of moneys. (a) Any natural gas public utility desiring to exercise the right of eminent domain as to any property for use for underground storage of natura…

55-1205. Eminent domain procedure. Any natural gas public utility, having first obtained a certificate from the commission as hereinbefore provided, desiring to exercise the right of eminent domain for the purpose of acquiring property for the underground storage of natural gas s…

55-1207. Leasing of state-owned lands for underground storage of natural gas; conditions. The director of the state department of administration, with the approval of the state finance council, may lease to a person, firm or corporation lands owned by the state of Kansas for the …

55-1208. Abandonment of underground natural gas storage facility; notification; hearings by corporation commission. (a) When the owner of an underground natural gas storage facility has permanently abandoned the storage facility and that facility was certificated by the state cor…

55-1209. Plat map of location of underground natural gas facility required. The owner of an underground natural gas storage facility shall provide to the state corporation commission a plat map identifying the location of such facility and a description of the geological formatio…

55-1210. Property rights to injected natural gas established. (a) All natural gas which has previously been reduced to possession, and which is subsequently injected into underground storage fields, sands, reservoirs and facilities, whether such storage rights were acquired by em…

55-1301. Additional powers and duties of the state corporation commission. In addition to the jurisdiction, powers and duties conferred or imposed upon the state corporation commission, herein called "commission," by articles 6 and 7 of chapter 55 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated…

55-1302. Definitions. As used in this act: (a) Except where the context otherwise requires, the terms used or defined in articles 6 and 7 of chapter 55 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated, and amendments thereto, shall have the same meaning when used in this act. (b) "Pool" means an…

55-1303. Requisites of application; hearings. Any working interest owner may file an application with the commission requesting an order for the unit operation of a pool or part thereof. The application shall contain: (a) A description of the land and pool or part thereof to be s…

55-1304. Matters to be found by the commission precedent to issuance of unitization order; hearings. The commission may make an order providing for the unitization and unit operation of such pool or part thereof sought to be unitized, if, upon application of any working interest …

55-1305. Commission orders. The order providing for the unitization and unit operation of a pool or a part thereof shall be upon terms and conditions that are just and reasonable and shall prescribe a plan for unit operations that shall include: (a) A legal description in terms o…

55-1306. Unit operations. All operations, including, but not limited to, the commencement, drilling, or operation of a well upon any part of the unit area shall be deemed for all purposes the conduct of such operations upon each separately owned tract in the unit area by the seve…

55-1307. Enlargement of area and creation of new units. The unit area of a unit may be enlarged to include adjoining portions of the same common source of supply, including the unit area of another unit, and a new unit created for the unitized management, operation and further de…

55-1308. Existing rights, rights in unleased land, and royalties and lease burdens. Property rights, leases, contracts, and other rights or obligations shall be regarded as amended and modified only to the extent necessary to conform to the provisions and requirements of this act…

55-1309. Employment of consultant to advise commission. Whenever in any contested proceeding before the commission for the unitization and unit operation of a pool or a part of a pool, the commission determines that the engineering, geological, or other technical issues are such …

55-1310. Procedures on unit operation plans; application of laws; notices; hearings, place of; publication of notice of applications and hearings; cost. All of the provisions and requirements of K.S.A. 55-605, 55-606, 55-607, 55-608, 55-609 and 55-611, and amendments thereto, wit…

55-1311. Agreements not violative of laws governing monopolies or restraint of trade. No agreement between or among lessees or other owners of oil and gas rights in oil and gas properties entered into pursuant hereto or with a view or for the purpose of bringing about the unitize…

55-1312. Rendition for taxation of property used by unit; assessment and taxation. It shall be the duty of the unit operator to make and file all necessary ad valorem tax renditions and returns with the proper taxing authorities covering all property of each working interest owne…

55-1313. Certificates to be recorded. Upon a unitization order becoming effective the commission shall file for recording in the office of the register of deeds in the county or counties in which the lands are located a certificate in such form as the commission may prescribe, wh…

55-1314. Act supplemental. The provisions of this act shall be supplemental to and a part of articles 6 and 7 of chapter 55 of the Kansas Statutes Annotated. History: L. 1967, ch. 299, § 14; July 1. CASE ANNOTATIONS 1. Act provides exclusive method to compel unitization; inclusio…

55-1315. Invalidity of part. If any clause, sentence, section, provision, or part of this act shall be adjudged to be unconstitutional or invalid for any reason by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall not invalidate, impair, or affect the remainder of this act…

55-1316. Definition of "pool"; legislative intent. The amendment by this act of the definition of "pool" shall not be considered a statement of legislative intent for the purpose of interpretation of the definition of "pool" prior to its amendments by this act. History: L. 2004, …

55-1317. Unitization without KCC order, when. (a) As used in this section, terms have the meanings provided by K.S.A. 55-1302, and amendments thereto. (b) Subject to the provisions of subsection (c), if all mineral and royalty owners and not less than 90% of the working interest …