Chapter 55 — OIL AND GAS

55-707. Judicial review of commission's actions. Actions for judicial review of any action of the commission under the provisions of this act may be brought and proceedings respecting them shall be governed by and appeals may be taken as provided in K.S.A. 55-606 and amendments t…

55-708. Penalties for violations. In addition to any penalty that may be imposed by the state corporation commission, any person, firm or corporation, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, violating the provisions of this act, or any valid order or rules and regulations of t…

55-709. Injunction and other remedies. The state corporation commission shall have the right to maintain an action in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state to enforce by injunction, mandatory injunction and any other appropriate or legal or equitable remedy any valid …

55-710. Receivership upon violation of act. In addition to any penalty imposed under the provisions of this act and to the remedy and relief heretofore set forth, any person, firm or corporation violating the provisions of this act, valid order, rules or regulations of the commis…

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…

55-711a. History: L. 1935, ch. 213, § 11; L. 1957, ch. 312, § 3; L. 1975, ch. 440, § 5; L. 1978, ch. 211, § 7; L. 1986, ch. 202, § 4; Repealed, L. 1987 ch. 206, § 1; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC…

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,…

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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 …

55-902. History: L. 1935, ch. 211, § 2; Repealed, L. 1981, ch. 223, § 3; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance Documents US…

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…

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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…

55-1006. History: L. 1957, ch. 319, § 2; L. 1975, ch. 462, § 68; Repealed, L. 1993, ch. 61, § 2; July 1. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived Sch…

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…

55-1206. History: L. 1951, ch. 268, § 6; Repealed, L. 1963, ch. 234, § 103; January 1, 1964. Previous | Next LEGISLATIVE COORDINATING COUNCIL General Policies 2026 Archived LCC Documents Archived LCC Meetings REVISOR OF STATUTES Archived Session Documents Archived School Finance …