§ 15-56-501. Short line roads authorized
All persons owning or controlling by lease or purchase any copper, lead, zinc, iron, marble, stone, rock, granite, slate, coal, or other mineral lands in this state shall have the same right to incorporate, own, construct, and operate short lines of railway or tramway as necessary to the successful mining, quarrying, and marketing of coal, […]
§ 15-56-502. Rights-of-way acquisition and operation
All incorporations provided for shall: (1) Be governed by the laws governing railway incorporations in this state; and (2) Have the same right to acquire rights-of-way over, under, or through any private or public lands; have and exercise the same right of eminent domain in acquiring the right-of-way; and have the same authority to construct, […]
§ 15-56-503. Rights, powers, and privileges of common carrier
When so incorporated and constructed, short lines of railway and tramway shall be and are entitled to all the rights, powers, and privileges of a common carrier.
§ 15-56-504. Rights to connections, crossings, and transfer
All such short lines of railway or tramway shall have the same rights and privileges of connections, crossings, sidings, switches, and transfer, without prejudice or discrimination, as are extended by custom or granted by law to railroad corporations in this state.
§ 15-56-505. Passenger equipment
All short lines of railway or tramway not exceeding six (6) miles in length shall not be required to maintain passenger equipment. However, if at their option they carry passengers, they shall be subject to the laws governing passenger traffic on railroads in this state.
§ 15-56-310. In rem proceedings against unleased interest in minerals
The proceedings provided for in this subchapter shall be for all purposes an action in rem against the unleased interest in minerals as described in this subchapter.
§ 15-56-311. Failure of lessee to report output
Any person, firm, or corporation leasing lands in this state under written contracts providing for a royalty to be paid the lessor for ore deposits or minerals taken out of or off of the land, or any officer, agent, or employee of the lessee, who, with the intent to defraud the lessee out of any […]
§ 15-56-401. Exemptions
This subchapter shall not apply to the execution of oil and gas leases and shall in no wise infringe upon or affect the provisions of §§ 15-73-301 — 15-73-308.
§ 15-56-402. Authority to execute leases
Whenever any land in this state is devised by will or conveyed by grant to any person by any language which at common law would have vested in that person an estate in fee tail, then the person who at common law would have been invested with a fee tail estate in the lands and […]
§ 15-56-403. Petition to lease by life tenant — Contents
(a) Whenever any life tenant shall desire to lease any land for the production of any minerals, other than oil and gas, he or she shall file a verified petition with the circuit court of the county in which the lands, or the greater part of the lands, may be situated, praying for authority to […]