Any person willfully or maliciously violating any of the provisions of this subchapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum of not less than one hundred dollars ($100) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500).
Where royalties are paid in lieu of drilling off-set wells on forty-acre units adjacent to forty-acre units already in production, the forty-acre units adjacent to the forty-acre unit receiving the royalty payments shall immediately after the signing of the agreement or contract become off-set units, and drilling operations shall begin on each adjacent forty-acre off-sets, […]
All purchasers of oil and gas shall pay to the royalty interest the same premium or bonus above the posted market price for oil or gas they pay to the leaseholder or working interest under any oil, gas, or mineral lease on lands from which oil or gas may be purchased under contract with the […]
It shall be unlawful for any purchaser of oil or gas to enter into any contract with any lessee or operator under any oil, gas, or mineral lease, whereby the purchaser undertakes to pay any of the cost or expense of operation or production, steaming, treating, or running oil or gas or any other bonus […]
It shall be the duty of both the lessee, or his or her assignee, and any pipeline company, corporation, or individual contracting for the purchase of oil or gas under any oil, gas, or mineral lease to protect the royalty of the lessor’s interest by paying to the lessor or his or her assignees the […]
It shall be unlawful for any pipeline company, corporation, or individual purchasing oil or gas from the operator or lessee of any oil, gas, or mineral lease to enter into any contract with the operator or lessee whereby the purchaser acquires the royalty oil or gas reserved in the oil, gas, or mineral lease for […]
(a) It shall be the duty of any purchaser of oil or gas to pay the royalty interest at the same time it pays the lessee or producer. However, the parties may expressly waive the time and manner of payment in writing. (b) The purchaser shall at some time not later than the twelfth day […]
(a) Any leaseholder or operator who contracts for the sale of gas or oil to any pipeline company or other purchaser, under and by virtue of the terms of which the lessee receives a greater amount than the royalty owners in proportion to interest therein, or receives a bonus, or by any other means conspires […]
(a) (1) The Oil and Gas Commission is hereby authorized to receive and investigate complaints of oil and gas royalty owners that their lessees or others responsible for the payment of royalty are in default of their lease agreements, orders of the commission, or the requirements of law with respect thereto, and to conduct hearings […]
