It is the duty of the owner, or person in charge of any borehole which penetrates any workable coal seam or any accessible or inaccessible coal mine excavation, to notify the state oil and gas conservation commission of the location of such borehole by designating the particular five-acre subdivision of the land section on which […]
No borehole penetrating a gas-bearing or oil-bearing formation shall be located within two hundred feet of a shaft or entrance to a coal mine not definitely abandoned or sealed. No such borehole shall be located within one hundred feet of any mine shaft house, mine boiler house, mine engine house, or mine fan. The location […]
Any borehole penetrating any workable seam of coal shall be cased by the owner of such borehole with a suitable casing, conductor, or drive pipe, so as to shut off all surface water from entering said workable coal seam. Source: L. 15: p. 375, § 33. C.L. § 3646. CSA: C. 118, § 46. CRS […]
When boreholes for gas or oil are drilled in the coal measures and pass through workable seams, if gas or oil is encountered in such borehole, the coal seams or worked out coal seams shall be sufficiently protected by casing so that the gas or oil shall not come in contact with the coal seams […]
When a water-bearing formation is encountered in the drilling of any borehole for natural gas or oil, casing shall be set upon the next formation encountered which is of such a nature that it will sustain the casing and exclude all water from the lower borehole. Source: L. 15: p. 376, § 35. C.L. § […]
This article shall apply only to wells or boreholes which may be drilled through workable coal seams. Source: L. 15: p. 376, § 38. C.L. § 3651. CSA: C. 118, § 51. CRS 53: § 100-3-6. C.R.S. 1963: § 100-3-6.
It is the duty of the district attorneys in their districts, and the attorney general in cases where the district attorney refuses to act, to enforce the provisions of this article by appropriate actions in courts of competent jurisdiction. Source: L. 55: p. 646, § 1. CRS 53: § 100-3-7. C.R.S. 1963: § 100-3-7.
[ Editor’s note: This version of this section is effective until March 1, 2022. ] Any person who violates any of the provisions of this article is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than […]
