Kentucky Code — 38944
Browse 160 sections in division 38944 of the Kentucky code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 353.010. Definitions for chapter.
- § 353.020. Oil and gas lease or contract, when lessor may avoid.
- § 353.030. Nonproductive well, when lease or contract satisfied by.
- § 353.040. When offset wells to be drilled.
- § 353.050. Plat, showing well, to be filed if well is to extend through coal-bearing strata -- Copies to certain persons.
- § 353.060. Petition to object to location of well -- Notice -- Hearing -- Drilling permit.
- § 353.070. Index of plats -- Agreement permitting well operator to select location.
- § 353.080. Drilling through coal bed.
- § 353.090. Gas found beneath or between coal beds.
- § 353.100. Casings to remain in place during life of productive well.
- § 353.110. Abandonment of well drilled through coal strata -- Plugging of well.
- § 353.120. Method of plugging well drilled through coal-bearing strata.
- § 353.130. Alternative methods that may be used when strata shot.
- § 353.140. Gas escape pipe, when to be used.
- § 353.150. Unused oil, gas or salt water well to be closed to prevent waste.
- § 353.160. Gas waste to be prevented -- Presumption of negligence.
- § 353.170. Putting pressure on strata -- Wells may remain open if conforming to Federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
- § 353.180. Requirements for plugging abandoned well -- Bids -- Remedy for possessor of adjacent land or for department.
- § 353.190. Salt and saltpetre works to be inclosed -- Liability.
- § 353.200. Department for Natural Resources to enforce oil and gas law -- Complaints -- Hearings -- Final order of secretary.
- § 353.205. Department to release production data on crude oil and natural gas.
- § 353.210. Agreement consolidating oil and gas leases may be executed by trustee representing contingent future interests.
- § 353.220. Nature of agreement.
- § 353.230. Petition for court approval -- Affidavits -- Guardian ad litem -- Order of approval.
- § 353.240. Agreement consolidating oil and gas leases may be executed by guardian.
- § 353.250. Nature of agreement.
- § 353.260. Petition for court approval -- Affidavits -- Guardian ad litem -- Order of approval.
- § 353.270. Repealed, 1986.
- § 353.280. Repealed, 1986
- § 353.290. Repealed, 1986
- § 353.300. Appointment of trustee to execute mineral lease where contingent future interests are involved.
- § 353.310. Jurisdiction of court.
- § 353.320. Who may institute proceedings.
- § 353.330. Parties -- Representation of minors, mentally disabled, and persons not in being.
- § 353.340. Alignment of parties -- Process.
- § 353.350. Bond of trustee -- Terms of sale of lease.
- § 353.360. Execution of sale of lease -- Report -- Confirmation.
- § 353.370. Separate lease by guardian or conservator unnecessary.
- § 353.380. Disposition of proceeds.
- § 353.400. Legislative declarations concerning availability and reliability of natural gas supplies -- Construction of KRS 353.400 to 353.410.
- § 353.402. Definitions for KRS 353.400 to 353.410.
- § 353.404. Creation of natural gas acquisition authority -- Components of agreement -- Public agency status -- Election of authority formation method.
- § 353.406. Powers of natural gas acquisition authority -- Scope of project capacity.
- § 353.408. Issuance of bonds for benefit of authority.
- § 353.410. Gas sale contracts by gas acquisition authority.
- § 353.411. Purpose of KRS 353.411 to 353.459.
- § 353.413. Definitions for KRS 353.411 to 353.459.
- § 353.415. Carbon dioxide sequestration facility permit requirements -- Application of KRS 353.411 to 353.459.
- § 353.417. Application procedures -- Duties of cabinet -- Criteria -- Requirements -- Administrative regulations.
- § 353.419. Application notice requirements.
- § 353.421. Technical review of applications -- Duties of cabinet.
- § 353.423. Required provisions of a permit -- Filing of permit and land survey with county clerk.
- § 353.425. Drilling permit requirements -- Administrative regulations.
- § 353.427. Injected and sequestered carbon dioxide not to be considered a pollutant -- Facility not to be considered a public nuisance -- Authority and jurisdiction of cabinet.
- § 353.429. Sequestration reservoirs -- Rights and duties of mineral owners, lessees, pore space owners, oil and gas operators, and sequestration operators -- Duties of cabinet -- Hearing.
- § 353.431. Cooperative agreements with other states and governmental agencies.
- § 353.433. Ownership and control of carbon dioxide -- Liability.
- § 353.435. Compilation certificate -- Procedures -- Public notice and hearing -- Defense, indemnification, and hold harmless of pore space or surface owner by Commonwealth -- Release of liability -- Filing of completion certificate and survey with county clerk.
- § 353.437. Carbon dioxide sequestration facility administrative fund.
- § 353.439. Application, administrative, and completion certificate fees.
- § 353.441. Carbon dioxide sequestration facility trust fund.
- § 353.443. Injection fees – Annual report.
- § 353.445. Certification of injected carbon dioxide -- Fee.
- § 353.447. Construction of KRS 353.411 to 353.459 in regards to common law rights and relationship of severed mineral estate and pore space owner.
- § 353.449. Agreement of pore space owners -- Nonconsenting owners -- Inclusion of pore space by order of cabinet -- Pooling order -- Costs -- Hearing -- Seismic survey -- Liability.
- § 353.451. Funds due to unknown or missing pore space owners.
- § 353.453. Severability.
- § 353.455. Noncompliance with, or failure to abate violations of, KRS 353.411 to 353.459 -- Penalties -- Orders -- Actions -- Venue.
- § 353.459. Authority of cabinet to seek federal approval of regulatory program and responsibility for underground injection control -- Administrative regulations -- Requirements.
- § 353.460. Definitions.
- § 353.462. Jurisdiction in Circuit Court.
- § 353.464. When court may declare trust and appoint trustee -- Persons authorized to institute proceedings.
- § 353.466. Persons to be joined as defendants -- Verified petition showing effort to locate owners -- Advertisement and lis pendens notice, contents -- Trustee ad litem.
- § 353.468. If advantageous to unknown or missing owner, court may declare trust -- Bond of trustee -- Sale of lease -- Trustee's report -- When court not to authorize trustee's lease -- Trustee to use percentage of funds to search for owner -- Period during which unknown or missing owner may establish identity and title.
- § 353.470. When trustee may convey title in mineral interest to surface owner -- Payment to surface owner -- Final report of trustee -- Termination of trust.
- § 353.472. Payment to surface owner when leased mineral never produced commercially.
- § 353.474. Payment of attorneys' fees, expenses, and court costs.
- § 353.476. When action by unknown or missing owner is barred.
- § 353.500. Declaration of policy of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
- § 353.510. Definitions for KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
- § 353.520. Territorial application of KRS 353.500 to 353.720 -- Waste of oil and gas prohibited.
- § 353.530. Director of Division of Oil and Gas -- Qualifications -- Duties -- Oath.
- § 353.540. Authority of department -- Jurisdiction.
- § 353.550. Specific authority over oil and gas operators.
- § 353.560. Further authority.
- § 353.561. Determination of abandoned storage tank facility -- Restorative and preventive actions.
- § 353.562. Kentucky Abandoned Storage Tank and Orphan Well Reclamation Program -- Kentucky abandoned storage tank and orphan well reclamation fund -- Use of funds received from federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act -- Initial grants -- Grant types.
- § 353.563. Cabinet's authority to enter property for removal or reclamation of abandoned storage tank facility or improperly abandoned well.
- § 353.564. When owner or prior owner deemed to have waived certain rights -- Cabinet's authority to recover actual and necessary expenses incurred in implementing KRS 353.561 to 353.564 -- Cabinet's powers when seeking cost-efficiency or public benefit -- Administrative regulations.
- § 353.565. Kentucky Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
- § 353.570. Permit required -- Department may authorize operation prior to issuance of permit.
- § 353.572. Eligibility requirements for permit issuance or transfer under this chapter -- When operator ineligible to receive a permit or become a successor operator, factors considered -- Energy and Environment Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations relating to compliance with eligibility requirements -- Restoration of eligibility for applicants, operators, and control persons.
- § 353.575. Duty of applicant to meet and confer with permittee if drilling will disturb permitted area.
- § 353.580. Expiration of permit -- Extensions.
- § 353.588. Investigation of abandoned wells -- Application -- Report -- Bond.
- § 353.590. Application for permit -- Fees-- Plat -- Plugging and restoration bonds -- Blanket bonds -- Corporate guarantee -- Use of forfeited funds -- Oil and gas well plugging fund -- Well closure orders -- Requirements for permitted stratigraphic test wells -- Wells not included in "water supply well" -- Review under KRS 353.700.
- § 353.5901. Operations and reclamation plan -- Contents, distribution, and agreement or mediation -- Mediation report -- Review under KRS 353.700.
- § 353.591. Purpose and application of KRS 353.592 and 353.593.
- § 353.592. Powers of the department.
- § 353.593. Appeals to Office of Administrative Hearings.
- § 353.595. Notice to surface owner of intent to drill oil or gas well -- Compensation for damage to surface -- Restoration of surface.
- § 353.597. Replacement of disrupted water supply by well operator.
- § 353.600. Repealed, 1992.
- § 353.610. Conditions under which permits may be issued -- Exceptions.
- § 353.620. Variance from requirements of KRS 353.610 -- Review under KRS 353.700.
- § 353.630. Pooling of oil and gas interests -- Conditions -- Review under KRS 353.700.
- § 353.640. Pooling order -- Notice -- Provisions -- Surrender or sharing of interest -- Limited participation -- Review under KRS 353.700.
- § 353.645. Operation and development as a unit of oil and gas interests in a pool or pools -- Application for unit -- Hearing -- Unitization order -- Review under KRS 353.700.
- § 353.650. Exclusion of royalty interest in computing share of production -- Limitation.
- § 353.651. Vertical and horizontal deep wells -- Establishment and regulation of drilling units -- Pooling of interests -- Exceptions.
- § 353.652. Unit operation of pool -- Procedure.
- § 353.653. Share of production from drilling unit or unitized pool.
- § 353.654. Drilling without consent of landowner prohibited.
- § 353.655. Use of shackle rods or related cables prohibited.
- § 353.656. Display of danger signs on oil storage facilities.
- § 353.660. Report required after termination of operations -- Contents -- Confidentiality of information.
- § 353.6601. Advance notice to surface owner located within 1,000 feet of high-volume horizontal fracturing treatment of a horizontal well.
- § 353.6602. Baseline water quality testing required prior to commencement of a high-volume horizontal fracturing treatment on a deep horizontal well.
- § 353.6603. Completion of chemical disclosure registry form.
- § 353.6604. Confidentiality of trade secrets -- When disclosure is required.
- § 353.6605. Disclosure of trade secret information to assist in responding to emergency spill or discharge.
- § 353.6606. Treatment of trade secret information in response to open records request.
- § 353.670. Promulgation of regulations -- Hearing -- Written record of hearing.
- § 353.680. Repealed, 1996.
- § 353.690. Production of evidence -- Failure to comply.
- § 353.700. Administrative review of final determination or order of department -- Petition -- Notice -- Hearing -- Report and recommended order of hearing officer -- Final order of secretary -- Judicial review.
- § 353.710. Suit to enjoin violation -- By department, person adversely affected, Attorney General.
- § 353.720. Construction of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.
- § 353.730. Renumbered as KRS 353.588.
- § 353.735. Public policy concerning underground coal mining adjacent to oil and gas exploration activities.
- § 353.737. Location of well drilled through workable coal bed to be provided.
- § 353.739. Survey required for well drilled in an active mining area or through a workable coal bed.
- § 353.741. Survey required when requested for well drilled outside an active mining area.
- § 353.743. Copy of survey to be provided to Division of Oil and Gas.
- § 353.745. Location of well's gathering lines to be marked.
- § 353.747. KRS 353.735 to 353.747 not to affect well spacing requirements.
- § 353.750. Definitions for KRS 353.750 to 353.776.
- § 353.752. Kentucky Gas Pipeline Authority established -- Membership.
- § 353.754. Procedure and organization -- Regulations.
- § 353.756. Purpose of authority -- Powers of the authority.
- § 353.758. Issuance of revenue bonds -- Proceeds of bonds -- Notes or temporary bonds.
- § 353.760. Bonds of authority not debts of Commonwealth.
- § 353.762. Discretionary securing of bonds by trust indentures.
- § 353.764. Enforcement of rights by bond holder or trustee of trust indenture.
- § 353.766. Status of authority bonds as securities.
- § 353.768. Issuance of revenue refunding bonds.
- § 353.770. Treatment of moneys received.
- § 353.772. Exemptions from taxation.
- § 353.774. KRS 45A.045 not applicable to authority projects.
- § 353.776. Reporting of activities.
- § 353.800. Repealed, 2026.
- § 353.802. Repealed, 2026.
- § 353.804. Repealed, 2026.
- § 353.806. Repealed, 2026.
- § 353.808. Repealed, 2026.
- § 353.810. Repealed, 2026.
- § 353.812. Repealed, 2026.
- § 353.990. Penalties.
- § 353.991. Penalties for violation of KRS 353.500 to 353.720 and 353.735 to 353.747.
- § 353.992. Penalties.