Louisiana Code — 30
Browse 862 sections in division 30 of the Louisiana code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § RS 30:1. Department established; appointment of secretary; jurisdiction
- § RS 30:2. Waste of oil or gas prohibited
- § RS 30:2.1. Ownership of brine produced incident to oil and gas operations
- § RS 30:3. Definitions
- § RS 30:4. Jurisdiction, duties, and powers of the secretary; rules and regulations
- § RS 30:4.1. Underground injection control
- § RS 30:4.2. Effective enforcement of wildlife and fisheries laws
- § RS 30:4.3. Financial security
- § RS 30:5. Permission to convert gas into carbon black; recycling gas; unit operations
- § RS 30:5.1. Deep pool order; ultra deep structure units; application; procedure; allocation of costs; rules and regulations
- § RS 30:5.2. Coal seam natural gas producing areas order; application; procedure; allocation of costs; rules and regulations
- § RS 30:6. Hearings; notice; rules of procedure; emergency; service of process; public records; request for hearings; orders and compliance orders
- § RS 30:6.1. Declaration of emergency
- § RS 30:7. Orders fixing allowable productions; hearing to determine initial schedules; old fields, hearing unnecessary, summary hearing
- § RS 30:8. Subpoenas and production of records; service; excuses for disobedience; enforcement of subpoenas
- § RS 30:9. Production from pool; drilling units; equitable share; rules and regulations
- § RS 30:9.1. Termination of units; conditions; procedure; issuance of orders
- § RS 30:9.2. Cross-unit well
- § RS 30:10. Agreements for drilling units; pooling interests; terms and conditions; expenses
- § RS 30:10.1. Authority of governor with advice of the secretary to enter unitization agreements affecting the production from state and federal waterbottoms
- § RS 30:11. Allocation of allowable production
- § RS 30:11.1. Filing and recording of orders creating drilling or production units
- § RS 30:12. Court review and injunction; venue; procedure; burden of proof
- § RS 30:13. Temporary restraining order or injunction; notice and hearing; bond
- § RS 30:14. Suit by secretary for violation of law; venue; relief obtainable
- § RS 30:15. Appeal
- § RS 30:16. Suit by party in interest upon commissioner's failure to sue
- § RS 30:17. False reports or entries; penalty
- § RS 30:18. Penalties for violation; venue
- § RS 30:19. Sale, etc. of illegal products prohibited
- § RS 30:20. Illegal gas, etc., contraband; seizure and sale; procedure; disposition of proceeds
- § RS 30:21. Fees and charges of the secretary; revisions; exceptions; collections; Oil and Gas Regulatory Dedicated Fund Account; creation; amounts; requirements
- § RS 30:21.1. Natural Resources Financial Security Fund
- § RS 30:21.2. Bohemia Spillway Cost Recovery
- § RS 30:22. Underground storage of natural gas, liquid hydrocarbons, and carbon dioxide
- § RS 30:23. Underground storage of liquid or gaseous hydrocarbons or both, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, nitrogen, ammonia, compressed air, or noble gases not otherwise prohibited by law
- § RS 30:23.1. Recordation of notice of solution mined cavern
- § RS 30:24. Enforcement of well, structure, and pipeline rules, regulations, and orders
- § RS 30:25. Closure of production pits in the wetlands
- § RS 30:26. Applications and notification of completeness
- § RS 30:27. Authorization to enter lands of another
- § RS 30:28. Drilling permits; issuance; fees; location plat; notice and hearing; funds from drilling permit fees
- § RS 30:28.1. Avoiding disturbance of privately owned water well
- § RS 30:29. Remediation of oilfield sites and exploration and production sites
- § RS 30:29.1. Landowner notification of environmental testing
- § RS 30:29.2. Alternative dispute resolution for disputes relating to remediation of oilfield sites and exploration and production sites
- § RS 30:31. Permitting gas well to go wild or burn prohibited; capping or plugging; notice
- § RS 30:32. Failure of owner, etc., to comply with notice; closing by department of public works; expenses
- § RS 30:33. Setting fire to well or permitting well to catch fire, prohibited; penalty
- § RS 30:34. Abandoning gas well without closing prohibited; penalty
- § RS 30:41. Production of gas in excess of market demands; proportionate production
- § RS 30:42. Right to purchase gas
- § RS 30:43. Discrimination by purchaser
- § RS 30:44. Gas to be measured by meter
- § RS 30:45. Secretary to enforce Part
- § RS 30:46. Penalty
- § RS 30:47. Cubic foot of gas defined
- § RS 30:48. Average specific gravity; average flowing temperature; field rules
- § RS 30:49. Reporting volumes of gas production
- § RS 30:50. Gas to be sold, purchased, and accounted for on basis of standard cubic foot of gas; penalties
- § RS 30:51. Prescription of penalties
- § RS 30:61. Exploitation of natural resources by secretary or employees prohibited
- § RS 30:62. Forfeiture of all rights acquired in violation of R.S. 30:61
- § RS 30:63. Transfer of rights acquired in violation of R.S. 30:61 null
- § RS 30:71. Citation
- § RS 30:72. Policy and purpose
- § RS 30:73. Definitions
- § RS 30:74. Abandoned oilfield waste sites; notification; clean up
- § RS 30:75. Abandoned oilfield waste sites; declaration
- § RS 30:76. Oilfield waste site cleanup
- § RS 30:77. Cooperative agreements
- § RS 30:78. Easements, rights-of-way, eminent domain
- § RS 30:79. Recordation of notice of abandoned oilfield waste sites by landowner
- § RS 30:80. Citation
- § RS 30:81. Policy and purpose
- § RS 30:82. Definitions
- § RS 30:83. Oilfield site restoration; administration by the Department of Conservation and Energy
- § RS 30:83.1. Authorization of bonds
- § RS 30:84. Powers of the secretary
- § RS 30:85. Powers of the secretary
- § RS 30:86. Oilfield Site Restoration Fund
- § RS 30:87. Oilfield site restoration fees
- § RS 30:88. Oilfield site trust accounts
- § RS 30:88.1. Oilfield site trust accounts for orphaned wells
- § RS 30:88.2. Orphan well rework program
- § RS 30:89. Non-orphan site restoration
- § RS 30:89.1. Credits for judgments or compromises
- § RS 30:90. Natural Resources Trust Authority annual report to the legislature
- § RS 30:91. Orphaned oilfield sites
- § RS 30:92. Orphan site restoration
- § RS 30:93. Recovery of site restoration costs; emergency costs
- § RS 30:94. Penalties
- § RS 30:95. No inference of liability on the part of the state
- § RS 30:96. Nullification of Part
- § RS 30:97. Implementation; trust accounts
- § RS 30:98.1. Legislative declaration; purpose
- § RS 30:98.2. Definitions
- § RS 30:98.3. Powers of the Department of Conservation and Energy
- § RS 30:98.4. Regional districts; water resource management
- § RS 30:98.5. Comprehensive water resource plan
- § RS 30:98.6. Enforcement and compliance
- § RS 30:98.7. Administrative review and appeals
- § RS 30:98.8. Immunity from liability
- § RS 30:98.9. Cooperation with other agencies
- § RS 30:98.10. Funding and financial assistance
- § RS 30:98.11. Agricultural use exemption
- § RS 30:98.12. Public water supply prioritization
- § RS 30:98.13. Severability
- § RS 30:101.1. Citation
- § RS 30:101.2. Policy and purpose
- § RS 30:101.3. Definitions
- § RS 30:101.4. Fishermen's Gear Compensation and Underwater Obstruction Removal Program
- § RS 30:101.5. Powers of the secretary
- § RS 30:101.6. Powers of the secretary
- § RS 30:101.7. Contracts; parties
- § RS 30:101.8. Liability
- § RS 30:101.9. Fishermen's Gear Compensation and Underwater Obstruction Removal Dedicated Fund Account
- § RS 30:101.10. Secretary annual report to the legislature
- § RS 30:101.11. Geographical coverage; annual assessments
- § RS 30:101.12. Promulgation and adoption of rules and regulations
- § RS 30:101.13. Disbursement of funds; eligibility; hearings
- § RS 30:101.14. Facilities reports; survey of obstruction; labeling
- § RS 30:101.15. Termination date
- § RS 30:102. Lessees to notify lessors of the termination of mineral leases
- § RS 30:103. Operators to report to owners amount of oil or gas produced
- § RS 30:103.1. Operators and producers to report to owners of unleased oil, gas, or brine interests
- § RS 30:103.2. Failure to report; penalty
- § RS 30:104. Failure to report punishable; fine
- § RS 30:108. R.S. 30:105 to 30:106 not applicable to state lands
- § RS 30:111. Payment for materials furnished or used in drilling well; market price
- § RS 30:112. Mineral lessee's address, secretary of state as agent to receive notices
- § RS 30:121. State Mineral and Energy Board created; composition and powers
- § RS 30:122. Compensation
- § RS 30:123. Meetings
- § RS 30:123.1. Registration of prospective leaseholders
- § RS 30:124. Board may lease public lands; fee
- § RS 30:124.1. Confidential information
- § RS 30:125. Application for lease; fee
- § RS 30:126. Inspection; quantity of land; advertisements for bids; fees
- § RS 30:127. Opening bids; minimum royalties; terms of lease; deposit; security
- § RS 30:127.1. Tertiary recovery incentive
- § RS 30:128. Transfers; approval by board; fees; penalties
- § RS 30:129. Powers, duties, and authority of board; pooling agreements; operating units; fees
- § RS 30:129.1. Public notice of approval of unitization, royalty or other agreements
- § RS 30:130. Records; execution of division orders and other documents
- § RS 30:131. Surveys, reports and investigations
- § RS 30:132. Attorney for the board
- § RS 30:134. Roads, etc.; payment to parishes; compromise of claims
- § RS 30:135. Secretary and other employees
- § RS 30:136. Funds; disposition and appropriation; penalties
- § RS 30:136.1. Proceeds from mineral royalties, leases, and bonuses; payment into the Bond Security and Redemption Fund; payment into the Louisiana Investment Fund for Enhancement (L.I.F.E.)
- § RS 30:136.3. Mineral and Energy Operation Fund
- § RS 30:137. Agreements to offset, compensate, and recover from future royalties
- § RS 30:138. Agreements to offset, etc., to be made against any payable royalty
- § RS 30:139. Validation of agreements
- § RS 30:140. Compliance with agreement as compliance with lease
- § RS 30:141. Power of mineral board not derogated - Other rights and remedies not modified
- § RS 30:142. Board as agency to receive, administer, and control royalties in-kind; contract authority
- § RS 30:143. Transfer of solid mineral leases; approval by board
- § RS 30:144. Sale of royalties in-kind to small refiners
- § RS 30:145. Distribution of mineral royalties to parishes
- § RS 30:146. Transfer of funds
- § RS 30:147. Bonds of the parish
- § RS 30:148.1. Lessor defined
- § RS 30:148.2. Lands which may be leased
- § RS 30:148.3. Application for lease
- § RS 30:148.4. Advertisement
- § RS 30:148.5. Submission and opening of bids; execution of leases
- § RS 30:148.6. Restrictions on area; term; consideration
- § RS 30:148.7. Supervision of leases
- § RS 30:148.8. Oil, gas, and mineral rights not affected; exceptions
- § RS 30:148.9. Oil; natural gas; liquid hydrocarbons; carbon dioxide; lease for underground storage
- § RS 30:148.10. Applicability
- § RS 30:149. Storage of carbon dioxide; distribution of funds; sovereign state lands
- § RS 30:149.1. Storage of carbon dioxide; distribution of funds; state agency property
- § RS 30:150. Louisiana Royalty Relief Dry Hole Credit Program; requirements; conditions; limitations; expiration
- § RS 30:151. "Agency" defined
- § RS 30:152. Agency lands; school boards sixteenth section lands; leases authorized
- § RS 30:153. Agencies may lease or administer through State Mineral and Energy Board
- § RS 30:154. Signing of papers and disposition of funds when agency leases own lands; deposit
- § RS 30:155. Alternative procedures
- § RS 30:156. Procedure when agency leases its own lands
- § RS 30:158. Approval of lease by board
- § RS 30:159. State banks in liquidation, leases subject to approval, how
- § RS 30:171. State departments and agencies; permits to lessees for directional drilling; permits to erect structures, etc.
- § RS 30:172. Lessees may construct breakwaters, etc.
- § RS 30:173. Private rights not to be affected; United States government, permission of
- § RS 30:179.11. Authorization to enter into agreements during controversy relating to submerged lands
- § RS 30:179.12. Ratification by legislature of any final agreements or stipulations
- § RS 30:179.13. Necessity for payment prior to ratification
- § RS 30:179.14. Prior agreements not affected
- § RS 30:206. Publication of survey
- § RS 30:207. Office space to be furnished
- § RS 30:208. Exploration of public lands
- § RS 30:209. State Mineral and Energy Board; authority
- § RS 30:209.1. Acquisition of information and data
- § RS 30:209.2. Storage of carbon dioxide; distribution of funds; sovereign state lands
- § RS 30:209.3. Storage of carbon dioxide; distribution of funds; state agency property
- § RS 30:210. Permits to prospect on highway rights of way, and on other lands subject to non-highway rights of way, servitudes and easements; injunctive relief and attorneys' fees
- § RS 30:211. Geophysical and geological survey, and public lands defined
- § RS 30:212. Permits for surveys on public lands
- § RS 30:213. Furnishing state information obtained under permits
- § RS 30:214. Permit for survey entailing use of public waters or bottoms
- § RS 30:215. Nonexclusive geophysical permits
- § RS 30:216. Exclusive geophysical permits
- § RS 30:217. Unauthorized geological surveying on lands of another; registration requirements; penalties
- § RS 30:218. Injunction not to lie in suits to restrain exploration for oil, etc., on state lands
- § RS 30:219. Release from sequestration
- § RS 30:220. Interlocutory decree for sale of sequestered oil
- § RS 30:221. Aerial photographs or mosaics; filing; copies; penalty
- § RS 30:251. Manner of measuring
- § RS 30:252. Testing, repairing and correcting of measuring equipment
- § RS 30:401. Advisory Commission for Louisiana's Energy, Environment, and Restoration; purpose
- § RS 30:402. Commission membership; domicile; chair; term; vacancies; quorum; compensation
- § RS 30:403. Operational plan; legislative recommendations
- § RS 30:411. Failure to supply natural gas as result of compulsory reallocation or curtailment action; damages; service; exceptions
- § RS 30:412. Measure of damages for failure to supply
- § RS 30:413. Certified emergencies; suspension of act
- § RS 30:414. Reallocation hearings; powers and duties of the secretary; reports to the governor
- § RS 30:431. Liquefied petroleum gas emergency; declaration; duration
- § RS 30:501. Citation
- § RS 30:502. Declaration of energy emergency; purpose of Chapter
- § RS 30:503. Definitions
- § RS 30:504. Department of Conservation and Energy; powers of the secretary
- § RS 30:521. Merger and consolidation of agencies or functions
- § RS 30:522. Effect of transfer of functions
- § RS 30:523. Transfer of records, money and equipment
- § RS 30:524. Secretary or merged agencies as agency of state for accepting and expending federal funds and carrying out purposes of federal laws
- § RS 30:525. Transfer of employees
- § RS 30:526. Orderly transfer
- § RS 30:527. Effective date of merger, consolidation and transfer of functions: appropriations
- § RS 30:528. Agencies created at same session
- § RS 30:541. General power; secretary; requirements
- § RS 30:542. Administration and enforcement
- § RS 30:543. Suit by party in interest upon commissioner's failure to sue
- § RS 30:544. Violation; penalties, civil and criminal
- § RS 30:545. Noncompliance not excused by contractual obligations
- § RS 30:546. General powers to control natural resources and energy
- § RS 30:547. Extraction of ethane and heavier hydrocarbons not prohibited; not regulated as natural gas
- § RS 30:548. Exercise of powers
- § RS 30:549. Accounting
- § RS 30:550. Compilation and publication of information by commissioner
- § RS 30:551. Regulatory designation
- § RS 30:552. Regulation by commissioner of gas transporter exempt from FPC
- § RS 30:553. Excess capacity
- § RS 30:554. Certificates of transportation; expropriation
- § RS 30:555. Construction, extension or abandonment of facilities; condemnation proceedings
- § RS 30:556. Lease and sublease of pipelines by commissioner
- § RS 30:557. Construction and operation of pipelines by secretary
- § RS 30:558. Bond issue for pipeline
- § RS 30:559. Registration and information required by the secretary
- § RS 30:560. Pipeline safety inspection fees
- § RS 30:561. Collection of inspection fees
- § RS 30:571. Establishment, promulgation and implementation of plan
- § RS 30:572. Priorities
- § RS 30:573. Application of priorities; exceptions
- § RS 30:574. Curtailment orders
- § RS 30:575. Curtailment of lower priority before curtailment of higher priority
- § RS 30:575.1. Deliveries not to be reduced more than ten per cent
- § RS 30:575.2. Amendments of existing contracts; effects
- § RS 30:576. Change in priorities; hearings
- § RS 30:577. Change in priorities without hearing; emergency
- § RS 30:578. Results contrary to intent of plan; hardship cases
- § RS 30:579. Discrimination by suppliers prohibited
- § RS 30:580. Prohibitions; bonded indebtedness of political subdivisions
- § RS 30:591. Definition
- § RS 30:592. Necessity for regulation
- § RS 30:593. Sales direct to industrial users
- § RS 30:594. Public utilities
- § RS 30:595. Exemption
- § RS 30:596. Waiver of requirements
- § RS 30:597. Notice filing
- § RS 30:598. Prices; schedules; suspension of new rates
- § RS 30:599. Fixing prices
- § RS 30:600. Periodic and special reports
- § RS 30:601. Services, records, information from other agencies
- § RS 30:602. Complaints
- § RS 30:603. Investigations by secretary; attendance of witnesses; depositions
- § RS 30:604. Hearings; rules of procedure
- § RS 30:605. Administrative powers of commissioner; rules, regulations, and orders
- § RS 30:606. Rehearings; court review of orders
- § RS 30:681.1. Legislative findings
- § RS 30:681.2. Definitions
- § RS 30:681.3. State Department of Conservation; powers, duties
- § RS 30:681.4. Participation by state, federal and private agencies; funds
- § RS 30:681.5. Reports to legislature
- § RS 30:691. Liquefied petroleum gas; defined
- § RS 30:692. Application of Chapter
- § RS 30:701. Short title
- § RS 30:702. Definitions
- § RS 30:703. Regulatory designation
- § RS 30:704. Administration and enforcement
- § RS 30:705. Violation; civil and criminal penalties
- § RS 30:706. Fees
- § RS 30:707. Collection of fees
- § RS 30:721. Definitions
- § RS 30:722. Application
- § RS 30:723. Expropriation authority
- § RS 30:724. Number of pipelines
- § RS 30:731. Definitions