Oklahoma § 52-287.13 - Definitions
Full text of Oklahoma Oklahoma Statutes § 52-287.13 — Definitions, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 52-287.13. Definitions
For the purposes of this act, unless the context otherwise
requires:
(a) The term "lessee" refers not only to lessees under oil and
gas leases but also to the owners of unleased lands or mineral
rights having the right to develop the same for oil and gas.
(b) Any reference to a separately-owned tract, although in
general terms broad enough to include the surface and all underlying
common sources of supply of oil and gas shall have reference thereto
only in relation to the common source of supply or portion thereof
embraced within the unit area of a particular unit.
(c) The phrase "oil and gas" shall refer not only to oil and gas
as such in combination one with the other, but shall have general
reference to oil, gas, casinghead gas, casinghead gasoline, gas
distillate, or other hydrocarbons, or any combination or
combinations thereof, which may be found in or produced from a
common source of supply of oil, oil and gas or gas distillate.
(d) The term "person" shall mean and include any individual,
corporation, partnership, common law or statutory trust, association
of any kind, the State of Oklahoma or any subdivision or agency
thereof acting in a proprietary capacity, guardian, executor,
administrator, fiduciary of any kind, or any other entity or being
capable of owning an interest in and to a common source of supply of
oil and gas.
(e) The term "unit expense" shall include and mean any and all
cost, expense, or indebtedness incurred by the unit in the
establishment of its organization, or incurred in the conduct and
management of its affairs or the operations carried on by it.
Added by Laws 1951, p. 141, § 13, emerg. eff. May 26, 1951.
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