Oklahoma § 61-313 - Development for oil and gas purposes of certain stateowned lands in Oklahoma City authorized - Agreements
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§ 61-313. Development for oil and gas purposes of certain stateowned lands in Oklahoma City authorized - Agreements
The Office of Management and Enterprise Services is authorized
to provide for the development for oil and gas purposes of the
following described property:
All of the-state owned lands not now leased for oil and gas
mining purposes within a radius of five hundred (500) yards of a
point on the half-section line running north and south between the
northeast fourth and northwest fourth of Section twenty-seven (27),
Township Twelve (12) North, Range three (3) West of the Indian
Meridian, and the center of Twenty-second (22) Street in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma, extended east from the right-of-way of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company.
The development of such property shall be by means of a well, or
wells, located on adjacent state-owned lands. The Office of
Management and Enterprise Services is authorized to enter into an
agreement, or agreements, with the owner of the oil and gas lease,
or leases, on adjacent state-owned lands, consolidating said tract
with said adjacent state-owned lands or some part thereof for oil
and gas development, upon such terms and conditions, and for such
consideration as the Office of Management and Enterprise Services
may prescribe. There shall be reserved to the state a royalty of
not less than one fourth (1/4) of the oil and gas, or the proceeds
thereof, that may be produced from the property first described.
All development of the property first described for oil and gas
Oklahoma Statutes - Title 61. Public Buildings and Public Works
purposes shall be by means of a well, or wells, located on the
surface of said adjacent land but which may be directionally drilled
and bottomed on and underneath the property first described.
Added by Laws 1941, p. 441, § 1. Amended by Laws 1983, c. 304, §
123, eff. July 1, 1983; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 801. Renumbered from §
103 of Title 74 by Laws 2013, c. 209, § 25, eff. July 1, 2013.
Source: official Oklahoma text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 61-313 ("Development for oil and gas purposes of certain stateowned lands in Oklahoma City authorized - Agreements") is part of the Oklahoma Statutes, the codified statutory law of Oklahoma. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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