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urn: urn:us-la:rs:31:137
citation: "R.S. 31:137"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 31 › Chapter 7"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1974, number: 50, section: 137, effective_date: 1975-01-01, role: enactment }
---

# Nonpayment of royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand

If a mineral lessor seeks relief for the failure of his lessee to make timely or proper payment of royalties, he must give his lessee written notice of such failure as a prerequisite to a judicial demand for damages or dissolution of the lease.