A co-owner of a mineral servitude shall not conduct operations on the property subject to the servitude without the consent of co-owners owning at least an undivided seventy-five percent interest in the servitude, provided that the co-owner has made every effort to contact the other co-owners and, if contacted, has offered to contract with them on substantially the same basis that the co-owner has contracted with another co-owner. "Operations" as used in this Article shall include geological surveys, by means of a torsion balance, seismographic explosions, mechanical device, or any other method. A co-owner of the servitude who does not consent to the operations has no liability for the costs of development and operations, except out of his share of production.
R.S. 31:175 active rs title
Co-owner of mineral servitude may not operate independently ACTIVE
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History
- enactment Acts 1974, No. 50, §175, eff. Jan. 1, 1975
- amendment Acts 1986, No. 1047, §1
- amendment Acts 1988, No. 647, §1
- amendment Acts 1995, No. 479, §1, eff. June 17, 1995
- amendment Acts 2019, No. 350, §1
- amendment Acts 2023, No. 88, §1