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  "urn": "urn:us-la:rs:31:175",
  "title_number": "31",
  "section_number": "175",
  "citation": "R.S. 31:175",
  "heading": "Co-owner of mineral servitude may not operate independently",
  "text": "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.",
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    {
      "level": "title",
      "number": "31",
      "name": "MINERAL CODE"
    },
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      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "10",
      "name": "CO-OWNERSHIP PART 1. CREATION OF MINERAL RIGHTS BY CO-OWNERS OF LAND"
    },
    {
      "level": "subpart",
      "number": "D",
      "name": "RIGHTS AND CONSEQUENCES ARISING FROM CO-OWNERSHIP OF MINERAL RIGHTS"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Title 31 › Chapter 10 › Subpart D",
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      "section": 175,
      "effective_date": "1975-01-01",
      "effective_date_raw": "Jan. 1, 1975",
      "role": "enactment"
    },
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      "act_year": 1986,
      "act_number": 1047,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": null,
      "effective_date_raw": null,
      "role": "amendment"
    },
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      "act_year": 1988,
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      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": null,
      "effective_date_raw": null,
      "role": "amendment"
    },
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      "act_year": 1995,
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      "effective_date": "1995-06-17",
      "effective_date_raw": "June 17, 1995",
      "role": "amendment"
    },
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      "act_year": 2019,
      "act_number": 350,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": null,
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      "role": "amendment"
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      "act_year": 2023,
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      "effective_date": null,
      "effective_date_raw": null,
      "role": "amendment"
    }
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  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 1974, No. 50, §175, eff. Jan. 1, 1975; Acts 1986, No. 1047, §1; Acts 1988, No. 647, §1; Acts 1995, No. 479, §1, eff. June 17, 1995; Acts 2019, No. 350, §1; Acts 2023, No. 88, §1.",
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