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urn: urn:us-la:rs:31:175
citation: "R.S. 31:175"
status: active
breadcrumb: "Title 31 › Chapter 10 › Subpart D"
acts_citations:
  - { year: 1974, number: 50, section: 175, effective_date: 1975-01-01, role: enactment }
  - { year: 1986, number: 1047, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
  - { year: 1988, number: 647, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
  - { year: 1995, number: 479, section: 1, effective_date: 1995-06-17, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2019, number: 350, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
  - { year: 2023, number: 88, section: 1, effective_date: null, role: amendment }
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# Co-owner of mineral servitude may not operate independently

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.