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• .010   Definitions for chapter.

• .020   Oil and gas lease or contract, when lessor may avoid.

• .030   Nonproductive well, when lease or contract satisfied by.

• .040   When offset wells to be drilled.

• .050   Plat, showing well, to be filed if well is to extend through coal-bearing strata -- Copies to certain persons.

• .060   Objections to location of well -- Hearing.

• .070   Index of plats -- Agreement permitting well operator to select location.

• .080   Drilling through coal bed.

• .090   Gas found beneath or between coal beds.

• .100   Casings to remain in place during life of productive well.

• .110   Abandonment of well drilled through coal strata -- Plugging of well.

• .120   Method of plugging well drilled through coal-bearing strata.

• .130   Alternative methods that may be used when strata shot.

• .140   Gas escape pipe, when to be used.

• .150   Unused oil, gas or salt water well to be closed to prevent waste.

• .160   Gas waste to be prevented -- Presumption of negligence.

• .170   Putting pressure on strata -- Wells may remain open if conforming to Federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

• .180   Requirements for plugging abandoned well -- Bids -- Remedy for possessor of adjacent land or for department.

• .190   Salt and saltpeter works to be enclosed -- Liability.

• .200   Department of Mines and Minerals to enforce oil and gas law -- Hearings.

• .205   Department to release production data on crude oil and natural gas.

• .210   Agreement consolidating oil and gas leases may be executed by trustee representing contingent future interests.

• .220   Nature of agreement.

• .230   Petition for court approval -- Affidavits -- Guardian ad litem -- Order of approval.

• .240   Agreement consolidating oil and gas leases may be executed by guardian.

• .250   Nature of agreement.

• .260   Petition for court approval -- Affidavits -- Guardian ad litem -- Order of approval.

• .270   Repealed, 1986.

• .280   Repealed, 1986

• .290   Repealed, 1986

• .300   Appointment of trustee to execute mineral lease where contingent future interests are involved.

• .310   Jurisdiction of court.

• .320   Who may institute proceedings.

• .330   Parties -- Representation of minors, mentally disabled, and persons not in being.

• .340   Alignment of parties -- Process.

• .350   Bond of trustee -- Terms of sale of lease.

• .360   Execution of sale of lease -- Report -- Confirmation.

• .370   Separate lease by guardian or conservator unnecessary.

• .380   Disposition of proceeds.

• .460   Definitions.

• .462   Jurisdiction in Circuit Court.

• .464   When court may declare trust and appoint trustee -- Persons authorized to institute proceedings.

• .466   Persons to be joined as defendants -- Verified petition showing effort to locate owners -- Advertisement and lis pendens notice, contents -- Trustee ad litem.

• .468   If advantageous to unknown or missing owner, court may declare trust -- Bond of trustee -- Sale of lease -- Trustee's report -- When court not to authorize trustee's lease -- Trustee to use percentage of funds to search for owner -- Period during which unknown or missing owner may establish identity and title.

• .470   When trustee may convey title in mineral interest to surface owner -- Payment to surface owner -- Final report of trustee -- Termination of trust.

• .472   Payment to surface owner when leased mineral never produced commercially.

• .474   Payment of attorneys' fees, expenses, and court costs.

• .476   When action by unknown or missing owner is barred.

• .500   Declaration of policy of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.

• .510   Definitions for KRS 353.500 to 353.720.

• .520   Territorial application of KRS 353.500 to 353.720 -- Waste of oil and gas prohibited.

• .530   Director of oil and gas conservation -- Qualifications -- Duties -- Oath.

• .540   Authority of department -- Jurisdiction.

• .550   Specific authority over oil and gas operators.

• .560   Further authority.

• .565   Kentucky Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.

• .570   Permit required -- May authorize operation prior to issuance of permit.

• .575   Duty of applicant to meet and confer with permittee if drilling will disturb permitted area.

• .580   Expiration of permit.

• .590   Application for permit -- Fees -- Plat -- Bond to insure plugging -- Use of forfeited funds -- Wells not included in "water supply well."

• .5901   Operations and reclamation proposal for land with complete severance -- Contents, distribution, and agreement or mediation -- Mediation report.

• .591   Purpose and application of KRS 353.592 and 353.593.

• .592   Powers of the department.

• .593   Appeals.

• .595   Notice to surface owner of intent to drill oil or gas well -- Compensation for damage to surface -- Restoration of surface.

• .597   Replacement of disrupted water supply by well operator.

• .600   Repealed, 1992.

• .610   Conditions under which permits may be issued -- Exceptions.

• .620   Variance from requirements of KRS 353.610.

• .630   Pooling of oil and gas interests -- Conditions.

• .640   Pooling order -- Notice -- Provisions -- Surrender of interest -- Limited participation.

• .645   Operation and development as a unit of oil and gas interests in a pool or pools -- Application for unit -- Hearing -- Unitization order.

• .650   Exclusion of royalty interest in computing share of production -- Limitation.

• .651   Deep wells -- Establishment and regulation of drilling units -- Pooling of interests -- Exceptions.

• .652   Unit operation of pool -- Procedure.

• .653   Share of production from drilling unit or unitized pool.

• .654   Drilling without consent of landowner prohibited.

• .655   Use of shackle rods or related cables.

• .656   Display of danger signs on oil storage facilities.

• .660   Report required after termination of operations -- Contents.

• .670   Promulgation of regulations -- Hearing -- Written record of hearing.

• .680   Repealed, 1996.

• .690   Production of evidence -- Failure to comply.

• .700   Review of order of department by civil action -- Appeal.

• .710   Suit to enjoin violation -- By department, person adversely affected, Attorney General.

• .720   Construction of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.

• .730   Investigation of abandoned wells -- Application -- Report -- Bond.

Kentucky Gas Pipeline Authority

• .750   Definitions for KRS 353.750 to 353.776.

• .752   Kentucky Gas Pipeline Authority established -- Membership.

• .754   Procedure and organization -- Regulations.

• .756   Purpose of authority -- Powers of the authority.

• .758   Issuance of revenue bonds -- Proceeds of bonds -- Notes or temporary bonds.

• .760   Bonds of authority not debts of Commonwealth.

• .762   Discretionary securing of bonds by trust indentures.

• .764   Enforcement of rights by bond holder or trustee of trust indenture.

• .766   Status of authority bonds as securities.

• .768   Issuance of revenue refunding bonds.

• .770   Treatment of moneys received.

• .772   Exemptions from taxation.

• .774   KRS 45A.045 not applicable to authority projects.

• .776   Reporting of activities.

• .990   Penalties.

• .991   Penalties for violation of KRS 353.500 to 353.720.

• .992   Penalties.