O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 12-4-53 (2019)

Prohibited acts

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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The following activities are prohibited:

(1) The waste of oil or gas as defined in this part;

(2) The sale, purchase, or acquisition or the transportation, refining, processing, or handling of illegal minerals or illegal products;

(3) The sale, purchase, or acquisition or the transportation, refining, processing, or handling in any other way of any mineral, including oil and gas, or any mineral product without complying with this part or any rule or regulation of the board promulgated pursuant to this part;

CONSERVATION & NATURAL RES.

(4) Intentionally or negligently permitting any gas or oil well to get out of control;

(5) The drilling of any well covered by the provisions of this part by any person without a permit for such drilling; and

(6) Any other violation of any provision of this part or any rule or regulation promulgated under this part.

History

Ga. L. 1945, p. 366, §§ 9, 20, 25; Ga. L. 1975, p. 966, § 8; Ga. L.

2001, p. 4, § 12; Ga. L. 2018, p. 953, § 1/HB 205.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 38 Am. Jur. 2d, Gas and Oil, §§ 131, 139 et seq. C.J.S. - 58 C.J.S., Mines and Minerals, §§ 417 et seq., 424 et seq., 451 et seq. ALR. - Construction, application, and effect of statutes regulating production of oil or gas in a manner or under conditions constituting waste, 86 A.L.R. 431. Operator’s or lessee’s responsibility for production of oil or gas in excess of allowance as affected by his ignorance of excess production, or his failure to profit thereby, 150 A.L.R. 1149. Rights and remedies of owner or lessee

of oil or gas land or mineral or royalty interest therein, in respect of waste of oil or gas through operations on other lands, 4 A.L.R.2d 198. Construction of oil and gas lease as to the lessee’s right and duty of geophysical or seismograph exploration or survey, 28 A.L.R.3d 1426. Implied duty of oil and gas lessee to protect against drainage, 18 A.L.R.4th 14. Remedy for breach of implied duty of oil and gas lessee to protect against drainage, 18 A.L.R.4th 147.