O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 46-4-59 (2019)

Effect of abandonment of reservoir by gas utility; evidence of abandonment; approval of abandonment by commission

✓ 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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When a gas utility which has exercised the power of eminent domain pursuant to Code Section 46-4-57 permanently abandons the entire underground reservoir for the storage of gas, the condemned property shall revert to the then owners of the land, the mineral rights, royalties, and other interests relating to the property in proportion to their several ownership interests. Good faith exploration or development work relative to a proposed or approved underground gas storage project shall be conclusive evidence that such project has not been abandoned. No gas utility shall abandon an underground reservoir for the storage of gas without first receiving an order of the commission approving such abandonment.

History

(Code 1933, § 93-812, enacted by Ga. L. 1965, p. 463, § 1.)

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 38 Am. Jur. 2d, Gas and Oil, § 13. ALR. - Rights and liabilities with respect to natural gas reduced to possession and

subsequently stored in natural reservoir, 94 ALR2d 543.