Kansas Statutes Annotated

K.S.A. § 55-702 (2026)

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55-702. Definitions. The term "waste", in addition to its ordinary meaning, shall include economic waste, underground waste and surface waste. Economic waste shall mean the use of natural gas in any manner or process except for efficient light, fuel, carbon black manufacturing and repressuring, or for chemical or other processes by which such gas is efficiently converted into a solid or a liquid substance. The term waste shall not include the use or flaring of natural gas if permitted pursuant to an order issued or rule and regulation adopted under the provisions of subsection (b) of K.S.A. 55-102, and amendments thereto. The term "common source of supply" shall include that portion lying within this state of any gas reservoir lying partly within and partly without this state. The term "commission" shall mean the state corporation commission of the state of Kansas, its successors, or such other commission or board as may hereafter be vested with jurisdiction over the subject matter of this act.

History: L. 1935, ch. 213, § 2; L. 1945, ch. 233, § 2; L. 1983, ch. 183, § 2; July 1.

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Cited in 3 cases, 1980–1989 · leading case: Sw. Kansas Royalty Owners Ass'n v. State Corp. Comm'n, 769 P.2d 1 (Kan. 1989).

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Sw. Kansas Royalty Owners Ass'n v. State Corp. Comm'n, 769 P.2d 1 (Kan. 1989). · cites it 3× “K.S.A. 55-702. K.S.A. 55-701 prohibits waste not only in the production of gas, “but for such purposes as would constitute waste.”

Zinke & Trumbo, Ltd. v. Kansas Corp. Comm'n, 749 P.2d 21 (Kan. 1988). “This means the KCC has the duty to see that “each owner or producer in a common source of supply is privileged to produce from that supply only in a manner or amount that will not: “(A) injure the reservoir to the detriment of others; “(B) take an undue proportion of the…”

Mobil Oil Corp. v. Kansas Corp. Comm'n, 608 P.2d 1325 (Kan. 1980). · cites it 2× “Before any gas shall be produced from a well producing gas only, or from a well which is primarily a gas well, for any of the purposes specified in K.S.A. 55-702, a certificate shall be obtained from the commission for the construction of the facilities necessary or required…”

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