CHAPTER 5. Reservation of Minerals

Chapter 5 added by Stats. 1941, Ch. 548.

§§ 6401–6407 · 8 sections

• § 6401 (a) All oil, gas, oil shale, coal, phosphate, sodium, gold, silver, and all other mineral deposits in public lands belonging to the state, or which may become…
• § 6401.5 (a) Notwithstanding Section 6401, the commission may sell to a surface property owner, for not less than fair market value, the state’s reserved mineral…
• § 6402 All applications to purchase state public lands and all sales pursuant thereto shall be subject to and contain a reservation to the State of all oil, gas, oil…
• § 6403 This chapter shall not be construed as applicable to the sale or exchange by the state of the following lands: (a) Lands acquired by the state on sale thereof…
• § 6404 Any state agency that sells any of the lands listed in Section 6403, other than tax-deeded lands, may, with the approval of the commission, dispose of oil and…
• § 6405 The commission shall have the sole responsibility for and jurisdiction over the administration, management and disposal of all mineral reservations heretofore…
• § 6406 The commission is hereby authorized to sell, exchange, rent, lease, or otherwise manage the property represented by all mineral reservations to the State made…
• § 6407 This section is enacted for the purpose of declaring the scope and extent of the powers, duties, purposes, responsibilities and jurisdiction of the commission…