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Kansas Statutes

Article 1

Oil and Gas Wells; Regulatory Provisions

55-101Natural gas for residents of platted land outside city; laying and maintenance of pipes 55-102Control and management of oil and gas wells; unlawful acts, penalties; flaring, venting or use of gas permitted, when 55-112Transportation of gas; standards for 55-114Penalty for violation of K.S.A. 55-112 55-143Conservation fee fund; authorized expenditures; accounting procedures; reduction of fees and assessments, when 55-150Definitions 55-151Application of intent to drill wells, required information; notification of surface owner; fee and contents; information to department of health and environment and county clerk; approval of application, when; conditions; compliance with rules and regulations 55-152Rules and regulations; recommendations of advisory committee; annual review of drilling methods 55-153Advisory committee on regulation of oil and gas activities 55-154Certification of compliance with statutes and rules and regulations 55-155Licensure of operators and contractors; requirements; fees; transfers of operator responsibility; notification of surface owner 55-156Protection of water prior to abandoning of well; penalty for noncompliance 55-157Cementing in surface casing and additional pipe prior to testing, completion or abandonment of well; penalty for noncompliance 55-158Submission of bond logs and surveys; penalties 55-159Notification of commission prior to setting surface casing or plugging; inspections; penalty 55-160Notification of commission prior to reentering plugged well; inspections 55-161Investigation of abandoned wells; integrity tests; costs 55-162Finding reasonable cause to believe that person has violated act or rules and regulations; hearing; procedure; order; immediate remedial action; reconsideration and judicial review; investigations; sealing of well; removal of seal, penalty 55-164Administrative penalties; procedure; costs and attorney fees; disposition of moneys 55-165Maintenance of information on wells 55-168Insufficient moneys in abandoned oil and gas well fund; liabilities imposed on the conservation fee fund 55-169Kansas surface owner notice act; citation of act 55-169aDefinitions 55-169bAuthorization for rules and regulations 55-171Permit required for the storage or disposal of salt water, oil or refuse in surface ponds 55-172Salt water, oil or refuse from wells; prevention of escape 55-173Notice prior to abandonment and plugging of wells; notification of surface owner 55-174Penalty for failure to notify of intent to drill 55-175Appointment of agents by the commission 55-176Commission's costs assessed against operators and agents; disposition of moneys 55-177Removal of structures and abutments from lands after abandoning wells; exception 55-178Abandoned wells; complaint concerning pollution or water loss; commission investigation 55-179Responsibility for remedial actions related to abandoned wells; hearings; orders; plugging 55-180Investigation of pollution by the commission; abandoned well plugging; costs; reimbursement authorized 55-181Administration and enforcement of rules, regulations and orders 55-182Agents of commission; right of ingress and egress; restoration of premises 55-183Rules and regulations; publication; fees, taxes and other charges required to be fixed by rules and regulations 55-184Act supplemental to existing laws 55-186Spill notification requirements 55-191Definitions 55-192Abandoned oil and gas well fund established; well plugging assurance fund abolished 55-194Annual report 55-1,101Definitions 55-1,102Filing of rates and other information required; use of information; disclosure 55-1,103Limitations on manner of offering services and facilities 55-1,104Commission review of fees, terms, practices; complaint; procedure 55-1,105Rules and regulations 55-1,106Exemptions from rate averaging or pricing systems 55-1,107Issuance of more than one certificate of convenience and necessity; exit fees prohibited 55-1,108Contractual obligations, when amended 55-1,109Notice of lack of capacity to serve required 55-1,110Severability of act 55-1,111Commission review of exit tap on gathering system, access, service, abandonment; procedure 55-1,115Underground storage of hydrocarbons; corporation commission regulation of underground porosity storage of natural gas 55-1,116Natural gas underground storage; fee fund 55-1,117Underground storage of hydrocarbons; definitions; department of health and environment regulation of other underground storage 55-1,117aDepartment of health and environment regulation of underground crude oil storage 55-1,118Subsurface hydrocarbon storage fund 55-1,119Penalties for violations of K.S.A. 55-1,117 or rules and regulations adopted thereunder 55-1,120Salt solution mining wells; abandonment, legal responsibility for 55-1,121Salt solution mining well plugging fund 55-1,122Representatives of secretary; right of ingress and egress 55-103"Flambeau" lights; "jumbo" or similar burners 55-104Same; street lights to be turned off during day 55-105Same; penalty 55-106Interference with pipes for gas; permission 55-107Connections with gas mains, permission 55-108Setting fire to escaping gas; interference with wells 55-109Penalty for violating 55-106 to 55-108; civil damages 55-163Commission and secretary to enter into interagency agreement; submission to governor and legislature 55-166Well plugging assurance fund 55-167Same; transfers to fund 55-193Abandoned oil and gas well fund; certain transfers thereto