1. A. A party desiring to unitize brine or produced water rights shall file with the Corporation Commission an application setting forth a description of the proposed brine production unit or produced water unit area with a map or plat thereof attached. The application shall allege the existence of the facts required to be found by the Commission as provided in Section 506 of this title and allege that the party desiring to unitize the brine or produced water rights meets the criteria of subparagraphs a and b of paragraph 10 of Section 502 of this title. The application shall set forth the name and address of each brine owner within the area affected by the application. Each such person shall be a respondent to the application. In an application to enlarge the brine production unit or produced water unit area, brine owners within the existing unit and brine owners in the area to be added to the unit shall be respondents to the application.
2. B. In the event the brine in a proposed brine production unit is found in association with solution gas, the application shall set forth the name and address of each solution gas owner within the area affected by the application. Each such person shall be a respondent to the application. In an application to enlarge the brine production unit area, solution gas owners within the existing brine production unit and solution gas owners in the area to be added to the brine production unit shall be respondents to the application.
3. C. Every application to establish a brine production unit or produced water unit shall have attached thereto a recommended plan of unitization applicable to the proposed unit area.

Laws 1990, SB 263, c. 255, § 5, eff. September 1, 1990; Amended by Laws 2026, HB 4338, c. 341, § 5, emerg. eff. May 12, 2026 (superseded document available).