RS 31	TITLE 31.MINERAL CODE
RS 31:1	TITLE 31MINERAL CODE
RS 31:2	Relation to Civil Code
RS 31:3	Freedom of contract and limitations thereon
RS 31:4	Substances to which Code applicable
RS 31:5	Ownership of solid minerals
RS 31:6	Right to search for fugitive minerals; elements of ownership of land
RS 31:7	REDUCTION OF MINERALS TO POSSESSION
RS 31:8	RIGHTS OF LANDOWNERS TO EXPLORE FOR AND
RS 31:9	Correlative rights of owners of common reservoir or deposit
RS 31:10	Liability to others with interests in common reservoir or deposit
RS 31:11	Reasonable regard for concurrent uses of the land burdened by mineral rights
RS 31:12	PROTECTION OF THE LANDOWNER'S RIGHTS
RS 31:13	Damages for removal of solid minerals
RS 31:14	Drainage of fugitive minerals; exclusion of liability; exceptions
RS 31:15	CREATION OF MINERAL RIGHTS
RS 31:16	Basic mineral rights; status as real rights
RS 31:17	Rescission for lesion beyond moiety unavailable
RS 31:18	THE NATURE OF MINERAL RIGHTS AND
RS 31:19	Capacity to create mineral rights
RS 31:20	Authority to create mineral rights
RS 31:21	THE MINERAL SERVITUDE
RS 31:22	Certain rights and obligations of mineral servitude owner
RS 31:23	Right of servitude owner to operate; protection thereof
RS 31:24	WHO MAY CREATE MINERAL SERVITUDES
RS 31:25	Right of conditional landowner to create mineral servitude
RS 31:26	Usufructuary may not create mineral servitude
RS 31:27	MODES OF EXTINCTION OF MINERAL SERVITUDES
RS 31:28	COMMENCEMENT OF PRESCRIPTION
RS 31:29	How prescription of nonuse is interrupted
RS 31:30	Date on which prescription interrupted and commenced anew
RS 31:31	Operations beyond prescriptive date; effect as interruption
RS 31:32	Interruption by additional operations
RS 31:33	Unit operations; effect as interruption of prescription
RS 31:34	Shut-in well; testing as interruption of prescription
RS 31:35	Unitization with tested shut-in well as interruption of prescription
RS 31:36	Production as interruption of prescription
RS 31:37	Unit production as interruption of prescription
RS 31:38	Good faith production for beneficial purpose required
RS 31:39	Attempt to restore or secure new production as interruption of prescription
RS 31:40	Interruption applicable to all minerals and modes of use
RS 31:41	Commencement of prescription anew following attempt to restore or secure new production
RS 31:42	By whom a mineral servitude may be used
RS 31:43	When a person is acting on behalf of servitude owner
RS 31:44	Adoption of operations by another
RS 31:45	Time within which adoption must be made
RS 31:46	Procedure for adoption
RS 31:47	Compulsory unit operations; adoption unnecessary
RS 31:48	Obligation of servitude owner to pay costs
RS 31:49	Unsuccessful operations; waiver of damages when adopted
RS 31:50	Adoption a matter of right
RS 31:51	Adoption when servitude under lease
RS 31:52	Right to claim production in absence of adoption
RS 31:53	Adoption possible only as specifically provided
RS 31:54	Interruption of prescription by acknowledgment; formal requirements
RS 31:55	Express intent required
RS 31:56	Contractual extension of servitude; requirements
RS 31:57	Extended servitude subject to rules of prescription
RS 31:58	Prescription not affected by minority or other disability
RS 31:59	Suspension of prescription by obstacle
RS 31:60	Suspension effective as to all minerals
RS 31:61	Compulsory unitization order not an obstacle; establishment of mining plan is an obstacle
RS 31:62	INDIVISIBILITY OF THE MINERAL SERVITUDE
RS 31:63	Presumption arising from separate description of tracts forming continuous body of land
RS 31:64	Presumption when servitudes created on noncontiguous tracts
RS 31:65	Division of servient estate not division of servitude
RS 31:66	Right of owners of contiguous tracts to create single servitude
RS 31:67	Right of co-owners to create single servitude in partition of land
RS 31:68	Effect of limitation of servitude rights to specified horizons or levels
RS 31:69	Effect of partial conveyances of servitude rights
RS 31:70	Effect of contracts for use or development of portion of servitude
RS 31:71	Partial unitization not a division
RS 31:72	CONVENTIONAL ALTERATION OF THE
RS 31:73	Single servitude may not exist on noncontiguous tracts
RS 31:74	Right to fix term or shorten prescriptive period; effect of stipulation for prescriptive period greater than ten years
RS 31:75	Right to contract regarding rules of use
RS 31:76	TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING OUTSTANDING
RS 31:77	Application of after-acquired title doctrine
RS 31:78	Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; acquisition of outstanding servitude
RS 31:79	Prescription when after-acquired title doctrine applies; extinction of outstanding servitude
RS 31:80	THE MINERAL ROYALTY
RS 31:81	Executive and operating rights not included
RS 31:82	WHO MAY CREATE A MINERAL ROYALTY
RS 31:83	Creation of mineral royalty by conditional owner
RS 31:84	Creation of mineral royalty by usufructuary
RS 31:85	MODES OF EXTINCTION OF THE MINERAL ROYALTY
RS 31:86	COMMENCEMENT OF PRESCRIPTION
RS 31:87	Production as interruption of prescription; commencement of prescription anew
RS 31:88	Saved production sufficient to interrupt prescription
RS 31:89	Unit production as an interruption of prescription
RS 31:90	Tested shut-in well as interruption of prescription
RS 31:91	Unitization with tested shut-in well; effect as interruption of prescription
RS 31:92	Interruption applicable to all minerals
RS 31:93	Application of rules concerning acknowledgment and extension of prescription
RS 31:94	Acknowledgment by servitude owner of previously created mineral royalty
RS 31:95	Limited effect of acknowledgment of previously created royalty
RS 31:96	Previously created royalty; dependency on mineral servitude when acknowledged
RS 31:97	Prescription not affected by minority or other disability
RS 31:98	Suspension of prescription by obstacle
RS 31:99	Obstacle to production from servitude suspends prescription as to dependent royalty
RS 31:100	Suspension effective as to all minerals
RS 31:101	INDIVISIBILITY OF THE MINERAL ROYALTY
RS 31:102	Rule regarding effect of partial conveyance; applicability to mineral royalty
RS 31:103	CONVENTIONAL ALTERATION OF THE
RS 31:104	TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING OUTSTANDING
RS 31:105	EXECUTIVE RIGHTS
RS 31:106	Executive right a mineral right
RS 31:107	Interruption of prescription accruing against executive right
RS 31:108	Nature of executive and nonexecutive interests
RS 31:109	Obligation of owner of executive interest
RS 31:110	Lease in violation of obligation valid; right of nonexecutive to damages
RS 31:111	Effect of certain transactions involving executive right
RS 31:112	Right of nonexecutive to operate
RS 31:113	Executive right as appendage of another mineral right
RS 31:114	THE MINERAL LEASE
RS 31:115	Requirement of term; limitation of continuation without drilling or mining operations or production
RS 31:116	WHO MAY GRANT MINERAL LEASES
RS 31:117	Granting of mineral lease by owner under conditional title
RS 31:118	Right of usufructuaries to lease
RS 31:119	THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE LESSOR
RS 31:120	Lessor's warranty and limitation of liability for breach thereof
RS 31:121	Right of lessee to lease from adverse claimants
RS 31:122	THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE LESSEE
RS 31:123	Rent and the obligation to make timely payment thereof
RS 31:124	Production in paying quantities required; definition
RS 31:125	Amount of royalties relevant to reasonableness of lessee's expectation
RS 31:126	TRANSACTIONS INVOLVING THE LESSEE'S INTEREST
RS 31:127	Lessee's right to assign or sublease
RS 31:128	Responsibility of assignee or sublessee to original lessor
RS 31:129	Assignor or sublessor not relieved of obligations or liabilities unless discharged
RS 31:130	Lease not divided by partial assignment or sublease
RS 31:131	Lessor must accept performance by assignee or sublessee
RS 31:132	Demands by lessor; effect on assignee or sublessee
RS 31:133	TERMINATION AND REMEDIES FOR VIOLATION
RS 31:134	Right to relief for violation
RS 31:135	Rules of default applicable except as specified
RS 31:136	Written notice; requirement and effect on claims for damages or dissolution of lease
RS 31:137	Nonpayment of royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand
RS 31:138	Required response of lessee to notice
RS 31:138.1	Division order; precedence of lease; penalties for failure to pay royalties due
RS 31:139	Effect of payment in response to notice
RS 31:140	Effect of nonpayment in response to notice or failure to state cause therefor
RS 31:141	Dissolution not a favored remedy
RS 31:142	Dissolution may be partial or entire
RS 31:143	Summary eviction not applicable
RS 31:144	LEASES INVOLVING OUTSTANDING MINERAL RIGHTS
RS 31:145	After-acquired title doctrine; applicability in absence of special clause
RS 31:146	THE LESSOR'S PRIVILEGE
RS 31:147	Right to seize property on premises or within fifteen days of removal
RS 31:148	Manner of enforcement
RS 31:149	Mineral rights reserved from acquisitions of land by governments or agencies thereof imprescriptible; prescription period in acquisitions for economic development
RS 31:149.1	Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.
RS 31:149.2	Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.
RS 31:149.3	Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.
RS 31:150	Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.
RS 31:151	Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.
RS 31:152	Repealed by Acts 2004, No. 919, §2, eff. August 1, 2004.
RS 31:153	POSSESSION AND ACQUISITIVE PRESCRIPTION
RS 31:154	POSSESSION OF LAND AS INCLUDING
RS 31:155	Possession without title as including mineral rights
RS 31:156	Interruption of possession by use or exercise of mineral rights
RS 31:157	Interruption of possession by acknowledgment
RS 31:158	Interruption of possession by judicial demand
RS 31:159	THE EFFECT OF ACQUISITIVE PRESCRIPTION
RS 31:160	Perfection of title by prescription as including mineral rights
RS 31:161	Interruption of acquisitive prescription
RS 31:162	Suspension of acquisitive prescription
RS 31:163	Acquisitive prescription; unavailability to mineral servitude owner
RS 31:164	Creation of mineral servitude by co-owner of land
RS 31:165	Creation of mineral royalty by co-owner of land
RS 31:166	Granting of mineral lease by co-owner of land
RS 31:167	Mineral right owner may not compel partition of land
RS 31:168	CO-OWNERSHIP OF MINERAL RIGHTS
RS 31:169	Those who are not co-owners of mineral rights
RS 31:170	Right of co-owner of mineral servitude to create mineral royalties
RS 31:171	Right of co-owner of mineral lease to create dependent rights
RS 31:172	Mineral servitudes and royalties subject to partition
RS 31:173	Mineral lessee's interest subject to partition; susceptibility of dependent rights to partition
RS 31:174	Use by one co-owner inures to benefit of all
RS 31:175	Co-owner of mineral servitude may not operate independently
RS 31:176	Co-owner of mineral servitude may act to prevent waste or destruction or extinction of servitude
RS 31:177	Co-owner of mineral lease may not operate independently except to prevent waste, destruction, or termination
RS 31:178	PARTITION OF LAND AND ITS EFFECT ON
RS 31:179	Mineral right owner as party to partition of land
RS 31:180	Appraisal of land to be partitioned required
RS 31:181	Service of appraisal required
RS 31:182	Opposition to appraisal permitted
RS 31:183	Distribution of proceeds of partition sale
RS 31:184	Effect of failure to appraise mineral right or interest therein
RS 31:185	Owner of appraised mineral right entitled to participate in proceeds of sale
RS 31:186	Owner of right derived from all co-owners of land unaffected by licitation
RS 31:187	Mineral right created by party acquiring land not affected by sale
RS 31:188	RIGHTS OF USUFRUCTUARIES IN MINERALS
RS 31:189	Conventional usufruct may include enjoyment of mineral rights
RS 31:190	Usufructuary of land entitled to enjoyment of mines or quarries worked; exception
RS 31:191	When oil and gas wells and lignite operations considered open mines
RS 31:192	When usufructuary of land entitled to grant lease
RS 31:193	Nature of usufruct of a mineral right
RS 31:194	Usufructuary not obligated to account to naked owner
RS 31:195	Right of naked owner of land to enjoyment of minerals
RS 31:196	Obligations of naked owner arising from enjoyment of rights in minerals
RS 31:197	SECURED RIGHTS IN MINERAL RIGHTS
RS 31:198	Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.
RS 31:198.1	Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.
RS 31:199	Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.
RS 31:200	Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.
RS 31:201	Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.
RS 31:202	Repealed by Acts 1990, No. 1079, 8, eff. Sept. 1, 1990.
RS 31:203	MORTGAGE OF MINERAL RIGHTS
RS 31:204	Mortgage may include pledge; effect of pledge
RS 31:205	GENERAL PROVISIONS
RS 31:206	MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
RS 31:207	Effect of failure to furnish act evidencing extinction or expiration of right; mineral lease
RS 31:208	Effect of good faith dispute as to extinction or expiration of right
RS 31:209	Applicability to demand for dissolution of mineral lease
RS 31:210	PROTECTION OF PURCHASERS OF PRODUCTION;
RS 31:210.1	Interest on purchase payment of production
RS 31:210.2	Declaration of interest; when third party purchasers of oil may withhold payment
RS 31:211	Availability of mandamus for nonpayment of sums due for production
RS 31:212	Right to attorney's fee incurred in securing writ
RS 31:212.1	Sales relative to minerals after they are severed are subject to the laws of registry
RS 31:212.21	Nonpayment of production payment or royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand
RS 31:212.22	Required response of obligor to notice
RS 31:212.23	Effects of payment or nonpayment with or without stating reasonable cause therefor; division order
RS 31:212.31	Payment information to interest owners
RS 31:212.32	Accumulation of proceeds from production
RS 31:213	DEFINITIONS
RS 31:214	APPLICATION OF CODE
RS 31:215	OPERATING AGREEMENTS
RS 31:216	Filing
RS 31:217	Declaration in lieu of agreement