§129.1. Public notice of approval of unitization, royalty or other agreements

           The board shall give ten days public notice prior to exercise of its powers and duties in approving for execution unitization agreements, royalty agreements or agreements that could be assimilated to a conveyance involving minerals or mineral rights of the state, exclusive of agreements involving the state's royalty in kind entered into pursuant to R.S. 30:142, which royalty in kind agreements are already subject to advertisement and bidding as therein provided. The board shall give this notice by publication in either the official journal of the state or in the Louisiana Register created by R.S. 49:953(B) at the board's election. The notice shall be sufficient if it contains at least a digest or summary of the nature of the proposal, a general description of the state property interest affected thereby, and the time and place of the meeting at which such a proposal will be considered for execution, provided that a full copy of the instrument effecting the proposed agreement is otherwise made available for public inspection in the offices of the board during such notice period by anyone desiring to examine the same. The notice provided in this Section shall constitute judicial advertisement and legal notice within the contemplation of Chapter 5 of Title 43 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950.

           Added by Acts 1974, Ex.Sess., No. 12, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1975.