Cal. PRC § 6813
This is the official text of Cal. PRC § 6813, part of California’s Public Resources Code — covers environmental protection, state parks, and natural resource management.
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Official statutory text
For the purpose of this chapter, the commission may enter into agreements with any person, association of persons, corporation, city, or county, the United States or any agency thereof, or any of them, claiming the oil and gas in lands adversely to the State of California, which agreements may:
(a) Establish the respective interests of the parties to the agreement in the oil and gas underlying such land.
(b) Establish the boundary line between lands claimed by the State and other parties to the agreement in those cases in which oil or gas is known or believed to exist in such lands or in the vicinity thereof, and, pending the establishment of any such boundaries, provide for the administration, exploration and development of any lands embraced within the conflicting boundary claims.
(c) Fix the amount of damages for past or future production of oil and gas from wells drilled under color of title on or into land claimed by the State.
Any agreement entered into by the commission with the United States or any agency thereof under this section shall first be approved by the Governor in order to make it effective.
(a) Establish the respective interests of the parties to the agreement in the oil and gas underlying such land.
(b) Establish the boundary line between lands claimed by the State and other parties to the agreement in those cases in which oil or gas is known or believed to exist in such lands or in the vicinity thereof, and, pending the establishment of any such boundaries, provide for the administration, exploration and development of any lands embraced within the conflicting boundary claims.
(c) Fix the amount of damages for past or future production of oil and gas from wells drilled under color of title on or into land claimed by the State.
Any agreement entered into by the commission with the United States or any agency thereof under this section shall first be approved by the Governor in order to make it effective.
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