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HB 783, 64th R.S.

Relating to abandoned mineral estates; declaring the policy and intent of the legislature and setting forth the purpose of the Act; defining terms; relating to the prima facie evidence of abandonment of a fee estate in minerals by a person other than the owner of the surface and the vesting of title to abandoned mineral estates; providing for a suit for declaratory judgment to declare the fee estate abandoned; providing for the rebuttal of prima facie evidence by the recording of notice of nonabandonment of the interest claimed; specifying nonapplication of the Act.

Last action: Reported from committee favorably with amendments

Author: E.L. Short

Subjects:
Mines & Mineral Resources
Property Interests--Real Property

House Committee: Judiciary ()

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