31 Tex. Admin. Code § 9.1 - Definitions
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Assignment--A transfer
of an interest in an oil and gas lease.
(2) Commissioner--Commissioner of the General
Land Office.
(3)
Counterparts--Instruments executed by different parties and recorded as
separate instruments or fully executed instruments recorded in different
counties.
(4)
Exploration--Geological, geophysical, geochemical, and other surveys and
investigations conducted for the purposes of discovering and locating oil and
gas.
(5) Forfeiture--The
cancellation or dissolution of an oil and gas lease by the commissioner when
lessee fails to satisfy or breaches certain lease provisions, statutes or
rules.
(6) Free royalty
lands--Lands sold by the state in which the state reserved a free royalty
interest but did not retain any leasing or executive rights. (See, e.g., Texas
Natural Resources Code, §
51.054).
(7) GLO--General Land Office.
(8) GLO Lease Number--Synonymous with mineral
file number.
(9) Lessee--The
initial holder of the leasehold interest or a successor, assignee, devisee,
heir, or any other person who acquires that interest or any portion
thereof.
(10) Mineral file
number--The identification assigned by the GLO to the GLO jacket in which lease
records are kept.
(11) Oil and
gas--Crude oil, crude petroleum oil, crude petroleum, natural gas, and
associated hydrocarbons, including, without limitation, casinghead gas,
condensate, distillate, and liquids extracted from natural gas.
(12) Operator--A person that explores for,
develops, or produces oil and gas from a particular lease, field, or area; also
any employee, agent, servant, contractor, subcontractor, trustee, or receiver
of an operator, or any other agent in control of any or all of the leasehold
interest.
(13) Person--Any
individual, partnership, corporation, organization, government or governmental
subdivision or agency, business trust, estate, trust, association, or other
legal entity.
(14) Premises--Any
state property subject to an oil and gas lease.
(15) PSF--Permanent School Fund.
(16) Release--A statement by a lessee
indicating that all or part of an oil and gas lease has terminated or expired
or has been surrendered or forfeited.
(17) Relinquishment Act lands--Any public
free school or asylum lands, whether surveyed or unsurveyed, sold with a
mineral classification or reservation between September 1, 1895, and May 29,
1931, encompassing any other lands, including vacancy lands, patented with all
minerals reserved to the state and expressly made subject to the leasing terms
and procedures governing Relinquishment Act lands.
(18) Relinquishment Act leases--Leases issued
under Texas Natural Resources Code, Chapter 52, Subchapter F, and §
9.22(2) and (3)
of this title, (relating to Leasing Procedures).
(19) RRC--Texas Railroad
Commission.
(20) SLB--School Land
Board.
(21) Submerged
lands--Islands, salt water lakes, bays, inlets, marshes, and reefs within
tidewater limits and that portion of the Gulf of Mexico within the jurisdiction
of the State of Texas.
(22) Surface
owner--Owner of the soil under the Relinquishment Act that acts as the state's
agent in leasing Relinquishment Act property.
(23) TDCJ--Texas Department of Criminal
Justice.
(24) Termination--The
automatic, nondiscretionary expiration of all or part of an oil and gas lease
under its own terms.
(25)
TPWD--Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
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