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RS 31:212.21

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RS 31:212.21

PART 2-A. PRODUCTION PAYMENTS AND ROYALTY

PAYMENTS TO OTHER THAN MINERAL LESSOR;

REMEDIES OF OBLIGEE

§212.21. Nonpayment of production payment or royalties; notice prerequisite to judicial demand

If the owner of a production payment created out of a mineral lessee's interest or a royalty owner other than a mineral lessor seeks relief for the failure of a mineral lessee to make timely or proper payment of royalties or the production payment, he must give his obligor written notice of such failure as a prerequisite to a judicial demand for damages.

Added by Acts 1982, No. 249, §1; Acts 2020, No. 76, §1.