SLS 10RS-779 ORIGINAL
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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 187
BY SENATOR N. GAUTREAUX
PUBLIC LANDS. Requires the Office of State Lands to be joined in certain civil actions
involving the State Mineral and Energy Board. (8/15/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 41:17, relative to state lands; to provide for certain civil actions involving the2
State Mineral and Energy Board; to require that the office of state lands be joined in3
certain civil actions; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 41:17 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง17. Actions involving State Mineral and Energy Board; parties7
In any civil action in which the State Mineral and Energy Board is a8
party, the Division of Administration, office of state lands shall be joined as a9
party if such action involves: (a) determining the ownership of any lands10
belonging to the state, or the title to which is in the public, including road beds,11
water bottoms, vacant state lands, and lands adjudicated to the state at tax sale,12
or (b) determining the state ownership of minerals, oil, or gas.13 SB NO. 187
SLS 10RS-779 ORIGINAL
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The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by J. W. Wiley.
DIGEST
Proposed law provides that any civil action in which the State Mineral and Energy Board is
a party, the DOA, office of state lands must be joined as a party if such action involves: (a)
determining the ownership of any lands belonging to the state, or the title to which is in the
public, including road beds, water bottoms, vacant state lands, and lands adjudicated to the
state at tax sale, or (b) determining the state ownership of minerals, oil, or gas.
Effective August 15, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 41:17)