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Introduced Version Senate Bill 180 History

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Senate Bill No. 180

(By Senators K. Facemyer, McCabe, Sypolt, Miller and Wills)

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[Introduced January 13, 2012; referred to the Committee on Energy, Industry and Mining; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §36-3-8a, relating to permitting a surface owner to have the right of first refusal to purchase a mineral estate beneath the surface when the mineral owner offers the mineral estate for sale.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

    That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §36-3-8a, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 3. FORM AND EFFECT OF DEEDS AND CONTRACTS.

§36-3-8a. Surface owners’ rights to purchase mineral estates.

    Beginning January 1, 2013, an owner of a mineral estate shall give the surface owner the right of first refusal to purchase the mineral estate in the event the mineral estate is sold.

 

    NOTE: The purpose if the bill is to grant a surface owner the right to purchase a mineral estate in the event the mineral estate is sold.

 

    This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

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