Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 82. MINERALS, OIL, AND GAS

CHAPTER 11. OIL AND GAS CONSERVATION

Part 3. Interstate Oil and Gas Conservation Compact

Limitation On Power Of Representative

82-11-305. Limitation on power of representative. This part may not be construed as granting any power to the representative of the state of Montana in the representative's private or official capacity or to the interstate oil compact commission to prorate, allocate, regulate, or control oil or gas production or refined products of the production within the state of Montana or the markets for the production and may not have the effect or be construed as in any manner surrendering to the federal government any rights over or in the production, sale, or transportation of oil or gas or the refined products of oil or gas in the state of Montana. This part may not be construed to bind or obligate the state of Montana to enact any new legislation or to amend or alter any laws pertaining to the oil and gas industries in Montana.

History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 121, L. 1945; R.C.M. 1947, 60-605; amd. Sec. 2750, Ch. 56, L. 2009.