242 So. 2d 857 - Stack v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “"(c) The board shall have the authority, and it shall be its duty, to make, after notice and hearing as hereinafter provided, such reasonable rules, regulations and orders as may be necessary from time to time in the proper administration and enforcement of this act, and to amend the same after due notice and hearing, including, but not limited to rules, regulations and orders for the following purposes: * * * * * * "(11) To regulate the spacing of wells and to establish drilling units." Miss. Code 1942 Annotated § 6132-10 (Supp. 1970).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 So. 2d 767 - State Oil & Gas Bd. v. Mississippi Min. & Roy. Own. Ass'n

2. “"[T]o foster, encourage and promote the development, production and utilization of the natural resources of oil and gas in the state of Mississippi; * * * and to obtain, as soon as practicable, consistent with the prohibition of waste, the full development by progressive drilling of other wells in all producing pools of oil and gas or of all pools which may hereafter be brought into production of such, within the state, until such pool is fully defined."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 So. 2d 767 - State Oil & Gas Bd. v. Mississippi Min. & Roy. Own. Ass'n

3. “"The board is an arm of the state empowered by the legislature to prescribe rules and regulations for achieving in practice this policy of the state as announced in Section 1 of the Act and to enforce, maintain and carry out the said policy of the state." 242 So.2d at 860 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 So. 2d 767 - State Oil & Gas Bd. v. Mississippi Min. & Roy. Own. Ass'n