Before any rule or regulation concerning reporting and remittance of oil and gas royalty shall be adopted by the commissioner of public lands a public hearing shall be held. Notice of such hearing shall be mailed at least fifteen days prior to date set for the hearing to every oil and gas operator or purchaser as disclosed by the records of the commissioner of public lands. Such notice shall specify time and place of the hearing and briefly state the general nature of the rules and regulations to be considered. Such notice shall also be published once in a newspaper of general circulation in Santa Fe county at least fifteen days before such hearing.
The inadvertent failure of the commissioner of public lands to mail a notice to an operator or purchaser or the failure of an operator or purchaser to receive such notice shall not affect the validity of any rule of [or] regulation adopted.
History: 1953 Comp., § 7-11-51, enacted by Laws 1959, ch. 51, § 2.
Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Cross references. — For publication of legal notice, see 14-11-1 NMSA 1978 et seq.
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