As used in the Gathering Line Land Acquisition Act:
A. "mineral developer" means a mineral owner, operator, lessee or natural gas or petroleum pipeline company that is engaged in the production or conveyance by pipeline of natural gas or petroleum; and
B. "property owner" means the person who holds an ownership interest in the property to be acquired for the purpose of constructing a natural gas or petroleum gathering line or an associated disposal line, other than the property on which the well to be connected to a natural gas or petroleum gathering line or to be connected to an associated disposal line is to be located.
History: Laws 1988, ch. 26, § 2; 1993, ch. 338, § 2.
The 1993 amendment, effective June 18, 1993, substituted "lessee or natural gas or petroleum pipeline company that" for "or lessee who" and inserted "or conveyance by pipeline" in Subsection A.