The sale, purchase, acquisition, transportation, refining, processing, or handling of illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product is hereby prohibited. However, no penalty by way of fine shall be imposed upon a person who sells, purchases, acquires, transports, refines, processes, or handles illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product unless:

(1) Such person knows, or is put on notice, of facts indicating that illegal oil, illegal gas, or illegal product is involved; or

Terms Used In Missouri Laws 259.180

  • Certificate of clearance: means a permit prescribed by the council for the transportation or the delivery of oil or gas or product and issued or registered in accordance with the rule, regulation, or order requiring such permit. See Missouri Laws 259.050
  • Council: the state oil and gas council established by section 259. See Missouri Laws 259.050
  • Gas: all natural gas and all other fluid hydrocarbons which are produced at the wellhead and not hereinbelow defined as oil. See Missouri Laws 259.050
  • Illegal gas: means gas which has been produced from any well within this state in excess of the quantity permitted by any rule, regulation, or order of the council. See Missouri Laws 259.050
  • Illegal oil: means oil which has been produced from any well within the state in excess of the quantity permitted by any rule, regulation, or order of the council. See Missouri Laws 259.050
  • Illegal product: means any product derived in whole or in part from illegal oil or illegal gas. See Missouri Laws 259.050
  • Oil: crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless of gravity which are produced at the wellhead in liquid form and the liquid hydrocarbons known as distillate or condensate recovered or extracted from gas, other than gas produced in association with oil and commonly known as casinghead gas. See Missouri Laws 259.050
  • person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
  • Product: any commodity made from oil or gas and includes refined crude oil, crude tops, topped crude, processed crude, processed crude petroleum, residue from crude petroleum, cracking stock, uncracked fuel oil, fuel oil, treated crude oil, residuum, gas oil, casinghead gasoline, natural-gas gasoline, kerosene, benzene, wash oil, waste oil, blended gasoline, lubricating oil, blends or mixtures of oil with one or more liquid products or by-products derived from oil or gas, and blends or mixtures of two or more liquid products or by-products derived from oil or gas whether herein enumerated or not. See Missouri Laws 259.050

(2) Such person fails to obtain a certificate of clearance with respect to such oil, gas, or product where prescribed by order of the council, or fails to follow any other method prescribed by an order of the council for the identification of such oil, gas or product.

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