North Dakota Code 38-25-02 – Commission authority
The commission has authority:
Terms Used In North Dakota Code 38-25-02
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Property: includes property, real and personal. See North Dakota Code 1-01-49
1. Over all persons and property necessary to administer and enforce this chapter when necessary to prevent waste, to protect correlative rights of the mineral and surface estate, or to effect greater ultimate storage and recovery of oil and gas.
2. To regulate activities relating to an underground storage facility, including construction, solution mining to create salt caverns, operation, and closure.
3. To enter an underground storage facility at a reasonable time and manner to inspect equipment and facilities, to observe, monitor, and investigate operations, and to inspect records required to be maintained at the facility.
4. To require storage operators provide financial assurance, including bonds, to ensure money is available to fulfill the storage operator’s duties.
5. To exercise continuing jurisdiction over storage operators and storage facilities, including the authority to amend or revoke a permit after notice and hearing.
6. After notice and hearing, to dissolve or change the boundaries of any commission established oil or gas field or unit within or near a storage reservoir’s or salt cavern’s boundaries.
7. After notice and hearing, to adopt reasonable rules and issue reasonable orders to implement the policies of this chapter.
8. After notice and hearing, to grant exceptions to this chapter’s requirements and implementing rules if required to comply with applicable federal law.