Old severed/leased mineral rights

This is a Maryland law, but might be of interest to PA landowners in that situation.
"New state law will allow landowners to regain mineral rights
 ...
It’s the Maryland Dormant Mineral Interests Act, and what it does is create a method for landowners to regain the mineral rights to their properties, even if those rights were leased or sold away generations ago.

That’s often the case in Western Maryland, where the mineral rights to many acres were acquired by coal companies in the 1800s or cleaved off and retained by property owners after they sold the surface land to someone else. ..."
http://times-news.com/local/x1800095708/New-state-law-will-allow-landowners-to-regain-mineral-rights

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Permalink Reply by William Ladd on October 3, 2010 at 2:56am
Sounds like a great idea to me Ann. There must be a lot of old leases that are being held by outfits or families that are no longer in business and families that have simply died out. Any lease that is no longer active or have not been activated within a certain length of time certainly should be returned to the landowner just as if it had never been made in the first place.

Bill L.
aka Bummy
Permalink Reply by Ann Ticopa on October 3, 2010 at 3:44am
Iirc there is provision in the draft G/E forced pooling legislation for pooling subsurface rights when the owner can't be determined/located. But that would benefit the gasco, not the surface owner.

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