A. The sale or purchase or acquisition, or the transportation, refining, processing or handling in any other way, of crude petroleum oil or natural gas in whole or in part produced in excess of the amount allowed by any statute of this state, or by any provision of this act, or by any rule, regulation or order of the commission or division made thereunder, is hereby prohibited, and such oil or commodity is hereby referred to as "illegal oil" or "illegal gas," as the case may be.
B. The sale or purchase or acquisition, or the transportation, refining, processing or the handling in any other way, of any product of crude petroleum or any product of natural gas, which product is derived in whole or in part from crude petroleum oil or natural gas produced in whole or in part in excess of the amount allowed by any statute of this state, or by any provisions of this act, or by any rule, regulation or order of the commission or division made thereunder, is hereby prohibited, and each such commodity or product is herein referred to as "illegal oil product" to distinguish it from "legal oil product," or "illegal gas product" to distinguish it from "legal gas product."
History: Laws 1935, ch. 72, § 13; 1941 Comp., § 69-219; Laws 1949, ch. 168, § 15; 1953 Comp., § 65-3-18; Laws 1977, ch. 255, § 56.
Compiler's notes. — The term "this act," referred to in this section, means Laws 1935, ch. 72, §§ 1 to 24, which appear as 70-2-2 to 70-2-4, 70-2-6 to 70-2-11, 70-2-15, 70-2-16, 70-2-21 to 70-2-25, 70-2-27 to 70-2-30, and 70-2-33 NMSA 1978.
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — 38 Am. Jur. 2d Gas and Oil § 161.
58 C.J.S. Mines and Minerals §§ 239, 240.
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