19-10-9: [Existing leases; stipulation to bring helium gas within terms.]

Any owner of an oil and gas lease heretofore issued by the commissioner of public lands and maintained in good standing according to the terms and conditions thereof and all applicable statutes and regulations may, in accordance with regulations prescribed by the commissioner of public lands, enter into a stipulation bringing helium gas within the terms of any such existing lease, the same as if helium gas had been covered by the lease agreement from the date it was first entered into.